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ALLIE
“So, after your introduction yesterday to what we do …” Mr. Abara said, walking down the hall with me and Colton at my internship. He held a couple files by his side and beamed at everyone who greeted him. Apparently, he was the big cheese around here. “What would you like to learn more about? Any specific department?”
Eyes widening slightly, I turned to him. “I get to choose?”
“Of course you do, Allie! I’m not going to force you to do something you hate,” he said, clapping Colton on the back. “All the interns, like you and Colton, get to choose as long as there aren’t too many interns in the same department.”
Colton gave me a half-smile, and I couldn’t tell if it was genuine or not. Knowing who his brother was and what had happened last night, I wanted to say that it was fake, but honestly, he looked serious and happy here, working under Mr. Abara.
“Um …” I said, stopping in the hallway and glancing at all the different departments. Between biomedical, bioengineering, biotech, artificial intelligence, and even cyber engineering, there were so many to choose from that I didn’t know where to even begin. But I was damn glad that I had taken him up on this internship.
Colton leaned toward me. “I had a hard time choosing too.”
Mr. Abara glanced toward the cyber engineering offices and smiled. “You don’t have to choose now. I’ll give you one more day. But we could really use some help in the cyber engineering offices. It’s the newest sector we have and a subsection of bioengineering. Engineers are working on tech to implement into the body that can be integrated and controlled by the mind—think being able to control prosthetics or contact lenses that not only let you see better, but ones that you can also zoom in or zoom out with. Things like that.”
“That’s a … a real thing?” I asked, completely amazed.
“It will be,” he said, chuckling.
“Allie,” the woman at the front desk said, hurrying up to me while I chatted with Colton and Mr. Abara. She swept some blonde hair from her face, cheeks flushed. “Someone is here to see you. They say that it’s urgent.”
I glanced over at Mr. Abara to ask if it was okay. He gave me a smile. “It’s almost time to leave anyway. Why don’t you head out? It seems like whatever it is, it’s important.” He glanced at the woman. “Isn’t it?”
After she nodded, I grabbed my coat and purse, gave a slight nod to Colton because I didn’t want him to say anything about me being rude to him the other night to Mr. Abara, and hurried to the front office, where Kai paced around and rubbed his hands together.
When he saw me, he grabbed my wrist, thanked the woman, and pulled me out the doors and into the frigid December air. “We have to go. I already texted João, who’s with Jace. He knows that I’m picking you up.”
My eyes widened as I stumbled after him, my flats being drenched in snow and slush and sliding over the ice. Kai tossed me a helmet for his motorcycle, and I stared at him like he was absolutely insane.
“What’s going on, and why are you driving a motorcycle in the middle of winter?”
“It’s the only thing I have.” He kicked one leg over the bike and sat. “And I’ll explain later.”
“If you want me to leave with you, you’ll tell me now,” I said, scrambling through my purse to find my phone.
What was going on? What was wrong? Something had to be because Jace had told me not to go with anyone, especially after what had happened yesterday with Colton.
Kai placed his helmet on my head and strapped it on. “We have to release the information about Nicole now instead of when we planned to tomorrow. Her dad found out. And when it’s released, you need to be safe. This town will fucking blow up over the police force pimping out underage girls.”
