Chapter 65

The shuffling of papers wakes me from my slumber, the room dim, the only light coming from the lamp on Axton’s side of the bed. Rolling over, Axton has a stack of papers on the bed and scattered across his lap.

“What are you doing?’ I yawn while stretching.

“Pack documents, also looking over treaty agreements,” he tells me, yet his brows furrow in confusion.

“What is it?” I ask him.

“Elder Stiles from the Crident Pack.” He mumbles to himself and I sit up.

“The missing Elder?” I ask and he nods showing the paper. I take it glancing down at it.

“He signed a treaty agreement with my father’s pack?” Axton nods.

“Yes, expanding borders, appears your father was in debt to the council. That isn’t what I find strange though, or surprising, it’s that he signed his pack over to Osiris.” I glance at Axton and he holds up another document.

“But they were estranged?” I tell him.

“Exactly, it also shows here that Elder Stiles dropped the claim for your father’s land right here,” Axton points out.

“So?” I ask, trying to figure out what he is trying to stay. My father was the head council member. It is not uncommon for the council to sweep things under the rug to prevent it getting out.

“The date, he’d been reported missing three days earlier,”

“So it couldn’t have been Stiles,” I gasp.

“Exactly, but someone that had access to his portal.”

“Osiris,” I tell him and he scratches the back of his neck.

“But why would Osiris cut a deal with my father?” Axton shrugs.

“That’s what I want to know,” he says, grabbing another document from a box on the floor which I notice is his personal documents, the rest I can tell are from the council. I help him go through all the pack archives before Axton grabs the box, rummaging through it. Picking up the council documents, I find a USB fall out of the packages.

I ask

did it fall

on the bed under all…this” I glance at the mess

will grab my laptop.” He tells me wandering off. I start packing up the files we went through already and move his box to the floor when I notice the document

on its own, Marco’s signature on the bottom ruling the death by challenge, yet when I pick up the envelope under it; Axton suddenly

for a second. “What are you hiding, councilman

We aren’t investigating me but everyone else.”

I have marked him. He drops it back in the box,

“Ah, just Alpha Cane’s story that was

over and the news anchor explains there was a car crash not far from the city. It then shows photos of the wreckage which is nothing more than burned remains, and crumpled metal. It then goes on to question the pack’s future and who

in the wreckage?” I ask Axton and he shakes his

years in an insane asylum, after his father

that sent him crazy?”

was going to out his father’s underground dealings, so to shut him up, his father had him admitted.” Axton

did he

into it. Marco got him out and Cane left to become a mechanic or something, he never returned to the city

Elder Stiles

Axton murmurs and I

didn’t notice

“Notice what?”

was already missing. None of this makes sense.” he whispers the

know what your father’s debt was for?” he questions. I shake

places the documents on the bedside drawer packing up the boxes when he picks up his box. I look away busying myself with a stack in front

the box back to the walk-in

wasn’t going to snoop!”

calls out as I pick it up. I sit back on the bedside table

Lexa deadpans and I roll

growls, snatching the document. “I gave

the bond. He falls onto the bed opening it, grabbing some pictures out

shouldn’t be Alpha,”

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