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“No, nothing’s been delivered today. Why?”
Since I’m so close to him, I can hear Drake’s reply, and my hands start shaking as I look around more closely.
“Because there’s a package on their porch. Stay where you are but stay alert,”he tells him before hanging up.
Fucking hell, how did this get here? Reaching for my phone, I turn on the flashlight feature and look around at the snow, but the only footprints I see are those made by Igor this morning. I shut off my flashlight and it takes me a bit before I realized Devil had called someone else.
“Doc’s bringing Razor’s kit over. We’ll dust the outside and then see what’s inside.” He hesitates and I narrow my eyes at him.
“I’m staying, Devil. I need to know what this asshole is doing now that I’m ignoring him.”
His lips press in a tight line but relief flows through me when he gives me a curt nod.
As we wait for Doc, he exhales heavily. “Fuck, we need to tell Reaper.”
I nod glumly. “I know. I was planning to video call him when Doc arrives. I know he’ll want to see all of this.”
Just as I finish saying that, I hear someone walking toward us and look over my shoulder, relieved that it’s Doc, but he’s not alone. Cannon and Smithy came as well.
“Loki and Atlas are looking through the video feeds,” Doc says as he steps up on the porch.
Taking a deep breath, I video call Anthony.
“Hey, Darlin’,”he pauses and frowns when he sees my worried expression.“What’s wrong?”
“I was heading back to the house after supper and Devil said he’d walk with me. We… There’s a package sitting on our porch. Devil called Drake, but he said nothing’s been delivered. Loki and Atlas are looking at the video feed,”my voice trails off as I hear more footsteps behind me and turn, seeing Loki and Atlas coming up behind us, each of them carrying a laptop.
Loki sees me talking to Reaper and steps up behind me. I tilt the screen so Reaper can see his face better.
“Pres, someone hacked into our system. We’re missing five minutes in the feed. Is Python and maybe Smoke available to dig into how they did that and prevent it from happening again?”
“Fuck,”I hiss, my eyes widening.“You don’t think they have access to watch everything we’re doing, do you?”
Everyone stills at my words and then Reaper’s moving. I chew nervously on my lip as I shift from foot to foot. My nerves are going into overdrive at what this could mean for us. I don’t know if the security systems we have are ones Python installed or if Smoke’s company did them.
I look down at the phone when I hear Reaper talking quietly to someone and realize he’s talking to Thor. Thank God for cuts, because I’ve only seen pictures of Thor and Dragon so it is going to take me a while to learn how to tell them apart.
“Head into Church. I’ll gather Wildcat and whoever’s here.”
Reaper gives Thor a chin lift and soon I can hear the sound of a bunch of boots walking across the wooden floors.
“Darlin, Smoke’s hooking something up to my phone so the guys here can see everything.”
“Okay, hang on and I’ll walk over to Doc and the guys. They’re dusting for prints on the outside of the box.”
I step around the guys as I turn off selfie mode and turn my phone sideways so that they can see what’s happening better.
I frown as I see Doc and Cannon lift some sort of paper but then a spark of hope ignites in my chest. Did they get prints?
Doc pulls out a pocketknife and turns toward my phone.“We got a couple of prints. We’ll run them through Razor’s system.”He pauses as he looks around at us before his gaze settles on me.“Step back, Queen, I don’t want you getting hurt in case he rigged something. In fact, all of you step back.”
“Doc…”my throat tightens at what he’s implying.
He gives me a tight smile but then Smithy shoulders past us and puts his hand out.“Not happening, Doc. None of us have your skills, so hand over the knife. If it is rigged, then I’ll need you to fix me up.”
My breath hitches again and tears sting my eyes.
Fuck, I hate this.
