Ayla POV
My stomach tightened. The cabinet wasn't what made me nervous anymore. It was Dally.
Lily looked at me patiently. "May I tell him?"
I looked at Dally. Then toward the doorway.
"Gunnar isn't around?"
He glanced down both aisles of filing cabinets before shaking his head. "Nah."
"You promise?"
"I'd bet my next dessert on it."
Despite myself, I smiled. "That's a pretty big wager."
He shrugged. "I like dessert."
I looked back at Lily.
"You can tell him."
She nodded once.
"The code wasn't random."
Dally tilted his head. "Well, I figured that much."
"It wasn't one, two, five, one, two, one." She pointed to the keypad. "It was one... twenty-five... twelve... one."
His eyebrows knitted together.
"I don't..."
"The A1Z26 cipher." She smiled gently. "One is A. Twenty-five i
