Page 106 of Curvy Nerdy Omega

Liam looked up from his phone and gave me a wicked smile, clearly picking up on my thoughts through the bond.

I cleared my throat and tried to focus on the email I was writing but it was impossible.

Thankfully, they were both wearing shirts or I’d be fucked.

Popping the sushi in my mouth, I forced myself to finish the fucking email and sent it off to the team of interns assigned to our case. I’d asked them to track Melinda’s movements along with proof of her whereabouts over the last six months and whatever evidence they could provide to confirm it.

We had some time before the dinner with the Lopez and Valor backs to get some work done and I was going to take full advantage of it.

I studied the list of Gideon’s locations next, hoping we could get it all done today.

All the official financial documents for Valor Enterprises and Gideon Valor’s personal accounts needed to be checked over in detail too…I needed to know if any of the locations they gave me were owned or run by someone of interest. That would help me write out the questions I needed Frankie to ask.

We were lucky this case was considered high priority or we wouldn’t have been assigned a whole team of interns to help us. Combing through all this crap was time consuming and it would have taken even longer since there wasn’t much Frankie and I would have been able to do during those three weeks I was in heat.

The interns had worked overtime to make sure we had this as well as whatever data they could find on the members of Valor.

They’d had to go through hours and hours of traffic footage with only the license plate number and time stamps I’d given them because Gideon had either deleted his destination history from his car, or he never bothered to use it in the first place.

Melinda wasn’t very helpful either. She may seem like the kind of person who would put a tracker on her spouse without telling them, but I haven’t found any traces of an app on the car other than the one Valor used.

Unfortunately, that app was no longer in service after they’d switched to Aegis Security and for whatever reason, no one had bothered to update it.

Valor had a lot of decent security in place, but thanks to the fact that there was still a human element to it, there was always the chance for something to slip through the cracks.

And for someone to not notice Gideon was off doing whatever without anyone knowing where he was, he couldn’t have been doing it for very long. Anything outside his normal hours would have been detected and questioned, so he had to have been back between 10 p.m. to midnight, or waited to come back in the morning when he usually arrived for work.

Melinda had mentioned Gideon worked late a lot too. Per the logs at the estate, he usually made it home a little after midnight. There wasn’t a single time he’d gotten in after one in the morning, but there were times he hadn’t come back at all.

That Melinda didn’t find that odd meant he’d told her it was work related.

I couldn’t let the interns compare the dates I’d asked for to the Valor estate log though since Liam didn’t want anyone else to have access to his pack’s comings and goings. That he even allowed me to have the log on a hard drive here in my apartment was technically against the rules.

The alpha of the Valor pack had no idea I had it, but she could figure it out if she decided to check in with security. I doubted they’d tattle though. Liam held a lot of power within his pack despite being the second child.

Maybe that should have surprised me, but it didn’t.

The people who worked for Liam seemed to love him and they had an intense kind of loyalty that told me exactly what kind of alpha he was. They didn’t seem afraid of him either, but they did have a cautious respect for him that made me wonder what they’d seen.

Had he ever lost it in front of them like he had at Bite?

It was impossible to know for sure and honestly, I didn’t really care.

What I did care about was that an alpha who could literally kill someone with nothing but his pheromones actually trusted me with all the comings and goings of a pack like Valor – the people he was responsible for protecting.

Well, I guess he wasn’t responsible for that anymore.

But he trusted me with sensitive information. Even from the beginning. I thought it was weird at the time but I didn’t question it since I was getting what I needed. Now I knew why he had turned over everything once he decided to hire us.

Liam had always trusted me.

“Did you read the report from my interviews yesterday?” Frankie asked.

I nodded and pulled up the files. It never ceased to amaze me what Frankie could accomplish.

Somehow, she’d managed to talk to most of the top brass in the Lopez pack as well as a few in the Grimm pack. She hadn’t been able to meet with the alpha or the heir of Grimm, but she was able to get an appointment scheduled thanks to some bullshit about marriage talks with one of their omegas.

I couldn’t help but wonder if she was planning to reclaim her pack name.

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