Chapter 154
Toby was deep in thought before he suddenly looked up at Xandar and asked, “Do you have a super
large map, my K-. Scratch that. Xandar. Xandar, do you have a huge map with no sentimental value that
we can scribble on?”
Xandar rose from his seat and headed for his office storage room while uttering, “I’m not sure. Let me
have a look.”
Christian got up as well and headed for the door while saying, “I’ll check your basement, cuz.” Upon
hearing that, Tate, Zeke and Zelena followed the Duke to help him look.
Xandar found one rolled up but it was very faded. Christian and the others came back with three. His
cousin then helped Toby pin the best map on the flip side of the whiteboard.
When the map was up, Lucianne caught up to where her best friend was going with things. Toby saw the
knowing glint in her eye, and tossed her a marker with a smile and said, “Give me a hand, Lucy. This will
b e done faster. Hey, Raden! Heads-up!” Toby then threw another marker in Raden’s way, and thetter
caught it with ease before getting up from his seat to join his friends at the board.
Toby then exined to everyone else, “Basically, what we’re going to do is cross out all the locations that
the rogue Lycan gave the police. Since the task force found nothing but demolished sites, it is likely that
the rogues would not return to those locations, at least not in the near future. Then, we’ll analyse the
remaining locations on the map. Having to keep such arge corporation alive, it would be somewhere
with water supply for survival, good reception formunication but discreet enough to keep themselves
off the radar.”
“Damn, they’re good.” Christian muttered in awe.
The three Gammas divided the map into three parts. One of their hands held the 70-page report, and the
other held a marker. One by one, they crossed out the locations given by the rogue. After that, they stood
aside and everyone studied the unmarked spaces.
“Time to narrow it down.” Raden muttered.
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Lucianne began, “This one has no rivers or any nearby water supply. It’s out.” She marked a cross over
the location.
And that was how it went for the next few minutes. Everyone gave a reason for why they think a
particr spot on the map would not be strategic to set up the rogue’s headquarters. With more crosses
on the map, their line of vision converged easily on the portions which were still spared from the markers.
What they found was that those probable locations were not very far from numerous wolf packs.
Tate spoke, “We should ask the Alphas and Lunas of those packs to send trackers to scout those sites.”
He then started memorizing the cleared sites on the map.
Christian offered an alternative, “Or we could share this with Dalloway and get his people on it.” 1
“That may not be wise, your Grace.” Toby said, and proceeded to exin what many wolves already
understood, “Lycans are very…noticeable, both in scent and presence. If you send the task force there, it
may alert the rogues. It’s worse because we now know that they have hackers, meaning that security
communications in the police force can very well bepromised. Your very own instructions to them
may be essible by the rogues themselves. It’d be better if the wolves scouted these sites since
requests and instructions are sent through mind-links, and I doubt they have someone like Lucy with
them to hack
into those.”
Xandar asked in concern, “Will the wolves be safe when they do it alone though?”
Juan smiled in assurance as he said, “They’ll be fine, Xandar. We’ll notify the leaders and trackers to
keep a safe distance.”
Xandar still seemed unsure. Lucianne went to his side to caress his right shoulder as she pecked a kiss
on his cheek before she said, “It’ll be okay, darling. Our trackers are trained to be stealthy. They’ll be fine.
Let them do it.”
Xandar managed a small smile before pecking a kiss on her nose and saying, “As you wish, my Queen.”
He turned back to the leaders and asked, “I gather that I cannot tell Dalloway about this?”
Tate rified, “Well, that’s not exactly what we’re saying, your H-. Xandar. Just try to tell him without
calling or emailing him. Telling him face-to-face would be the ideal option but maybe don’t do it in the
police station. We don’t know if that ce has been bugged.”
“Oh, Goddess.” Christian muttered in dismay as his fingers pressed the bridge of his nose.
Xandar nodded, and held Lucianne close to his body, using their mate-bond to ease his tension as he
said, “Understood.”
Lucianne’s hands were still massaging Xandar’s shoulder as her eyes studied the map on the board.
Suddenly, something caught her attention. “They have a tendency to set up on inds, don’t they?”
Everyone started leaning closer to the map with furrowed brows, looking at the crossed-off locations as
opposed to the ones which were unmarked. Although many crosses were made on mainds across
continents, many more were made on inds.
When Xandar pulled Lucianne down to sit on hisp and secured an arm around her abdomen to hold
her there, he muttered, “It appears so.”
Lovce then said, “Toby. Raden. Circle the remaining inds please.”
After they did so, Zelena cocked her head to one side and said, “Well, that’s workable. Our allies should
be able to report within the next two or three days.”
Only ten inds were left so everyone could see that it wasn’t long before they eliminated the likelihood
o f the rogue corporation being located on an ind.
Xandar then asked, “Are the wolves able to scout those sites without getting caught?”
Lucianne shrugged and said, “Of course.”
“How?” Xandar asked, his grip around her tightening because he was not entirely convinced by what he
was hearing. There was arge part of him that was worried about the trackers who were going to
investigate on their own.
Lucianne exined simply, “Well, assuming that the corporation requires a regr supply of weapons,
poisons, medical equipment and basic necessities, there will be people who will enter and leave the
ind.”
Toby built on her exnation, “The wolves from nearby packs will keep a distance and watch if anyone
makes trips to and from the ind. We have enough allies around these ces to have them watch both
land and air.”
“Please get them to be careful.” Annie said, matching Xandar’s and Christian’s worried expressions.
Toby smiled and spoke in a casual tone, “Rx, your Grace. It’s not the first time our species is doing
spy work. It’s like Lucy said, the wolves we’re sending are trained to sneak around without getting
caught. They’ll be fine.”
When that was settled, there was nothing more they could do. After Juan, Tate, Zeke and Lovce
linked a few allies, requesting them to scout the inds they just narrowed down, Lucianne insisted on
practicing her hacking abilities again, much to Xandar’s dismay.
They worked differently this time. Juan and Xandar got Lucianne to agree that she would take a break
between each hack. Lucianne admitted that she felt a little drained after each try, so Toby was to time
how long she needed to fully recover before executing the next hack.
After a few tries, it was found that she needed a fifteen-minute break between hacks to avoid
experiencing any adverse side-effects. At her best, she couldst anywhere between a minute to a
minute and a half before being caught. Many of them suggested that she may be able tost longer if
she kept practising. But there came a point when Xandar said that she should stop for the day.
As everyone was chatting about Sasha’s escape, Greg’s disappearance and Livia’s connection to the
two, Lucianne, without anyone’s knowledge, tried to subtly hack into Jake’s link. Her efforts proved to be
futile in her first two attempts but when she tried a third time, she instinctively held her breath as she
listened t o what was being said.