He’s an Alpha She doesn’t Care novel Chapter 24

Jared

He stood looking at Carlotti, standing before Dwane because she couldn’t get into Ernesto. He was in a meeting, so had been told to go and tell her complaint to Dwane, the next in line. She was currently standing in Dwane’s office playing the victim card, and he knew it.

She was trying to get Wynta disciplined and thought that because Dwane was her stepbrother, she would be able to gain his sympathy, and his favor due to their so–called family relationship. Not that Dwane considered this she–wolf his kin any more than Meredith his sister did.

He was leaning in Dwane’s office doorway himself, listening to her sob story of how Wynta had apparently assaulted her, had kicked her across a room and into a wall. That it was unwarranted. All she’d done was go there to apologize to Wynta for making her feel unwelcome and Jared having put her out of the car.

Then she’d explained that this was the first chance she’d gotten to do that since that day. She’d not seen Wynta until today. That she’d not been expecting to be attacked over a simple apology. She’d looked from Dwane to Jared and murmured, “It’s not right.” She’d shaken her head and spoken softly, almost sounded sad to him.

“Did you do anything to offend her?” Jared asked from where he stood. He knew there was no way Wynta had started a physical fight with a fully–fledged she–wolf when she was wolf–less. That would just be stupid, and he didn’t get that from Wynta, stubborn as all hell, but not stupid.

“No.” Lotti shook her head. “Your father would lash me again if I did. I understand he’s trying to bring her into the pack. I honestly just went there to apologize. I guess she is a rogue after all, and is just aggressive and now hates me… Jared, you did tell me it was her in your car that day, and she’s now holding a grudge against me, I guess.”

Now that grabbed his attention, he’d not told her that, she’d made mention of it herself, gone. on about the smell of a rogue in his car. He just stood staring at her for a long quiet moment and then stated, “She physically hurt you?” he asked with a frown. “Kicked you?”

“Yes, with everything she had.” She nodded at him. “It still hurts.” She shook her head. “I’m certain she hates me, but I didn’t know she was in your car that day, not until I got in it, and you told me it was her.”

Again, another lie, ‘keep lying,’ he thought to himself absently. “Dwane go down to security and check the footage from the marketing floor. I don’t want to be hauling Wynta in, and seeing my own father round on me if I’ve not done my due diligence, he’s already ticked off that I screwed up Wynta being brought in.”

“I didn’t see any cameras in her office.” Lotti shook her head.

“I was in there today. There aren’t, but her office is a glass box and the cameras outside should catch some of it, if not all of it depending on where they are situated.” He smiled at her. “Don’t worry Lotti, Dwane and I will get to the bottom of this.”

“Lotti, why don’t you just wait here in my office.” Dwane nodded to her and motioned for her to take a seat.

“Thank you big brother.” She smiled at him and Jared watched her sit down and even grimace as she did so, holding a hand to her stomach.

“When exactly did this happen?” he asked her as Dwane made his way from the office.

She looked at her watch. “Um, about 30 or 40 minutes ago.”

“Then why are you still in pain? You have wolfen healing, so you shouldn’t be. It’s also unlikely that you’re seriously injured. Wynta has a serious knee injury right now as well. So, I doubt she kicked you that hard.” He told her the truth as he knew it just to see her reaction.

She was frowning at him now, and he smiled at her. “But don’t you concern yourself now, if it’s as you state, and Wynta attacked you without due provocation, then I will see she is fired for workplace violence.”

“What knee injury?” Lotti asked him as he stood there and watched her, “She looked perfectly fine to me,” she stated as he turned to leave the office.

“Well, Lotti, if you’d bothered to visit Wynta in the pack’s hospital and apologize, then, you’d have known she suffered multiple injuries and nearly died…” he stopped walking and turned to look at her now. “Why didn’t you go and apologize when she was in the pack?” he asked you said this was the first time you saw her, but everyone knew she was in the pack hospital.”

“I didn’t know she was there; I left after being lashed to go and stay with my boyfriend. He doesn’t live in the pack, here in the city.” She shook her head.

He nodded and stepped out of Dwane’s office, closing the door behind him, and shook his head as he walked away. That girl didn’t seem to actually have put her wolfen senses to Wynta, just like he’d not done. She scented of a rogue she–wolf, so one just presumed she was a full wolfen folk.

But five years of coming across her and not realizing Wynta was wolf–less, was it an act? Or was she just so disinterested because she was a rogue, that she never cared to check that?

He made his way to security and saw that they were all human. His eyes moved to Dwane, who was sitting at one of the desks checking the footage himself. She said, like 30 to 40 minutes ago.

He watched Dwane bring up the cameras of the marketing office and push them all to the massive array of screens on the wall and pull them all to back to an hour ago, and then moved them forward at twice the speed, until they saw Lotti getting out of the elevator. And then he let it run at normal speed.

They watched her get out of the elevator and walk right through that department and into Wynta’s office. She knew exactly where it was, and she banged the door shut then there was just nothing, the entire set of cameras were down. The time skipped, and they blinked back to life to see Wynta’s staff in her office and helping her pick up things from the floor.

Nothing had been caught on camera, “That’s very convenient.” Jared murmured and looked at the three security men in there. “what happened to the cameras?” he asked them directly. A whole floor just not recorded over the time of an alleged assault on that very floor.” He put to them all, and they all stated they had nothing to do with it.

One of them stated, “There is a system update rolling out today, it could be that,” he offered.

“Again, very convenient.” He shook his head and looked from one to the other, though all three of them looked concerned, he wasn’t really getting fear from any of them.

The door to the room opened, and another man walked in sipping coffee and looked at everyone in here. “Mr Hayes, how can I help you? I’m Lincoln, the head of security monitoring.

“It looks me like someone in here scrubbed the footage from the marketing floor over a specific window of time, that is now seen to hide a workplace assault.” Jared told him plainly.

“I don’t think any of my people would do that. There is however, a system–wide update, being rolled out for the entire building today, and all floors are done one at a time. They are expected to lose a few minutes of footage per floor,” Lincoln stated, confirming what his man had just informed him.

“You have proof of that, of course?” Dwane asked.

“Yes, come to my office.” He nodded and motioned for them to follow him, “I did send out a company–wide memo to let everyone know about it, that was last week, but let me check my emails for the update notification.”

They stood and watched him. Not only did he have the notification of the security update, it explained how and when it was going to be rolled out. Lincoln had followed full protocols and emailed the company employees last week and, again first thing this morning, each individual floor had been emailed with the estimated time of the update being rolled through their departments.

Then he turned and pointed to another screen that was actively tracking the roll–out. It. showed a simple diagram of the building’s floors, and they were green if complete and red if still waiting. “It’s nearly complete.” Lincoln stated simply, “None of my men have done. anything wrong, I assure you.”

He heard Dwane sigh but asked a simple question, “Show me what it looks like the update on another floor, just so I’m certain.”

“Pick a floor.” Lincoln nodded, and Jared touched the fourth floor and watched as Lincoln logged into the security footage and let it run from one minute prior to the update to after it was rolled out. It simply went black for a moment and then the time skipped the few minutes as it had done on the marketing floor.

“Thank you.” he nodded.

“Jared, I’ll bring the marketing staff in for a chat, all those that were in Wynta’s office helping to pick things up.”

He nodded and left the security office, “Leave Wynta off the investigation list, she didn’t start it, but that being said, I have a feeling someone in marketing is talking to Lotti. She just told me she has a boyfriend that lives in the city.”

“I don’t think she’s the type to date a human, they’re beneath her as much as Wynta would be.

“Hmm, but I think she is more calculating than we know. What if she is doing a human guy in order to know what is going on around Wynta? s*x with her would be very different from a human girl and that could sway him into giving out information.”

“Or just pillow talk a casual conversation about his office…” Dwane nodded. “I see it. That’s how you think she knew when to go to Wynta’s office. Got someone on the inside. You think that someone is also the one that sent Wynta that text about you not picking her up?”

“It’s entirely possible,” Jared nodded. “The question now is, is Wynta in actual danger? We need to figure that out as well.”

“She’ll need a tail if she is, she ain’t going to like that, Jared.” Dwane sighed as the elevator doors opened.

“No, she’s not,” he agreed as he went back to his office. His father would lose it as well, likely demand she be brought in, but even that could put her in danger. She was likely safer in the human world for now.