Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 399
Mason
I knew Brightsky had a system set up to distribute tech to its residents, much the same as we were all provided with food, clothes, and medicine.
Computers, phones, reading tablets, and the like all came from the central equipment hub, and there was
an entire IT staff dedicated to servicing all of it.
“Can I help you?” the vampire behind the desk asked politely. Her fangs peeked out over her lower lip when
she smiled. She looked about twelve, but I knew she had to be much older than that.
“I’m looking for a new phone,” I said casually.
She nodded and swiveled in her chair to face the computer on her desk. Her fingers poised over the
keyboard. “Sure. Name?”
“Mason Constantine.”
She looked back at me. “Oh, my: You’re Malachi’s granddaughter’s mate!”
“That’s me,” I said with a chuckle. I wondered if I’d ever get used to being kind of a minor celebrity around
here. “Does that matter?”
“Well, certainly. It gives you access to a much greater range of equipment,” she said with a nod. “And if we

don’t have what you want in stock, we can order out for it”
“Not everyone has that privilege?” I asked, curious about how it all worked. Charlotte had given Xander a laptop to use for the leadership meetings, but we all still had our own cell phones from before we got here.
None of us had needed to requisition any equipment since we’d arrived.
The vampire behind the desk pressed her lips together primly. “All residents of Brightsky are permitted to have whatever equipment they want, but if they want something beyond the standard, they’re on their own to
order it. Special gaming systems, things like that.
We don’t provide that kind of upgrade.”
“But if I wanted something powerful like that, I could get it,” I clarified.
She nodded. “Yes. It would take a few days, but I could put in the order for you. Were you interested in
that?”
“No. Just a new phone.” I studied her as she typed, asking me my brand preference and any specs | wanted. “So if someone does order in equipment, does it still come through here?”
She frowned, looking at her computer screen. “No.
The residents are responsible to order it and pick it up themselves. We have nothing to do with it.”
Which meant there was no oversight of it. Which meant that anyone could bring in tech that was
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compromised, either with spyware they didn’t know about…or maybe, they did. The phone in my pocket that Goldie had given us felt suddenly much heavier.
I was going to have to fill in my brother about this. I knew he’d have something to say about the possibilities of a security breach.
“Does your IT staff do any repairs on it or anything, if there are problems?”
She laughed. “No. And believe me, sometimes people complain about that a lot. But what do they expect?
If it’s not our equipment, we can’t be held responsible for it. We do always warn people that if they want to
go outside of the department for their tech, they’re on their own.”
“Ah,” was all I said. The wheels were turning in my mind. I could sense a spi ke in my brother’s emotions.
Something was going on with him, but he didn’t reach out to me through our mind link.
She typed quickly, fingers flying over the keys in a blur, much like the way I’d seen Malachi running.
It was impressive. I wondered if she made many mistakes. I could only hunt and peck, myself.