Chapter 78

“He called me back. He wanted me to give evidence against Derrick. Only when I got here, he was already missing.”

“Because you reported him missing.” I tell him.

“Look, I know it looks suspicious, but I didn’t kill him,” Osiris says, and I can hear underlying anger in his tone.

“Wait, what evidence did you have to give against Derrick?”

“My father wanted him off the council. He found out about his true identity, who he used to be. I told my father to let it be and that I’d handle it. He refused. Said he had evidence Derrick and Thomas were dealing and trafficking women again with Alpha Lyle,” I stop in my tracks.

“Alpha Lyle? As in Cane’s father?” Osiris nods. I hold up a finger, trying to piece this puzzle together.

“Now I know you’re lying. Elena found the bank statements….”

“With my name on them, yeah.” Osiris digs in his back pocket. He produces his phone, unlocks it, and presses a few things on the screen. He then turns the phone around to show me. Supernatural council ID. “I was undercover and have been for three years, but I don’t work directly with the supernatural council; I work with the human government agencies. It’s why I have been gone so long.”

“So that is what you meant when you said I wasn’t the only one with friends in the council,” I exhale.

“Exactly,”

“Well, if you’re in the supernatural council, why do you hate Marco so much?” I ask him.

“Do you have any idea the links to the underworld he has? His brother was a crime boss, not just in the supernatural world but also in the human

up trouble, but that is part of the reason I started looking into Derrick. Derrick worked for him, but he used to be in the Winter Ridge pack before his father banished him for selling his own pack members. Only when he left did his father realize how much money he was bringing the pack and that his

“Winter Ridge pack?”

was killed by their mates. After Derrick left, his father almost declared bankruptcy, so he started dealing drugs for Floyd. When that wasn’t enough, he started selling the

Elena did mention briefly that Noleen recognized Derrick before she

happened to the women?” I ask

never caught. But I gather that they fled when they learned that the Alpha was planning to sell some of the children. From the evidence, I have seen those poor women were passed around the pack even by their mates, practically tortured. I guess one day they just

nod to him. “Our

like your father, different. I didn’t believe him. So I did some digging and found out Marco covered up that you killed your father. It wasn’t until I moved here that I got the full story of what happened to your mother, so I

and still thought I was Strigoi?”

why you did

you like me

were getting in the way of my investigation against Derrick. Both of you were constantly in the media, drawing

him. He

know

was you…. You sent Derrick

looking for Elena?” he asks, and

can multitask.” I growl at

investigating your father’s link to Derrick and came across Marco’s link to them. I then had someone make a copy of his swipe card and broke into his office. That is where I found the phone. I then sent the photos to Derrick. Hoping it would get you kicked out of

you’ve been all buddy-buddy with Thomas, Derrick, and Cane since

your friends close, your enemies closer,” Osiris

Because that would have meant you were my enemy,” he tells me as he checks the bathrooms. I check

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