Midnight Star_Paranormal Dating Agency by Ophelia Bell

Author:Ophelia Bell [Bell, Ophelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MTW Press
Published: 2019-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

17

Val

Val refused to believe what the evidence suggested, but his analytical mind kept screaming the facts at him to the point he wanted to bang his head against the wall to get it to shut up. The simplest, most straightforward answer was almost always right, and right now, all the evidence pointed to one thing.

No one else had access to the lab, or to the data besides him and one other person: his father. But why in the world would his dad sabotage this project? The company stood to earn millions from the drug once it was finished, and Val himself would very likely be in the running for a Nobel Prize for it too. It made no fucking sense.

He blindly swiped his security badge to take them back up to the lobby, where Astra proceeded to commandeer the guard’s station. The security guard gave Val a perplexed look.

“Let her look. We’re concerned there was a breach of the lab earlier in the year and we need to track down who the culprit was.”

The guard looked concerned and slightly offended. “Sir, I assure you there have been no unauthorized visitors all year.”

Val patted him on the shoulder. “I believe you. But we need to verify.”

“Javin, get over here,” Astra called. She rubbed her temples and squinted at the screen. The images were flitting past at double speed.

“It might help if you slow it down,” Val said.

“No, we don’t have time,” Astra said. “If I still had my link to my dragon, I’d be able to pick up all the details at this speed, but I can’t. Javin’s trained with champions. He’s almost as good as us.”

Javin took the seat she vacated and the video resumed. Val watched in wonder, Javin’s eyes flicking quickly over the screen as the series of recordings played at double speed. Every so often, he would pause the playback and ask the identity of a person. So far no one who appeared was the least bit suspicious—only normal staff passing through the lab’s hallways and entering the door at normal working hours.

Val saw himself coming in at odd hours, but he could always pinpoint those visits as corresponding to nights he’d had revelations about a new set of tests he wanted to run.

They watched the recordings up to the date of Astra’s injury, about a week prior, and saw nothing. Val was inwardly relieved, though not happy that the mystery remained.

“Why are you rewinding? We didn’t see anything unusual,” Val said when Javin started skipping back to the beginning again.

“Checking again. There was a spot about a month back that I wanted another look at. Something looked off but I can’t put my finger on it.”

The other two flanked Val as they stared over Javin’s shoulder, the security guard leaning down and peering at the playback too. Astra’s intense heat was making him sweat, and he could swear he scented her on Simon, their two aromas mingling. He wanted to inhale them both as much as possible.

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