Page 21 of Freeing Souls

After Grayson and Ryker filled us in months ago about how Grayson was in contact with the Kings of Heart, we have made sure to help him keep it from Gabe. I have felt bad keeping it from him, but it is the right choice right now. I just hope if it ever does come out, Gabe will hear us out.

Before I can respond to him, the door opens again, and someone else walks in, pauses, and clears their throat. “Shit. Sorry.” He spins around to leave, and it hits me he thoughtwe were doing other things with the way I am sitting on the Grayson.

Chuckling, I call out, “Wait, Nerds, we were just talking. You can come in.” Standing, I move to the chair next to Gray as Nerds walks back in and glances around.

“Nerds?” Grayson questions.

“Yeah, sorry. It’s just been so long since I have been in here. I finally get to come back to work.” His shoulders relax just by being back in here.

“I didn’t change anything on your desk besides updating some of your software, so it’s all yours. I’m really glad you’re back,” Grayson tells him as we both stand and move to the other desk in the room. Nerds heads over to his desk and smiles softly. “Hey, can I ask you something?”

“What’s up?” Nerds glances at Grayson.

“So Sebastian helped me a lot. I’ve improved and have become a decent—”

“Fucking amazing,” I interrupt Grayson.

His cheeks flush, and he continues like I didn’t say anything, “Hacker. I think I have found my way onto the Black Night website without whoever runs it finding out. It’s literally one click away. But if I didn’t do it right, I could put us all in more danger.”

“So you’re second guessing yourself?” Nerds asks, taking a seat at the desk. Gray nods. “There is always a risk with everything we do in life. But you know what screws us over more than if we were to just trust ourselves? Second guessing. That’s when you make your biggest mistakes.

“You trusted Bas to teach you where I had to stop. You pick up on things very quickly and can run with it. Don’t doubt yourself out of fear. Every person in this club and anyone who helped us took a risk when we took down the warehouse. All of this is one big game of risk.”

“When you were trying to get onto the site, did you feel confident?” I ask Grayson, and he nods. “You just hesitated when it was actually time to try it?”

“Yeah,” he says sullenly.

“Then do it. I trust you and your work,” I tell him, believing without a doubt he did everything right. Grayson is one of the smartest people I know, especially when it comes to tech. I sat in on some of his calls with Bas, he picked up on things instantly and always blew my mind with how much he understood.

We both stare at Grayson, and he fidgets. “Right now?”

I grin as Nerds laughs. “Here, you can use my computer since you already had everything going.”

He moves away and Grayson sits down and begins typing away. I watch the way his brows lower as he concentrates, how he chews on his bottom lip. It’s adorable, and watching him hack into something is incredibly sexy.

Pausing, Gray glances at each of us and then exhales before clicking another button.

“Holy shit,” Nerds says over his shoulder.

Grayson

Hours after I got onto the website, Nerds and I are both disgusted, but we have all the information we need, vital information that could help us put a stop to all of this.

Walking into Rage’s office, we find everyone already here–Rage, Sugar, Noah, Stone, Axe, Ryker, Cayden, and Harley.Nerds and I walk over to Rage’s desk, and he moves to the side so we can set up both our laptops.

“Normally, we would obviously hold church, but this needs to be a meeting with all of us first. Then, later tonight, I will hold church with all the members,” Rage tells all of us.

After I got onto the site, Nerds and I dove straight into analyzing everything about it. Harley brought us breakfast and made sure we ate and then went to let the others know. Everyone has basically been holding their breath, waiting on us since.

“Welcome back, Nerds,” Axe says, and the others greet him as well. Nerds stayed at Rage’s house at first, and then he left the compound completely for three months. Rage gave us updates, but none of us have his full story yet. I almost looked into him while he was out, but I didn’t want to invade his privacy that way.

He came back about a month ago and has been staying in the club in his normal room. He befriended Oakley, and she tends to go to him when she needs to talk about anything regarding her recovery, which is also going incredibly well. The girl has so much strength in her.

“I was able to get into the Black Night website, as I’m sure you are all aware.” I turn my computer around and show the main site.

“God, it looks so formal, and–and like a fancy nice ball website. Not what it actually is,” Harley comments.

I nod. “The original website leads you to just a straight legal business. You need a specific log in for it to take you to this site. Once you are on this site, you create your account. We have formed a fake one. From there, you can see the next ball date.” I point at the screen, Black Night Ball in bold gold and black letters, below it, a date.

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