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The nano-trackers were active.
I’d spent the last half hour guiding them through the vents of the facility? For such a paranoid group of people, they had tremendously overlooked their building security.
It was a lucky break. Unfortunately, it was probably the only one I would get. I used one nano-tracker to hack into the files on their mainframe, looking for evidence so Alpha Wynn could reach out to the other packs and establish a case against the Council.
It was treason.
It could lead to a mutiny.
I smirked. Nothing we haven’t done before.
The fear of losing Omegas and resources kept the sanctioned packs beneath the Council’s paws.
The evidence I planned to get would combat the fear and give other packs the courage to fight back.
Pride was as much of a motivator as fear. And once we confirmed the Council was working with our enemies, we would wield our outrage like a honed blade.
Their internal security systems were more sophisticated than I had expected. They had disabled their ports and placed restrictions on their software and hardware. The protections were annoying, but it was child’s play for me. The next roadblock was a triple-layered firewall that scanned for suspicious activity. There were several ways to go about it, but given my orders to remain undetected, I opted to bypass their firewall with a snake hole—a small rupture in their code that wouldn’t trigger their alert systems.
If discovered, I would have been elbow-deep in sanctions, but my thoughts kept returning to Brielle. I knew she was safe on pack lands, but my wolf was still unsettled. He didn’t understand why we weren’t with our mate.
I was never distracted. Feeling off-balance was almost as vexing as the reason for the disturbance.
Brielle was hiding something.
Perhaps it was nothing serious, but I knew it could be a secret that might cost our pack allies.
I wouldn’t allow my desire for Brielle to overshadow the facts. She was with the Council longer than any other Omega. She had survived multiple Hunts. She possessed a unique set of skills. Then again, she hadn’t grown up in the boarding houses.
She was raised by her father, who taught her to survive.
I couldn’t help but wonder how deep her knowledge ran.
It was another puzzle to solve.
My comms unit beeped
“What do you want?”
“Someone’s pissy. Is the infiltration not going well?” Valor asked.
“It’s fine. I’m just . . . thinking.”
“About?”
“Brielle. She’s hiding something.”
“So?”
I blinked. He couldn’t be serious. “What?”
Valor sighed. “Ez, I understand your vigilance—I do—but Brielle is our fated mate.”
My jaw tightened. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means she just escaped a fucked-up situation, and I don’t expect her to divulge everything about herself when we’re basically strangers. It means that secrets don’t always equal betrayal.”
My chest burned, the part of my past I kept locked up threatening to boil over.
