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My father had done the same, and he’d been big for an omega, but his size hadn’t done anything to make the alphas in the police force believe he could kill anyone for even a second.

Maybe they deserved to die if their death was caused by their own hubris.

I shook my head, reminding myself that wasn’t a thought I should ever say out loud.

Pausing the audio of Frankie’s interview, I went back ten minutes on the security footage from the conference room. It was two weeks before his death and right before Gideon had gone somewhere on his own with his phone off.

I watched as the meeting ended. Everyone trickled out while Liam lingered. Cassius was conversing with Gideon’s assistant as they left the conference room, discussing something that would be easy to find if I wanted, but I was more interested in what Gideon and Liam were talking about.

Nothing interesting really, just a deal with one of the other legacy packs in the city. Liam wanted to terminate the deal, but Gideon kept assuring him it would pay off with this smile that made me want to believe him.

I wrote down the pack name and a note to check what Liam was typing into his phone while talking to Gideon. He ran his hand through his white-blond hair with a sigh and nodded like he still wasn’t happy, but Liam tucked his phone in his back pocket and left after confirming their usual Thursday lunch.

Once the door closed, Gideon pulled a phone out of the inner breast pocket of his blazer and I paused the footage. He answered the phone, but there was another phone on the conference table in front of him.

Why the fuck did Gideon have two phones?

CHAPTER 19

Lucy

There was no official record of Gideon owning a second phone. It wasn’t on the list of evidence either.

Who the hell was he talking to and why didn’t he want anyone else to know about it?

I took a screenshot of him at the head of the conference table with one phone pressed to his ear and the other innocently resting on the mahogany. I dumped the screenshot into our encrypted drive before pressing play again.

Gideon confirmed he was about to leave, but that was it. He didn’t say anyone’s name, or where he might be off too. There was just a long pause, and then he agreed before hanging up.

He tucked that phone back into his breast pocket and then grabbed his other phone as he stood, typing something into it as he walked toward the door.

My fingers flew as I pulled up all the footage from that timeframe, following Gideon from the conference room to the elevator, and then all the way down to the garage where Liam’s Explorer was kept.

Gideon got into a white Benz and two seconds later his primary phone was turned off. I watched him leave the garage and made another note to track his license plate through the city on that day.

Acheron had cameras on every traffic light. I couldn’t search for a specific license plate number and track it through the public website, but I could follow someone in real time if I knew where they were supposed to be.

Thankfully, no one could erase footage from the city without someone noticing. Best thing to do to keep someone from using the traffic cam footage to track you down was to use cars without license plates and heavily tinted windows or…

Glancing over at the giant monitor on the far wall, I typed in the first intersection that Cassius would hit as they left the Lopez compound. I leaned back when I saw nothing but a black screen with a warning that the camera was out of order while they did repairs.

So, the Lopez pack still paid off someone on the inside to make sure no one could see who was coming and going from their compound.

Unlike the Valor estate, the Lopez compound was built with the main house at the front. No one could get to the rest of the property without driving through Francisco’s private estate. His house was built like a fucking castle with walls all the way around the land – protecting the weaker pack members.

As an omega, I’d been assigned to a room closest to Frankie and Francisco, but toward the inner part of the house. If someone wanted to get to me, they had to go through the strongest members of the pack.

Every omega in the Lopez pack was assigned to the inner sanctum of the property, but since I was Francisco’s unofficial daughter, I’d lived in his house instead of one of the other houses in the pack.

The Valor estate was built differently in the sense that all the betas and single alphas lived on the outskirts of what I would call a small city. They had land between those houses and the walls around the perimeter of their property, but between the betas and single alphas were all the families with children and omegas.

In the center was where their alpha lived so everyone in the pack could easily reach them if they needed to.

I’ve never seen what the Steele or Grimm packs did with their land, but I could if I felt motivated enough to work on cracking their security.

But these cameras…they were owned and run by the city so there was nothing Francisco could really do about it other than paying them off so people wouldn’t be able to track his comings and goings.

Using the public website for access to traffic light footage to get evidence was the legal route, but since I wasn’t working for the cops…I wasn’t beholden to upholding the law the same way they were.

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