Liv just nodded absently. “What if her computer is password protected?”
Shit. “Then I’ll guess a bunch of passwords. It’s probably something from the scriptures.”
Liv rolled her eyes. “You need a hacker, Aspen. One with blond hair, blue eyes, and is about six-four tall.”
Oh crap. She was right. Sterling was really good with computers, but our new friendship was fragile, and I didn’t want to ask for a favor so soon after rejecting him.
“Take one for the team, Aspen,” Liv said flatly.
“Fine. I’ll get Sterling to help, but no one else. We can’t trust anyone right now.”
Swallowing my pride, I went in search of my ex-boyfriend.
I found him in the gym lifting weights with Vasquez. He was shirtless, glistening with sweat, looking like a freaking bathing suit model.
When he saw me, he perked up. “Aspen.”
I ran a nervous hand through my hair. “Hey, can you meet me at my apartment in ten? I need to talk to you.”
He nodded. “Oh sure. I’ll shower and be right over.”
I bobbed my head and then left, hoping Sterling would take the news well.
* * *
“Are you insane!?”Sterling whisper-screamed as Liv and I sat around our dining table.
I’d just told him I needed to break into Maz’s office.
“No, and I wouldn’t ask you if it wasn’t of the upmost importance,” I told him.
He scowled at me. “No, not unless you tell me why.”
Bastard. Liv and I shared a look, Liv shaking her head no. “I think someone has been lying to us and I need proof,” I said vaguely.
Sterling wasn’t buying it. “Lying about what? Proof about what?”
I growled. “Sterling, it’s me! Don’t you still trust me?”
He barked out a laugh. “Don’t use our past relationship, which you are so clearly over, to talk about trust. I saw you get carried out by that vampire at the gala. I saw you order those wolves to save me, so tell me what’s going on or I’ll go to Maz.”
Shit. This had taken a turn for the worse.
There was no way I could tell him I’d bonded with a freaking vampire, but maybe I could make up a story that wasn’t too far from the truth.
“I went out to kill a mark at Bang and instead he saved my life.”
Sterling’s face screwed up in confusion. “Why would he do that?”
I waved him off. “It doesn’t matter. Through him, I … befriended those two werewolves who saved you, and one of them…” I figured Izzy didn’t need to be in this equation. “Showed me an app where vampires and other supernaturals, order hunters from any of the Houses to kill their bloodsucker enemies.”
Liv nodded. “I saw it. It’s like Uber Eats but you order a vampire head instead.”
Sterling’s mouth popped open and then he tipped his head back and howled in laughter. “Ridiculous,” he said.
I shook my shoulders. “Help me prove that. Maz has files on her computer from Chief Baker. We need to find out if the chief is even real.”
Sterling’s eyes bugged at that. “Why wouldn’t he be real? This is crazy.”
