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“Well, that was anticlimactic. Since it appears I was the only one here who read books with Egyptian mythology when I was a kid, let me try again: Horus and Anubis were half-brothers.”
“Seriously?”
I nodded emphatically as the others gave me the reaction that I’d expected in the beginning. Jade jumped in then, bringing everyone away from criticizing the bad guy’s apparent theme.
“So it’s a dummy corporation?”
“Exactly and it’s been giving the Rothchild pack big returns on that initial investment ever since.”
Cole pulled his laptop over and began typing away as Trevor chimed in.
“So how does this connect to the Jackals?”
Spinning his laptop around, Cole had opened public records for the casino that had been in the pictures and one of the clubs that Haven had been watching.
“The Jackals pack members began purchasing businesses immediately after the Rothchilds ‘invested’ in Horus.”
“Do we take it to the police?”
“I think we need to but, something else is weird. We’ve been looking through all of their socials and a few weeks ago, all three Alphas from Pack Rothchild stopped posting or engaging in any way. There has been minimal activity on their credit cards as well. It seems like they’re hiding out in their house.”
“If there are charges on their cards then we can probably assume they aren’t dead. Did they find an Omega?”
An involuntary shudder ran through me remembering the things Gavin Rothchild had said to me about being his Omega. Rough fingers threaded through mine and I was surprised to see the hand holding mine was Miles'. I smiled at him and squeezed his hand.
“I can check the Foundation’s records but I feel like they would be showing off if they found a match. They certainly seemed the type when they were at my parents’ house.”
“What if… they had to hide the Omega?”
Shae’s voice was soft and Jade turned to them, wrapping her arm around their shoulders.
“What do you mean, Sunshine?”
They shook their head as if to shake something off and turned to Theo.
“Dayton told us there was another turned Omega, one that came before Cat and the others. He made it seem like whoever it was had been sold.”
Their last word broke off on a whisper, and the room quieted, processing that possibility and the horror associated with it.
“Bodhi has a family friend who is a cop, he tipped us off about the kidnappings and the drug. Could we call in a tip? If we claim there is an Omega in immediate danger, they are supposed to investigate without delay. Might be faster than going through the official channels that we used to turn over Derek?”
“And we wouldn’t have to own up to any less than legal means of collecting information Ethan might have used.”
“Those cops probably wouldn’t be the most accommodating anyway. They weren’t thrilled with the state I delivered their witness.”
I felt the blood rush from my face when my mind provided an image of what Derek may have looked like when Jade was through with him. I wasn’t completely in the dark about what my Alphas were capable of, but I’d also known Derek. It was unsettling but I pushed it from my mind. I had other things to focus on and my Alphas would always do what it took to keep us safe.
“He couldn’t give them any real information anyway. Played dumb about everything except knowing they took Shae and that he was blackmailed into hiding the warehouse from us. We’d basically locked everyone else out of the search after Cole’s suspicions.”
Jade pulled Shae closer to her chest and turned her hard gaze on Theo before nodding once. Theo stood, leaving the room to call Bodhi and let him in on what we knew while the rest of us began to clean up. I apologized to Cole for pulling him back in when we weren’t doing much more tonight but he just rolled his eyes and ruffled my hair. Trevor let him know about the new BullPen exclusive room in the barracks and he said he’d go crash there in case any new information came in overnight.
I went to shut down my computers and began packing up my things when Miles' scent grew stronger and I noticed him leaning against the wall near my station. He was sort of pinching his thick bottom lip between his thumb and the knuckle of his pointer finger, looking like he was muddling something over.
“Are you alright, Miles?”
His eyes lifted to me and he ran a hand down his face.
“I want to ask you a question but I don’t know if it’s crossing a line.”
