“See that you do.”
Yvette ended the call, and Christopher stared at the phone. Where had Allison gone? Was there a chance that she’d gone back to her office? Maybe she’d just decided to go home for the day. If she had, he couldn’t even blame her for it.
Christopher stepped out of the office expecting to go ask McKenzie if she’d seen Allison, but he walked into a total shitstorm. He had planned on trying to find Allison so he could apologize, but it seemed as though the drama police had arrived, along with the regular police.
“What’s going on?” Christopher asked one of the officers who was standing there.
“A Miss McKenzie is being arrested, sir.”
“Why?”
“She was the hacker,” James said. He was standing beside Christopher’s office door with wide eyes, staring at everything as it happened.
“Why are you always around?” Christopher growled. James looked over at him, blinking, but didn’t seem offended.
“Because I work here,” he said slowly.
Christopher just sighed. He needed to play nice with James. He knew that. He couldn’t be a jerk just because he was hurting and upset.
He wanted to be, though.
“Anyway,” James said, staring at Christopher, “your brother figured out that McKenzie took her little crush to an extreme level.”
“Meaning?”
“She tried to come up with ways to spend time with me,” Brian said, striding over. McKenzie was being handcuffed as they spoke, and she looked over at Brian with tears streaming down her face. Christopher had never seen her looking like this.
“Never forget me!” McKenzie was sobbing and crying and screaming. She was also flailing around as the officers tried to cuff her, which was making their job more difficult than it needed to be.
“Oh, I won’t,” Brian muttered. “You don’t need to worry about that.”
“That was kind of dramatic of her,” Christopher pointed out.
“You have no idea,” Brian said.
“Well,” James said, rubbing his hands together, “looks like all of the action is coming to a close. I’m going to get back to work.”
“Good plan,” Brian patted him on the shoulder.
“Hey,” Christopher said to James. He took a deep breath. It was time to man up and stop being a dick. “Thanks for working so hard and staying on top of everything. I’ve seen how far you’ve come with the software you’ve been working on. I know you’re doing a great job.”
“Like I said,” James shrugged, “I work here. It’s what I’m supposed to do.”
He shoved his hands in his pockets and walked away, heading back toward his part of the building.
“He’s not a bad guy,” Brian pointed out.
“I know,” Christopher agreed.
“She only invited him because he’s new.”
“I know.”
“And because you pussied out,” Brian added.
“Hey!”
“Just saying,” Brian shrugged. “If Allison was my mate, I wouldn’t have waited until she asked someone else to the Christmas party to make a move.”