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

investigated him in my first year. However, nothing would stick until my boss pulled me from the case and said I was stirring 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

“Winter Ridge pack?”

almost declared bankruptcy, so he started dealing drugs for Floyd. When that wasn’t enough, he started selling the women who in

briefly that Noleen recognized Derrick before she died…. I just thought she was one of

what happened to the women?”

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

Khan tells me, and I nod to him. “Our

you too when I found out that you moved to this city; I warned my father away from you. He said you weren’t 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 don’t blame you. He

and still thought I was Strigoi?” I ask

said I understood why you did it doesn’t mean

why don’t you like me again?”

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

blackmailing me! I had no beef with him. He started it,” I tell him, and Osiris looks

didn’t know the full

widen. “It was you…. You sent Derrick the photos?” I

he asks, and I

I

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

buddy-buddy with Thomas, Derrick, and Cane

appearances, haven’t you heard the term? Keep your friends close, your enemies closer,” Osiris asks, and I glance at

enemy,” he tells me as he

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