That still doesn’t let her off the hook for the shit with Quinn either. If anything, we have more reasons to believe she could have been involved in Quinn getting hurt and what happened in her room.
“Make sure you keep your phone on you. I might have more questions.” Evan opens the door to the surveillance room, dismissing her.
“What about my shifts? Should I get someone to cover them?” the wolf asks as she gets to her feet.
“It’ll be taken care of.” The dispassion in Evan’s voice causes her to wince, but she nods and sulks out of the room.
“That bought us enough time to find out what’s really going on and handle it,” I comment once she’s gone.
“That was the point.” He gathers the phones from the desk. “She seems good.” Evan nods toward Quinn, who is happily munching on something while smiling at Alice. “Let’s go threaten some kids to get their passwords. That will be easier than trying to get someone to crack them, we could risk losing all the information that way.”
“Let’s just make it fast.”
“In a rush?” Evan taunts.
“No more than you were this morning,” I retort, reminding him it wasn’t that long ago when he was in the doghouse. It works, his grin falters.
“Dick.”
I chuckle at his response, but I can’t really disagree.
Chapter 14
Quinn
“Ugh, I don’t really want to talk about them right now,” is what I say, but I can already feel a blush working its way up my neck. Alice did warn me that the next time she saw me, she would want details.
“If you won’t give me the good stuffyet” —her eyes go wide to make sure I know my reprieve is only temporary—“then tell me what they did to piss you off.” She pops another bite into her mouth. I feel my leg under the table start to jiggle. I want to tell her, want to talk to someone.
I look around the room. There aren’t many people here, but I don’t want to be overheard. Leaning over the table, I lower my voice a little. “Want to come up to my…”
As I flounder for what to say, Alice supplies, “Your place?”
“I mean it’s Griffin’s, but yeah, that’s where I’m staying.”
Alice gives me the side-eye. “Girl, own that shit. It’s your place now too, right?” She says it in an encouraging way, as if she’s trying to get me to agree with her as opposed to answering a question.
I get a little flustered, but I nod and smile at her. “Come on.” We grab our trays and trash from the table and drop it off where it belongs before heading out of the cafeteria. As soon as we make it to the hall, a curse falls from my lips. “Shit.” I stop dead in my tracks.
“What is it?”
“I didn’t grab my key when we left.”
“We can go to my place,” Alice offers simply.
It only takes me a second to come to a conclusion. “No.” I pull my phone out of my back pocket. “Just give me a second.” I bring up my favorites in my contacts and see both Griffin’s and Evan’s numbers. It would be easier to call Evan and avoid Griffin for a little while, but that feels pretty immature.
The phone only rings once before Griffin answers. “Quinn, what’s wrong?” He says it in a single breath, sounding slightly unnerved.
“Nothing’s wrong. I just…I wanted to go home, and I didn’t grab my key when we left.”
There’s a slight pause. “Where are you?” All of the tension in his voice has vanished.
“Just leaving the cafeteria. Are you still with Evan at security?”
“No,” Griffin replies.
“Oh, are you guys already done?” I glance over at Alice. Maybe going to her place would be a better idea. I can’t talk about them if they’re in the same apartment with us.
