“Got it. We’ll be ready by the time you get here.” The chicken in wolf’s clothing hung up before my mate could ask any more questions.
I wasn’t so lucky.
“I thought the pack ran the gas station?” He groaned when I smiled. “You never look as innocent as you think you do when you smile like that.”
Nope, but it distracted him and gave me a few seconds to think.
“We run the gas station and the park, but we also have several other businesses. Online ones primarily. Most are owned by the pack and the money they earn is used to maintain the pack lands and then what’s left over is divided out to the different families.” It kept the risk with the pack and not one individual. “One of those businesses is helping people find information online and it requires highly technical computer skills that I do not have in any way.”
I wasn’t going to let my mate think I was some kind of hacker.
I just employed them.
“Good grief.” Closing his eyes, he shook his head. “My list of questions for you keeps growing in unexpected directions.”
He was really cute when he went all frustrated teacher dramatic.
“If it helps, I was going to tell you about all that kind of stuff once we handled Emeric’s situation and you moving in.” We already had enough on our plate. “Oh, and we stay within all paranormal guidelines…even the stupid ones that the government keeps trying to tinker with.”
Some people just had too much time on their hands.
“And it just got bigger.”
He sighed as I made a right and kept an eye on our unnamed bad guy.
“I’m going to need a new notes app…this one just isn’t designed for this level of interesting.”
Hmm.
“Don’t worry. I’m sure Jessen’s son can build you one if you explain what you want. He’s really handy.” He was only eight but my mother had always described that family as precocious.
I had a feeling Dorian was going to agree with her.
Chapter 23
Dorian
Hacker werewolves…or shifters depending on who I was talking to.
Great.
“We’re going to ignore why that sounds just as ridiculous as you running a hacker group.” There was something he’d left out about that app thing, but it wasn’t the time to delve into it. “Why did you ask him to have everyone waiting by the entrance to the pack land?”
I needed to find some books about the non-human communities.
“To start with, it’ll be a show of force that he might not be expecting and with the numbers it should be safe.” Before I could start asking questions, he was smart and kept going. “Unless he’s a strong mage, the pack will be more than he can handle. Once he’s on pack land a gun won’t work and I’m betting he doesn’t know that either.”
And the list just got longer.
“So there’s a spell that prevents guns from firing?” He nodded confidently. “I think I’m going to need you to go over the spells that have been put on the property.”
It seemed like a strategic mistake not to know that even if it was just about not looking stupid.
Braun seemed to agree. “Yes, I’ll start off with everything I know but we’ve owned this land for nearly two hundred years. When we bring in a mage who specializes with that kind of stuff, I’ll have them go over as much as they can with both of us.”
Good.
“Thank you.” What else? “Are we trying to chase him off or get information from him?”
