Chapter 63
Chapter 63
Caden’s POV
I’m seated at my desk in the office when the knockes.
“Come in,” I say, sitting up straight and pushing the file in front of me away in favor of another one.
The door opens, revealing Raphael and…myte mate’s family.
I bolt out of my seat and round my desk. “What happened?” I ask, speaking directly to my mate’s
father, Beta Isiah. I’m not trying to be pessimistic but what other reason will he have foring here if it
isn’t a terrible one? The grave look on his face wasn’t helping bring out my positive side. The fact that
his other daughter, Veronica is with him just helps solidify that this visit isn’t a friendly one. Something
has happened. Possibly something very bad…
“Alpha, I saw them at the boulders and they requested to speak with you. Said the matter is crucial.”
My heart sinks to my stomach at Raphael’s words.
“Thank you for escorting them here. I appreciate that,” Imend, walking closer to the trio. “I’ll take it
from here.”
Raphael nods and exits the room. My attention goes back to my guest. “What happened?” I echo,
anxious to know what may have urred. Hopefully, it’s something that can be fixed. Though, I highly
doubt that.. That face wasn’t the look of someone who has a problem that can be fixed. “Let’s have a
seat first.” I need to be sitting when I receive this news.
I go back to my previous seat and set my a s into it, watching as they do the same. Isiah is the first to
start talking and as soon as he starts, I wish he would stop talking.
“Last week, a rouge stumbled into our pack. Just as we were about to deal with him, he said he knew
something. Something about the rogue attack.”
It starts before I can stop it. That tiny ball of hope makes its way up to my chest, settling neatly into my
frozen heart. Then the questions arise. Could this be it? Could we finally find the person behind all
those deaths and years of sadness?
“What did he say?” My voice is even and level, hiding away any internal emotion. On the outside, it
may seem like I’m calm and collected but inside? I’m screaming and begging for us to finally get a lead.
I’m praying that this is the big break that we have been looking for. “Does he actually know something
or was he just looking for a way to bail himself.” It wouldn’t be the first time that it has happened and
sadly, I don’t think it will be thest.
“He gave us some clues. He gave us a title and some new leads.” He leans forward in his seat, his
arms resting on my desk as he lowers his voice. “He said it was orders from a beta of one of our
neighboring packs. That’s all the clue he gave us.”
A beta of a neighboring pack. It’s more clues than we have ever gotten or ever hoped to get. We have
just
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six surrounding packs so finding out who this John Doe is isn’t going to be all that difficult unless…
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“How are you sure that he isn’t stringing us and taking us along for a wide goose chase?” I’m trying to
be optimistic here but that doubt keeps creeping out from the back of my head, telling me that it’s never
this easy. That something is amiss and that I’m getting my hopes up just for everything to end in
another dead end.
“I made sure that he got his facts set straight and didn’t change his story. Tortured and starved him for
days and he still didn’t change or give us any leads to his story. He settles down in his seat. Im sure
he’s
telling the truth.”
It makes sense. It has to be someone in power doing these attacks. Someone who has enough
influence to get people to do his bidding.
My pulse fasten, adrenaline pumping through my veins. Then we have to find out who that b a s t a r d
is. I’m going to call on all the pack around us and arrange for meetings.”
His shoulders tense and his brows tighten. “You don’t expect us to just waltz in and use all the
betas of treason until one confesses.” Heughs humorously. “It will be a suicide mission.”
That’s why we’re going to observe them. I’m going to bring up topics about the rogue attacks and listen
to each pulse, breath, and heartbeat they take. My voice turns deadly low. “Anything out of the ordinary
and they’re going to have my ws wrapped around their neck.”
He smiles, a satisfied look on his face at my words. I know he shares the same sentiment.
That’s when I finally look over at Veronica. She’s watching us with weary eyes. “You guys shouldn’t do
anything dangerous.”
Her father looks over at her, his face softening. The same look that I’ve seen him give to my mate
several times. “I’m doing this for your sister,” he says, cing a hand on her shoulder and giving her a
soft squeeze.
“You will have to stay here for some time. You can’t be making the distance from your pack to mine
every day.” He deserves to be fight beside me when I find out who this person is. He deserves to watch
as I drain
the life out of them.
“I can’t leave Veronica all by herself at the pack house.” He looks at his only daughter with worry in his
eyes. “Ever since-
I cut him off. “Of course, she can stay here too. We have several avable rooms and it will be my
pleasure to house both of you for as long as this mission will take.”
He smiles, his hand dropping from Veronica’s shoulder. Then that smile wipes away like it was never
there.. “The rouge also told me something else before he…”
He didn’t need toplete his sentence for me to know what came next. He killed the b a s t a r d after
getting the information he needed, but that isn’t what matters now. “What did he say?” I ask anxiously.
“Each pack has a spy.