It was a very platonic relationship from what I could see and nothing about Frankie’s current demeanor made it seem like she was upset about Lucy’s new alphas. Every time I caught her looking at her phone, she was smiling with genuine relief in her eyes.
So, the logical conclusion was Lucy was a headstrong, stubborn omega and Frankie felt responsibility for her as heralpha sibling. Once Francisco announced Lucy was also his daughter, it all made sense.
But I didn’t understand why a legacy alpha would let his daughters leave the pack with zero promise they’d ever return.
Frankie had even changed her name.
All these years and no one knew who she was related to thanks to Francisco’s insistence on his children’s privacy.
Was her sister really the only reason she’d left?
It seemed so, but my gut was telling me that wasn’t the only reason.
Thanks to how locked down the Lopez pack was, I wasn’t going to be able to unearth anything from her childhood. My employer would have a better chance of discovering that since they all lived in the same compound.
All I could do was find something from when she was Frankie James, or something in her present, but so far, she was squeaky clean.
On the surface, Frankie James was a popular alpha who had a lot of different connections thanks to the Genesis Agency, but after some digging, I was able to find her employment contract and it started a day after the Genesis Agency came into existence.
Going through government information was easier than trying to dig into anything the Lopez pack owned and I had a feeling it was all thanks to Lucy Parker.
All the data I needed was so locked down I couldn’t weasel my way through the firewall like I normally did.
If I so much as tried, I’d immediately get shut down and alerts would be sent off, exposing who was poking their nose where it didn’t belong.
But the government was different. Businesses were public information and going through everything I could had led me to an interesting truth.
The Genesis Armed Detective Agency was owned by Genesis Pharmaceuticals and that company was owned by another and then another until finally I’d reached the end of the rope. All those companies were owned by a trust and that trust belonged to Francesca Lopez.
A normal person wouldn’t be able to figure that out, but uncovering confidential information wasn’t difficult for me as long as it existed digitally.
I laced my fingers together and pressed them to my lips as I considered this information.
Changing her name allowed her to remain separate from the owner of her company as well as her pack. Even if someone found out what I had, no one would assume they were the same person since there weren’t any pictures of Francesca Lopez before her father announced her as the heir.
The only way someone might make a connection between her and the Lopez pack was due to the fact that Lauren Michaels was Francisco’s sister, though they haven’t shared the same surname since she left the pack at eighteen years old.
On the surface, it looked like the CEO of Genesis had nothing to do with the Lopez pack. She never attended legacy events and she was a beta, not an alpha.
But I didn’t think it was that simple.
Not that I had any proof to back up my hunch.
Lauren was never in the public eye before becoming the CEO of Genesis. I couldn’t find any record of her holding a job or owning any property. She had a bank account and some credit cards but that was it.
Her bank accounts did receive regular deposits but they came from Genesis Pharmaceuticals despite there being no record of her working there which led me to believe she was doing some work for Francisco he didn’t want anyone to know about.
It sounded like some wild conspiracy theory to say I fully believed all the legacy packs here had their own secret, private militaries, but I had a good reason to believe that.
Acheron was a city founded by four legacy packs. They were the originals – the ones who had the most power and strength whether it was measured in people or money.
Other legacy alphas born outside those four packs were adopted, but if they refused to leave their current pack, they became a new legacy – one that was either crushed by the original four, or left to limp along by making alliances and swearing allegiance to the original four.
None of the new legacy packs have ever reached the same level as Valor, Lopez, Steele, or Grimm. At least, not until Valentine came along.
A few months ago Liam Valor shook all of Acheron with his announcement – he would leave Valor to take the name Valentine.
There had always been speculations that Liam was secretly seeing his assistant, Cassius Valentine, but it was never confirmed.