Chapter 237
Chapter 237
Wendy
“Alpha Henry! What are you doing here?” I ask. My heart does that little flutter thing it always does when I see Henry. This time, though, it’s not as strong as it usually is. Maybe Yorrie was right. I needed something to distract me from my infatuation with Alpha Henry, and boy have found it. Or more accurately, I’ve found them. Plural. More than one distraction.
Yorick arrived home earlier. Since I knew he’d been kicked out, I waited for him. He’d hugged me quickly, then gone straight to Connor’s office
where he’s been holed up all afternoon.
“I heard about Yorick. I’m here to see what I can do. Some hacker kid is supposed to be calling later with some information.”
My phone rings and I pull it out of my pocket. When I see an unknown number, I send it to voicemail.
“They’re in…” I begin and my phone starts ringing again.
look at the screen and see the same unknown number. I frown and send it to voicemail again before looking back at Henry.
“Someone wants to talk to you,” he says, his eyebrow raised.
I’m about to answer when my phone pings with a text message.
‘Answer the phone, beautiful.’
Hijack.
My phone begins ringing again.
“I have to take this. They’re in Connor’s office.”
“A secret admirer?” Henry asks, suddenly very interested.
I hit answer but press the phone against my chest. “No, it’s nothing like that.”
“What is it like?” Henry asks.
I put the phone to my ear. “Give me a second.”
“It’s just a friend, Henry. You don’t need to go all Alpha on me,” I say to him.
“Is this a friend that Connor or Quirin know about?”
“He’s just a friend,” I say, standing my ground. Did I mention I’m constantly surrounded by dominant, possessive Alphas?
Henry holds out his hand. I frown at him.
“Let me speak to the person on the phone, Wendy,” he says with zero humor in his tone.
I lift the phone to my ear. “Ummm…”
“Put him on,” Hijack says.
“Okay,” I say, handing the phone to Henry.
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“This is Alpha Henry. Who is this?” he asks, his gaze not leaving mine.
His eyes narrow. “Alpha Lane, are you aware that Wendy is underage?”
He listens while Hijack, aka Alpha Lane, answers him.
“She has a very powerful family and very powerful allies. If you do anything at all that puts her in jeopardy, if you hurt her in any way, we will
like consider it an act of war and we will respond accordingly,” he says. I’ve never seen Henry this before. He’s protective of me and my family, yes, but I’ve never seen him threaten someone before.
He listens to whatever Hijack says.
“You’ve been warned,” he says to Hijack, handing the phone back to me. “I will be speaking to Connor about this,” he says to me.
“Fine. Geez!” I say.
He glares at the phone in my hand a moment longer before turning and heading to Connor’s office.
“Hey, sorry about that,” I say when I put the phone to my ear, walking to my room for some privacy. Instead of being angry, Hijack chuckles.
“I’m an Alpha, beautiful. I’m used to dealing with other Alphas.”
“So… Lane?”
“Don’t go there. It was necessary to give him my real name. If you’re going to be part of the team, we use our tech names.”
“Does that mean you’re going to stop calling me beautiful and start calling me Sphinx?” I ask.
“Not a chance,” he says, chuckling again. “But I did call you for a reason.”
“What’s that?” I ask, sitting down at my desk.
“The shit is about to get real. Hacker is sending the information on Alpha Leo to your brother. When this goes down, the information I used your computer to find will come to light and you’ll be pulled into the investigation.”
I suck in air. Holy shit!
“That is why I’m calling. You don’t need to worry, beautiful. Tracker, Hacker, and I won’t let you take any heat for this. We all expect that you’ll be part of our team next year and we look out for each other. That includes you now as well. There are some things that you’ll need to be prepared to answer in court, but for the most part, you were already looking into Alpha Leo for Yorick. I just did a deeper dive than you did.”
“What do I need to know?”
He proceeds to tell me everything that he’s found and how they intend to get
“You did all of that on my computer?” I ask.
Yorick back to the Academy.
“No. I started it there and ended it when it bordered on the illegal. I also changed your fingerprint so it didn’t include pieces. Hacker’s.”
“I thought you couldn’t change a person’s fingerprint?” I ask.
“Hijackers can, or at least we can bury it so that only someone whose skills rival mine could find it and only if they were looking for it. I can show you, if you’re interested. It would mean your real fingerprint would have points of Hacker’s and my fingerprint in them, indicating that you learned from us.”
“Would you be okay with that?” I ask him.
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“Absolutely.”
“What if I don’t get accepted to the Academy next year?” I ask him.
He chuckles. “Believe me, when this goes to court, the Council will make sure e you go to the Academy next year. They’ll want you working for them, not someone who might want to work against them.”
My stomach flips. Is that really what I want? The answer is yes. I may have applied before to give myself an option if I wasn’t Henry’s mate, but now, I really want to go. I love every bit of everything I’m learning from Hacker and Hijack. Hopefully, I can meet Tracker soon too.
“Hacker put a meeting together for late this afternoon to go over everything. See if your brother will let you join the call
“I’m sure he will. He’s the one who asked me to look into Jory and Alpha Leo in the first place,” I say.
He’s quiet a moment. “Hacker also found the Teymoori alliance bond, did he tell you?” he asks.
“No, what’s in it?” I ask.
When he tells me, I’m shocked.
“Are you following that money trail too?” I ask.
“I am. You want in?”
“Hell yeah, I do!”
“Perfect. We have a couple of hours before the call. Are you at your computer?”
“Yes,” I say, excitedly opening my computer and signing in.
“Let’s get to work, my little apprentice,” he says ‘as he connects to my computer and IT code begins scrolling on my screen.
A couple hours later, my eyes feel like sandpaper. I expected Hijack to become impatient with me and my millions of questions, but he’s actually a very patient teacher. And holy cow, everything he’s showing me is so interesting!
‘Okay beautiful. I have to go to this meeting now. Go find your brother and get yourself on that call. It’s a video call so I’ll see you soon,‘ he says in our chat.
‘I’ll be there,‘ I say.
I’m excited to be a part of the team helping Yorick get back to the Academy. But I’m also excited to have a chance to see Hacker and Hijacker. I’ll finally get to see if those pictures they sent to me are really what they look like.
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