Even More Bad News

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"Weren't you informed not to call? The lines can be intercepted!" I whisper-yelled into the phone as soon as I was sure neither Aunt Julie nor Zoe could overhear.

"This one's fine, Sir. I made sure. And this is urgent." Jacob spoke in a hushed tone like he was afraid.

"Well?" I said expectantly, urging Jacob to resume.

"We were found. Some of our men work for your father and call him Alpha. I don't know how they found out." Jacob informed.

"Did they take Claire?" I asked expecting the worst.

"No. They tripped off an alarm I had planted around the area and I got a fifteen-minute headstart. I drugged Claire and took her before they could get us. They knew about the underground room." He told.

"Where are you now?"

"At the Shaw Safehouse. I cleaned up any evidence of the underground room being in use before we left. They won't know Claire was there." Jacob reassured me and then said, "But the bad news is, the cleanup team at Golden Eclipse didn't do as great of a job."

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