Chapter 10 With Ava and Chris canoodling somewhere, Leila was manning the fort. The database was coming on fine. In fact, it was better than fine. It was phenomenal. They were days away from creating a fully functioning program that would enable them to gain access to every state in the union’s Shifter registration files, allow them to cross reference those files with the federal, state, and local Missing Persons’ lists, and identify kids who had fallen through the cracks. This was most definitely still the beta version, and most certainly there would be kinks as they got the program running, but heck, even Leila was impressed with what she and Ava had accomplished. Though pride was a sin, and egotism a horrible trait, she knew that it would have taken Ava three times as long to do all

