Chapter 98
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I met up with a few warriors on the way to my office. We had to approach quietly and get ears on what
was happening inside. Mina had told me he was looking for some files but wouldn’t say about what. He
was convinced they were in the safe. I didn’t know what he could be looking for, but it didn’t matter.
Briggs had toe up with a code that would work or risk harm to Mina.
I mind-linked her to the code, and she managed to get it to Briggs unnoticed. Now, he just had to
convince Randall that he figured it out. I took a position outside my office door. There was only one
other way out of my office through a window and down a fire escape. I had men watching it in case
Randall tried to get out that way. Now, we could just wait for Mina to give us an opportunity.
Like most of the rooms in the packhouse, the office was soundproof. So I couldn’t hear anything that
was going on inside. That is, until someone started yelling inside. I couldn’t make out who it was, and I
was about to rush in when Mina reached out.
‘Whatever he’s looking for, it’s not here,’ she told me.
She was getting scared. I could feel it through our tether. I couldn’t me her. Randall had to have
been desperate from the start for him toe at the packhouse directly like this. Now that he was
coming up empty-handed, he’d be even more vtile.
“Tell them to check theke house,’ I replied.
‘What?’
‘He’ll never make it there,’ I assured her. ‘But we need to give him
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something to get him out of there.’
She must have done it because she said he wasing out a few minutester. At least, they thought
he wasing out. Five long minutes passed and the door still hadn’t budged. Mina didn’t know what
he was waiting on, and I started to worry he had figured out we were there.
Our concerns were answered by the sound of an explosion echoing through the packhouse.
Randall was good at setting fires. That must have been the incendiary device we thought he might
have nted. I mind-linked the men who were checking the building. Two were in the area of the
explosion but were okay. However, mes were quickly starting to move through the lower level. I told
Jimmy we were fine and to worry about getting the fire out.
As far as we knew, Randall didn’t know we had already evacuated the building. So he waited a few
more minutes for the chaos he would have expected to give him better cover on his way out. The
doorknob finally turned.
The door cracked open. There was a pause and I prayed he didn’t catch my scent.
Suddenly, there was a loud grunt, the sound of an impact, and Briggs yelling for us to move in.
I spun around the corner, kicking the door open to find Randall struggling on the floor with a bl**dy
nose. Briggs had Mina in his arms on the other side of the room.
“Hey, there, Randall,” I said. Randall yelled as I put my knee in his back, dragging his arms behind him.
One of the others handed me a set of silver handcuffs. “You remember me, don’t you? Of course you
do.”
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I grabbed him by the back of the neck, my ws digging into his flesh.
“We’ve been looking for you,” I said, a low growl catching my
attention.
I turned to see Briggs stalking toward us. His eyes glowing a bright orange as his wolf came to the
surface. His canines and ws extended. I didn’t stop him. In fact, I stepped aside, letting him lift the
bas**rd by the throat and m him hard against the wall. I watched Randall’s face turn red, then a
sickly shade of blue.
I would have let Briggs rip him apart then and there under any other circumstances. But Randall wasn’t
only guilty of holding Mina. There was something big going on and we needed answers.
“Briggs,” I warned. “Later. We need to question him first.”
Randall lost consciousness and Briggs dropped him like stone. Standing over him, he got himself under
control before returning to Mina.
“You both okay?” I asked.
“Yeah, we’re good,” Mina said.
“What do you want us to do with him, Alpha?” one of my men asked.
“Find out what’s going on with the fire downstairs, then get him out of here,” I said. “Take him to the
precinct and lock him up for now.”
They half-carried/half-dragged Randall out of the room. I went to the office window to look at what was
happening outside. I could see smokeing from the packhouse somewhere, but thewn seemed to
be in less chaos than it had been.
“How did you manage to take him out?” I asked Briggs.
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“I didn’t,” Briggs said, pride resonating in his voice. “Mina did. Where did you learn that move anyway?”
“I’m guessing A?” I said, impressed with how Mina handled the whole situation.
Mina shook her head. “Uncle Jack.”
A’s father. A had told me he had started teaching them self- defense at a young age.
“Do we have any idea what he was looking for?” I asked, taking in the papers strewn everywhere
around the room.
“No clue,” Briggs said. “He did mumble something about them not being old enough. So it must be
about something from a while ago.
“Well, we’ll find out soon enough,” I said. “I don’t care what it takes to get him talking. But first, we need
to figure out how to get out of here. The building is on fire, after all.”
The men who took Randall had mind-linked me, telling me the back exit was clear. We started heading
in that direction as I reached out to Jimmy to see how they were managing the ze.
‘Jimmy, we’reing out. What’s the status on that fire?’
‘Alpha, I tried to stop her,’ Jimmy said frantically, stopping me dead in my tracks.
‘Stop who?’
‘A,’ he said. ‘She ran in to find Annabelle. The smoke’s too thick. I can’t get to her.
“Theo?” Briggs probed.
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“A’s somewhere inside.”
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I didn’t wait for an answer before bolting back down the hall. I couldn’t get to the front of the building
from the back stairs. The stairwell was already filling with smoke as I leaped down them. I reached the
bottom near the packhouse entrance but couldn’t see anything. I started to call out for A, which got
hard quickly as the smoke choked me.
I tried to feel her through our bond. All I could feel from her was determination. And fear.Content from N?velDr(a)ma.Org.