Chapter 69
In the complex’s garage, Caleb pulled in just as a black sports car sped by, brushing past his vehicle.
A primal, beast-like instinct made him whip his head around as the windows aligned for a split second.
All he caught was the nose and lips under a black hat’s brim.
The car zoomed off.
Caleb instinctively memorized the plate.
Cassie, meanwhile, was racing toward the complex.
She couldn’t help but call Alpha Gideon for an update, knowing he wasn’t a miracle worker and the property office needed time, but her nerves were frayed.
Alpha Gideon picked up, cutting straight to it.
“Property hasn’t gotten back yet, but my guy found a suspicious car that just peeled out of the garage. We’re
tracking it.”
“Suspicious car?” Cassie’s breath hitched. “Vivian said she was being followed. Could it be that guy?”
“No, that one’s still outside. Alpha Adrian sent him.”
You knew that?
Cassie was stunned but didn’t have time to dig. “Okay, I’m heading to the apartment. Maybe it’s nothing.”
She said it, but her gut wasn’t buying it.
They both hung up.
Cassie reached the apartment, finding it dark and empty. Her heart sank.
Knowing Alpha Adrian had sent the tail, she wondered if it was a decoy. Had he played nice just to pull
something worse?
She dialed Alpha Adrian, and the second it connected, she roared, “What did you do to Vivian? Where’d you
stash her? When are you gonna quit?”
“She’s gone?” Alpha Adrian shot up from his couch.
He was on the 2tth floor.
He’d known Vivian was coming back today. Since leaving Cassie’s place, he’d had someone tailing her.
“Yeah, she’s gone!” Cassie snapped. “Don’t play dumb, Alpha Adrian. It’s you, your mom, or that snake
Vanessa-one of you three!”
Cassie paced the apartment, fuming.
Alpha Adrian hung up without a word.
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“Alpha Adrian, you bastard!” Cassie yelled, convinced he was guilty.
Soon, Alpha Gideon sent an update that made things look grim.
The property office checked the building’s garage cameras-no sign of Vivian’s car entering, no other vehicles coming or going. But the complex’s entrance footage showed her car rolling in. And they found her car in the
garage.
Meaning, her car entered the complex, then vanished from the cameras.
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The surveillance had been tampered with.
The garage was quiet, especially at this hour, with little traffic. Hours of interference could go unnoticed by the monitoring room.
Cassie called the enforcers without hesitation.
Soon, the local precinct and property staff swarmed the garage, turning the once-silent space into a hive of activity.
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Cassie recounted the events to the enforcers, mentioning the suspicious car Alpha Gideon flagged. The property staff chimed in with details.
Alpha Gideon was out with Caleb, chasing the car. The property’s info backed up its shadiness.
And Alpha Gideon trusted Caleb’s gut.
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No one could say for sure if Vivian had been taken by that car or was still in the complex. Too much could’ve happened during the tampered footage.
The enforcers and property team swept the complex while Alpha Gideon tracked the car. Whichever side got a lead, they’d share it fast-finding her was priority one.
As for suspects, the Quinns and Blackwoods topped the list.
Who hadn’t seen the online firestorm these past few days?
But suspicion wasn’t enough to haul anyone in. Evidence ruled.
The enforcers scoured every corner of the garage.
Property staff contacted the building’s residents, asking them to come down. This complex was full of wealthy wolves-luxury cars everywhere, one scratch a budget-breaker. They also asked about the black sports car: anyone’s? A friend’s?
The enforcers reasoned that jamming a small area of garage footage was subtle, but an outsider vehicle breaking in would require hacking the security system. That was tougher and risked detection.
If the system was breached, the complex would go on high alert, and the culprit would’ve tipped their hand.
The quiet entry pointed to two likely scenarios: a resident’s car or a visitor with resident-granted access.
But every resident denied owning the car.
No friends had visited that day either.
The enforcers had the property pull entrance footage to ID the car.
They found it leaving but not entering.
Cassie, standing with the property team, frowned. “What, is this car a ghost?”
“Check the last few days,” Alpha Gideon suggested when Cassie relayed the issue.
Lost and confused, Cassie and the property team didn’t hesitate to follow his lead.
The footage shocked them: the car had entered three nights ago.
Late that night, a wolf in a black hat got out, carrying a box through the gate to the 18th floor. He came back, got in the car, and hadn’t left since.
The footage clearly showed he’d gone to the 19h floor.
Emily, the 19th-floor resident, gasped. “That was the restaurant owner delivering my late-night order!”
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The enforcers pressed, “Who is he? Got his contact?”
Emily shook her head, baffled. “I don’t know. That night, I was home, and my friend ordered me food.
Normally, property handles deliveries, but my friend said this owner was obsessive about food temperature- had to deliver it himself. So I let him in.”
Everyone broke into a cold sweat.
Talk about reckless.
“Who’s your friend?” the enforcers asked.
“Meredith.”
A Quinn.
The enforcers headed straight for the Quinn.
Cassie called Alpha Gideon.
“It’s that car. It’s been in the garage since three nights ago, lying in wait. The Quinns sent him-Meredith,
Vanessa’s sister.”
Alpha Gideon’s face darkened.
The Blackwoods would’ve been bad enough.
The Quinns? This was worse.
“As Vivian’s lawyer, go online and call out the Quinns and Vanessa. Demand they let her go, say we’ve got
evidence. Blow it up, rile up the netizens.”
They couldn’t confirm if Vivian was alive, but if she was and the Quinns hadn’t acted yet, going public might make them hesitate, maybe back off. Or it might do nothing.
“Got it. I’m on it,” Cassie said, catching his drift. It was a gamble, but they had to try.
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