Chapter 393 Chapter 393
Konner looked up from the phone to see Calum standing at the door grinning. He motioned to the phone as if to say, you try.
Calum came over and stood in front of his desk. “Deacon.”
“Cal?” Deacon made a strange noise, “I’m not even surprised you’re there.”
Calum’s grin widened. “I hear you have two clan members en route.”
“Uh, yeah, Konner just told me.” His tone was completely flat, Konner wondered if he was in shock or just not showing the emotion.
“Boys? Girls? Adults or children?” Gia, Deacon’s mate sounded excited enough for the two of them.
“Mother and daughter, eleven.” Konner inhaled and gave Calum a quick look, “and there’s two more, but getting them out of there is more complicated.”
“Out of where?” Now Deacon’s tone held emotion and it wasn’t a friendly one.
“The other side of the ocean, my friend,” Konner didn’t want to go into too many details over the phone and especially because it was bending a whole lot of rules to the point of breaking.
“We could…”
“No, we can’t.” Konner finished before he got too many ideas. “We can’t break Alliance treaties and go there and pull others out.”
“Shit.” There was mumbling as he explained to his mate. “When are they due to move?”
“In the next few weeks, I don’t have a date because things have to stay flexible.” A polite way of saying if shit went sideways, they had to adjust plans on the move.
“There’s a trailer on the way to your place now, Beckett is taking care of it for me,” Calum added.
“That solves that panic.” Deacon sounded relieved. “Think we’ll put it up by the cabin until the house is ready. Leaving them down there alone doesn’t feel right.”
“We still need to get supplies, and clothes,” Gia sounded like she was holding the phone to her mouth and yelling in it now. “Your foreman said the new units wouldn’t be done for a month.”
“We’ll figure it out.” Deacon told her, his tone changing again.
“Maybe if we can rush through one and put them all together for a bit?” Gia mused, “well, unless they’re men, then that’s not right to put them with them.”
“I don’t have details right now.” Konner straightened and crossed his arms. “I’ll let you know when I do.”
“Are there a lot over there?”
Konner looked at Calum, they both knew his young teammate was now realizing what he signed up for might be quite different than he’d planned. “I’m not sure. It’s hard to track them down without setting off any alarms.”
“There has to be something we can do about that.”
If he wasn’t mistaken, Konner thought he saw pride on Calum’s face. “We’re going to be taking it to the king later and filling him in.”
“Yeah, good. Being held in a country you don’t want to be in isn’t much different than the then shit they we’re dealing with here with Tomas.” Deacon’s growl was back in his voice.
Konner nodded. Finding his mate had changed him in a few ways that Konner hadn’t imagined possible. Deacon was usually good with a few words and no conversation, never mind him displaying actual emotions more than once during the call. “We’ll get them out one way or another.”
“Did you find any of yours, Konner?” Gia was near the phone again.
Konner sucked in a deep breath and blew it out quietly, “not so far, but there are several leads.”
“I hope you find them.”
He nodded, not wanting to comment and voice it, or get his hopes up again. “I’ll call you when I have more details.”
“Thanks, Konner.” Deacon scoffed, “I have to go slow Gia down or we’ll have to have a transport deliver the list she’s making.”
Konner grinned, “I’ll send details when I have them.” He hung up the phone and looked at Calum, “he handled it better than I thought he would.”
“Oh, he’ll be freaking out shortly,” he sat down, “Deacon processes in a different way and then it all catches up to him at once.” He shrugged one shoulder, “he’ll get through it, Gia is very grounded.”
Konner sat down, he was running out of momentum finally, the last two days he’d burned through a month worth of tasks he’d been putting off because he didn’t have the time. “We’re you looking for me?”
Calum held up his phone, “I just got off the phone with Devin, his father agreed a conference call with the team leaders was warranted with the information you brought back.”
“Which team leaders?” He sat back and rolled his head from side to side, trying to relieve some of the tension in the muscles.
“The eight relevant ones.”
He couldn’t hide the surprise in his reaction. “That’s a good thing, though, to get them involved. Maybe they can figure out a way to get around this and correct it.”
“You’ll be part of it,” Calum smirked at Konner’s rubber neck response when he jerked his head around to look back at him. “It should happen shortly, Nate from the tech team is working on a secure conference call right now, while your pal Fallan gets in touch with all the leaders.”
Konner sat forward, leaning on his desk. “All right,” he nodded, “I don’t know the teams like you do, so give me a bit of background.” What he wasn’t in the mood for was flack from anyone right now and the last thing his exhaustion would tolerate was some team leader harping about how he’d bypassed all and any protocol and been poking around in countries that were off-limits to the North American branch of the Alliance.
Calum sat back, looking relaxed, although Konner now suspected he never truly was as chill as he let on he was. “Some of them you know,’ he smirked, “your own team leader, of course, Devin, Jesse, and Raymond.” He looked down at the floor, like he was trying to recall the others, “Nate from tech, nothing we do now will be without the tech team keeping us off the airwaves,” he glanced up, “or whatever it is.” Calum glanced down at his phone, “Kenzo from the special ops team, he’s pretty easy going,” he shrugged, “at least off mission.”
Konner had encountered a few of the ops team, like Tripp, they all seemed like they didn’t have a care in the world, he assumed that flipped like a switch when things were heavy, because some of the stories of what they’d done, there was no way easy-going, quiet mannered personalities could pull that off.
“You may have met Kaid Rivera along the way, he’s in charge of the clean-up team.”
Konner smirked, “they are in and out so fast, I don’t know how they do it.”
Calum grinned, “but they’re good at it.” He nodded his head slowly, “the last one is Uri from the surveillance team, I don’t know him that well, but it’s said he can be standing right beside you and you wouldn’t even know he was there.”
Konner’s eyebrows went up.
“Most of his team is the same.”
“Are they all flyers?” Konner leaned back, “I always wondered how they managed to keep eyes in so many places at once.”
“I’m not sure. I know Uri is, but the rest of his team I’m not familiar with.” He grinned, “I guess that’s why they’re the unseen and do their job so well.”
Konner rubbed his forehead, this call needed to happen soon, he was starting to fade now that he’d stopped. Pushing back from the desk, he went over and picked up the water jug, “all I know is without them, most of the other teams would have walked into some pretty intense situations without their help.” Grabbing a glass, he poured some of the river water and took a big drink of it.