Chapter One-Hundred-Three

ELLE POV

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I have been sitting in this uncomfortable office chair in the security room for the last two hours staring at the code in front of me. A similarity screaming at me, but I don't remember where I had seen it before. The answer is sitting in my mind somewhere. I feel it like a heaviness sitting atop my head, begging to be remembered, but Goddess help me, I can't.

'Alpha,' Charity's cheery voice rings through my head as I stare blankly at the screen, lost for the first time when it comes to deciphering a code; there is a reason I don't have to waste my time with class or school. I can't remember where I am from, but I can remember every book I have read. 'We are back in the territory.'

'Security room,' is my reply while I crack open a Redbull I grabbed earlier from the mini-fridge. I am lost in my own world while Damon's playlist rings through the speakers at ear-splitting volumes. For some reason, I am calmer with it playing in my ears as