She handed me a bottle of expensive water with a small sticky note stuck to.
You have ten minutes.
“No, thank you. This is more than enough.”
Erin nodded and took the hundred dollar bill I handed her, along with the sticky note she’d given me. She tucked it into her pocket as she quietly left the room and closed the door behind her.
Leaving the computer with it still logged in to her account.
I hopped on the little chair and rolled over to the desk, sticking my flash drive into the USB port before pulling up the patient files for the day.
Thanks to the emphasis on comfort and privacy, I couldn’t hear anything other than voices rising and falling, but I had Cas watching everything through the little enamel pin on my shirt as well as whatever else he could get his hands on.
“The doctor is still with the other patient,” he informed me.
“And how would you know that?”
“The owner of the building that the Tree of Life Omega Center resides in hired Aegis Security not long after we secured our contract with Valor Enterprises,” he explained. “Liam got them to consent to having cameras in the hall where the patient rooms are located as well as the waiting room so long as there isn’t any sound being recorded.”
“Why would he want that?” I clicked on Melinda’s patient file and went through the notes for her appointment today.
“It’s to make sure there’s nothing weird going on with the doctors. We can protect them from external threats, but that doesn’t protect them from anyone already on the inside.”
Everything in Melinda’s file seemed fine, but per these notes she was already five months along. Jesus. She wasn’t showing yet either so she was still able to keep it hidden.
Why would she put her baby at risk to do that?
“Not all doctors can be trusted,” I agreed. “But everyone who works here is either a zeta, or an omega.”
I copied Melinda’s patient file to my drive and went as deep as I could before planting a keylogger on the machine. It would send me every keystroke made over the next week and then destroy itself so I could set up a new program on Dr. Grover’s account.
Then I’d have another permanent backdoor to add to my collection.
“Lucy, don’t take this the wrong way, but I feel like you of all people saying that is kind of funny. Just because they’re omegas, or even zetas, doesn’t mean they can’t be dangerous or predatory.”
I grinned and went through all the tests the doctor ordered for Melinda.
Knowing Cas and Liam didn’t see designations as black or white, but a spectrum, really reinforced how right I was to let them bond me. They were psychos, but they were my psychos.
All the information on Melinda was pretty basic since we had no previous appointments to look at, but they did do a sonogram today that showed the baby’s sex.
The baby was developing exactly as one would hope, with a strong heartbeat.
“She’s having a girl,” I whispered, dropping the JPEG of the sonogram into my drive. “No genetic tests have been done yet though. She’s getting her blood drawn so we’ll have the usual ones, but nothing about paternity.”
I didn’t give a flying fuck who was the father of Melinda’s child, but I did want the evidence for Liam. He needed it for his own sanity, not just the case.
Checking my watch, I chewed on my lip as the progress bar on the screen told me I still had sixty percent left before my program finished uploading and I only had five minutes before I needed to log off.
Fuck! Why did their computer have to be so goddamn slow?
I pulled up Melinda’s family history to see she’d conveniently left out any information about the father. That or the doctor had agreed to keep any information she did give off the record. I bounced my leg up and down as I kept one eye on the progress bar.
“Can’t you make that shit go any faster?” Cas muttered through the earbud.
“No, as a matter of fact, I can’t.” Closing out of all the patient files, I bounced my leg faster. “I don’t know what the fuck kind of processor they have on this shit but it sucks.”
Forty percent left…