SHAYN STARED AT NAOMI and waited for things to start making sense. A few seconds went by and nothing clicked into place. The AI on her tablet—named Aileen, apparently—muttered, her voice coming through the vehicle’s speakers, but he couldn’t quite make out what she was saying. He put any questions he had about the computer aside. She was an AI, that was easy enough to understand. And from what little Naomi had told him about her time with Sola it was easy to figure out why her closest companion was a machine rather than a person. “Why is security chasing us? Why are we running?” He trusted his mate and her powers of prediction, but that didn’t mean he didn’t have questions. “What’s going on?” Naomi jerked to the side as they took a turn at full speed, and if Shayn hadn’t been holding on