Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
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Joaquin
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I knew what we needed to do next. I knew where we needed to go. The only thing I didn’t know was which dorm and rooms that we needed to go to. And, well, to find that out I needed to alert someone that was there. So, without any hesitation, I called the number that was stored in my phone.
It rang a few times before a groggy voice answered it.
“H..hello?”
“Clovio?” I called out to him, but not too loudly so that if someone was with him they wouldn’t know.
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“H..huh? I..is everything OK?” He was probably worried that the ambush didn’t go as planned.
“Everything is fine. We are rounding up all of the Jaegan that Claud knew the location of. We got the others that were in town, but now we are on our way to the university. We need to know which dorms and which rooms. I know there are eight of you there, where are the other six, and where is your room?” I told him what I needed and waited for him to respond. The first thing that I heard was a gasp on the other end of the call.
“Y..you’re arresting me and Warrick as well?” He thought that we were turning on him.
“It will just look like it. We don’t want to let the others know that you were in on this. We will be arriving shortly, which dorm, and what room numbers?”
“O..Oh, OK.” He seemed to calm down a little bit. “We are in Copper House. Rooms are twenty-two thirteen, twenty-three twenty, thirty-one eighteen, and thirty-two fifteen. And Joaquin, there is another person in our group that isn’t with the family. She is like me and Warrick. We don’t want to do as they would say, but we have had to comply. Don’t hurt her, please.”
“We aren’t going to hurt anyone, Clovio. But we will take her aside and talk to her about this. If you think that she will side with us when the time comes, then she will not be punished. As long as she has not hurt anyone, that is.”
“She hasn’t. She has been with us at the school, she hasn’t hurt anyone.”
“What is her name?” We were driving now, heading toward the school, as I got the information from him.
“Armina.”
“We will offer her the chance to side with us. They will all be offered that, as long as they haven’t hurt anyone.”
“Thank you.”
“Be ready to pretend that you don’t know what is going on, Clovio. We are almost there.”
“OK.”
I ended the call as we pulled onto the campus. I looked around and tried to think about where we were going.
“Which dorm?” Noah asked me.
“Copper House.” Without another word, Noah drove over there while the others followed.
When we arrived in front of the dorm, I was already getting out of the SUV before Noah had even put it in park. I needed to hurry and take care of things. I wanted to get this done before the morning, before the other students woke up.
A brisk pounding on the door alerted the guards and night shift that we were there. They wore bemused expressions on their faces as they ran to see what was happening. Rawlynne, standing next to me again, whipped out her badge as they opened the door.
“Special Agent Otsana of the FBI, we are here to take some of your residents into custody.” She held up a piece of paper and flashed it at them. “We have a warrant for their arrest.”
“U..uhm, w..wh..who?” They asked, intimidated by her forceful tone and the appearance of what looked like a S.W.A.T. team.
“The German exchange students, Gunnar, Aloysius, Clovio, Warrick, Armina, Lovisa, Hede, and Hedi.” I had gotten the names from Rika the other day, so I was able to tell the man who we were looking for. “They are in rooms twenty-two thirteen, twenty-three twenty, thirty-one eighteen, and thirty-two fifteen.”
“O..O..OK.” The guard nodded and stepped aside. “I..is there anything that I need to do? Anything that you need from me?”
“Do you have spare keys to the rooms? If not we will be busting them down.”
“Y..y..yes, we have those, please, come this way.” Once again it was just those close to me that were entering the building. The others were surrounding the building and guarding the prisoners that were in the truck.
I followed the guard into the building and over to the central desk. I figured that it was where the staff would work during the day. The man went into an office that was back there, I only stood at the door and watched him as he opened a locked cabinet and took out the four sets of keys.
“Th..these are the rooms that you mentioned, right. They were twenty-two thirteen, twenty-three twenty, thirty-one eighteen, and thirty-two fifteen.
“Yes, that is right.” I nodded as took them from him. “We will do this as calmly and peacefully as possible.”
“O..O..OK.” He was as scared, as anyone would be in this situation.
We divided into four groups as we went to the different rooms in question. I ended up at room twenty-three twenty. We were moving stealthily as we made our way through the halls. We didn’t want to wake anyone else up. We needed this to be quick and efficient like it was at the hotel. Not a single other guest came out of their room while we were there. It was perfect.
I used the radio again to signal the others.