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  She was not going to do a damn thing or hand over any information until she had the talk with Jackson. It looked as if Fensile Corporation gathered information concerning anomalies. The Wolf file confirmed her worst fears. She had purposefully been infected with the lupine virus. Three others had also been used as guinea pigs. Unfortunately for Fensile only one of those infected people had been identified. The blood had been mixed up with the hospitals normal supply, and it was impossible to trace the others. Some of the hospitals supplies had been sent to the local VA hospital for their needs. That must be why there was so many files that were government property.

  Jackson came alone. She offered him a beverage, and he opted for a whiskey neat. It was a good thing she had a bottle of his favorite whiskey that she had purchased early for his Christmas present. She led him into her office, and he looked around. She was proud of her setup and abilities but wondered what he would think of her once she revealed her most recent job.

  She had him sit in the comfortable office chair that she usually used and then just started talking. “I do computer forensics for companies that are concerned that their employees are engaging in espionage or that seem to have information leaks.” Jackson nodded, his face solemn. “I was doing a routine track for a corporation that was leaking intellectual property like a spaghetti sieve and tracked the information to another company.” He was still looking at her and waiting for the real reason for his visit, she could tell.

  “Jackson, I couldn’t think of anyone else to call, and I hope you won’t think too badly of me for this, but the company that is stealing information is also stealing information from a half dozen other companies.” She took a deep breath. This could be his breaking point. The American public was his priority. The man was straight as a stick when it came to the law, and she was about to confess to several instances of breaking those laws he held so dearly.

  “I recovered the files from that company’s computers and deciphered most of the encrypted files. Then I realized I had several confidential files belonging to the government. The company is called Fensile Corporation and it is based in Ohio. I don’t know what to do with the information.” Now she could see the interest in his eyes.

  Lily watched him change from almost bored into nostril-flaring investigator. He demanded to see the files, and she isolated them for Jackson to read for himself while she took a tour of her apartment and made a pot of coffee.

  She checked on his progress and was not surprised to see his fingers flying over one of the keyboards. His cell phone was at his ear, and he was talking to someone who was too dumb to realize who he was talking to. Jackson was not a chatter. Until now Lily couldn’t understand the attraction that her mother felt for the quiet man. When he finally got cranky with the fool on the other end of the conversation, she smiled behind the door. “I said put Demetrious Miller on the line. No, do not put me on hold. Boy, if I have to take a plane to Washington to talk with him, your ass will be in the mail room. What is your name? Okay, Dillon, you have one minute before I call another number and good luck to you.” Jackson did not bother to wait the minute. He hung up the phone. Then he cranked his neck sideways to crack it and then to the other side to do the same thing. He took a deep breath and hit one button on the phone and waited.

  “Good afternoon, sir, this is Jackson…Yes, I am sure you remember me. I did not expect you to have my number still on your phone. Yes, sir, it is good to hear your voice, too.” Jackson listened and shared a laugh with the person on the other end of the phone. “Well, sir, I have stumbled over some information that is important to our national security. No, sir, actually the information was innocently gathered, and the woman that found it called me. Yes, sir, she is very trustworthy. She is actually my daughter. She is a computer-geek type and is doing some forensics for another company when she fell into the rabbit hole of information.”

  “The problem is that since I have retired Demetrious has changed his staff again, and the pit bull he has guarding his office and phone calls refuses to put him on the line. Since I am in Northern Illinois, and this looks important, I wanted to get the information to the proper authorities ASAP. Yes, sir. I would stake my life on the girl. Yes, sir, thank you, sir. Good to hear your voice, too.”

  Lily was choked up. Jackson had never told her that he felt that way about her. Jackson’s phone began to ring, but he didn’t answer it. Lily wiped her eyes and ran to the kitchen to get mugs of coffee for them then walked slowly with the hot cups back to her office.

  He looked up and smiled at her when she sat the mug next to his left hand. Then he went back to reading the monitor. When his phone rang again, he glanced at the caller ID and then turned to her. “I know you heard me, and it occurs to me that I have never told you that I am proud of you. I never had kids of my own, you know that, but I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect child than you were and are, Lily.” He cleared his throat and looked away for a few seconds. Lily didn’t need to know the entire story of his love for her mother, so he told her the story that her mother had asked him to recite. “When I met your mother the first time, you had not been born yet. Tina was eight months pregnant with you, and I was part of the detail that had to tell her that her husband had been killed in a helicopter crash.

  “You have no idea how it felt for me to finally meet the woman I had waited for and she was freshly widowed with a baby on the way. Then I was transferred to the West Coast to deal with a few problems, and the next time I saw Tina you were three years old and the sweetest little girl on this earth. As you know, we didn’t marry for a long time, and then I finally talked her into marrying me the Christmas before you turned five.”

  His phone sounded off again, and he picked it up this time and answered it. “Ah, Demetrious, nice of you to call.” He listened for a few minutes, grinning and lying back in the chair. He winked at Lily. “What did you expect me to do, my friend? Your secretary or whatever the dumbass is refused to put me through, of course I told him who I am.” Jackson set the phone down and put it on speaker. “Wait a minute, before you chew my ass, then, you can do what you need to do and I will hop a plane to Washington.”

  Once Jackson took control of the conversation, the other man listened and told him to sit tight, he was personally going to see this one through. By midnight there were five FBI agents at Lily’s door. Since they were her computers and livelihood and since Jackson was there to make sure everything went smoothly, she was invited to the party in her office. She refused flatly to allow them to take her servers and computers. She had client information stored, and her system was still working on three of those clients’ systems. The computer geek that was with the agents whistled and complimented her on the way she had her system set up. He worked with her to isolate and copy the government files and Fensile’s Corporation’s files.

  Chapter 4

  Lily watched the computer geek, Dunlop, like a hawk. She knew he tried to put a back door into her system, and she let him. He would be real happy when he got back to his office and tried to access her computers. She wouldn’t send him a virus to a government computer, but he would not be allowed to access her system either.

  He stiffened when he noticed the names of a few of her clients and looked at her with a new respect. Merrill wouldn’t hire some hacker to represent them. Neither would at least two other companies that he knew by name and reputation.

  It was well into the early morning hours by the time the FBI left her and Jackson alone. Lily changed a few passwords and then reset her security settings. She locked down her servers so it would take a supercomputer days to finally break her firewall.

  Jackson demanded that Lily come home with him to put her mother’s mind at ease. Lily still had to fix the back door that Dunlop thought he had put in her system so he could access the information on a few of her clients that some people in the government would love to get their hands on.

  Lily showed Jackson what would happen when Dunlop tried to access her hard drive
through his not-so-hard-to-find access code. Jackson leaned against the wall laughing hard when he saw a large ass painted with a pair of bright-red lips gaping open surrounding a brown asshole that was strangling a cartoon character’s neck with a large head and popping eyeballs screaming with the high-pitch scream of a woman. He watched it replay and laughed harder, with tears falling from his eyes. They laughed almost all the way to her parents’ home. When Tina noted the merriment in her husband’s and daughter’s eyes and asked what they were up to, Jackson Nelson, the upright, uptight man, fell into a fit of giggles. Tina was enchanted seeing the loves in her life finally acting like loving families do and began laughing with them, not having an idea about what they were laughing at.

  Jim and Joel were depressed. It had been six long months since the female, Lily, had left without a backward look or even a damn phone call. Joel had almost worn out his DVD player watching and rewatching the video of the at-times scantily clad woman. Her compact little body in those tight shorts and spaghetti-strapped tank top sent his imagination into overdrive. The bratwurst was replaced with Joel’s hard cock in his fantasies and her breasts featured prominently in his dreams. There wasn’t a spot on her body that he hadn’t fantasized about licking and kissing and fucking.

  Jim had his own copy of the video and his own fantasies, no matter if they did fall along the same lines as his twin’s. “I sent her flowers. I even sent her those chocolate-covered things that women love so damn much. I have called her twice and left my number. Short of going to her home and kidnapping her, I can’t think of any other way to get her back here where she belongs.”

  “There has to be a way to get her out of my mind. I wake up with her scent and go to sleep jacking off to her scent. It’s fucking annoying. How is it okay for her to stay away if she is our true mate? Shouldn’t she be in the same shape as we are? I even tossed that pillow into the closet and still she lingers in my mind.”

  Joel knew what his twin was saying. The sheet that Jim had given him with her scent was washed and left in the linen closet, yet he found himself daydreaming about her all of the time. If there was a cure for this ailment, he had never heard of it.

  He and Joel started walking the block away to get lunch at Doris’s Diner. Doris was having a slow day and was sitting at the counter with a cup of coffee, reading the local paper. Not much happened in this part of the country, but the weekly paper tried to fill as much space as possible with interesting tidbits of information. When Doris saw them enter, she smiled widely and walked over to get their orders when they sat in the window booth.

  Doris was an attractive fiftyish woman. In the twins’ younger years she had made a few pleasant memories with them. It had been a win-win situation for the people involved. The twins were all puffed up from tapping an older woman and the older woman enjoyed the flattering attentions of not one but two of the sexiest men in the county.

  Jim tried to cop a feel while Doris stood next to the booth. She swatted his hand while blushing becomingly. “That’s not your playground, young man.”

  Seven years ago Doris had married Oscar, the owner of the lumberyard. He was a big man with a big heart, and from the smile on her face most of the time, those were not the only things big on good old Oscar. She sashayed back to her kitchen to sear the steaks and slice the cherry pie that Joel had ordered with a wink.

  Joel was hungry and made no effort to use too many manners when Doris brought out those bloody, barely warm steaks. He cut himself a nice big chunk of meat and savored the flavors as they exploded over his taste buds. He groaned loudly, catching the attention of the cook. “Doris, I swear if you weren’t so attached to that big old boy Oscar, I would take you back to my place and keep you barefoot so you couldn’t get away again.”

  Jim began making choking noises and stood up. He tried to cough, and Joel could see that his twin was in need of help, so he got up and gave him a brotherly hug Heimlich-style and watched the wad of meat fly over the chair to land in Joel’s iced tea. Jim kept waving toward the window as he tried to catch his breath, and as soon as his airway was cleared he took off out the door like the hellhounds were after him.

  Joel looked at his steak with regret and tossed a fifty on the table for Doris then followed his twin. Jim was already inside his office by the time Joel noticed the little red Mustang. Wasn’t that the kind of car Jim told him Lily drove? No wonder Jim started acting like his house was on fire. There was a fire all right, just not a fire made of burning wood.

  When Joel entered the office, he had to laugh. Jim, the big bad wolf, was being lectured by the prettiest little female he had seen in…Hell, he hadn’t seen anyone as pretty as she was. Jim was trying to take her into his arms, and she was trying to push him back by shoving at his wide chest with both hands.

  “I told you I didn’t come here for that, you big oaf. I don’t care if you do smell terrific. You need to listen to me. I came across some information concerning your pack or clan or band of merry men, whatever you call yourselves.” Jim was not letting up. He leaned his head down for a kiss, and she stomped the top of his foot. “I told you I wasn’t here for that. Will you just listen to me for a few minutes? I can show you what I have.”

  He rubbed the top of his foot through his sneaker. Jim kept his eyes on her. She was here, and it didn’t matter to him if the entire world was about to come crashing down on his head. He was primed and ready to have her. “You can show me everything you have, darlin’, but first things first, look behind you.” He nodded in the direction of his twin, and when she glanced back, her mouth dropped open. Jim moved in while she was assimilating the truth that there were actually two of them. Jim hauled her up into his thickly muscled arms until her feet were off the floor and his lips were attached to her neck.

  Danny Morgan came into the office from the back, and Jim growled in warning to the male. The young man looked up and saw the twin Alphas looking and acting in an aggressive manner toward him and turned back to where he had come. No way was he going to get his ass handed to him by either of those men, even if he had to take the coward’s way out. He was no fool.

  Joel smiled at the sight of Lily dangling in his brother’s arms. She looked good enough to eat and smelled delicious. He hadn’t realized that he was moving until he was plastered against her back with his hands cupping her full breasts. “Hi, I’m Joel,” he said as his hands worked the buttons on her blouse out of their holes and he pulled her bra down to access her hard nipples.

  Lily was being crushed between the behemoths and felt her body begin to ready itself to receive the male, or males if they had their way. During the drive over, she rationalized that this information was too important to send via internet or mail carrier. Her plan was to show Jim Logan the information that Fensile Corporation had gathered on the wolf populations of each state. The deliberate use of were blood that Fensile lost track of and the information on where and how three were men had been captured was also in the files that she brought.

  She could barely think. Four hands were traveling over her body in her private spots, and she was just hanging there in between them like she was the meat and they were bread. She wanted to give in and let them have their way, and she wanted to cuff both of them upside their heads and force them to listen to her. First the information, and then she might give into the dreams she had been having, making them reality.

  This week her entire body was feeling itcy. She admitted to herself that if she got the chance, she planned to entice Jim Logan into having sex with her. Her body was driving her crazy with the need to fuck the man that left his scent embedded inside of her brain. Now that he was standing in front of her, the cream leaking from her pussy soaked her panties with just the sight of the man. Men, she corrected her overstimulated brain. Remember? There are two of them. Both men smelled divine.

  Lily had to take a step back and clear her head before she started to rip the shirts off of the men. There was nowhere for her to go the way they had her pinned betw
een them. Calm down, girl, give the information to them first. Screw your brains out afterwards.

  The information was important to every were person in every state, but how she was going to fight her way from the sensual fog they were inducing was beyond her capabilities at the moment. The scent of these men was driving her senses into overdrive.

  Jim heard a car door slamming and high-pitched children’s voices gradually pulled the trio apart. All three were breathing heavily.

  Jim knew he was in no shape to deal with a family complete with the large, hairy, mixed-breed dog jumping from the minivan’s sliding door. He pulled Lily through the rear entrance of the office and shouted for Danny until the young man showed his speckled face. “We have incoming, and they have a dog. Make sure they know the rules about the dog and put them close to the office, maybe in cabin four. It has three bedrooms and plenty of extras for a family.”

  Jim kept his hold on Lily’s hand as he pulled her out of the back door. Joel was close behind them. She found herself tossed into the cab of a huge, tan-colored, double-cab Ram truck. Joel crowded her into the seat so she was between the men, but since the seat was roomy there was plenty of room for both of them if she sat on one hip. While Jim got inside the truck and started it up, Joel lifted her onto his lap and fastened the seatbelt around them. It was a very tight fit, and Lily was squashed, but Joel said nothing as he took her lips in a kiss that curled her toes and had her moaning for more by the time he came up for air.

  Lily’s blouse was still open, and her breasts still hanging over the top of her bra. Jim kept one eye on the road and one on those plump beauties. He stretched a hand over to take the tip of her right breast in his fingers and rolled the small bud between them. The truck hit a rough patch of road, and he tightened his fingers as they all bounced a little, and Lily’s whimper was music to his ears. He caught a glimpse of Joel’s hand disappearing under the hem of her short skirt and moaned.