Chapter 61
CARSON Jenny and I head straight to the Gamma’s house, which is only three houses away from Jenny’s parents. As we approach, I feel eyes on me which makes me stop. Jenny walked on ahead until she realized I stopped. She turned around and looked at me with a frown. “What’s wrong?” she asked, but I shook my head and looked around until my eyes landed on a house on the other side. Lynx came closer and growled. “Someone in there is watching us,” he growled. I said nothing but opened a mind link to Zain. “We are outside,” I muttered. “But we have a slight problem.” “What?” he asked, sounding more annoyed. “Someone in the house opposite is watching us,” I growled. “Send a guard over to them. Have them place the person in the cells for the time being. We can question what they know when we are done here.” Zain said nothing but closed the mind link. I looked back toward the house but moved aside when I heard the Gamma’s door open. I looked over my shoulder as a guard stepped out and walked over to the house. When he walked past, he gave me a bow. My eyes stayed on him until he got to the house. I watched as the person came to the door and the guard made them leave. We heard some yelling, but we were too far away to hear what was said. “What was all that about?” Jenny asked, while I turned and headed toward the house. “We couldn’t be too careful,” I said, stepping onto the porch and heading inside. “We don’t know who the gamma or your parents are in contact with. We need to know what they know and—” Jenny shrieked, while Lynx growled loudly in my head at the sight before us. The sight rendered me speechless. I stopped in my tracks when I looked ahead to find Zain standing in what would have been the lounge, but it wasn’t anything but. There, before us, was a whiteboard with photographs and papers everywhere. No one uttered a word. This must have been the place they all met when they planned everything. I moved toward Zain, who was holding papers. His face met mine, but my eyes were more on the photograph on the whiteboard—Leah. The picture didn’t look like it was from here. It looked like it was back where she used to live. “Leah,” Jenny whispered, but she hadn’t moved from where I left her. “What is all this?” I asked, with a slight growl escaping as I looked toward Zain. “Well, it seems to be the place where they met to plan the attack,” he muttered, stepping toward me and looking toward the whiteboard. “There is a map where the rogues can come through. Places which guards usually do a shift change, which is also on the board.” My eyes scanned over everything while he continued. “It seems Gamma Otto was in contact with the rogue in the video,” he growled. “There is also this.” Zain held something up to me, which made me look back and made me still when I spotted the writing. “That’s—” I said, but Zain thrust the book into my hand. “I know,” he muttered. “I looked through it. But there was nothing there to incriminate him or anything. I think he read his son’s journal over and over. You can tell with the wear and tear of the book, but it looks like he blamed us for his death. There are papers everywhere from council members where he asked for you to be removed as alpha of pack, and me as Beta.” I stared at the book but frowned. The old man lived in the past. That part was obvious. His son did what every gamma would have done and tried to save his alpha. Something that was supposed to be his job, but his son did a better job than he did. “It’s not our fault,” I muttered, looking at Zain. “We were far away and his son knew the risks when he took the role of being the Gamma.” Zain nodded, and his face softened. His eyes left mine and looked toward the lounge. “This is going to take forever to go through,” he said with a sigh and looked back at me. “We may have to take it all back to the office to figure out what he was doing. But there is one thing I found—the name of the rogue. Damon Grerty.” That name sounded familiar to me, but how? I looked at Zain, who wore the same expression as I did, but it was Jenny who spoke. “Isn’t that the alpha who killed his brother because he took his role?” she asked, which made me realize she knew who he was. I stared at her, which made Lynx come closer. “She’s right,” he muttered. “We had papa tell us in the office about him. He killed him in his sleep.” Ignoring Lynx for a moment, I looked toward Jenny. “I thought they killed him for what he did,” I asked, but she shook her head. “No, alpha.” Jenny stepped toward us while she continued. “The alpha was beside himself and didn’t want to lose another son,” she said. “So he placed his beta’s son as his next in line for the title and made his son rogue. No one knew or seen him since.” “How do you know about him?” Zain asked, which made me question her, too. “My father and the gamma went to that pack a few times in the past before you both were old enough to walk,” she said. “It was a trip that they took together.” Well, that explains how Otto knew him, but why would he be helping a gamma then? Lynx grunted but said nothing. I could feel his uncertainty over the entire ordeal, but it was hard to figure out where his head was. “What should we do now?” Zain asked, making me look back at him. “What do we do with all this?” My eyes moved from his and took in all the rooms. This had to come back to the pack house. We couldn’t leave it here. Jenny’s words from her parents echoed in my mind about the pack members. I didn’t want them to know this, not until we knew more. It would be an enormous blow to them to know one of their fellow pack members was behind all this. “We take it all back to the office,” I said, looking between them. “Everything.” They nodded. “I’ll contact Josh and Lucian with what we found here,” I muttered, making Jenny look at me with sadness flaring through her. “You can mind link Josh when we get back to the office to find out more, but I need to tell him and also find out about Leah.” Jenny nodded and turned around. Zain looked at me and sighed. “Shall it be us to do this?” he asked. “Or should I ask some guards?” “Gather everything up first,” I muttered, knowing some guards liked to gossip just as much as she-wolves do. “Once they are in piles, call a few to get them.” Zain nodded, but his eyes lingered on me for a moment before he sighed. “This is messed up,” he muttered. “All this because of Leah not being a wolf and a man’s madness over the death of his son. When will it end?” I said nothing, wondering what the hell was in store next for us. All I know is, that this whole mess was going to take us a day or two to rifle through, but there was a lingering question that made Lynx and I ponder over more. What will happen next? During all this, we kept our heads up but our mind was racing over what was happening with Leah. we wanted to be with her, more than ever now. “Mate!” Lynx whined. Ignoring him, I opened a mind link to Josh. “We found something,” I muttered and explained what we found, even though it may take us longer to know more, at least it is a start.