Chapter 121 The Ruin
Hansel’s POV
My jaw ached from clenching it for sixteen hours straight.
I wasn’t supposed to be doing this… I was an enforcer but here I was, hunched over a desk like a common clerk because Felix – our actual Beta had decided that finding his fated mate meant he could just pack his bags and abandon the Nightfang pack.
“I found her, Hansel. My soul is calling,” Felix had said, looking like a lovestruck idiot.
Well, my soul was calling for a double whiskey and a bullet to the brain, but instead, I was playing secretary, tech support, and punching bag for Jensen.
‘He’s a pathetic excuse for an Alpha,‘ a voice snarled in the back of my mind. It was Kae, my wolf. He was pacing in a restless circle in the dark corners of my consciousness, ‘look at him. We can challenge him and take the position of an Alpha.
“Shut up, Kae,” I snapped internally. “He’s the Alpha, we can’t do that to him.”
I said that trying to convince myself too… Jensen’s wolf had been absent for a while now and challenging him would be can’t take the easy way out.
‘Jensen is acting like a pussy. If he doesn’t snap out of it, I’m going to bite his throat out myself?
I ignored him, my fingers flying across the laptop keyboard.
Jensen’s world was currently a pile of ash, and he was standing in the center of it not doing anything.
He looked terrible with bags under his eyes, he’s a shell of the Alpha I once knew.
He caused all this himself, ever since he mated with that bitch.
“It’s done,” I muttered, handing him his phone.
I’d spent all morning with the pack’s best hackers just to get the screen to flicker to life.
The device was hot to the touch, still vibrating from the repairs.
Jensen didn’t even thank me, he just grabbed the device.
I watched his face drain of color, making him look ten years older.
easy but!
“What’s going on?” Jensen’s voice came out weak. He was clawing through folders like a crazed person. “There was a contract in here. Where is it? Hansel, recover it! Now!”
Hansel do this… Hansel do that… he was starting to get on my last nerves.
I looked at the lead hacker sitting next to me.
The guy just shook his head, looking terrified of the Alpha’s rage: “No, sir,” the hacker whispered “it’s been destroyed, it wasn’t just deleted; the data was overwritten with junk code and then shredded. It’s completely gone.”
At that exact moment, my second phone buzzed.
1/3
Chapter 121 The Ruin
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terrupted, feeling the headache behind my eyes turn into a full–blown migraine. “The rogues are attacking again i been going at them for a while now We need you.”
Jensen’s temples were pounding so hard I could see the vein thumping in his forehead.
He looked like he was about to have a stroke. “Hansel, get someone else to fix the documents. And you, get out?” he said pointing
at the lead hacker.
“Yes, ur” 1 hesitated, looking at his shaking hands. “Don’t you want to come to the border yourself? You’re needed.”
“I have other matters,” he snapped, grabbing his coat and bolting out the door without a backward glance.
Other matters? Kae laughed, a harsh, barking sound in my head.
He’s going to go cry over a dead girl’s laptop… He’s a coward, Hansel. Why are we following this pussy? I can smell his fear from here. It’s embarrassing
“Enough, Kae,” I growled, but my wolf wasn’t wrong.
I spent the next two hours in a hell of my own making, trying to get another hacker to get back the contracts.
Every single hacker in the pack was exhausted and confused, and they knew the security breach was internal.
Just as i was about to head to the border, the emergency alert was sent through the pack link.
I didn’t think. I shifted and ran straight to the pack office.
By the time I reached, the scene was pure.
chaos.
The smell hit me first, the sharp smell of an electrical fire mixed with the scent of fresh blood and something much worse,
Burnt flesh.
1 arrived just as the guards were carrying a screaming Jensen to the pack clinic. \
He wasn’t the cold, calculated Alpha anymore.
“What happened?” I barked at the first guard I saw. “He… he opened the laptop, Hansel. And it blew up.”
I stepped into the room, my eyes scanning the wreckage.
The laptop was a blackened pile of rubbish on the table.
Blooked downs at the flour and felt my stomach roll. There, resting on the plush rug, was a tinger
I stood there, staring at the blood, my mind racing.
Laptops don’t just explode out of nothing
someone did this.
Chapter 121 The Ruin
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