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with Frankie.
     
    Chapter Ten
     
    Frankie stood inside the custom built kennel. From the outside it looked like horse stables. Inside, dogs paced in their chain link cages. The concrete floor strewn with hay, a bed and water for each dog. They ate twice a day, and only the best food money could buy. Even the bait dogs ate pretty well. Frankie’s dogs were the best, toughest, healthiest fighters around, and it was because Frankie expected his staff to take good care of those animals, and they were paid well to do it.
    He watched a big rottie-pittbull mix pace back and forth. He was one of the new dogs he’d gone to see the other day. Frankie didn’t need purebred. If a dog was aggressive, uncontrollable, and vicious, Frankie wanted them. He had a gift, harnessing that aggression, pushing the dog to desire the kill, to want to please Frankie and avoid the punishment of failure.
    His dogs were afraid of him, just as this one would be given a few weeks of training with a belt, a bait dog, and a handful of food.
    His best fighters barked and snarled at him. Were he to raise the belt, they would stop, but for now, with the fight so close, he let them be. It was good for them to get worked up, starve them a little bit more each day until the big night. When the others showed up with their dogs, his would be more than ready.
    Victor came in, spilling bright sunlight across the floor, startling the dogs into a frenzy. The big man had a grim look about his face.
    “Hush!” Frankie yelled and the dogs yelped, quieting to snarls and pacing. “What?”
    His hulking cousin glanced at the dogs before addressing Frankie. “Joey with security called. Someone was on your computer. Cambridge house. Got the alert this morning when someone accessed an email account, couldn’t get to it in time. He watched the system, and somebody hacked in again, but this time they hacked your files. Damn good hacker, too, according to Joey. Wiped all traces from the system. If he hadn’t got the alert this morning, he wouldn’t have noticed the second one.”
    In preparation for his weeks away from the Cambridge house, Frankie had sent his staff on a four-day holiday this morning. He’d left instructions for Arthur to prepare Jenny’s breakfast, and then be on his way. There was no one left in the house besides Connor McKinnon and Jenny Cartwright.
    Frankie took a belt from the hook on the wall. The dogs’ snarls quieted to whimpers and they hid in the back of their cages. Expect for the new dogs.
    “Call Connor. Tell him there’s been a change of plans.”
     
    Chapter Eleven
     
    Shit.
    Connor ended the call with the Hulk and switched his blinker on. Casey, who had been blissfully quiet for the past fifteen minutes, watched their turn pass by. She glanced at him.
    “Frankie changed his mind.”
    She grinned. He could only imagine the triumph she was feeling right now, but Connor had heard the glee in Victor’s voice. The only reason he would be happy to see her again was if something wasn’t right. Had Frankie finally seen through her act? Good as it was, her façade had slipped often enough. Or, and this made his gut hurt to think, had Connor’s bumbling attempts to hide his presence on Frankie’s computer this morning been discovered?
    If that was the case, they were both in trouble. Frankie wouldn’t know who had been tampering in his office, only that it was one of them.
    He could simply take off, avoid the confrontation and Frankie’s wrath. But there was no way to know if Frankie suspected him or Casey until he got there, and he had never disobeyed the alphas’ orders. He had a job to do, and he was capable of protecting himself.
    He glanced at Casey while he drove, leaving Boston behind. She was still grinning, her face turned to the window.
    If Miss Casey Keene wound up taking the blame for his mistake, well that was something he would have to live with. Collateral damage. It wasn’t something he dealt with often, but he would