“Fuck.”This isn’t what he wanted.Drustan brought a lot of power, money and experience to the table and but talk about being a creepy stalker.Drustan’s laser focus on Ida was cause for concern.
“What employee?”
“Meg Carlson.”
“I’ll send someone to check in on her.”
“No need.Finn was the team on Drustan.He called for another team to pick up the trail of Drustan while he checked in with Meg after Drustan left.”
Finn was one of their former bodyguards.Meg knew him and trusted him.
“Does Drustan know he’s being followed?”
River snorted.“I don’t expect insults from you.”
“Long night.”That was the closest to an apology as Ares could muster right now.His car was at the gates of the training grounds and the security camera and sensor did its job.The gates swung open to let him roll through.
“You’ll have a full report in your inbox by the morning.”
“Talk soon, River,” Ares ended the call, rolling through the parking lot that was at the start of the first wooded acreage and the trails and also home of Dax’s obstacle course.He drove through a packed dirt road, passing all that until he came to a slope.Something crunched under his tires.
Up on a hill a former rec hall that had been converted to their needs.Ares parked in the gravel driveway, noticed Erik Knight’s car, and slammed the door.He could make out the three cottages that were on the property, all of them dark.
Pressing his thumb to the biometric lock, he let himself in, walking through the hall.The place smelled like pine needles.A fireplace glowed in the idle of the room, but that was the last of the remnants of its former life.Stepping up to a wall, Ares again pressed his thumb to it and the doors slid open, revealing the communications command centre.
Huge screens took up the space, a circular desk in the middle.Erik turned as the doors hissed open, peeling his eye away from the screen.
“Hey boss,” Erik Knight stood, wincing.
Ares bit his cheek, refrained from telling the man to sit down.Erik was still recovering from the brain injury he had suffered.
“Sorry to call you out at this hour.I couldn’t get a hold of Xander.”
“Yeah, me neither.”
For whatever reason, his brother had gone offline.Probably having the time of his life with his submissive and Logan in their chalet in Whistler.Ares shoved down an icy chill of resentment.
“This is what I wanted to show you.Should have caught it right away, but all of our focus was on Dax’s team.We’re used to a deer or critters setting off the sensors and because it was only on the perimeter, it didn’t alert as highly as it would if the gate was breached.”Erik leaned over to the bank of screens on his left, tapping a few keys on the inlaid keyboard.
Ares stood with his hands in his pockets, watching a grey feed flick across the screen.A deer run out onto the road, near the entrance gate.
“There was a deer.”
Erik glanced at him, nodded.“Yeah, and that’s why I didn’t stop immediately.Watch.”
The screen flickered, the deer ran off, and a dark vehicle rolled into the frame.It stopped.Then it drove again a few metres around the parking lot.It stopped near the gate.A figure got out and leaned against the car door, staring up at the sky.
“Did he do anything else?”
“Nope.Dude stays like that for five minutes.You can see him get in his car and drive away here,” Erik moved the feed forward.
“You couldn’t just send me the feed?”
Erik rolled back, his eyes widened in surprise, and Ares immediately felt like an ass.
“Xander left orders to see the feed in person for the next three months if there was a security breach.”
Ares shoved a hand through his hair, knowing it wasn’t Erik’s fault.It took time to encrypt the feed to send to their phones or onto their system.Erik was right to call him and he was just mad that his date had been interrupted.
