Chapter 526

Dorothy nodded with a hint of resolve, “Alright, I’ll be back in a jiffy.”

She slipped into something more comfortable and headed out, making her way to Quincy’s office. She found the door ajar, yet the room was devoid of life.

“She’s probably using the bathroom or got caught up in some urgent matter before coming back,” she figured.

Dorothy didn’t leave. She stood by the door, waiting, when her phone began to buzz.

She expected it was Karen, but instead, it was an unfamiliar number.

A call from back home.

Worried it might be the kids in some kind of trouble, she answered promptly.

The voice on the other end was tinged with impatience and a youthful edge, sounding like a high school student, “Hey, how old is this surveillance footage on your flash drive?”

It was Byte 7.

no one was listening,

thing she wanted was for Byte 7 to hit

that earlier?” Byte 7’s tone carried the eternal irritability of someone who’s perpetually sleep–deprived, “You round up the rest of my

working on it! Can you recover the data

a real

the point of this call? She

trying to scrape together the cash. Just be my girl for a week, and we’re

his fingers on any girls, so being chosen

sense she was hell–bent on gathering the funds, and his pride was taking a hit. He thought any girl in her right mind. would jump at such an offer, even pretend to

was actually

get the money,” Dorothy

done the math; selling all her stocks, bonds, and maybe a piece of real estate would get her close enough. And for the shortfall, a bank loan

grumbled

of Byte 7 on the other end: brows furrowed, exuding an air of indifference to

that was all she knew

“Ms. Sanchez?”

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