Chapter Eighty Six
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“I doubt the culprit is from this pack, and assuming it had been a common member, then how exactly had he been able to get to the Alpha King and leave without being caught?”
“Is not a he?” the messenger said, and a smirk spread on Thane’s lips.
“So is a ‘she?” he questioned, though already suspecting the answer, the smirk on his face widened.
“Yes, she is a female; she had a darker shade of blonde hair.”
“Would you recognize this woman if you saw her?” Thane questioned.
“I had only had a single glance at her backside, but there is more… she has an injury to her arm; she didn’t get away as easily as she had planned.”
The messenger said, and for some reason, my mind travelled back to my mother; she had seemed a bit strange’since her return, and then… there was also an injury on her arm. I tried my best to look composed, also grateful that not a single eye was on me. I knew something was wrong when I went back to her room to discover she was gone; she had kept it a secret from me, and when I asked, she told me I would discover everything soon.
‘Remember, whatever I did… I did for us,‘ she said to me, cryptically, the question was what did she do?. She didn’t wanted me informing Thane that she was gone, and she had shooed me away just as quickly as I had come, leaving me wondering if this was all connected to her, but it couldn’t be possible; mom couldn’t do this. How would she leave this pack undetected and even get so close to the Alpha King, going as far as poisoning him and attempting murder?
The proof was there, but still it didn’t seem possible.
“She had arrived at the pack with the other workers sent from this pack and was gone just as fast,” the messenger spoke on.
“If she was able to go into your pack and poison the Alpha King, then she must be a very tactical one. I did not remember sending any of such for his service, and any injury left on her must have already been healed by now.”
“It had been a direct penetration with a,dagger made of pure silver,”
“I hear Slade is on his way?” Thane question
“Yes, he is; he would like to witness the death of the one who dared to attempt this,” the
throat. messenger said, and by now my heart was somewhere in my
I happen to suspect who this person might be and… I couldn’t let anything happen to her; the fact that she was injured was proof enough.
“Then a death he would witness,” Thane promised, his eyes darkened.
Once again I was reminded who Thane was; he might have let me in and allowed me to see
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other parts of him, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t the same man who had been willing to hurt me, the same man that gets turned on by the sight of blood. I swallowed.
There was a promise in his eyes, and I had to remember that Slade might be the Alpha King, but he was also his father, and anyone who had attempted this was also a threat to this pack, a rebel.
“How do you know that this ‘woman‘ is a part of this pack? She might have sneaked along,” I said to Thane with a shrug, trying my best to act unaffected.
We were both in our room now, and Thane had already organized some soldiers; they were going to trace the rebel out.
“I’ll have to be sure; I gave no order, and this woman hadn’t just gone against my father but against me. I will not spare.”
He says as he grabs his jacket.
“Thane, please be back quick,” I said to him, and his eyes trailed down my body and then back to my eyes; his gaze seemed to burn into me.
Whatever was going on between us, it was clear that his duty came first.
“I’ll only be back when I have a lead on who did this,” he says, and I nod.
I had lied to Beatrix; Thane never said he loved me; this was all one–sided, and times like this I get reminded that the only reason he was with me was because he found me ‘amusing‘ and ‘ special‘.
When Thane was gone, I got dressed too.
I needed to find answers, and I was going to get them.
