Page 57 of Wicked Games (Silvercrest U #1)
KILLIAN
The loud pounding at my door doesn’t wake me up, but that’s because Felix and I have been awake for a while now, and we just finished a rather athletic round of sex that has left us breathless and spent.
“Either cover your junk or be prepared to give us an eyeful because this shit can’t wait,” Jace shouts from the other side of my door a moment before it swings open.
I pull the sheets over us and roll off Felix.
“Your timing sucks,” Felix tells the twins as they rush into the room and practically throw themselves onto the bed with us.
“We actually waited for you to finish,” Jax tells us. “So you’re welcome.”
Felix sits up and arranges the sheets around his waist so he’s covered as I do the same. It’s nice to see some of his shyness is going away.
The twins don’t believe in boundaries, or they don’t understand them, so it’s good he’s getting used to it.
“What’s so important that you needed to bust into my room at ten in the morning?” I ask.
“I got my hands on Felix’s uncle’s computer last night.” Jace shoots me a smug smile.
That gets my attention. Last I heard, our dads wanted to have their teams go over it first and he’d get access before we headed back to school.
“What did you find?” Felix asks before I can.
“Pretty much everything I was looking for.” He leans back on his uninjured arm.
“He was damn good at covering his tracks when it came to corresponding with the people he contracted, but he’s just like every other megalomaniac who thinks they know how to hide things on a computer when he barely knows how to use the thing outside of Excel spreadsheets and word processing.
He didn’t just save everything, he had detailed notes about all of his plans for what he did to your father, his attempts to kill you and his father, and an entire manifesto about why he had to do it and how everyone else is collateral damage and he should have been the sole heir from the beginning.
” He shakes his head. “The guy was buckets of crazy, but thanks to his arrogance, we know who he was working with on campus, how he found them, how he paid them. Everything.”
“Who?” Felix and I ask together.
Jax grins. “You sound like owls.”
“It looks like the same person was behind the pool and the car,” Jace says, some of his good mood lifting. “One of the staff at King House. He was only hired on this year.”
“I need a name,” I say, my voice dark with anger.
“No need,” Jace says. “He’s been taken care of.”
“Taken care of?” Felix asks.
Jace drags his thumb over his throat in the universal sign for someone being killed. “He won’t be bothering anyone ever again.”
Jax pats my knee over the blanket. “We know you would have preferred to do this one yourself, but we figured it was best to get it done right away in case he got wind that his boss got offed and he tried to make a run for it.”
“Yeah, that’s smart,” I say grudgingly.
“What about the hacker?” Felix asks.
“Found him too. Turns out it’s a kid named Myles Henderson. He goes by the hacker name Phoenix.”
“Do we know him?” I ask.
Jax shakes his head. “His family is in tech, and his dad developed an AI screening system that got bought for billions about three years ago. His family went from barely comfortable to Richie Rich status overnight.”
“So he’s a first gen?” I ask. That’s what we call any students who are the first of their families to attend Silvercrest. There’s usually only a handful of them a year.
“Yup. And he’s a fucking freshman.” Jace shakes his head. “A freshman !”
“So he was working with this staffer from King House?” Felix asks.
“That’s where things get weird,” Jace says. “I don’t think he did the job willingly. I’m going to need time to really poke around in his system, but it looks like he was blackmailed into it.”
“So maybe you were right about him wanting to get caught?” I say to Jax.
“It’s looking like it. I’m going to tail him when we get back to school and keep an eye on him until Jace gets answers,” he tells me.
“He might not be a threat to Felix anymore, but he’s a threat in general, considering his skills.
He already knows how to bypass our security system.
It wouldn’t be hard for him to do it again.
We need to make sure he’s not going to share his skills with anyone else while we figure out what’s going on. ”
I nod. “That’s a good idea.”
“So it’s really over?” Felix asks the twins. “There’s no death pact with some crazy hitman who’ll finish the job or some distant relative he might have been working with who’ll just take over his plans?”
“Nope.” Jace grins.
“You’re in the clear,” Jax tells him with a smile.
Felix beams at us, and it feels like I can pull in a full breath for the first time since I found him on the floor of our bathroom all those weeks ago.
I never would have guessed that the stepbrother I couldn’t stand would turn out to be the only person I’ve ever loved. It might have taken us a while to get here, but now that I have him, I’m never letting him go.
And based on how he’s practically climbing into my lap to give me a big hug, he’s never letting me go either.