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Chapter 19
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t finally felt like I was getting somewhere. Dakan downloaded a lot of information, and he left a backdoor on my computer to the audio at Scorchwood and the headquarters of the US branch of the Aether Circle. I’ll admit he had his uses, but I’ll bet Solron could have gotten me into every single computer the Aether Circle had.
Still, I had more than I had before. And I still needed Solron. She was to be the new Warden of Scorchwood when it was up and running. Bael could tell me they hadn’t started on the CCTV cameras, and the audio was still up and running. Right now, they were working on getting hot water in the prison and renovating a section for a rec room.
The entire bottom floor was being turned into a rec room, and that’s where the workers were. Kudan had been in the Warden’s apartments before, and his followers stayed in the guard’s. There were a ton of other floors to check. Scorchwood was a vast place. Fergus let it slip, there was a section blocked off by a Fae door. Kudan wouldn’t have known how to open it, so I checked off the medical wing.
Amduscias could manipulate sound, but he didn’t know how the sound system worked. Bael didn’t exactly torture that out of Warden Skinner. This was where some of my skills came into play. I wasn’t a hacker, but back in my time, before I settled down, I ran sound for a Hell band, and I was good with computers.
I set one of my laptops to scan for any sound in the prison and zero in on the location. I used my other laptop to dig into the Aether Circle.
Those bastards either had people everywhere, or they had dirt on someone. They were in politics, and they’d turned a few officers in the Paranormal Investigation Bureau. I’d never been topside, but I had a feeling they were supposed to have the final say in arresting people.
I downloaded all their blackmail files and transferred them to a thumb drive. It would be a pity if all that got deleted off their hard drive and cloud server. I knew better than to do that without permission. Bael would be so mad if I started a war with the Aether Circle without his permission. He might even set Solron loose on me.
Blackmail files weren’t enough. It wouldn’t bring them down, and it wouldn’t stop them from hurting Rei. I needed more. I started digging into their financial records. I didn’t just need to stop them from hurting Rei. They needed to face Hell justice. They hurt demons.
Bael wouldn’t sanction legions to be sent unless I brought him a smoking gun. I needed an exact plan of action before Bael would do anything. He was a king for a reason. He didn’t risk demon lives unless he had to.
The problem was, I was willing to risk everything for a woman I’d never met.
I grinned. My other laptop came on. Kudan was definitely still at Scorchwood. He wasn’t happy I took away his plush apartments. I pulled my laptop over and grabbed the mouse.
Kudan was hiding on the third floor of Scorchwood. I wasn’t just bringing in a small tactical team to extract him. I was bringing several legions of Hell to annihilate him.
I was ending this, and if I had to go to Olympus to kill gods so I could get Barbatos back to bring Rei home, I’d do that too.
