The Heiress's Fake Fiancé: Frenemies To Lovers by Viola King

Author:Viola King [King, Viola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-07T18:30:00+00:00

16

PATRICK

I hurried from the Gold Moon offices, phone clamped to my ear and my fingers curved around the thing like it was an anchor, like it could somehow keep me grounded and sane when I was about to lose my mind over Jo being in danger.

Thank fuck Brody knew me well enough to wait out Jo’s interruption to our call and get back to me later. I still wanted him to run that trace.

“Brody,” I barked out his name.

“Got a problem?” He sounded amused, and I pictured his familiar grin.

He probably was amused by my predicament. It wasn’t often any of them saw me having any trouble with another wolf, especially not a rogue one and especially not a woman.

“Where should I start?” I asked drily.

Contacting Brody usually indicated some sort of problem, and that was no secret. He could solve security and technology issues like some sort of dark-web-hacking ninja. I’d long since stopped asking for any details, as much due to my lack of understanding as my constant need for plausible deniability.

Not that Brody was at all sloppy in his work. And he never walked too far over the line. But I definitely couldn’t be seen to condone all he did. Or even everything I asked him to do.

Like right now.

“I still need you to trace a call made to a cell phone.”

“Oh?” Again, I could picture him, and he definitely had his eyebrows raised. “Any particular cell phone?”

I sighed. He wasn’t going to make this easy. “I’m sorry. Who did you say you were? Brody or Jackson?” He was definitely behaving more like my pool-using beta, who rarely afforded me the respect I was due. But that was the way we both liked it.

Brody chuckled. “Number?”

I rattled off the number I’d called a couple of times. The number that when I received a call from it, it was usually a hang-up rather than a conversation.

“Just the usual information?” Brody asked.

“Yep. We need to know who and where the call came from.”

“Time of call?”

I checked my watch. “Twenty or thirty minutes ago.”

Keys clacked quietly in the background. “Okay. Leave it with me. I might pull up any numbers from the last hour and we can disregard the unimportant ones.”

That made me a little uneasy, because it was maybe stepping over the line into Jo’s privacy, but it was also for her own good. Could there be forgiveness when the ends justified the means?

I nodded as I terminated the call without another word. Brody had my complete trust to handle this aspect of Jo’s protection.

My team was small, but I trusted each of them. I could delegate a task to any of them and know it would be completed to my satisfaction. We shared the same standards.

That kind of trust was rare in the business world, from what I could see from our interactions with human-run businesses, and even some other shifters. But I was glad of it today. Certainly we saw enough shit at Apex to know there were lots of other company teams out there without our bond.

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