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.

this?” I ask him

did it fall

under all…this” I

off. I start packing up the files we went through already and

by challenge, yet when I pick up the envelope under it; Axton suddenly snatches it from

a second. “What are you hiding,

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

that he still doesn’t trust me enough to tell me even now I have marked him. He drops

I watch 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

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

Alpha Cane in the wreckage?” I ask Axton

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

that sent him crazy?”

father’s underground dealings, so to shut

how did he

look into it. Marco got him out and Cane

Stiles and

and I look

notice before

“Notice what?”

but Stiles was already missing. None of

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

files. tomorrow once 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 look away busying myself with a stack in front of me when he sighs. Suddenly the yellow envelope drops next

growls walking the box back

wasn’t going to snoop!”

on the bedside table now feeling like I’ve forced him to give to me. Since when did relationships

deadpans and I roll my eyes just

snatching the document. “I

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

be Alpha,” he

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