Chapter 13 PACK ISSUES
Vance's POV
(Monday)
Wish that I could stay at home with Sianna for the day but serious matters required my attention. I was in the warehouse that we kept the bunker with Gamma Blayne and Beta Duke. We were there to go through inventory and get the figures right.
Firstly, we took out the records of the microscopic CCVT cameras that we had at designated areas. Only the three of us knew of these special cameras that we implemented as a back up to the visible cameras being sabotaged.
I absolutely despised being taken advantage of. Our supplies were stored for the protection of my pack and should there be a need for war. We kept things like wolfsbane, silver, knives, bayonets, small arms, revolvers, pistols, rifles, shotguns, grenades, recoilless rifles, flames throwers, obstacle clearing explosive charges, machine guns, canisters and other items.
It went along with my pride of being the most fearsome and resourceful pack in existence. We stocked on various types of weaponry for defense and battle, accompanied by a technological team who consistently worked on developing new gears as to have an element of surprise for the enemy.
For the past three weeks some of our items have gone missing. Authority was reserved only to the three of us to remove any of these items, but there was no reason to speculate any betrayal by my two best friends. Someone else was doing this, but who?
I picked up one of the utility belt and an amulet with a built-in pouch. Blayne completed checking the crates of small metal silver beads, and Duke organized the pellets back into place. Nothing was missing for this week. I leaned against the wall with my hand rubbing my chin, deeply analyzing the situation.
"Sons of bitches took half of our silver." Blayne retorted. This place was one of his favorite. He was a bloodthirsty head warrior that loved to punish people for their wrong doings. His rage called for blood.
The first cameras had been frozen. The records demonstrated that the rooms had no movements where no one went in and no one came out. The strange thing about that was Blayne himself visited the bunker twice in the week and the camera never showed him entering or leaving.
Apparently, it had to have been tricking us from the first break-in. Now we will review the secondary micro cameras to see who we are hunting for and their objectives.
"Our count is the same as last week." Duke wrote his discoveries, flipped the pages and concluded.
"They must realize that we are on to them." Blayne hands coiled into fists. "I don't want these suckers getting away. These are my toys." He held up one of the pistols and rubbed it gentle and placed a kiss on it.
We organized the carts and boxes back into place, then did one final run through the aisles of shelves.
"Alright, let's head back to the office." I commanded. "Blayne change the locks now and install the new security features. Don't forget about the new motion sensors and then join us." Duke and I headed out.
Today was reserved for investigating the robbery. The pack house was scanty because most of the omegas went to school. I have no restrictions in them furthering their education. Those who were present were cleaning, doing laundry and completing their other duties.
"Good afternoon Alpha and Beta Duke." One of the omegas greeted us in the foyer with great enthusiasm. "Lunch is ready. Would you like to have it in the office today?" She was a new one that was eyeing me wistfully.
They lavished us with attention and all tried relentlessly to get ours, even with us being mated. Duke allowed his mate to mark him. Sianna could do it too if she desired. However, since no one else knew I had my mate the eyeballing advances remained dominant.
"Take it to the office." I scowled in annoyance. There was always problems with the new ones when they came. took time for them to learn not to fraternize with us. They tend to cross lines when we associated with them frequently. Therefore, we repudiated them.
She quickly ran back into the kitchen, striding like a model. I have never bedded an omega because of their low status. It's not that I scorned them, I wanted to be with mature and confident women who stood for more than just obeying orders and using connections to him to feel a type of significance. Additionally, they shouldn't feel compelled to open their legs because of our position.
As I got behind my desk and sat, Duke turned on the laptop and plugged in the small flash drive. He stood at my side and we both watched. Nothing on Monday or Tuesday, but it was Wednesday of the week before last that we caught them sneaking in.
Only one entered the bunker in the night, he was dressed in black, ninja style with bag packs. He was the technician who disabled the camera and froze the screen so it would appear unvisited.
Next, he tampered with the security gadget and the powered light went off on the system. After he accomplished that feat, two others joined him. One of which unlocked the vault door and all three entered the room. They did not speak, no words came from them, and they operated like professionals.
They walked through the room until they found the items that they needed. With their bag packs on the floor, they took canisters, silver, wolfsbane gas, pistols and other items. They scanned the room further and the crate of small cuboids drew one of their attention. He picked it up and instantly small sharp silver spikes protruded to penetrate his fingers.
The scream that came out sounded like a woman. The other two ran to her aid and covered her mouth. They manage to get the spikes out of her fingers and she fainted. My Beta and I were pleased to see that. Serves them right!
One pulled the mask from her head and her face was shown clearly. That was such a wrong move. But he kept slapping her cheeks with his fingers trying to revive her. His pointless actions had them closing up their bag packs and throwing her over his shoulders while the other scouted the area to ensure no evidence was left. They went out of the room failing to raid a high quantity this time.
"The cuboid was useful after all." Duke lamented, "She should be dead by now with the fast acting aconitum that went into her system." "Blayne's surprise will get them the next time they try to get in." I basked in the fact that my Gamma was skillful in setting traps. He hated being bested and so this was a deadly competition for him.
Duke zoomed in on the girl's face and sent it to Blayne. It's time to find out who this woman was and all her connections.
"I am going to strangle him if she turns out to be one of his bed companions." I made that promise to my Beta. "Get the trackers on their tail."
A disruptive knock brought our eyes to the door which opened and the blonde girl appeared with the tray of food. She placed the first dish at the front of the desk for Duke. Then she scurried to my left side and had her hips touching my elbow. My wolf was getting angry and wanted to rip her throat out because Sianna solely should have that right. So I took matters in hand.
"What's your name?" I glared at her sharply. She stood straight, pretending to be innocent and made her tongue play with her lips. "Wendy, Alpha." Her eyes casted to the floor knowing that to look directly at me now would be deadly.
In her mind she hoped that I was acknowledging her gestures. Boy was she delusional! I yanked her arm and twisted it behind her back. She flinched in pain.
"Wendy, your behavior is very unbecoming and I find it disgusting."
"Alpha, please! I am sorry." She wailed in agony.
"I am sure that every omega here knows that we are off limits. I will forgive you this time but if you ever... EVER act in this degrading manner again, you will face the consequences." I berated her, exuding my monstrous aura and hoping this ended here and now." Besides, there's no way your pussy could be good based on how whoring you are."
Teary eyed she bolted out of my office. I don't take free-for-all's. My attention diverted to the files before me, and all the Alphas that sent me emails. A meeting was due today that could not be postponed.
"I need an espionage team to sweep through the packs. Duke, go ahead and make a schedule for the team to carry out their search on the other packs that may have more than their quota of the weapons that we disbursed to them for assistance."
Right away he got on his notebook to complete the command. Both of us were busy on our devices. Blayne would be occupied for most of today sorting out the warehouse. Duke would check in on the warriors later for a training session.
My phone vibrates and it was a message for one of my former lady acquaintances. Usually I would entertain her but not today. I ignored her and reverted to my day's work. I wasn't going to let a trivial thing like her disrupt where my focus needed to be. Soon enough, she would know not to interfere with me further.
At least I wasn't like my Gamma who operated with the hit it and quit it games. Promiscuity has drawbacks when a mate comes into our lives. So I kept my flings clearly defined and with no more than two or three women. Being clingy was forbidden, so calling me incessantly was annoying and getting on my last nerve.
But this one was a good-natured girl and that's what attracted me to her originally. She was unassertive and charming. She sought me out only when it had to do with the orphanage, concerning the pack. So whenever we had sex it was because I went to her. Hence, I didn't see her posing to be an issue for whenever my mate would come along.
With Sianna, my wolf found the sexual overtures of other women revolting. For this reason, I avoided this girl's messages. Even if it involved the pack, I had no interest whatsoever to talk to her. There were other protocols for her to address any concerns that she might have.
I was tempted to reprimand her for calling me so damn often on my first date with Sianna the other night. Even though Sianna kept inquiring about her, I refused to let it ruin our night, and look how wonderful that worked out.
I grinned internally. Licking my lips as I recalled the flavor of her labia and mouth. Fuck, I'm hard.