Chapter 237

Wendy

"Alpha Henry! What are you doing here?" I ask. My heart does that little flutter thing it always does when I see Henry. This time, though, it's not as strong as it usually is. Maybe Yorrie was right. I needed something to distract me from my infatuation with Alpha Henry, and boy have found it. Or more accurately, I've found them. Plural. More than one distraction.

Yorick arrived home earlier. Since I knew he'd been kicked out, I waited for him. He'd hugged me quickly, then gone straight to Connor's office

where he's been holed up all afternoon.

"I heard about Yorick. I'm here to see what I can do. Some hacker kid is supposed to be calling later with some information."

My phone rings and I pull it out of my pocket. When I see an unknown number, I send it to voicemail.

"They're in..." I begin and my phone starts ringing again.

look at the screen and see the same unknown number. I frown and send it to voicemail again before looking back at Henry.

"Someone wants to talk to you," he says, his eyebrow raised.

I'm about to answer when my phone pings with a text message.

'Answer the phone, beautiful.'

Hijack.

My phone begins ringing again.

"I have to take this. They're in Connor's office."

"A secret admirer?" Henry asks, suddenly very interested.

I hit answer but press the phone against my chest. “No, it's nothing like that."

"What is it like?" Henry asks.

I put the phone to my ear. "Give me a second."

“It's just a friend, Henry. You don't need to go all Alpha on me," I say to him.

"Is this a friend that Connor or Quirin know about?"

I say, standing my ground. Did I

out his hand. I

the phone, Wendy," he says with zero humor in

the phone to my

on," Hijack

say, handing the phone to

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is Alpha Henry. Who is this?" he asks, his gaze not leaving

eyes narrow. "Alpha Lane, are

Hijack, aka Alpha Lane, answers

anything at all

seen Henry

to whatever

handing the phone back to me. "I will be speaking to Connor about

"Fine. Geez!" I say.

at the phone in my hand a moment longer before turning and heading to

I put the phone to my ear, walking to my

beautiful. I'm used to

"So... Lane?"

him my real name. If you're going to be part of the team, we

that mean you're going to stop calling me beautiful

you for a reason." "What's that?" I ask, sitting down

this goes down, the information I used your computer to find will come to light

in

that you'll be part of our team next year and we look out for each other. That includes you now as well. There are some things that you'll need to be prepared to answer in court, but for the most part, you were already looking into Alpha Leo

I need to

tell me everything that he's found and how they

did all of that on my

back to the

started it there and ended it when it bordered on the illegal. I also changed your fingerprint so it didn't include pieces.

bury it so that only someone whose skills rival mine could find it and only if they were looking for it. I can show you, if you're interested. It would mean your real fingerprint would have points of Hacker's

okay with that?" I ask

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