Page 170 of Their Wicked Secrets: Untouched, Vol 5 of 6

I shut the door and look at his bedroom. His bed looks like it’s never been made. Sheets and blankets are piled all over it with a pillow here and there. His desk is a haphazard wasteland of computer parts and papers. He has three screens. A keyboard is balanced on the piles.

He stops in front of the computer and shakes his head before looking at me. “What the fuck did you get me into?”

My brow furrows, and I step in to look at the documents up on his screens.

“Fuck, Jack. This is some toxic shit. I mean, some of the stuff Sidney asked me to do was fucked up, but this...” He gestures at the screen and shakes his head before sinking down into the computer chair. “This is the type of shit people are made to disappear for knowing.”

I step behind him and read over his shoulder. There are files of names, dates, and money. It’s a ledger for something.

I read a few of the lines, and it becomes pretty clear what the money is for. Or rather, who the money is for.

“Not just this fun little spreadsheet of horror, but there’s another, similar one filled with drugs and when they were taken and by who.” Will runs his hands through his hair and tugs on it. “Fuck.”

“These were the deleted files that I recovered.” I narrow my eyes on the last names of people who used to work at the hospital. There were a few names that are still working there. Are these the people stealing the drugs for William? The dates are old though.

Fuck. They’re old enough to be when my father was still part of whatever the fuck that generation of horsemen were doing.

“There’s more, Jack.” Will closes the files and puts a flash drive in before transferring a folder onto it. “I can’t do this anymore. Seriously. If he thinks I know this shit, I’m dead.”

I sink onto the edge of his bed and run a hand through my hair. This can’t be the same smoking gun that Sean found, or he would have had his out. Maybe William deleted this after Sean discovered the errors in accounting.

“No one knows you’re helping us, Will.” There’s no worry in my voice. “They’ll assume I uncovered it. Very few people realize you even have this skill set.”

I narrow my eyes at Will. “Why do you know this shit?”

Will shrugs and pulls out the flash drive to give to me. “What else am I going to do? I’m not good at sports. I get decent grades, but I can’t compete with Eli or Luke for top of the class. I didn’t want to go into band and only took art so I could be guaranteed to have one class with Penny a year.”

Will’s eyes flick up to mine when he realizes what he just told me. I chuckle.

“Fuck, Will, you want to stalk a girl in high school by being in the same class, I’m all for it. As long as you don’t show up in her room watching her in her sleep like a creeper, we’re cool.” I shake my head. “You can’t tell anyone about what you found.”

“I’m not an idiot.” He stands and paces. “This would take down some major players in this town. It wouldn’t be good for anyone if these were to get out.”

His eyes narrow on me. But I already know what he’s going to ask.

“No one will know what you did for us.” I run a hand through my hair and give him an earnest expression. “Wipe your drive, make sure it’s completely clean. I know you can do that.”

He nods. “I can do that.”

“I’ll make sure to have some files I’ve downloaded before marked by your machine if anyone knows we had you helping us and is good enough to get into my system.”

He smiles warily. “I almost did it.”

“No one’s gotten into my system.” I stand and pocket the files. “There’s protocol for a reason.”

“I was really impressed with your system security. It was a fucking challenge that I looked forward to.” He blows out a breath and looks over at a suit hanging on the door of his closet. He rubs his hands together. “Any advice on tomorrow night?”

I smirk. “Penny’s a girl. Treat her like a queen, and she’ll eat that shit up, but don’t just blow smoke up her ass. You’ve got to mean that shit or she’ll see right through you.”

CHAPTER 52

The Clandestine Meeting

Nico

It’s dark as we drive up into the hills above the city. Harper keeps her gaze out the window across from me in the back seat. We took two cars. Jack plans to meet up with us at Caden’s after he drops off Mike and Emma.

“We’re sure this isn’t a trap?” I ask. This feels strange. Why now? Why didn’t he talk to us last weekend? And why would he tell us anything after Caden beat him up?