Page 76 of Wicked Games

“She must have lost her shit.” Jax is grinning as wide as his brother. “Thank fuck we don’t have to deal with her anymore.”

“Did you tell her you know about her whoring it up in the library?” Jace asks, his eyes shining with glee.

I nod. “She didn’t have much to say after that.”

“Do you think she’s going to be a problem?” Jace asks.

“No clue, but I doubt it. She’s in the wrong. It doesn’t matter who she goes crying to. No one is going to fault me for what I did. Not even my dad.”

“What about William?” Jax asks. “What are we going to do about him?”

Jace spins in his chair and starts tapping on his keyboard.

“What are you doing?” I ask.

“Wiping his ID,” he says, his fingers flying over the keys. “He’s going to be in for a world of surprise when Axel has to issue him a whole new card instead of just recoding it.”

I didn’t get to witness his punishment after Jace wiped his card after we caught him and Natalie in the library, but Xavier did, and he made sure to record it for me so I could watch it later.

Seeing William wearing a dog collar and crawling around on the floor was some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen, but the icing on the cake was how he wasn’t allowed to stop until he went up to every present senior member and got them to give him belly rubs by acting like a dog and doing tricks for them.

It was Jax’s idea to make him wear that fetish maid costume and do chores for us, including waiting on Felix, as part of his punishment for stepping over Felix in the hall that night he was attacked in the pool. Of course, we didn’t tell him that’s what it was for and let him think it was a continuation of his punishment for ‘letting’ his card get wiped.

It wasn’t anywhere close to what he deserves for what he did, but it kept me entertained enough that I can let things go fornow. William will get his, but we’re going to be strategic about this.

“Done.” Jace spins back around. “Send Xave a heads-up so he can be sure to stick around the house for the rest of the day. We need to see the receipts.”

Jax is already typing something into his phone. “Done.”

“Earlier, in my room,” I say, bringing the conversation back to Felix’s attacker.

As much fun as it would be to daydream about all the ways Axel might come up with to punish William, we still haven’t figured out who our would-be killer or his hacker accomplice are.

“Felix said he thought he saw fourteen zeros instead of a number. Did that mean something to you?” I ask Jace.

“Sort of.” He pulls his knife out and spins it around his hand absently.

“Is this something you can explain without making me feel like a moron?” I ask.

He grins. “Not really. But the simple version is that number keeps popping up the more I dig into things.”

“Both jobs?” Jax asks.

Jace nods.

“Do you have any idea what it means or why that specific number?” I ask.

He shakes his head. “Not yet, but I’ll figure it out. They’re good, like insanely good, but no one is perfect.”

Jax hums thoughtfully and stares off into the distance. I know that look. He’s connecting dots and putting plot points together.

I turn back to Jace and let Jax do his thing. Before I can say anything, my phone rings.

There are only a handful of people who call me instead of texting, and none of them are people I want to talk to right now.

“Who is it?” Jace asks as I pull out my phone.

I sigh when I see the name.

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