Page 67 of Broken Wolf

“It was legit at a hotel, a lawyer walking people through the process for people overwhelmed. But then the guy running the whole show told me if Marie wasn’t there yet, he could help. He could get me my dad’s money instead of that greedy bitch having it. He had it all set up start to finish.”

He snorted and tossed back some of his beer.

“Cost a lot to have it done. But I guess it’s worth it. She’s in some stupid retirement home in Florida the guy runs and can’t contest anything. I got everything. Stupid bitch tried to steal my inheritance.”

“You stole her grandmother’s house that she inherited. It was never your dad’s,” I drawled.

He blinked at me. “She married my dad. It was all his then and now mine.”

The fact he said that with a straight face and believed it was… Sometimes I lost all hope in the world. Truly.

He studied me after finishing his beer. “Why do you care? You have no…” A nasty grin grew on his lips. “No, you met your birth mother, right? I read about that. You’re going to steal her money. I knew you were always a leeching bitch no matter how you—”

“Don’t bother,” I told Eva when she opened her mouth to defend me. “You two leave and be seen, and I’m going to hang here another minute with this idiot so his friends see us leave together and fill in the blanks.”

It amused me that they both tossed back their drinks so they weren’t wasteful for what I paid for but then headed out. I took a few minutes to get more details like names. He actually had the card of the website on him since he was supposed to pass it on if he found anyone in the same spot he’d been in.

How very helpful of criminals to try and have the assholes they helped be their referral process. It made things so nice for us when we caught them.

A few more minutes and I told David we were leaving for some more fun and to wave to his friends on the way out. He gladly followed me out of the bar and tried to touch me, but I was faster and dodged, letting him catch up. The moment we were in the alley without eyes, my people arrested him.

I smirked at David when he was in the back of the SUV. “I really am rich, you fucktard. Like I have billions with a B. I still work for the FBI because they need me and so do supes—Chicago. I never did it for the money.” I snorted. What money? Fine to survive, but I spoke ten languages now fluently.

If I had ever been in anything for money… I had options.

I slid into the other SUV with Eva and Mauro and connected a call to Jennings and my other best techie of the Chicago office. “Sorry to bug you both on a Saturday night.”

“No problem, boss, just thought you’d be at the group full moon thing?” Jennings muttered.

Right, the voodoo priest wasn’t all into shifter stuff. “Everyone wanted to do their own thing the Saturday after the 4th. We’re doing a lazy Sunday BBQ thing tomorrow instead.” I sighed at the card in my hand. “Well, the others will have to be Alpha for me now. This is bigger than here. This is pro-level, and I doubt Chicago is the first spot to be this smooth.”

“Yeah, one of the other guys was saying that,” the other techie muttered. “You don’t start in Chicago. You don’t do this small town, but you don’t start Chicago.”

“Not for your first con even if it wasn’t like this,” I agreed. “See you at the office.” I started to connect to someone else and then glanced at Mauro. “You can be named Alena’s aide, right? Or something to get you into the FBI without issues.” I chuckled when he raised an eyebrow. “You want the full picture before you make a decision? I get it. You need to see this side too.”

“I’ll handle it,” Eva promised, pulling out her own phone and connecting to someone in Greece.

We pulled up to the office and Eva said everything was already in the works. I talked her into going back to the apartment and getting some rest since she could be me at the joint function tomorrow and help me out. She thanked me for the excitement and headed off.

“He’s cleared as an aide of Greece,” I told security as we walked in, gesturing to Mauro. “I’ll get the official paperwork to Perez, but for now a visitor pass since he witnessed the confession is fine.”

“Of course, Chief Thomas,” the guy accepted, waving Mauro to join him. “I’ll have him sent up to your office when we’re done.”

“I can wait. I called people in, so they should…” I trailed off as several came in looking ready for bed. “We’ll order coffee and food.”

“Thanks, Chief,” one of the agents who recently had a baby said with a yawn. Yeah, I felt bad for him for sure. I’d see about getting him a few lighter cases and some extra time off. The baby had some issues and his wife was struggling.

Not everyone could afford a nanny and full-time help after all. Though I might see if Maya could give them a hand and maybe some pointers for an afternoon. They were first-time parents without any local family and seemed underwater. I texted Dain asking if it was too much to ask since he knew her best, and by then they were done with Mauro and more people were there.

“I want him taken to interrogation since we still need it on the record,” I told them, so someone grabbed David from my security. I handed the card with the website to Agent Brad Scott who was tech. “I want to know everything about that. Those questions, who’s been there, the traffic, who’s thought of being there—everything.”

“We’ll get into it, Chief. Shut it down without them knowing it?”

“Let me clear that our warrant allows that or get the correct one,” I countered. “Or at least trace them for now.” I waited until he nodded as we walked to the elevators. “I got more names, and I want the trail on all of it. The doctor isn’t just the doctor but the office. Get the warrant request for all of them. I want financials and proof of who was taking bribes.

“I want the attorney, his people, and anyone else who could have had their hands in this. I want it tied to the evictions we have, and I want to start quietly getting people found. We can have the pack or coven handle it on the side to be quiet, but we have the full puzzle now. I want this hotel and the presentation. Everyone. No one slips this. I want the court in Cook County as well.”

“Yes, Chief,” they all accepted, different ones taking their assignments and designating where they were setting it all up to connect it all together.

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