The Beta's Daughter

No Appetite?

Chapter 31
Azariah's pov

I don't know how people commit crimes, and then just wait and see if they're gonna get caught or not.

There's nothing thrilling or exciting about it.

I've felt sick to my stomach all morning. To the point that I can't eat. Yes, I know, it's that bad. Amber seemed perfectly fine this morning when we drove to work. That girl has not a care in the world.

She told me with great excitement that she was able to get into their computer with no problem. According to her, the problem was the fact that there were thousands of files, and she has no clue what she was looking for. I'm sure they didn't name that thing what she did. She said for all she knows, what she's looking for could be under a file titled 'lab requisitions', or 'petri dishes'.

I can see the dark bags under her eyes, which lets me know she was up half the night searching. According to her, she only has nine hundred and forty more files to check.

Good luck to her.

My afternoon flies by as fast as the morning did, and I find myself headed toward the lab for my learning hour.

Amber assured me at lunch that everything was business as usual, but my stomach wouldn't listen. I'm fully expecting that at any minute Alpha Jason will show up to escort us to his office.

I walk into the lab, and as I'm headed to where Amber is, the two that were here yesterday look over at me and chuckle. One goes as far as to tell me not to blow the place up. I gave them my best smile and told them that I make no promises.

"Since you got a failing grade yesterday, your going to have to work extra hard today," Amber tells me by way of greeting.

"Keep up your shit, and I'll go to Alpha Garette and tell him you're threatening to fail me if I don't perform sexual acts for you." I narrowed my eyes in challenge to her.

Just as Amber starts to laugh, a familiar voice scolds us from behind me. "Ladies! Read the contract over that you signed to work here. It clearly says you can't request sexual favors in exchange for anything. And I mean anything."

"See Amber, even Finn knows it's wrong." I tease.

"Finn, please tell me you're here to take her away again." Amber lets out an exasperated sigh.

"Promise her she'll get full marks for today and consider it done."

"Promise." Amber agrees quickly.

What the hell is happening here? We didn't rehearse this. Why is she having me thrown out of here today? Again!

I look back and forth between the two and conclude that there both serious. Amber maintains eye contact with me, and slightly gestures towards the door with her eyes, telling me to go. Since I trust that there's a reason behind this, I turn on my heel and huff out of there.

Finn catches up quickly with me and asks if we can go for a walk outside since it's such a nice day and all.

Once we're a good distance away from the facility, he steers us towards the forest, and we walk in about fifty feet. He turns to me, "I need to make this fast. Is anyone missing from your pack?"