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“Did I forget to shower?” I asked her, and she blushed.
“Sorry, just... some things make sense now,” she answered.
“What things?” I asked.
“Nothing. Sorry,” she said quickly.
“This is Blue Moon,” Evie said, not having picked up on the weird conversation on the side. “This is the time the moon peaked.” She pointed to another set of numbers.
“What are these?” I asked, pointing to another set of random numbers.
“I’m not sure,” she said, as she brought up another program and input the numbers in it, and off the thing went doing Goddess knew what. “This should figure it out... in theory,” she explained. She pulled out the rest of the phones. “Zi—”
“Hey, that’s my phone,” I interrupted, grabbing it.
“Is it?” she said. “Dad gave me those two a few days after the clean-up was done, and I haven’t had a chance to charge them. Things got a little hectic.”
I plugged it into the charger she had in the drawer and turned it on.
“Yep. This one is mine,” I said, showing her the picture of my siblings on the screen lock.
“Do you need the data migrated to your new one?” she asked.
“No. Most of it was on the cloud, so it’s already migrated over. There are only a few things I need from this one,” I said, fighting the blush and thankful she hadn’t gone in it.
“Zi, I’ll send you the program. Here. You take half of these, and I’ll take the other half. Let’s get all the data together and see if we can figure out where these guys come from,” she said, handing her the bag after dumping half of the phones out. I suddenly realized I was just in their way, so I moved back and grabbed the bag I’d brought with me.
“I’ll let you get to work. Here’s breakfast, and I’ll come by with lunch or send James.”
“We can—” Evie started.
“No offense, ladies, but you both have a tendency to forget to take care of yourselves when you’re in the middle of projects. I’ll be making sure you’re getting food while you dive down the pit,” I told her.
“He’s right, Evie.” Zi sighed before she left.
“Great work, Evie,” I said and left.
“I know this place.” Uncle Lalo said, looking at the building on the screen.
“Yes, I do, too. Isn’t that building in front of our old company? Sol Enterprises?” Uncle Theo asked.
“I think so.”
“According to my records, the company that purchased the building bought it a little over twenty-four years ago. Isn’t that around the time you set up base there?” Evie asked, typing quickly on her computer.
“Yes, it was,” Evergreen answered, as usual looking like the proud parent that he was.
“This is the first place all of the phones ping from. This is where they were turned on. As far as I can see, it’s owned by a series of shell corporations. I can’t figure out what they do at all, but I do see that they leased the bottom floors out to different companies, while the top three floors are still owned by them. I’m going to guess that although you’re not there anymore, they’ve still kept them as working offices since there’s no place they could grab near the pack grounds without raising suspicions.”
“And we still occasionally head there.” Uncle Lalo sighed. “We’re silent minority partners. We’re there two or three times a year to get reports. “
“So what do we want to do?” Dad asked.
“Raid it. Hit them where it hurts,” Uncle Helios said.
“I can get my people ready, just say when,” David answered, with Uncle Rhett nodding and Areli looking a little pale, but determined.
“Alright, if they have three floors it makes sense to get three teams ready to go. Evie, can you work with your dad and figure out how big each floor is so we can make an assessment of how many guys we take?” I asked. Both Roswells nodded at me and I looked at everyone, hating what I was about to say.
