I blinked hard and tripped over my words. “Erm… yes. That’s correct.”
Within a few minutes, we were in Dominic’s office. Ty sat across from his father’s desk, but I refused to sit. Standing was best since I could breathe better through my anxiety with a straight back as opposed to being bent at the waist in a chair. I needed to move to have the ability to escape the room quickly if need be.
My stress levels had been through the roof the past few days after learning that Castro was still alive, coupled with the intensity of my extremely detailed nightmares. Now, though, my true identity was out in the open. I couldn’t figure out how Dominic had found out, though. Ty wouldn’t have told anyone. At least, I couldn’t imagine him sharing that information with another person. Not without asking me first.
Dominic cleared his throat and tossed a folder in Ty’s direction. “This showed up on the front porch today. My security guard brought it directly to me. The seal hadn’t been tampered with before I opened it.” He glanced in my direction. “This wasn’t what I expected.”
I didn’t try to look over Ty’s shoulder, but I could see enough to know that the papers were official. One side of the folder had a body chart, the other side writing.
Ty flipped through the paperwork. “These are Liza’s private medical records. How the hell did anyone get ahold of these?” More importantly, who?
Dominic grabbed a second smaller envelope from his desk and handed it to Ty. “It came with a personal message from our friend. Castro.”
My heart jumped into my throat as scenes from my nightmares replayed in my mind. Castro truly was capable of anything, as evidenced by this latest breach into my personal life. If he wanted to, he could rip away everything I held dear, including the people I cared for most in the world.
Ty cleared his throat and read the letter out loud.
Hello, Dominic.
I hope this letter finds you well. You should really do a better job of learning the details of those residing with your pack. Perhaps they hide their true selves from you because it’s obvious to everyone that you are untrustworthy. Your own son doesn’t even trust you enough to tell you the whole truth. How can you call yourself an alpha?
It would be so unfortunate for your pack if this information about your future daughter-in-law got into the wrong hands. The effects could be quite devastating and far-reaching for everyone involved, don’t you agree?
On another note, you might want to look into strengthening your cyber security. It was far too easy for me to access Liza’s medical records, so I’m assuming I could pull anything I wanted from your pack’s online databases. And I have.
Don’t worry, I wiped everything from the medical records system. The last thing I want is for Liza to get hurt. You may have no interest in protecting her, but I do, which is why she belongs with me.
Ty roared. “That bastard is yanking our chains. He knows exactly what he’s doing, getting us all riled up when we have absolutely no way to find him. It’s psychological warfare.” Ty lowered his voice and stared out the window with a resolve thatsent chills down my spine. “I’ll gut him like a fish the moment he shows his smug face.” He stood and paced the room.
I tried to hide my shaking hands by shoving them into the pockets of my jeans. Castro knew exactly where we were, and he knew everything about me and my true identity. Even though it seemed like another life, he’d known me as a child and had made a vow to himself to protect me. More than that, he claimed me as his own, even when my father made it perfectly clear that he’d wanted Castro to stay away from me.
My mind raced as I tried to think of a plan—anything to stop him from telling the world I was an omega. If we couldn’t find him and couldn’t find the coroner who had helped Castro fake his death, our hands were tied.
I was tempted to follow my parents’ idea of getting out of town. Maybe even out of the country. If we were sneaky, maybe Castro wouldn’t know where to find me. Perhaps I could take the Keller family jet to avoid being tracked down. Ty had never mentioned a jet, but based on the family’s wealth, I assumed one existed.
I bit my lip. No, running wasn’t the solution. If Castro couldn’t find me, it would only stoke his ire. Then what would he do? He’d become even more unhinged if that was at all possible.
“Why didn’t you tell me the second you found out that Liza was an omega?” Dominic leaned back in his leather chair, arms crossed beneath his chest, and his eyes narrowed on Ty. “In order for me to help you, you have to keep me abreast of important details, and I’d say your fated mate being an omega is a pretty big fucking detail.”
“It wasn’t my secret to tell!” Ty’s voice was so loud that I listened for some type of reaction from the staff downstairs. Hopefully, no one was listening to the conversation.
Dominic looked incredulous. “This is a big deal. You understand that, right?”
When Ty didn’t respond and kept his back turned, Dominic shifted his gaze to me.
I nodded. It was, indeed, a huge fucking deal. “Yes. I understand, but it isn’t the kind of thing…” He wouldn’t care that I never told anyone. He only cared that I hadn’t told him. The pack’s alpha.
His gaze was unwavering on my face. “Not only is this a serious situation because Castro managed to gain access to this information, but he makes a valid point in his letter. Whatifthis had been leaked? Encrypted file or not, this is damaging intel. Anyone could have hacked into the medical filing system just as easily as Castro.”
That wasn’t really my problem to solve. It was a pack issue.
Ty turned on his heels and grumbled. “No one has known or figured out Liza’s identity all this time. If anyone had, it would have been mentioned before now, so I highly doubt anybody else knows. Honestly, how would they even have known to go looking for it. Who would ever suspect that Liza’s an omega?” He motioned to me by flinging his arm in my direction. “She’s a respected businesswoman in the community who doesn’t cause any problems. There’s absolutely no reason for anyone to look into her.” He spoke through gritted teeth. “Liza’s never even had a parking ticket, for fuck’s sake.”
I didn’t understand how that assimilated to being an omega, but I wasn’t about to ask while he was sticking up for me. Details could wait.
“All right.” Dominic threw his hands in the air. “I’ll play Devil’s advocate. The girl’s hair is practically white, and so is her wolf’s fur. That’s not something you see every day. You really think that somewhere along the way, someone hasn’t questioned why she looks so different?”
Again, if they had, no one had mentioned it. Not to my face, anyway.
