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"No, sleeping. You promised to help me go over the pack files," he tells me. I yawn again, unable to stay awake and he chuckles.
"Looks like I'm going over them myself." he quips, pressing his lips to my forehead, and he sighs.
Chapter Sixty-Five
The shuffling of papers wakes me from my slumber, the room dim, the only light coming from the lamp on Axton’s side of the bed. Rolling over, Axton has a stack of papers on the bed and scattered across his lap.
“What are you doing?’ I yawn while stretching.
“Pack documents, also looking over treaty agreements,” he tells me, yet his brows furrow in confusion.
“What is it?” I ask him.
“Elder Stiles from the Crident Pack.” He mumbles to himself and I sit up.
“The missing Elder?” I ask and he nods, showing me the paper. I take it, glancing down at it.
“He signed a treaty agreement with my father’s pack?” Axton nods.
“Yes, expanding borders, appears your father was in debt to the council. That isn’t what I find strange though, or surprising, it's that he signed his pack over to Osiris.” I glance at Axton, and he holds up another document.
“But they were estranged?” I tell him.
“Exactly, it also shows here that Elder Stiles dropped the claim for your father’s land right here,” Axton points out.
“So?” I ask, trying to figure out what he is trying to say. My father was the head council member. It is not uncommon for the council to sweep things under the rug to prevent it getting out.
“The date, he’d been reported missing three days earlier,”
“So it couldn’t have been Stiles,” I gasp.
“Exactly, but someone that had access to his portal.”
“Osiris,” I tell him and he scratches the back of his neck.
“But why would Osiris cut a deal with my father?” Axton shrugs.
“That’s what I want to know,” he says, grabbing another document from a box on the floor which I notice is his personal documents, the rest I can tell are from the council. I help him go through all the pack archives before Axton grabs the box, rummaging through it. Picking up the council documents, I find a USB fall out of one of the packages.
“What’s this?” I ask him and he shrugs.
“Where did it fall out of?” he asks.
“No, idea it was sitting on the bed under all…this” I glance at the mess we made.
Axton takes it, looking at it then shrugs. “Wait here, I will grab my laptop.” He tells me wandering off. I start packing up the files we went through already and move his box to the floor when I notice the document on top.
Nightfall pack ownership papers, Axton’s pack. Only it isn’t just about his pack records on its own, Marco’s signature on the bottom ruling the death by challenge, yet when I pick up the envelope under it; Axton suddenly snatches it from my hand with a growl having come back into the room.
I watch him for a second. “What are you hiding, Councilman Axton?”
“Nothing, stay out of it. We aren’t investigating me but everyone else.” he snarls.
I press my lips in a line, offended that he still doesn’t trust me enough to tell me even now I have marked him. He drops it back in the box, then moves to sit on the bed with his laptop.
He plugs the USB in and I watch the screen to see it is a news clip. “Ah, just Alpha Cane’s story that was on the news,” Axton tells me about to pull it out.
I move stopping him, having not seen the news clip. Axton sighs passing it over and the news anchor explains there was a car crash not far from the city. It then shows photos of the wreckage which is nothing more than burned remains, and crumpled metal. It then goes on to question the pack's future and who will take over the pack before Alpha Cane’s picture comes up on the screen. Only the picture seems off to me when I realize why. He’s in a hospital gown.
