Chapter 40.-1
Rhyson
“Is this Gideon?” Troy slid a photo across the table. It was blurry, but there was no mistaking the
face of the man who’d saved Nyx.
Fury had filled me with Victor’s words and had yet to abate. It was hours later, and Nyx and I were in Troy’s office with Kiana, who’d promised to explain everything.
“You’ve known that he’s a drug dealer, and you didn’t do anything about it?” I snarled.
“Gideon is more than just a drug dealer,” Kiana said, a note of anxiety in her voice. “It’s not easy for us to investigate things that happen within the rogue community, and we have been looking for him, but we were looking for someone by a different name. When he was part of Indigo Peak’s pack, he went by the name Jefferson.”
“Great. Get Indigo Peak’s alpha on the line. I have some questions for them.”
Kiana and Troy exchanged a look. “Indigo Peak has currently closed off communication with us. It’s been a month, but this is the information Finn sent us before he felt he had to close the doors,
so to speak.”
“All right, there’s something that you’re not telling me, and I want to know what the fuck it is right now.” The time for tiptoeing around the alphas here was done. I wanted my information, and I wanted to get off this mountain so I could kill Nyx’s father. The sooner the better.
Kiana took a deep breath. “The previous alpha of Indigo Peak was an older woman by the name of Claudine Frost. She’d been told a prophecy decades ago by a seer who claimed she would take all the magic of the mountain and be the queen. It’s a long story, and I won’t go into it, but one of the tools in her arsenal was a drug that she’d had created off the mountain and shipped in. That’s one of the reasons we know that some wolves have been able to contact others outside the mountain. The drug was made to grow the wolf into a monster and diminish cognitive capacity, making them susceptible to commands. She was, essentially, growing her own monster army.”
“What the fuck,” Nyx muttered. “Are you serious?”
“She was delusional,” Kiana admitted. “As, unfortunately, were many who served under her. It took us too long to realize what was happening, and we did stop it. She is dead, but several in her inner circle escaped. When we started hearing reports of the drug in the rogue community, we knew it had to be someone in her circle. Someone who’d tampered with the toxin to make it an addictive drug. It still triggered some of the wolves, morphing them, but only a small percentage. The rest were, well, what I suspected Victor turned into.”
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“Why is the new alpha operating behind closed doors?” Rhyson asked suspiciously.
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“Finn is a powerful wolf, and he’s Claudine’s son,” Kiana said carefully. “Unfortunately, he was also very close to Troy and me, and his pack was not responding well to our alliance. He’s closed the door to garner their trust.”
“And get the pack under control,” I finished. “Fine, but I feel like there’s more that you’re not telling
me.”
Troy cocked his head. “We’ve told you all that you need to know. You came here for information on your brother. The rest of this mountain is none of your concern.”
My anger grew, but I kept it in check. He wasn’t wrong, but I hated that. “What will happen when I kill Gideon? He has a pack. Maybe not a formal one, but there are wolves under his protection. What happens to them?”
“Someone will likely step in to take his place,” Kiana said simply. “The truth is that his second and third mostly likely work with him, so the cycle could continue. Because they are not taking an alpha role, there’s no need for a challenge. It’s probably why Gideon is still alive. No one can challenge him for the pack because it isn’t a pack. You can kill him, but that doesn’t mean you get the other wolves. It’s a difficult situation.”
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