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“What are you doing here? Not that I don’t love you, but Adrien said you were helping Sam until the baby came.” Tori grinned at my words.
“Sam had the baby three days ago. I came to get some of my stuff, and Dad’ll be dropping me off at the airport Sunday so I can get settled in before classes start.”
“Christ. Is time really passing that quickly?” I asked wistfully.
“Time waits for no one, my friends, and this dude is skedaddling,” James said, kissing his sister on the forehead before leaving with, “I wish you’d stay longer. Come home more often, booger.”
“Goddess, you’ve gone soft and into dad-mode so quickly. ‘Skedaddling?’ That’s something Dad says,” Dani yelled after him, making me laugh when James simply flipped her off on his way out.
“He’s been in dad-mode since they got here. The boy is whipped.” I chuckled.
“It’s not like you’re immune, Cory. Everyone knows you’re whipped for Evie,” Violet teased me from the couch, surprising me and making me blush when the other two started laughing with her. It was nice to see her being social again, but did she need to rib me? Yes, I fucking hoped she ribbed me again and again. I screwed up her hair with my hand in retaliation and ran out before she could flip me off.
As expected, Evie was immersed in whatever she was doing on the computer when I arrived.
“Good luck, Cory. She barely looked up when I said we were leaving,” Zi commented as they passed by me to leave. I chuckled. That sounded like Evie.
I walked into her office, and she looked over at me distractedly with a smile when she smelled me before her eyes went back to the monitor. I walked around her desk and peered over her shoulder, but it was all gibberish to me.
“What are you looking at?” I asked her.
“The list of suspects for our kidnapping,” she mumbled. She was fiddling with some settings and sending off the program again.
“How many are you down to?” Her sigh told me she wasn’t happy with the answer.
“About fifty or so.”
“That’s not bad, Evie. That’s a hell of a lot closer than we were before you and Evergreen started trying to narrow it down. We can work with fifty.”
“I want to get it narrowed down so I can put some resources into looking into their financials, security and outgoing communication. Fifty is too many to violate their privacy to find this mole.”
“Well then, let’s go through this together. What do we know?” I asked her, pulling her up and sitting in her chair before pulling her onto my lap. The floor was already empty, so I knew she wouldn’t mind.
“Shadows indicate approximately five foot seven, give or take an inch. Light build for a man, medium build for a woman. Extensive knowledge of the pack grounds’ security, indicating we’re likely dealing with a warrior on the payroll. They skirted almost every camera very skillfully. I’d say about a hundred and fifty to a hundred and seventy pounds from the looks of it.”
“We can’t have many five-foot-seven warriors,” I mused.
“Enough when we count the trackers,” she said, motioning to the new list that the program had spit out. Fifty-six names are on the list. One of these people could have betrayed us. My gut churned at the thought. Our packs were good. We were good to our members. The idea that someone hated us enough to do something so vile as what happened in Blue Moon was almost inconceivable to me, but it was the only theory I could come up with that made any sense.
I glanced over the list, seeing a few that surprised me, including Elias and a few more of Uncle Helios’ warriors. People that I’d grown up around my entire life. I still remember how much they would come over to play with us when we were younger. They were always so happy to see all the little ones running around, and my brain revolted at thinking one of those same kind-hearted men could be the one to betray us. But Uncle Theo’s own brother was Tezcatlipoca’s right-hand man. I needed to remember these men were only a couple of centuries short of being two thousand years old. I’ve only known them loosely for about twenty. The only one I was sure wasn’t a traitor was Elias. That man was too kind and loved his family too much to put any of them in harm’s way.
“Show me every instance of the person we caught on camera, love,” I whispered to Evie, kissing her shoulder. She sent the program off to do something else before she moved it to another monitor and pulled up the multiple clips of the mole.
I sighed after the third time she replayed the clips for me, seeing nothing. Sensing my frustration matched hers, Evie pressed the space bar to pause the video, turned around to straddle me and kissed me. I moaned when she opened her pretty mouth for my tongue, pushing her back until she was against her desk. When she started grinding her pussy against my hardening cock, I pushed up from the chair, forcing her entire body onto the desk, her elbow hitting the keyboard. I’d imagined being able to take her in this room since the day I set up a little vase of wild daisies on her first day of work, wondering how her long hair would look splayed over the desk. Back then, I thought all it would ever be was a dream.
“The blinds,” she panted, her hooded eyes making my dick throb. I quickly went to shut the door to her office and close the blinds, but by the time I turned back around, the lust in her eyes was receding, and she was squinting at the monitor.
You were too slow. Go distract her again, Tenoch suggested, so I stalked back over to her, pressing myself against her luscious behind, my hands gripping her hips so she could feel my erection, ready and waiting for her.
Instead, she stood back up and kissed me hard, pulling back before I could grab onto her and resume where we’d left off.
“You’re amazing!” she breathed excitedly before turning back around. She shook her delicious rump in an excited dance, pulled up the list of suspects, changed another setting on the program, and fired it off.
“I would be if I could get your mind off work for more than a minute,” I grumbled but patted her ass and sat back down on the chair. “Why am I amazing?” I asked.
“You’ve just helped narrow down the list,” she said, pointing to the new list the program popped out. Okay, my ego took a lesser hit when I realized only twelve names were on the new list.
“How the fuck did I do that exactly?” I said, reading over the names. Evie pulled the feedback up. It was paused on a partial image of the mole in the hoodie. I couldn’t see anything. “I don’t get it.”
