Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“Every sector reporting in is saying that they’ve got lights. Good job, Nessa!”
Nessa smiled, disconnecting her laptop from the server tower and closing it. She carefully put it in her bag and gave Dave a wink as she headed toward the door.
Clara, true to form, didn’t bother to play it cool. Instead, she stuck her tongue out at Dave and followed after Nessa.
The two women immediately returned to the central command building, where Galen and Fiona received updates and check-ins from all over Summer.
After the initial cyber-attack in Cain’s lab, Nessa had found that there were dozens of smaller worms crawling through the Summer systems. Most of them were generally harmless, only causing latency and crashing issues throughout the pack. Nessa surmised that these worms were intended to distract against rooting out the primary they had found in the lab.
They were easy enough to clean up until they found what Nessa called the ‘Big Brothers’. These were the more aggressive type. They spawned on the removal of the last of the nuisance worms, and these Big Brothers went out of their way to attack primary systems.
Nessa had tried to work with the systems team to neutralize and remove them as quickly as possible, but they struggled with teamwork.
At least two of the Big Brothers managed to detonate their systems before they could be removed.
The lights in one section of Summer were one of the casualties. The other was the gate and door locks. Several buildings had been locked down, trapping people inside for hours as the systems team worked to fix the problem.
Meanwhile, Nessa and Dave had been working on getting the lights back on. But unfortunately, Dave had been too busy making passive-aggressive remarks about Nessa’s origins to see the mistakes in his codework. So instead of repairing the lighting systems, he had inadvertently crashed the lighting in five different buildings.
“Where we at?” Galen asked as Nessa and Clara entered the room.
“Nes got the lights back up!” Clara said excitedly.
“Nes?” Nessa asked, turning to Clara.
“I was trying it out… no good?”
“Meh.”
“I’ll think of something better,” Clara said confidently.
“So… lights issue is solved?” Galen asked.
“Oh… no,” Nessa said, shaking her head.
“But you just said–” Galen began, looking to Clara.
“I said she got them back up,” she clarified.
“Yea, no, the system is totally screwed right now,” Nessa commented. “I have a mirror universe running right now for the remaining bugs and worms, so they believe that they are attacking multiple systems while they’re really just bouncing around in a sealed space. But it won’t last forever.”
“So… what are we supposed to do?” Galen asked.
On the far side of the room there was one door that was still not working; it had been one of the locks that had been triggered by the Big Brother. A loud pounding sound against said door drew everyone’s attention.
“What the hell….” Galen whispered.
Another sound like something hitting against the door.
He hit the button on his chest. Cords flew out to cover his body and he immediately materialized his shield.
“Everyone behind me!” he shouted.
Just as they all moved behind him the door came crashing down and through it came what appeared to be a large metal dome with a gun barrel.
“Is that… one of the sentries?” Galen asked aloud. He chanced to look over his shield.
From the darkness of the hallway beyond the door emerged Alexander and Selene, looking haggard and angry.
Alexander stepped further into the room, and in a booming voice, he shouted.
“Can someone please tell me what the hell happened to my pack!”
“It was Alice,” Selene said once Galen and Clara had finished explaining what had happened to the computer system in the past day.
“It had to be,” she growled, crossing her arms over her chest.
“How do you know?” Galen asked.
“Because,” she said, “the entire reason Jackson was able to kidnap me was because Alice tricked me and took me to him.”
“What?” Galen said, looking at Alexander.
Alexander clenched his jaw but said nothing.
After Selene had been rescued, they didn’t have a lot of time to talk before she returned to Winter. She hadn’t been ready to discuss all that she had experienced while she was being held. With the wedding and the honeymoon, they hadn’t talked about it all.
“Bell said you saw someone… it was Alice?” Galen asked turning back to Selene.
“Yea. When I came out of the science building, I was talking to Bell on the phone, and then I saw her sneaking around. So I chased after her, she tried to get away, but I caught up to her just past the border,” Selene paused, licking her lips as she remembered what happened next. “And then I was shot by tranquilizer darts.”
Alexander put his arm around her shoulder pulling her close.
“I’m sorry,” Galen said. “I should have–”
“It wasn’t your fault,” Alexander interrupted.
“No,” Selene said. “It was Alice and Jackson that did that to me. And it was Alice that did this to Summer. I’m sure of it.”
“She certainly has the skills,” Clara added with a little too much enthusiasm.
Nessa looked up at her with a raised brow.
“And who exactly is this, Alice? Another of your exes?” she asked..
“No!” Clara said quickly, waving her arms in front of her. “Definitely not… though in the interest of full disclosure and honesty… I may have had a little bit of a crush on her.”
“Mmmhmm…” Nessa replied, looking back at her computer screen.
“It’s not a big deal, I mean I’ve never even met her!”
“You had a crush on someone you’ve never met?”
“Well, yea… but only because of her codework… it was amazing…” Clara smiled, then quickly added. “Yours is way better!”
Galen cleared his throat.
“Alice was responsible for a hack in our systems a few months back,” he clarified.
“What kind of hack?” Nessa asked.
As Galen went into the particulars of what had happened during Alice’s stay in Summer, Alexander pulled Selene aside.
“Are you alright?” he asked.
“I’m ok, Alexander,” she smiled. “I just… It was so easy for him to capture me.”
“Unfortunately it’s always easier to use underhanded methods,” Alexander said, kissing her forehead.
“Especially when you have someone like Alice to help you,” Selene scoffed.
Alexander didn’t reply right away, Selene felt his doubt.
“You don’t believe me?” she asked, pulling away from him.
“What? No, that’s not… I believe you, Selene.”
“Then what is it?”
“It’s just that… Alice… she’s helped me before, helped you.”
“She’s never done anything for me,” Selene stated firmly.
“Yes, she did. You just didn’t know about it,” he said.
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