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Leander and I follow Dad up to the Alpha floor, and we start looking at every room that isn’t used by the Alpha family. Most of them have a bare minimum of furniture, but that is it. We are about to move to the occupied rooms when Dad tells us to revisit every room and check for a hidden safe. We work our way back to the first room we started in, but cach room is just what you see when you walk in, and I doubt we will find anything in these rooms.

We search every closet and every drawer in the rooms. We check for loose floorboards throughout the rooms, and we even knock on every wall. Each room gets ticked off our list one by one, and soon we are back to the first room we checked. Leander starts checking the closet and drawers in the room. Dad and I check for loose floorboards and maybe a hiding spot in one of the walls, but we all come up empty.

As we walk out of the room, Goliath tells me to stop and look at the hallway a bit more carefully. I let my eyes move from one door to the next on both sides of the hallway. At first, I don’t see what Goliath might have meant, but when I move my eyes toward the last room across the hall from the room we just exited, I finally see what Goliath wanted me to see. Next to the room I am looking at is the door to the Omega stairwell, and that means that the other room should be bigger, but it isn’t.

I walk back into the room to see that there are bookshelves against the wall, but if my reasoning is correct, there shouldn’t be a wall right there. I grab a few books from a shelf to knock on the back.

“Fuck, there is something hidden behind these bookshelves,” Dad says, and soon each of us is checking the bookshelves for a hidden lever or at least something that will grant us access to whatever is hidden behind these bookshelves.

“Found it,” we all say at the same time, and we all look at one another in surprise. When Dad says “Now,” we all pull the lever, and all three bookshelves start to move toward us. As I step back, I realize that this room lacks the rug we have found in every other room so far, and looking at the bookshelf that onens toward me, I see small wheels underneath it, explaining why there isn’t a rug in this room.

Leander steps forward to see what is inside the small room. “Each is a space on its own. There is a light switch above our heads,” Leander states.

We all turn the lights on before we step back. The space Leander opened holds files on a few shelves, and it looks as if they were placed there to never be touched again. Dad grabs a file to blow the dust off it, and he turns it toward us to show us that it is the Alpha family file–files that should be in the Pack’s archive. Dad places it back on the stack he took it from before walking to the space that I opened. On the shelves in this space are a lot of journals, and when he opens the first journal, he shows us that it belongs to Alpha Brad.

The space Dad opened holds all kinds of research on a female named Juliette, but the research doesn’t make sense to any of us. She grew up in a small Pack north of Sundown Pack. She was raised by her Mother, but there is nothing mentioning her Father, and she disappeared when she turned eighteen. There are family files on Juliette, from the day she was born until the day she disappeared, and even the reports from day and night patrol are in there.

We just glanced through every file to see what they were about, but to make head or tail out of this, we need to read every file from start to finish. Dad tells us that everything will be cataloged and photographed before it will be taken to the Palace.

“Leander, get two Warriors in here. I want them to stand guard until we leave. I don’t want anyone to come near it. Even though I doubt anyone but Alpha Brad knows about these spaces, Dad orders

Once the Warriors are inside the room, Dad tells them not to touch anything and that no one is allowed:

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enter unless he is with them. We check Elinor’s room next, but we don’t find anything strange in there, and we quickly make our way to Donovan’s room. Again, we don’t find any hidden compartments or a safe, and everything else we find in there isn’t connected to our investigation, even though Leander found a positive pregnancy test in the bathroom.

“Looks like he didn’t learn anything from Gibson’s screw–up,” Leander says as he holds up the test, and we wonder who the female might be that is carrying his Pup.

The next room we check is the master bedroom, and it surprises me to find it so neat. After all, no one set foot in it since Dad and King Alwin arrived. The bed should have looked like the unmade beds in Donovan and Elinor’s rooms.

If I hadn’t known that Luna Hester had been on the Alpha floor, I would have said that no one slept in this room last night, but according to Zalia, she had been up here during the night, It isn’t until I open a door to the right of the bed and find a smaller room attached to the room–looks like they didn’t share a bed at night. The bed in this room is unmade, and there is even a light on in the room–a small light on the bedside table.

“Uhm, you might want to check this out,” I hear Leander say from what I thought was the walk–in closet, but it is another small room that smells like Alpha Brad, and now I am really confused. Why would both of them sleep in separate rooms? Why are there two rooms attached to the master bedroom? Damn it, instead of finding answers, I am finding more questions, and I am not liking this one bit. I know that Zalia is aware of a few things concerning herself, but I doubt she knows the entire story.

I had hoped that this search of the Alpha floor would give me a few answers. I had hoped I would have more answers for Zalia and that I could tell her a bit more about the suspicions she has about Alpha Brad. Looks like we will have to wait until everything is sorted out and read before we might find answers–or maybe, if we are lucky, we will get them during the trial. I think our mystery guest will get a trial of his own, but I can’t be too sure about that.

Besides the two bedrooms connected to the master bedroom, we find nothing strange, and Dad tells us we are heading back to the Gamma floor. We have just descended the stairs to the landing of the Beta floor when Elinor opens the door.

“Can we go back to our own floor now?” she asks, but Dad tells her that the Alpha floor is still off–limits to anyone and that she will be informed when she can head back up there.

“Why is Zalia accusing my Father and my Brother?” Elinor asks when we turn our backs on her.

“She didn’t, but I did,” answers King Alwin. “There is enough evidence to support the accusation, but we haven’t been able to answer the question why they wanted to forcefully mark Zalia.”

Elinor shakes her head as if she doesn’t believe a word King Alwin just said. “Dad made sure we were all raised to respect the Mate–bond. He would never ask Donovan to forcefully mark Zalia. I might understand if it meant that Donovan would gain something–not that I would condone it. I am just saying that that would make this easier to understand” Elinor says as she looks at each of us, but our faces don’t give her an answer to her question.

After she has closed the door to the Beta floor, we follow King Alwin back into the living room on the Gamma floor, and I find my Mate on the couch with Asha.

“That Mate of yours is annoying as hell,” I hear Zalia say to Asha, and Leander asks her how she figures that.

“Just like Alwin, he hates it when he gets no answer to a question. He had the audacity to growl at me when I. told him it was best to wait until we got to the Palace,” she answers Leander, and then she tells all of us that Ammon wanted to know how she got into his room and onto their floor, but that it would be better to

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discuss that at the Palace. She crawls onto my lap the moment I sit down next to her, and I wrap my arms around her, pulling her close to my chest.

It only takes her a few seconds to fall asleep in my arms, and Dad looks at me before he turns to Benjamin.

“I need you to understand that what I am about to say doesn’t get repeated until we have more answers, Benjamin,” Dad says, and I see Benjamin looking at his Daughter.

“Then I suggest you keep your mouth shut, Royal Gamma Liam,” Benjamin says before he gets out of his seat and lifts Zalia from my lap.

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