Alpha's Regret: Losing His True Mate

Elodie’s POV~

Johnny went still beside me. Then he leaned forward, his voice dropping to a whisper like Nolan could somehow still hear us. "Professor... why does Dante want to meet with you? Can you tell us?"

There was a pause on the other end. Brief. Detached.

"He said he wanted to introduce someone to me."

And just like that, the line went dead.

I stared at my phone, the screen going black, and felt something cold settle in my stomach.

Johnny turned to me, his face tight with realization. "You don’t think..."

"Sienna," I said flatly.

"Shit." He dragged a hand through his hair. "The Brown family has their own tech company, right? And Sienna wanted to work with us on cuap before—"

"Before Dante blocked her from joining Cole Technologies," I finished. My voice sounded hollow, even to my own ears.

Cuap. The programming language the world thought Professor Nolan’s team had developed. The one Sienna had been *so* eager to get her hands on. The one she’d probably been whining to Dante about ever since I’d shut her down.

Johnny’s jaw clenched. "So now Dante’s going to introduce her to Nolan directly. Get her in through the back door."