Page 149 of Her Reluctant Hero
She nodded, chin tucked back, her gaze not leaving Adrian. “Si.”
“Adrian.”
He was halfway down the stairs. “She hasn’t been to my room yet,” he said over his shoulder when Mallory followed.
“So why are we—?”
He turned to face her, hands braced on the handrails of the stairs, blocking the way. “It was my notes, everything. If someone has it, they know exactly where we’re excavating, exactly what we’ve found.”
Which meant someone had been watching them in the city to know where they were staying, to know Adrian would be in her room last night. Mallory rubbed at the prickles of alarm that rose on her skin. She suddenly, furiously, needed a maid to have accidentally thrown out the papers.
“I’ll go in the Dumpster if you give me a boost,” she volunteered.
But moments later, both of them covered with slime Mallory did not want to identify, they had still come up with no yellow legal paper.
Adrian’s expression was bleak as he helped her out of the Dumpster.
“We need to get to camp. Right now.”
