Page 3 of Curvy Quirky Omega

Thankfully, Valor was able to keep everything with Dane and Melinda quiet. Gideon’s wife was in mourning and had canceled everything for the rest of the year. Dane…he was now permanently assigned to the Valor estate so there was no reason for him to come and go.

Convenient, and yet terrifying.

Whether I became Valor or Valentine wouldn’t matter. This was going to be my world and I had to learn as much as I could and as quickly as I could, or Nicolette Valor would eat me alive before Liam could do anything about it.

I would have to see her when we went to interrogate Melinda and no matter how secure I felt with my bonds, I wasn’t ready to meet her yet. Not even in a professional setting.

Liam had called her to throw her legacy in her face. Because of me. That wasn’t going to be something she could ignore. Neither was my incompetence when it came to this case. If I wanted some sort of armor before we went over there, I needed to figure out all the right questions.

I needed to decide if Dane was being honest or not.

Which meant I had to see him at least once before we headed over to the Valor estate.

I dropped the second line of adhesive on top of the first and buried down the flicker of anxiety before Cas or Liam could feel it.

Convincing them to let me see Dane wasn’t going to be easy, but they’d eventually give in. I just hoped I could handle it.

I reached up for the last band of adhesive and sighed. Dane did have messages on his phone to a blocked number that Cas had texted, trying to get the other person to respond, but they never had.

All the messages between them had been simple reports. Nothing crazy. Answers and questions. No code that I could tell. Dane didn’t know who it was either, if we could believe him. Never saw them in person or spoke to them over the phone so he didn’t even know what their voice sounded like.

Everything on his phone confirmed that, but I didn’t understand how they’d even made contact in the first place. I didn’t get how Dane could be so stupid that he didn’t think to ask why this person wanted to help him meet with Melinda.

Maybe he didn’t realize that was what was happening.

That would be a good angle to start with even though I was sure Liam had already asked him every single question imaginable, but Liam wasn’t Frankie.

I dropped the last of my scent blockers on top of the others and grabbed my phone, selecting Frankie’s messages. We needed to see Dane together or all of this would be pointless, but I wasn’t sure if she’d be able to handle it after everything that happened when she did her legacy alpha training with the Lopez pack.

Typing out the message, I chewed on the inside of my cheek and tried not to worry about how long Liam had been down there.

He needed answers – answers that would tell him why someone murdered his brother, but I didn’t think he would like whatever those answers were. Not when it was extremely unlikely that Dane knew he was part of the reason Gideon was dead.

But between the messages on his phone and the files on Gideon’s computer…I knew we were getting close. If we could just ask the right questions, we would know where to find who really killed Gideon Valor.

CHAPTER 2

Lucy

I headed downstairs and paused on the second-floor landing to study the ground floor. The kitchen was spotless and neither of my alphas were anywhere to be seen despite how close they were. I could feel them through the bond, but I couldn’t feel a single one of their emotions.

It was annoying how quickly they’d learned to do that – hiding their emotions from me through the bond so I wouldn’t worry about them or get startled while I was doing something else.

Being an omega meant they’d always be able to feel my emotions; even if I could mute them a bit, they were still there. Part of me was grateful, but the rest of me was pissed off they could completely cut me off from their emotions while I couldn’t do the same.

Logically, I understood why, but that didn’t change how unfair it all was.

Whatever, I probably didn’t want to know what they were feeling right now anyways.

My phone buzzed and I glanced down to see a message from Frankie. She’d revised a few of my questions and then added some others. She would be here soon since the Lopez compound wasn’t far.

Frankie didn’t like sitting around doing nothing either so she’d been trying to find anything that might not match up between all the security badges that had been assigned and the Valor Enterprises logs for the last year so we could figure out who the person might be that Dane was sharing information with.

I’d been going through every single thing on Gideon’s computer, and I had enough to make some assumptions about what he was doing but nothing that had anything to do with Melinda or Dane.

And Frankie and I couldn’t go back to Valor Enterprises without alerting the whole world that we were looking into Gideon’s death if we went alone, plus there was always the chance that someone might recognize me from that night at Bite.

None of the alphas thought it was safe enough for us to go poking our noses into potentially dangerous shit without backup and, no matter how much it annoyed me, I knew they were right. Even backup from Genesis wouldn’t be enough considering the fact that we were investigating legacy packs.

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