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 him

fall out of?” he

idea it was sitting on the bed under all…this”

at it then shrugs. “Wait, here I will grab my laptop.” He tells me wandering off. I start

pack ownership papers, Axton’s pack. Only it isn’t just about his pack records on its own, Marco’s signature on the bottom ruling the death by challenge, yet when I pick up the envelope

him for a second. “What are you hiding,

of it. We aren’t investigating

enough to tell me even now I have marked him. He drops

it is a news clip. “Ah, just Alpha Cane’s story

which is nothing more than burned remains, and crumpled metal. It then goes on

Alpha Cane in the wreckage?” I ask Axton and he shakes his head, glancing at

a few years in an insane asylum, after his

sent him

he was never crazy. Rumor was Alpha Cane was going to out his father’s underground dealings, so to shut him up, his father had him

how did

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 the city until his father and brother passed.” Axton tells me. I nod

Elder Stiles and

and I look

I didn’t notice

“Notice what?”

father, but Stiles was already missing. None

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

we get back from moving the last of the stuff out.” I tell him. He sighs, and places the documents on the bedside drawer packing up the boxes when he picks up his box. I

box back to

wasn’t going to

but you’re angry I won’t tell you.” he calls out as I pick it up. I sit back on the bedside table now feeling like I’ve forced him to give to me. Since

him!” Lexa deadpans and I roll my eyes just

document. “I gave it

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

shouldn’t be Alpha,” he tells

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