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

alarms had gone off the moment Alpha Arden tried to search for Alpha Quirin. I’d been chatting with Sphinx at the time, showing her how I

Sphinx: What’s happening?

message comes in at the same time

put the ear buds in

the alarm,”

asks. I realize this is a conference

Tracker says

Quirin called the

He said he was going to but he was supposed to call us after it was done,” Hijack says

Hacker,” Hijack says as we watch Arden try to bypass my

put another one on top of mine, right?”

one with Sphinx’s code

forth on there and then put a scrambler on

would distract you, but it’s made you even more deadly,” I tease, watching Arden try to bypass

to a deadly man makes one more deadly,” she says seriously. Of all of us, I’m the least intense. It’s a tie between Tracker and Hijack who is more intense. Sphinx will add a nice

Sphinx says. “Do

next time you’re here, Sphinx. You actually saw him in court. He

couldn’t stop looking at you?” Sphinx asks, making me smile. For someone so young, she’s

Tracker says, just as her scrambler goes into

That’s impressive,”

the others work to keep Arden away from Quirin’s information, I begin hacking into Alpha Christer’s phone. Something happened if Arden

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

toying with him, Hijack,” Tracker says, but I can hear the smirk

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tonight or early tomorrow morning before this fucking Alpha arrives.”

Alpha Stellan?” an

hacking into whatever is nearby to watch

he’s using this as an opportunity to teach Sphinx. I bite back the growl. Sphinx should learn everything

and 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 the audio

Alpha Christer and Stellan used to blackmail Alpha Arden. The Alpha is threatening to come here tomorrow to get his money or

of us snarl

get up, that they need to warn Aphrodite

Nickname. We need to

call

and Raptor will handle

at least need to tell Connor or Dad,” she

in Connor’s pack, right?” I

“Yes.”

off, completely disconnecting him from the internet before muting us to

feeling she interrupted her brother

you know why Alpha Quirin is attacking tomorrow?” I ask Sphinx. That

on a normal day, but when someone threatens his family … you don’t want to be anywhere near him. I’ve never seen it, but I heard about what he did to the Alpha who

I did too. I was in my 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

Alpha Brogan. His death was

are meeting the others at Cyra and Yorick’s rooms to alert them and come up with

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