The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 256

Arden

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I am just getting up from my desk to go to bed when my phone rings. When I look at the caller ID, I growl. What does that little prick want now?

I put the phone to my ear. “Alpha Stellan, I’ve already cancelled the payment for the Academy. Cyra should be home soon,” I tell him,

“Soon isn’t soon enough, Arden. The note for the loan we took out to save your fucking ass was bought and the Alpha who bought it will be here tomorrow to take our pack as payment. You need to rally your troops and get them over here. I don’t have to tell you what happens if we go down.”

He’s such an arrogant little shit.

“What Alpha bought the loan?” I ask.

“Alpha Quirin. He’s supposedly very wealthy and powerful.”

I pull up the name on the pack log, then run a search on him frowning when the search doesn’t go through.

“Arden, did you hear me?” Stellan asks.

“Yeah, I heard you,” I murmur, typing in an override to do the search. Nothing.

“Where are you?” I ask distractedly, putting in a different override.

“I’m on my way to get your daughter. I’m going to force my mark on her neck and take over as I should have done already.”

“That was your decision, not mine. Good luck getting past her mate. Didn’t he already break your nose once,” I say snarkily, getting frustrated that I can’t get past whoever has blocked the search on Alpha Quirin.

“Rally your warriors and get them to Christer’s pack tonight. Alpha Quirin will be there tomorrow. If you don’t, Christer send everything he has to the Council and he won’t be the only one without a pack. We’re all in this together, Arden, so get your ass moving,” he snarls before hanging up.

I hang up distractedly, still trying to override the search for Alpha Quirin. Is this guy some sort of tech genius that he’s locked down my ability . to search him?

Rather than searching for data on Alpha Quirin, I begin digging into who is blocking him. Maybe I can find him that way.

I’ve just found the code, when it switches. Switches? That’s impossible!

The numbers and letters begin alternating so fast that I can’t read any of them. Who the fuck is protecting this guy?

I sit back, thinking through Stellan’s demand. If this Alpha Quirin is as powerful as he thinks and from what I can get on the pack logs, he is, then there’s a good chance that Christer won’t survive the battle. It depends on how honorable this Alpha is. But how honorable is an Alpha that buys a twenty–million–dollar loan and calls it almost immediately threatening to take over the pack?

I’ve spent nearly twenty years dealing in risks, measuring them, calculating them, betting on them. Granted, that backfired when Christer found that I’d been skimming off the company, but otherwise, I’d say I’m pretty damn good at playing the odds.

And the odds tell me that Christer won’t survive the battle tomorrow. Eliminating him and Stellan will eliminate all of my problems. Hell, maybe this Alpha Quirin would like to take Cyra as a mate. I could create an alliance bond with him and then figure out who is protecting him and why.

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Fully intending to ignore Christer’s demand for my warriors, I get back to digging into who is blocking me from getting Information on Alpha Quirin.

Hacker POV

Alpha Quirin. I’d been chatting with Sphinx at the time, showing her how I

Sphinx: What’s happening?

in at the same time my phone

ear buds in and

got the alarm,” I

is for?” Sphinx asks. I realize this is a conference call and Hijack called all of

Alpha Arden is trying to do a search on your brother–in–law, Alpha Quirin,” Tracker says as I switch the screen I was sharing with Sphinx to the one I’m pulling

called the

supposed to call us after it was done,” Hijack says

thought to override the override, Hacker,” Hijack says as we watch Arden try to bypass

another one on top of mine,

with Sphinx’s code as

and then put

newly mated would distract you, but it’s made you even more deadly,” I tease, watching Arden

one more deadly,” she says seriously. Of all of us, I’m the least intense. It’s a tie

Sphinx says. “Do

saw him in court.

stop looking at you?” Sphinx asks, making me smile. For someone

Tracker says, just as her scrambler goes into

That’s impressive,”

phone. Something happened if Arden is searching for Alpha Quirin and I want to know

that we’re watching, splitting the screen and putting the audio alongside the video of Arden’s

you’re just toying with him, Hijack,” Tracker says, but I can hear the smirk

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Stellan calling Arden. He’ll be here sometime tonight or early tomorrow morning before this fucking Alpha arrives.” Alpha Christer is saying to whomever is in

is Alpha Stellan?” an unknown voice

the coordinates for the phone so I can start hacking

got it,” Tracker says as Hijack continues to play with Arden. I’m surprised he’s wasting his time until I realize that he’s using this as an opportunity to teach Sphinx. I bite back the growl. Sphinx should learn everything she can and honestly, she’s absorbing everything we’re giving her

Tracker mutes my audio feed as I continue searching for a camera that I can use. I find it on Christer’s computer, just as

what. Something about some Alpha buying the loan that Alpha Christer and Stellan used to blackmail Alpha Arden. The Alpha is threatening to come here tomorrow to get

of us snarl

as Hellfire tells Nickname to get up, that they need

go find Hellfire and Nickname. We need to alert

call

and Raptor will handle that,” I

need to tell Connor

Connor’s pack, right?”

“Yes.”

Hijack says as he cuts Arden off, completely disconnecting him

calling Dad. He’s in Quirin’s pack. Hopefully he’ll answer,” she says. I get the feeling she interrupted her brother and his mate

know why Alpha Quirin is attacking tomorrow?” I ask Sphinx. That wasn’t

I had to guess, I’d say Alpha Christer threatened our family, or maybe Kennedy or the pups. If he did, Quirin will kill him. He’s intense on a normal day, but when someone threatens his family … you don’t want to be anywhere near him. I’ve never seen

first year when the Council was called in after two Alphas were killed. Since their packs had already been absorbed into the other packs, they didn’t do anything further. But I’d seen the pictures

had killed Alpha Brogan. His death was quick,

is waking Alpha Michael and they are meeting the others at Cyra and Yorick’s rooms to alert them and

coming back to