Chapter 172: The Investigator
[Alex’s P.O.V.]
I couldn’t believe that the Council of Elders had sent an investigator to my pack yesterday without prior approval from me.
When the investigator called Manel came to my pack, I was scared out of my wits. I thought that what I had planned with Emily had been exposed. But he simply told me that he was just conducting a routine investigation. He didn’t seem to be doing anything meaningful as he walked around my pack.
When I called over the Omega servants he had interviewed, they told me that he had asked them about Rose. It was a real relief. Maybe the arrogant, pretty boy Alpha of Sunset Pack had reported Rose’s disappearance to the Council of Elders, so they had sent someone to conduct a routine investigation into the pack she used to be with.
It had been more than four months since Rose’s disappearance but there had been no news about her.When I found out that Rose had cut herself off from Sunset Pack and their Alpha since he- or more accurately, the fake Alpha – had broken her heart, I was ecstatic and eagerly waited for Rose to come back to New Moon Pack, to come back to me because she had nowhere else to go. She would be a refugee after all, and where else could she go but to my pack?
But now she was completely missing, which puzzled me. In the end, I could only wait. I didn’t think that such a weak woman and orphan like Rose could survive the winter unscathed. The weather was getting colder by the day and there was no way she would be able to bear it alone out there. She would come to me. Of course, I would punish her severely the moment she stepped foot into my pack. This was the price she had to pay for abandoning me and choosing that gigolo.
“Alpha Alex, where is your father?”
As I was pacing in my private room, the investigator had somehow found me.
“Why are you looking for him?” asked I.
“Part of my investigation is related to him. Find a sealed meeting room and inform your father to wait for me there.”
“Who do you think you are? Don’t you know how to use the word ‘please’, especially when speaking to me?”
“Young man, watch your tone. You’re the one who should use the word ‘please’. I’m the special envoy of the Council of Elders and I’m also your Elder. You, on the other hand, are just a low-level Alpha. Now, tell Alpha Roger to wait for me in a meeting room!”
He spoke to me sternly which made my eyes turn black with anger. No one in the pack dared to speak to me like this. Just as I was about to bare my canine teeth, I decided to hold myself back. I wasn’t stupid. As he said, I didn’t want to offend the Council of Elders or their representatives. I would be the only one on the losing end.
Although I didn’t know what he wanted from my father, I had to oblige.
“Dad, where are you?”
“What’s the matter, Alex?”
“That d*mn investigator needs to see you. Go to the pack council room now.”
“What’s he looking for me for?”
“How the hell should I know? Just go!”
I hung up the phone before my father could answer. I didn’t want to have too much contact with him after he almost killed me the day Rose and the pretty boy left. Furthermore, he kept complaining about how he had given the race to me too early and how I had failed him. Who wouldn’t be frustrated by such words? If he was not my father, I would have killed him long ago.
A few minutes later, I arrived at the pack’s meeting room. Soon, Manel and my father arrived as well. There was also Elder Quinn who had been stationed at our pack by the council. It was obvious that he was summoned by my father.
“Why are you looking for me?” asked my father.
“Alpha Roger, I need you to tell me something about the war that massacred Southern Wilderness Pack eight years ago. You must be honest with me.”
“I don’t know what else to say. I’ve already been questioned by the Council of Elders eight years ago,” said my father as he casually sat on a chair and lit a cigar.
“Please put out the cigar, Alpha Roger. There are some unfinished matters that need to be dealt with, and you have to be honest with me!”
Manel’s sudden tone made my father almost lose his grip on the cigar, and I almost laughed. He had always been a coward who only knew how to act arrogantly.
“Alright, so what do you want to ask?”
“According to the records, you once stated that the reason for launching the war against Southern Wilderness Pack was because the deceased Alpha Austin sent people to assassinate you?”
When the investigator asked this question, I noticed that there was a slight change in my father’s expression but he quickly recomposed himself.
I was curious why the Elders Guild would send people to re-investigate this matter after eight years. And now I was starting to get a little nervous. After all, I still did not know the real reason my father had waged a war against Southern Wilderness Pack. He had never told me. But there was no doubt that he had always been lying about it.
Because in his long and absurd life, no one had ever tried to assassinate him.
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