Page 70 of A Silent Prodigy for the Lycan Princess

“That’s something we need to research, too,” Arden says. “It’s all the more important to get these documents sorted and digitized.”

All of us still linger on the possibility of Meg’s father being responsible for this all when Nox taps on the door and approaches me. “Aurelia,” he says. “Good, you are not working for once. I’m going to steal you away to have lunch with us.” He looks at Arden. “Only if you don’t mind, of course.”

“No, I want her to enjoy her vacation,” Arden says. “Please go and eat with your friends,” he begs. “I’d hate for you to work your whole vacation.”

“I know you said you want me to stay with the others,” Nox says, “but I can’t do that. I’m definitely going to join the team. That is if you all want me. I assure you I can bring something to the table no one else here has.”

“And what’s that?” Emilien asks.

“Criminal energy,” Nox says. It’s subtle, but I can hear the hint of amusement in his voice. Most of the time he comes off as quiet and introverted, and a bit dark, but that’s only to those who don’t know him.

I elbow him and grin. “Nice try, but that’s already my contribution to the team.”

“You know what they say, better two gangsters than one,” Leila says.

“No one ever said that,” Emilien chuckles.

“Well, I made it a thing now, and I’ve also found something,” Leila says while tapping against her phone. “I just looked up the orphanage again and noticed what else is located near it. Guess what?”

“We have no idea,” Emilien says. “Please enlighten us.”

“A hospital,” she says. “It’s close to the orphanage, and it has a huge blood bank, the biggest one in France.”

Leila has successfully gotten Arden’s attention now. “I didn’t know that.”

“I have been thinking… where does this group or organization or whatever, our culprits, get the information on blood groups from? Now, Meg might have had hers in her regular data, but we all know the pack wolves that were kidnapped didn’t.”

“What are you implying?” I ask.

“They must have all been somewhere where this information was collected, and there is no better place to do that than a hospital, is there?”

“You’re right,” I say. “This is something to check on. I’ll call my father and ask him to research it.”

“Isn’t this something Marius might be suitable for?” Nox asks. “Thanks to his many projects, he has lots of contacts with various healthcare organizations.”

“Good point.” I nod. “I will inform them both and ask them to coordinate their findings with each other.”

“Do we have any way to get this information here, as well?” Leila asks.

“It’s almost impossible to get our hands on it just like that,” Emilien says.

“But you were able to hack into Interpol,” I point out.

“Yes, but that’s because we have a few contacts that help us on the inside. I think I didn’t voice my concern correctly. Hacking into surveillance cameras will be the easiest task. Thehospital itself wouldn’t be a problem either. The issue is that not everything is digitalized there and that they have their own intranet. We would be better off proceeding with sending them a phishing email and then hacking them, but it’s not going to be a fast process.”

“And we don’t have the time,” I conclude.

“What do you think, Zoé?” Arden asks her. “IT is your forte.”

“I think Emilien is right. I’d need to have access from the inside,” she says. “I don’t know what type of system they have, but if what Emilien said is correct, then it would be best to be inside; quite literally in the building. It would also be good to have access to the cameras maybe. Oh! Ideally, I could have a camera attached to someone walking around there and get a feel for the building.”

“Emi mentioned another important point, though. What about the data that is stored physically?” Leila wants to know.

Nox and I exchange a gaze. “Criminal energy, like I said,” Nox points out.

“Two are better than one, like I said,” Leila adds, catching on immediately.

“What exactly do we need?” I ask. “I mean from the hospital. What exactly are we looking for?”