“Uh, where is he?” I asked, looking around the office. The cubicles were all empty. And so were the offices.
“Of course he’d come late,” said Chastity. “What a dick.”
Our phones both buzzed. We pulled them out and looked at them.
One new email. From Mr. Frost.
Good evening ladies,
I’m running a little late, but I’ll be there soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.
-Xander Frost
What a dick indeed.
“I can’t believe him,” said Chastity. “What do you think the odds are that he’d planned to be late the entire time?”
“Extremely high. He’s the worst.”
“Whatever,” she said. “Honestly, the joke’s on him. Because I need to hear so much more about this prank!” She jumped up and down with excitement. “How surprised were you when it turned out to be Dr. Lyons?”
“Pretty surprised. What exactly did you tell him to do to me?”
“All I told him was that you were looking for more of a bad boy.”
Wow, really?“So he came up with all of that on his own?”
“Yup. Are yousurethe video got deleted? I’d love to see him in action.”
“Yes, I’m sure. I promise I’ll give you all the details you want, but first…” I pulled out the flash drive that Cole had given me. I couldn’t wait any longer, even if there was a chance that Mr. Frost would come interrupt at any moment.
“Right. The pictures!” She grabbed it from me and hurried over to her laptop. A zip folder popped up.
I took a deep breath and hitextract all files.And we waited. And waited. And waited.
Whatever camera Kat used must have had a bajillion megapixels, because we were only 10% done extracting over 100 GB worth of data.
It felt like the universe was purposefully torturing me.
And if having to wait wasn’t torture enough, the universe went and made Tanner call me again. I glared at his name on my phone.
“Oh geez,” I said. “Tanner’s calling again.”
“Aren’t you going to answer it?”
“Why? So he can give me some lame excuse about why he left? No thanks.”
“He’s far too hot and far too rich for you to not at least hear him out.” She swiped her finger across my phone to answer the call.
“What the hell?!” I mouthed angrily. What had happened to Chastity being #TeamDrLyons?
“Hello?” said Tanner.
“What do you want?” I asked.
“Oh thank God. I’ve been looking for you all day.”
“Why? Clearly you don’t like me. Why would you be looking for me?”
