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 and

did it fall out

under

grab my laptop.” He tells me wandering off. I start packing up the files we went

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

a second. “What are

We aren’t investigating me but everyone else.” he

offended that he still doesn’t trust me enough to tell me even now I have marked

USB in and I watch the screen to see it is a news clip. “Ah, just Alpha Cane’s story that was

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

in the wreckage?” I ask Axton and he shakes

in an insane asylum, after his father declared he wasn’t in position for

that sent him

Alpha Cane was going to out his father’s underground dealings, so to shut him up,

how did

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

back to Elder Stiles and Osiris?” I

murmurs and I look at

I didn’t notice before

“Notice what?”

father, but Stiles was already missing. None of this makes sense.” he whispers the last

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

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 look away busying myself with a stack in front of me when he sighs. Suddenly the yellow envelope drops next to me. I look at

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

going to snoop!” I

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

suddenly feel him!” Lexa deadpans and I roll my eyes just as

snatching the document. “I gave it to

He clicks his tongue and shakes his head when I feel embarrassment leak through the bond. He falls onto the

be Alpha,”

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