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Twilight is growling in my head as we listen to Deimos explain what happened while we were asleep. Het it all run through my mind as I eat my dinner, unsure of what to think of this revelation. Hearing Deimos say that he will resign if Alwin doesn’t apologize before Axelle shows up calms Twilight down. I believe I have found the answer to my own predicament–what to do if I find out that what I have figured out so far is the truth.
I ask Deimos and Leander what they found on the Alpha floor, and when Deimos says they discovered a lot of files from the original Alpha bloodline, Twilight perks up.
“We didn’t read any of it. It has to be cataloged and analyzed to determine if anything can be used during a trial, and that will take a few days. Once everything is cataloged, the process will go much faster because there will be a lot of Wolves and Lycans sifting through the information at the Palace. That will make it easier to determine what happened here,” Deimos answers.
I let my mind wander to all the information I have gathered, starting with Dad’s story about him and Mom. Mom had been living at Mystic Moon Pack until the King found her a new pack to live in. She had been the Daughter of an Alpha who had been stripped of his title, and his Son had taken over the pack after that. But something about it still didn’t make sense to me.
There was a reason Dad sent me to see Alpha Eros and Uncle Cameron–their archives are meticulously kept.
Even though my paternal GrandFather was an asshole, he had tracked every pack leadership since he turned sixteen, and Uncle Cameron continued that tradition. However, Uncle Cameron’s archive only made things more confusing.
According to one of the files, Maxwell’s Father had another Mate before his Mother, but she had died in childbirth. There was a mention of a baby named Juliette being born that day, but no one had ever seen the Pup. After years of waiting, Uncle Cameron wrote “deceased at birth” in the file–six years later.
In one of the files from Alpha Eros, I found a notation from his Father. Maxwell never had an Alpha ceremony after his Father was stripped of his title. The only reason I could think of for not holding an Alpha ceremony was the existence of another heir–someone with a stronger claim to the title than Maxwell. If Uncle Cameron’s file was even partially correct, then baby Juliette could be the rightful heir to Moon Stone Pack.
That brought me back to the same question I’ve had since discovering that both my parents are from an Alpha bloodline–which pack did Mom come from?
“Zalia,” Twilight calls out, pulling me from my thoughts, “Why did King Alwin accept Queen Axelle’s compromise? As King, he could have easily overruled her and changed protocol.”
I recall my classes in school to find the answer.
“Because the throne belongs to Axelle, not Alwin. He is only King in name, but his actions can put Axelle in a difficult position,” I answer her.
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“Does Alwin understand how much damage he could do to his Son by disobeying his Mate?” I ask as I look at Deimos. The entire room goes silent.
“Sounds like someone paid attention in class,” Leander responds.
Dad adds, “Both my Pups not only paid attention in class but also listened when I spoke about things I learned as an Alpha’s son.”
“He is aware of it, but I doubt it crossed his mind while you were asleep,” Deimos replies.
My team looks at me as if I am speaking a foreign language.
“Axelle is our Queen, and the throne belongs to her. She never wanted to become a Queen and had every intention of passing the throne to her baby Brother. Unfortunately, he died at sixteen after a year–long battle with cancer. Alwin can’t make any decisions without his Mate’s approval because he is only King in name,” I tell them.
Deimos and Leander both confirm what I have just said.
“What exactly will happen if they don’t realize their mistake before Axelle gets here?” Nyx asks, placing coffee in front of us.
“Then the Royal Family will lose their Royal Gamma, their future Royal Gamma, and me,” Leander answers as he hands Deimos and me a mug of coffee.
Nyx asks why they would lose him.
“Because Deimos has been my friend my whole life. After Eryx started training as the future Royal Beta, he also started ignoring me. Even though we have a decent relationship, Deimos and Liam are more of a family to me than my own family.
If something is wrong or bothering me, I will wake Deimos up in the middle of the night, and I know he will be there for me no matter what. The same goes for Liam. The only reason I would wake my Father or Brother in the middle of the night is for pack business–preferably only if someone gets close to the Palace. Other than that, they don’t want me to disturb them. Don’t get me wrong, I know they love me, but Eryx always has been and always will be the favorite,” Leander says.
“You woke Deimos when you couldn’t figure out where I was hiding, and Deimos woke Eryx because he wouldn’t react the same way to Deimos as he would have to you,” I say.
Deimos nods as Leander just stares at me.
“You were staring at me that night–where the hell were you hiding?” he asks.
Deimos tells him which tree I had been in that night.
“And every other night I visited the Palace,” I add.
“Okay, I know you said you wanted to wait until we were at the Palace to reveal how you got onto our floors without anyone seeing you. But will you tell us now? I’m really curious how you did it,” Leander
asks.
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I smile and ask Hestia to get the blueprint of the Palace, which causes a look of shock on Leander and Deimos‘ faces.
“Where did you get a blueprint of the Palace?” Deimos asks. “Those shouldn’t be accessible to anyone outside the Palace.”
Hestia explains where and how she found it. I wrap my arms around Deimos as he gets angry. I never asked Hestia how she found it, but knowing that Mavka is responsible for sharing it with the public has my blood boiling.
After we both calm down, I place the map in front of me and point out the line running across the entire blueprint.
“This is the corridor we used to get out of the Palace,” I say, pointing at the markings representing the corridor.
“It wasn’t difficult to figure out that all those lines were corridors. Someone who isn’t paying attention will never see where to access them, but if you know they’re there, you can find every entry point,” I explain, pointing to different access points on the blueprint.
Both males mutter, “Fuck,” when they realize how severe a security breach this is for the Palace.
Leander pulls his phone from his pocket at the same time as Deimos.
“I’ll call Axelle. You call one of the Head Warriors,” Deimos says to Leander.
A moment later, I hear Axelle answer her phone. When Deimos tells her how I managed to get to their floors, I hear her cussing and swearing.
“I will take care of this right away,” she says before disconnecting the call.
Even if Deimos had wanted to tell her about what Alwin did, she didn’t give him a chance. I know he wants Alwin and Ammon to figure it out themselves, but I believe a part of him wanted to throw it in her face that she couldn’t handle her Mate.
Leander walks back into the living room as he tells us that patrols inside and outside the Palace have been increased.
“Axelle called them in for a meeting. She didn’t sound too pleased–or at least that’s what I was told,” he
says.
He sits down in an armchair and asks Deimos if he has heard anything from Liam.
“Not yet, and I doubt he will take the risk as long as they are all still together. My best guess is that he will wait until he gets to his room,” Deimos answers.
“I know I would,” Twilight responds in my head.
Deimos
Right now, a part of me is still hoping that someone will figure out what Alwin did, but the more time
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passes, the smaller that part becomes. For a moment, I wanted to inform Axelle, but she hung up on me. I thought about calling back, but Goliath stopped me. He felt that it was time for Axelle to take some action where her Mate is concerned, and that the only way she would finally see that he has been trying to undermine her is by letting this play out.
“You don’t have to make a decision right now, but depending on how things go when she finds out, you can choose to stay on as the future Royal Gamma, or you can tell Ammon to go find another,” Goliath had said.
I knew he was right. I could make that decision later, but I would talk to Zalia about it first. I still don’t know what she found out during the competition, and I have no idea if that might bring any changes for the future. My first priority will always be my Mate; she will always come before anything else.
I know that if I resign, two Lycans will follow me: my Father and Leander. Neither one of them agrees with what Alwin gets away with, and I have seen Ammon and Eryx cover for him over and over again. As long as they keep doing that, he will never learn until it’s too late. Dad and I have been keeping track of his screw- ups over the past seven years, and even though they are all small breaches of protocol, they show a pattern. Alwin has trouble following rules when they are inconvenient for him.
Knowing that someone is looking into the blueprint of the Palace becoming public knowledge settles my mind a little. I may not agree with Alwin, but my first loyalty towards the Royal Family lies with Axelle, and she deserved to know that the blueprint is out there. Why or how Mavka released it, I don’t know. All I know is that this will have severe consequences for her, and I will not be there to bail her out.
It’s just after midnight when we all turn in for the night, and Zalia is fast asleep before she could even pull the sheet up. I wonder why she’s so exhausted. She slept in my arms for an hour or two, and now she’s off to dreamland while I’m wide awake. The moment I lay down next to her, she moves closer to my side, and when I wrap my arm around her, she manages to crawl onto my chest. I brush a strand of hair out of her face before I kiss the tip of her nose.
Apparently, she doesn’t like that because she scrunches her nose, and I can’t resist doing it again and again. Each time she scrunches her nose, Goliath snickers. “Okay, Buddy. Time to get some sleep,” I say to Goliath as I pull Zalia closer to my chest, and I hear him softly mumble that he doesn’t want to sleep. I know he will keep an eye on our Mate during the night, and after I wake up, he will go to sleep. But just as I get comfortable, my Father links me.
“I hope you’re still awake,” he says, and I know that if I don’t respond, he will back off, thinking I was about to fall asleep. However, my curiosity wins. I really want to know what happened on the Gamma floor, even though I could always ask Benjamin to show me the footage.
“Yeah, I’m still awake. Zalia is sleeping peacefully, so go ahead. What happened after we left?” I answer Dad, and for a moment, our mind–link is completely silent.
