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

it fall out

bed under all…this” I glance at the

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

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

watch him for a second.

it. We aren’t

me even now I have marked him. He drops it back in the box, then moves to sit on the bed with his

the screen to see it is a news clip. “Ah, just Alpha Cane’s story that was on the news,” Axton tells me about to pull

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 will take over the pack before Alpha Cane’s picture comes up on the screen. Only the picture seems off

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

the man is messed up. He spent a few years in an insane asylum, after his father

him crazy?”

father’s underground dealings, so to shut him up, his

how did

moved here and realized this is the city his family came to, I questioned his whereabouts. It seemed off, so I had Marco look into it. Marco got him out and Cane left to become a mechanic or something, he never returned to

Elder Stiles and Osiris?” I

Axton murmurs and I

I didn’t notice before is

“Notice what?”

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

father’s debt was

I tell him. He sighs, and 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 of me when he sighs. Suddenly

snoop later,” he growls walking the box back to the walk-in closet

going to snoop!” I tell

on

Lexa deadpans and I roll my eyes just

the document. “I gave it to

I remind him. He clicks his tongue and shakes his head when I feel embarrassment leak through the bond. He falls onto the bed opening it, grabbing some pictures out and dropping them in my lap. Picking them up he

shouldn’t be Alpha,” he tells

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