“I would hold off on that if you want to catch whoever made that hole.”
She goes quiet again, and I can hear her cursing under her breath before she says, “Fine. I’ll have Owen come out there and talk to you about the plan to catch this guy. Send me the location so I know which house you’re at.”
“Doing it now. Thanks.”
I hang up before she can get any madder and decide not to include me in the plan.
Lurking around the outside of the jailed rich man’s old house, I try to find an accessible entry point, but all the doors and windows are locked.
I’m leaning by the side of the front door when I notice some random rocks at the bottom of the porch. It seems unlikely that a rich guy living out in the forest would hide a key under a rock, but you never know. I move across the porch and down the steps to where the rocks sit by the sides of the stairs.
Turning them over, one by one, I find regular rock after regular rock.
In the end, I pick one of those rocks up, feeling the heft of it in my hand and knowing it would shatter one of these windows pretty easily.
I couldn’t find an entry point, but I could make one.
The sound of a car getting closer makes me drop it.
I turn around to see an SUV with tinted windows swinging into a space that’s a little closer to where I’m standing than I would have preferred.
I wipe dirt off my hands onto my jeans, and I crack my knuckles, ready for a fight.
The Alpha who steps out of the driver’s seat gives me a wry smile.
“Did you have a rock in your hand?”
I let out a breath when I see him. “I didn’t expect you to arrive this quickly.”
Owen shrugs. “I was headed out to pick up lunch when Lana asked me to come speak to you instead. The threat level was pretty low considering our coverage is complete. We checked all our cameras, and no one is on the academy property who shouldn’t be. Literally the only thing that made this a big deal was you linking a would-be intruder to the Corvina estate.”
“Well, then it’s a good thing I decided to take a walk around the perimeter of the academy.”
He doesn’t look convinced. “It was on our list. We would have gotten to it. There was no rush.”
I shake off the first sparks of anger his response lights inside me.
Being around other Alphas isn’t exactly a fun time.
It’s been a while since I had to converse with any Alpha other than Shayne.
“So?” Owen asks, looking around.
“So, what?” I snap back, before I can stop myself.
He raises an eyebrow, and I take a few seconds to calm myself down while he looks me over.
“You know it’s weird that you’re out here, right? And it wasn’t exactly smart to take your future mate into the woods earlier today.”
Shit. He saw that.
Of course he did!
They have cameras all over the fucking academy!
I nod slowly. “I know. I should have reported it immediately.”
“But you wanted time alone with her.”
