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Chapter 357: Found a clue
Chapter 357: Found a clue
After playing with his pups during the afternoon, Nate locked himself in the studio to work. He had finished the most pressing tasks that morning, but there was no need to stay behind schedule if he had some time for working.
His break was over, and it was time to get back on track with his job.
He read some reports, examining their performances. It seemed the war didn't cause too much damage to the LY Corp. Thankfully.
He could work his way back to the top with time, to ensure his pack and his family's financial security for the years to come.
He was starting to skim through the second report when someone knocked.
«Yes?» he said. «Come in!»
«Alpha,» replied the man at the door.
It was the head technician. The team was working from the base since they weren't as needed in the company those days. Only a few of them would be there, just in case someone decided to launch a cyberattack. But nothing had happened so far.
«Tell me.»
«We might have located Alpha Polenta,» he said.
«How?»
«Well... I was thinking that he surely has a phone, right? I've found his number on the net, and I confirmed it was exact by asking some of his other contacts.»
«You asked what?» Nate said, frowning. Were they leaving too many traces behind?
«I said he owed me money and that I was one of his early investors. Since he didn't reply to the call, I asked one of his business contacts whether he had changed his number. They said no, the number is still the same.»
«Oh, I see... Well enough. And then, what have you done? He doesn't answer phone calls, so what can be even done?»
«I located his phone,» the technician said. «Just that.»
«Hmm?»
«Since Alpha Polenta didn't want to answer... Well, it's not such a surprise since I called with an anonymous number. I should have tried changing numbers, right? Oh, but I could locate the phone quite easily. Some of the hackers we hired had the codes to access the net of some service providers. Luckily, one of those was the Alpha's phone number provider.
I used triangulation to find his exact location, but that's not all.»
«Not all?»
«His phone is still on. He turns the calls off, and he isn't still. He does move during the day. Alpha Polenta isn't dead nor hiding, but he seems to be melting in the crown. I believe we can find him easily.»
«So, you know where he is,» Nate realised.
Finally, it would be over soon!
His mate and kids would be safe from that madman.
«I tried getting into the cameras in the area, but there aren't many, unfortunately. I couldn't see him anywhere...» the chief technician continued. «And our hackers can't do much either. It's a place where humans live.»
«So, we can't even attack blindly. Polenta is getting smarter, using the humans he loathes so much to hide.»
The technician shrugged. He didn't know much about Alphas' strategies. All he could say was that Polenta had weird habits for a wolf. But it wasn't his place to comment.
Their Alpha was different from the Betas as well. It must have been that.
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Nate made a phone call, ordering Secretary Jack to assemble a team. They were going to find Luciano Polenta that night. He couldn't wait for everything to be just a memory. He could bring Lara to dates again, and the pups wouldn't be in danger just because of him.
«Don't be rash,» he reminded himself.
He left the reports on the desk and got up, following the technician out.
«Can you send us the newest position?» he asked.
«Yes, of course! We've found him, and he can't escape our radar anymore. Not even by turning the phone off.»
«Can you trace the last movements, though?»
«We can try. The service providers don't keep every detail in their database for too long, though. They move it to the archive after a few days, and those are less accessible. But we can tell where he has been in the last forty-four hours. Is that enough?»
«More than enough. But work faster... I want to know where he has been since the attack... You have just a few hours left before those data are moved, right?»
«Yes, Alpha.»
«Don't waste time.»
«Yes!»
The technician ran away to stop his colleagues from leaving. They had to work late into the night, lest the traces disappear. And they weren't the only group who wouldn't sleep.
The soldiers were getting ready. Nate saw them moving, amused by their quick response. Sending them to fight for humans had been the right choice: they became more disciplined and quick at organising. It made everything easier.
He turned the corner and saw one of them talking with Lara.
«I see,» she was saying, nodding at something the soldier had said. «I know you people are busy, but you just got back. It would be nice if you could take a break and relax with your family, right? I'm sure Nate will tell you the same!»
She seemed convinced he would agree, and how could he even think of refusing one of her requests? If she had the idea, then it was right!
What surprised Nate the most, however, was the way the soldier seemed to like the idea even more.
They didn't ask him directly to stay more with the pack, but they seemed to want it. Could Lara have thought of it, or was the soldier who asked?
Either way, they communicated pretty well, especially considering that the soldiers hadn't had time to readjust to the pack structures. They were talking with Lara as if she had always been there. Maybe, they were a little curious, but they didn't find anything amiss with her presence.
There wasn't even so much surprise when they met the pups. For them, everything was normal. Even if their Alpha female wasn't officially mated to their Alpha, they didn't care.
It was a relief for Nate: to know his pack was accepting them and didn't care about details so much.