The Pack's Luna: The Pack Series Book 4 novel Chapter 44

Henry

The women hug for a long time.

While they do, I walk over to Quirin. “Don’t growl at my mate.”

“Don’t growl at me,” he says. “She underestimated me once before. I don’t appreciate her doing it again.”

When they finally release each other, both wiping their eyes again, I pull out my phone. I find Wendy’s number and open my arm when Piper turns back to us. She walks into my embrace, and I wrap my arm around her as I call Wendy, putting the call on speaker.

“Henry? Is everything okay? Yorrie said you and Piper had something come up and you won’t be here this weekend.

I’m assuming this is about what we found?” she whispers the last part.

“It is. Do you happen to be with Hacker?”

I can almost see her look up at Hacker.

“Yes, I’m here,” Hacker says.

“We need a private conversation with the two of you, | say.-

“Who is ‘we’?” Hacker asks.”Piper, Quirin, and me.”

I hear Hacker asking Wendy where there’s a private place for us to meet.

“Yorrie, can we use your office for a few minutes?” Wendy calls out.

“Define ‘use my office?” I hear Yorick ask.

“For a phone call, Yorrie,” Wendy says petulantly. “As if I’d use it for something like that. “Eww, it already smells like mom and dad in there.”

I snort, knowing that she’s probably telling the truth. I look at Piper. Next time she’s in my pack, I need to make my office smell like the two of us too.

She leans against me, smiling, and I know she’s on board with that idea. I kiss the top of her head while we wait for them to get to Yorick’s office.

“Okay, Henry, we’re here. Hi, Quirin. Hi, Piper.”

“Hey, Wendy. Hi, Hacker,” Piper says.

Quirin says hello and then we lay it out for them.

“Holy Mother Moon Goddess,” Wendy whispers.

Hacker doesn’t say anything.

“What are you thinking?” Wendy asks him.

“We’ll need Tracker for sure. If this involves murder, I willwant to include Hijack as well. Our work will need to be airtight and the noose around those two assholes so tight they can’t possibly get away. We will need to involve the Council and Vivienne will have to testify.”

Piper looks at me, her face etched with concern.

“She’ll be ready when the time comes,” Quirin says.

“When are you returning to the Academy, Piper?” Hacker asks.

“Sunday night.”

“I’Il set up a meeting with the team. Alpha Henry, if you can attend, that would be helpful, but if not, we’ll get what we need from Piper.”

Wendy POV

“That is so awful,” I say, when we hang up with Henry, Piper, and Quirin. “I mean, l’ve heard stories about terrible Alphas. I know about what happened to Cyra. But murder?”

Jude wraps his arms around me. I lean into his embrace, familiar with the feeling of safety that being in his arms gives me.

“Sometimes, the work we do brings us close to really bad people, Wendy. That’s why we have to be strong fighters.

It’s why the Academy continwes to train us in hand-to-hand combat even though ninety-nine percent of our job is behind a computer. If you’re reading this book elsewhere, it’s a copy. Get the real experience at J о b n і ƃ . c о m, where all our original chapters are shared first.You need to know that this isn’t the first or the last time that we’ll have to find information on terrible people. It’s a big part of the job and it’s why what we do is so important. It’s why we have to be above reproach at all times,” he says, pulling back and tilting my head to look at him.

“You need to consider if this is something you really want to do. I love having you be a part of our team, that’s not what I’m saying at all. But you’ve led a very sheltered life, a life where bad things don’t happen very often. In our world, they happen a lot.”

He runs his thumb over my cheek. “It can harden people.

Or, for people like me, it can make us more determined than ever to do a fucking fantastic job so that those badpeople have to face the consequences of their actions.

Personally, I can’t wait to start digging into Alpha Glenn and Alpha Grady. The more arrogant they are, the harder their fall from grace is. For me, seeing that and being part of the reason that they end up with nothing, makes this job worth it for me.”

He leans down, pressing his lips to mine. I sigh against his mouth, loving Jude’s familiar feel and taste.

There’s a knock at the door and my father walks in, just as I pull away from him. My cheeks blaze pink, like they always do when we’re caught. But this time, my father Looks distracted. He looks between us, then holds up his phone.

“I’ve been asked by the Council to participate in some sort of nasty murder investigation. Councilman Edward told me to get with the two of you to find out what’s going on.”

Jude’s phone pings and when he pulls his phone from his pocket, he shows me that Councilman Edward texted him to tell him to fill my father in on the details of what we know.

“Have a seat, Alpha. We’ll fill you in.”