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He said “Your delay tactic isn’t working.. I am well aware of what you’re doing.” I sneered “Are you? Are you really? Because.. if my man finds what I know he is going to find.. in my office. You and I are going to have a problem. A serious one.”
He said “You tell me what you would have done!? We have been chasing our own tails on this case for months.. Our intel sucked.. we couldn’t catch anything with phone taps and wires.. Information was sketchy.. at best. When I realized your wife was on Slate’s radar.. I took the opportunity.. Knowing he would try again.”
Axe came back and tossed two bugs on the table between us. Torin was roaring in my head. I scoffed “Five fucking years of my life I gave to this country. I put my life on the line hundreds of times.. for this country.. Only to be betrayed.. in the end.. BY this country.”
Unger said “They’re harmless.. we didn’t listen to any other information but that pertaining to Slate.” I laughed.. “Do you realize who you’re talking to? You can’t play me.. and you damned sure can’t convince me you have not built an entire dossier on me with the information you gleaned from listening to my private conversations.”
He muttered “I wouldn’t come after you. You do more good than harm. But I needed information and you were the quickest way to get it.”
I leaned on my elbows and snarled “Newsflash, Asshole! I have
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ignited my Alpha Mantle.. I have taken my place in the werewolf realm. That dossier? Don’t mean shit now. Your government can no longer touch me. We govern ourselves. That warrant? Not worth the paper it’s printed on. Not because I am wolf.. and you know it! Your government still protects some privacies of her people. You never obtained a warrant to bug my office.. That’s illegal. Yes.. you can record a person’s conversations.. but you have to have a warrant to do that. Unless you alert the person that you are recording..and they are aware.”
He scoffed “I didn’t need a warrant. Since you so eloquently pointed out.. You’re Alpha now.. No longer protected by the laws of our constitution.” I laughed again.
“You really are an idiot. You planted the bugs.. three days before my ascension. Still protected by your constitution. Making that warrant completely illegal.”
Unger said “Look! Do you have Slate and Asbel or not? I’m getting bored of you fluffing your feathers and peacocking around to impress your wife.” Delaney laughed and said “And we care.. why? What I find funny is you.. still thinking you are running the show. Reality is, you’re only here by our grace.. legally you’re trespassing. You make the mistake of thinking Venom has to impress anyone. He does that without trying.”
I asked Max “Why, dude? We were friends. We served together. Brothers. Then you come into my home and betray me. You should have known it wouldn’t work.. The fuck of it is.. had you asked.. I would have allowed collaboration. That’s on you!”
Max looked directly in my eyes.. then slumped back in his chair.. “Brass has come down hard on my office. They want Slate.. he has enough C–4 to blow up half of New York City. We need to
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get it back.. before that maniac decides to do just that. I was desperate. I had been given the by any means necessary order.”
I said “You should have told me. I would have worked with you. Instead.. you chose subversive and covert. I didn’t think to check for bugs after you left. Wanna know why? Because I trusted you, Max. I don’t now. You destroyed that.”
He responded “I can apologize.. but we both know I am only sorry I got caught. Can we collaborate now? Do you think we can work together? Slate is now a danger to both our worlds.”
Fuck! He’s right. I have been going at this all wrong. Looking at it from a singular point of view. I have him set in my brain as MY enemy.. instead of an enemy of state.. both states.
I sighed “Slate didn’t show up. We have Asbel. You are welcome to join me when I talk to him. As long as talking doesn’t make you squeamish. Some of my own men have been known to throw up when I talk to a prisoner ”
He laughs “I get it.. you’ll torture him, if it is required. By any means necessary.. Remember?” I nodded and said “Let’s go have a conversation.” And I led the way to the cells.
Damn! It’s getting crowded in here. “Snake.. call Sheriff John.. turn Chad, Vinnie and Christian over to him. That’s human drama. The girls we rescued can testify.”
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