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I am watching Gillean as I see his fingers moving over the keyboard and I let my mind wonder back to this morning. We had all slept in because we returned after he Full Moon and I kriew that Dad had joined Kieran, Dalton and Thora for breakfast, they would be at the office until Damon would arrive. I had joined Casimir on their floor for breakfast and that meant that no one knew if Dalton and Thora had left for school, there also had been lees Guards or duty because of the Full Moon. 

The door to my office slams open, but Gillean doesn’t react at all as a furious Jaylen walks in and it is plain to see that Morgan can barely calm him down. “WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?” Midnight roars and still Gillean keeps working on my laptop, but it seems to infuriate him even more. He stalks over to my desk, while Morgan tries to stop him from whatever lie wants to do. “Answer my fucking question.” Midnight demands. 

Gillean looks up at him as his fingers are still moving across the keyboard, “I have no idea, I just got here. Now, if you can leave me in peace for a while I will try to figure out what happened.” Gillean says and Morgan has to release her Alpha aura to put Midnight back in his place, but I never thought I would hear him 

say that. “They are my Pups, Morgan. This has nothing to do with you.” Midnight growls and even – though I know it is the panic for his Pups that makes him lash out, it makes me shiver. 

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Morgan stays quiet as she walks out the door and Midnight turns towards Gillean again, but he is focused on his work once more. Midnight is pacing the floor and I ask Smoke if he can tell how much control Midnight has at the moment. It takes him a few minutes before he can tell me that Midnight is in full control and I ask him why Midnight reacted that way towards Morgan, “He knew they were Mates before Jaylen did and he knew that she would accept Dalton and Thora, than why did he tell her it had nothing to do with her?” I ask. 

“Roan, can you ask everyone to me to your office?” Gillean asks. “I think I have a few answers and a few questions.” His eyes are still on the screen and his fingers are still flying over the keyboard. One after the other walks into my office and I keep my eyes on the door to see if Morgan is joining us, but Kieran tells me that she is in Damon’s office. He will leave the mind–link open for her to hear what Gillean found, Midnight hurt her with his words but she also understands him. 

Gillean turns my laptop around for us to see Jo–Anna sneaking into the Royal Wing and he keeps switching from camera to camera so we can see her entering the Gamma floor. Time keeps passing by on the footage, but Jo–Anna doesn’t come back out and I look at Dad in confusion. Kieran tells me that Morgan went to the Gamma floor to see if she can find anything and I see Gillean switch to cameras in a different part of the Palace. 

It is the door to the car park and Jo–Anna walks towards the door as if she belongs there and in a way she does belong there. Every Guard knows that she uses Dad’s SUV and that is how she could. get into the car park without anyone asking questions, but what stands out is that she is by herself. “I am still looking for any footage from the moment she entered the Gamma floor and arriving at the car park. She didn’t leave through the front door and unlike a Pack–house there is no Omega stairwell.” Gillean says as he turns the laptop around again. 

I can see Midnight and Jaylen arguing and I wonder who will be in control hen their discussion is over. It doesn’t surprise me that Midnight is still in control, but he is looking around the room as he asks where Morgan is. “I don’t know, Son. She closed our mind–link after Gillean said he was still looking, last thing I know is that she went to our floor to look for clues.” Kieran says and Midnight asks him why she didn’t stay 

with him. 

“Midnight, I know you and Jaylen are in a panic and no one is blaming either one of you. When Morgan 

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tried to stop you from grabbing the one person that knows everything about security measures, you made a very hurtful remark towards her. Morgan knows you didn’t mean to hurt her, but she doesn’t want to see you right now.” Kieran says and I can see confusion on Midnight’s face. 

“They are my Pups, Morgan. This has nothing to do with you. That is what you said to your fated Mate.” Gillean says 

with his eyes still glued to the screen and Midnight turns towards me for confirmation, I just nod my head because there is nothing else I can do. Midnight walks to the corner on the left side of the sitting area and he lowers himself to the floor, curling into a ball. The only other time I saw him do this was when his Grandmother died and I know that Morgan will be the only one to pull him out of it. 

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Amra and I know that Midnight didn’t mean to hurt us, that he was just lashing out because of the situation and that he will hate himself the moment he realizes what he said. “Camma floor.” I order when I hear Gillean say that she never left the Gamma floor the normal way and the moment Gillean says that he is still looking for other footage I close the mind–link with Kieran. I walk towards the stairs and my team follows me up the stairs, Tristan right beside me. The Guards outside the door step aside the moment we approach the door and I slowly open the door as I look at the floor. 

Emilio and Chaya slowly walk into the living room with Deacon and Skylar, Tristan and Ace stick with me as they promised Damon and I look around the kitchen to see that Thora’s mug and plate are still on the kitchen island. No signs of a fight or a struggle, meaning that Jo–Anna must have given Thora a sedative. and I wonder how Jo–Anna managed to get close enough to Thora. I don’t find anything in the kitchen and I slowly walk from room to room. 

Every room gets checked thoroughly before we move on to the next one and we make slow progress as we look everywhere for any clues Jo–Anna might have left behind, but so far we haven’t found anything that can help us. I open the door to Dalton’s room and I find the same thing I found in the kitchen, no signs of a fight or struggle. I see a towel on the floor and Tristan tells me that his shirt is still in the bathroom. 

I kneel down to grab the towel when I see something half hidden under his nightstand and I lower myself further to the floor to see a syringe, “Tristan, I need you to bag this.” I say as I get back up and I point at the syringe on the floor. Faith is holding open a bag as Tristan puts some gloves on to grab the syringe, I want to make sure we have every piece of evidence against Jo–Anna and I hope she will claim she had nothing to do with their disappearance. 

We just checked the last rooms on the Gamma floor but we didn’t find anything else, I lean against the wall as I look down the hallway and for a moment I just listen to the silence. My eyes fly open when I realize I hear more heartbeats than I should and I raise my hand to make everyone stop dead in their tracks, again. I listen to the sounds around me. I strain my hearing to find out where the sound is coming from and I realize it is coming from somewhere below me. 

“We need to check both rooms, there has to be a hidden passageway.” I say as I start knocking on the wall, Tristan and Ace walk into the room on my left and Deaton and Emilio walk into the room on my right.. “Found something.” Emilio says as he pops his head out of the door and I follow him into the walk–in closet, Deacon knocks on the side wall of the closet. “Feth, knock on the wall next to the bathroom.” I 

say and she confirms that the space behind the wall is hollow. 

I let my hand slide over the wall in the closet to find something to open a secret door with, suddenly I hear 

soft click and the wall slowly moves towards me. Deacon and I step back to allow the wall to open up completely and we both stare down a winding stairs, leading to the Goddess knows where. Tristan asks if we should warn Jaylen, but I tell him it will be best if Jo Anna doesn’t get tipped off. 

“If she comes back before we find Dalton and Thora I want to know what she does, I already alerted Amir to keep an eye out for Jo–Anna and to warn me the moment she gets back. If she heads to the Royal Wing I 

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will ask Kieran to leave the mind–link open again.” I say as I turn the flashlight on my phone on, I slowly walk down the stairs as I light the way down and I try to remember the lay–out of the ground floor of the Royal Wing. 

I stop walking for a moment and ask Emilio to turn his ight up, we can see that the stairs also leads up to the Beta floor. A moment later Skylar tells me through the mind–link that it looks like it leads all the way 

up to 

the King’s floor and I ask myself if she could have left the Royal Wing by exiting on the Beta floor or the King’s floor, where could these stairs lead us? 

1 picture the ground floor in my head as I remember the tour I got from Dalton and Thora, the living room and dining room were situated to the left and the kitchen to the right. The stairs were placed in the middle of the hall and behind the stairs are the offices that belong to King Damon and his Mate when she was still alive. There is a meeting room behind the kitchen, but it isn’t as big as the outer wall might suggest. 

I asked Jaylen about it but he didn’t have an answer for me, there hadn’t been any adjustments made to the Royal Wing in ages and according to Damon that meeting room had been there from the start. I think I figured out where we will end up with this hidden stairwell, but where did she hide Dalton and Thora and why didn’t anyone hear them. 

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