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“Yeah?”
“Will you sleep here with me? I-I don’t want to be alone.” The vulnerability in her voice disarmed and broke me.
“Sure, Evie,” I said, climbing into the bed. She came closer and cuddled into me, and I started running my fingers through her hair until she was back asleep.
Meanwhile, I could feel my heart fracturing. It was breaking over what happened to Evie, what could have happened, and what happened in this very bed after. It broke me knowing I’d given the woman I loved my first kiss and she wouldn’t even remember it.
Waiting for my mate had never been a hard decision for me, and yet tonight I would have given Evie whatever she wanted if she had been lucid. I didn’t know what that meant for me anymore. Was I just unwilling to keep waiting or was Tenoch right and we were meant to ask her to choose us?
It was hours before I managed to fall asleep, only to be awoken a few hours later when Evie stirred.
“Evie?” I mumbled, trying to become lucid.
“Shh. Go back to sleep. I’ll wake you in a few hours. It’s still early,” she answered quietly. She was sitting in bed next to me, so I fell back asleep instantly to the quiet clacking of her fingers on her laptop.
Chapter Eleven
Evie
I woke up in a cocoon of arms and blankets. I was disoriented, at first, before last night came crashing back to me. Everything got foggy after that sleazeball drugged me until the point where Cory woke me up from my nightmare.
I looked up at Cory. He was wrapped around me protectively like he used to when we were kids. I used to move and kick in my sleep, and this was the only way to stop me from hurting the others. Not having me sleep where the rest were sleeping wasn’t an option any of my friends ever accepted, so halfway through the night, when I would start squirming, Cory would snuggle me, and I would stop moving.
I gently extricated myself from his arms, instantly missing his warmth. It was only five in the morning, so I showered, then, recalling my conversation with Cory last night, I grabbed my phone and my laptop.
Tozi are you awake? I prodded my wolf.
Last night, she had been so silent that I was scared something was wrong. While the drugs didn’t suppress her, they affected her the same way as me. The only difference for me was that, as a wolf, it burned from my system a lot quicker than it would a human. That’s why I’d begged Cory to stay with me. I hadn’t felt that defenseless in a long time.
I felt Tozi stirring in the back of my head but didn’t wake. I was relieved that she was alright and decided to let her continue to sleep off the effects of the drugs.
“Evie?” Cory mumbled. He looked so sleepy and tired that I couldn’t help reaching out to run my hands through his hair, but managed to stop myself before I touched him. Was that the spell or me? I couldn’t tell at this point.
“Shh. Go back to sleep. I’ll wake you in a few hours. It’s still early,” I whispered, hoping he would get some rest. He seemed to battle to stay awake for a few minutes, but eventually fell right back to sleep while I started dismantling the life of the man who tried to rape me. I may not be a fighter, but I had my ways of making someone pay.
It took me a while to safely hack into his system. I could have done a faster job of it, but I didn’t want this to come back to me or the pack so I double-checked that I didn’t leave any digital fingerprints as I worked. Once I was in, I began to snoop around. I made a copy of all his code work because fuck this kid. I tried to do it the right way, and he decided to be a twatwaffle.
Tenoch was wrong when he said this guy was smarter than us. I was just trying to respect a job well done. An unspoken code of hackers and programmers.
I digged through every file, hidden or otherwise and when I found a collection of videos, my blood boiled. Tozi finally rose from sleep and snarled at what we were watching. Cory stirred slightly next to me, and his movements brought me out of my rage for a moment. I took a few deep breaths, and a new plan formulated in my head.
He needs to pay, Tozi snarled.
And he will, I assured her. She finally smiled when she followed my train of thought, her teeth showing like the predator she was. I knew she would approve. This man was going to regret taking advantage of me.
I continued to dig through the rest of his files before I erased his entire life’s work. I was glad I did because I found emails and ledgers of sales for the phones and other programs he’d sold. He was an idiot to keep everything on one server. That was like putting all your eggs in one basket. I rarely did dark web contracts, but when I did, I made sure everything was spread across ten different user names, at minimum, to ensure it could never be put together and traced back to my client or me. This asshole was as cocky as he was sleazy. I’d hacked into stronger systems than this when I was twelve.
I continued to work through the early hours of the morning, doing my due diligence to make sure he didn’t have any other hidden surprises, and then I set my plan into motion.
His real name was Nathan, and he was about to feel what the consequences of trying to fuck with me were like.
I transferred half of his ill-gotten money to a woman’s shelter as an anonymous donation. I forwarded the ledgers, proof of clandestine activities, information and videos proving countless women getting raped to the local police and the FBI. There was absolutely zero chance this man would get away with it. I even found a few instances of someone coming in to share. The other half of the money I wire transferred in equal shares to the ten women whose identities I was able to find through Dad’s facial recognition software. Once all of that was done, I sent an email to Nathan with greeneyes16’s signature. He was going to know who did this to him, and then he was going to watch his whole life slowly disappear before his eyes.
Shortly before I was done, I made sure greeneyes16 didn’t exist anymore. There was no way for him to trace me. Not that he could after today. The FBI would be pounding on his door before nine with the amount of documents I sent them. He would be lucky if they let him play with a Gameboy color after this.
It was almost nine by the time I finished, and I felt a sense of accomplishment.
Order some breakfast. I don’t know what the fuck they gave us, but I feel depleted. I need calories, Tozi advised.
