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I am not easily scared and when Jaylen’s Lycan was roaring in my face I didn’t blink, I was surprised about the way he treated Commander Morgan though. She didn’t seem to upset as she walked out of the office, she probably understands a lot more than I do and I wonder if she will join us when I am going to show them what I found so far.
Everyone looks at the screen as I show them what I have found so far, but I still haven’t found footage of Jo–Anna leaving the Gamma floor. I hear Midnight ask why Morgan isn’t with him and Mace tells me to inform the Idiot that he hurt his Mate, but I never expected to see Midnight curling up to a ball in the comer of the office. I keep going over the footage until see her walking out of the door on the Beta floor, but she is all by herself.
I turn the laptop around to show the others what I found and I hear Roan growl as Jo–Anna comes into view. “How did she get from the Gamma floor to the Beta floor without a camera picking her up?” Roan asks as he sits down in a chair in front of the desk, I tell him I have watched every piece of footage there is and I don’t have an answer to his question.
“Jaylen, have you ever played hide and seek as a Pup on the Gamma floor?” I ask as I walk towards him and I sit down in an armchair not far from him, giving him time to think about my question. We all hear a soft No coming from his mouth and I ask Casimir and Roar the same question, both of them giving me the same answer as Jaylen. “We would use the public Wing of the Palace, there are much more places to hide than in this Wing.” Casimir explains.
Something tells me that we are overlooking something but I can’t figure out what it is and as I walk back to the desk I ask Damon if there is a blueprint of the Palace I can access. He turns the laptop towards him and I realize that he is the only one with access to the blueprint, so not many people will know about any hidden places if they are there. I look at the blueprint of the Gamma floor, but I can’t find anything wrong
with it
I check the blueprint of every floor in the Royal Wing and again I come up empty. I ask Roan to talk me through their search pattern as I take another look at the blueprints, there has to be something I am missing and Roan tells me they started their search in Jo–Anna’s Quarters. “Why would you start your search there?” I ask Roan and I find out that Jo–Anna leaked an article to the news about her and Jaylen. They wanted to take her to see Damon, because they knew she had finally crossed the line.
He walks me through the rest of their day and how they found out that Dalton and Thora were missing. I ask him if there was a part of the Palace they didn’t search, but as I already suspected Roan is good at his job and he looks a little angry when he tells me that they checked every part of the Palace. “Sorry, but I had to ask. Most Alphas wouldn’t allow any one to search their floor, not even if bloody footprints lead to the door.” I say and with a smile Roan accepts my apology.
“Jo–Anna just got back.” I hear someone say over the mind–link and I see Midnight jump up, “Midnight, can I ask you something?” I ask before he can walk out of the office and as he turns towards him I ask him what he would advise someone in his situation. He tilts his head to the left as he thinks about it and I can tell when he finally understands why I asked him that questión.
He starts pacing the floor again as Tom and Roan go over their morning routine with Kieran and at moment later the door opens to reveal a female that is ressed rather inappropriate fora visit to the Palace. “What happened?” She asks as she grabs Jaylen’s arm and I keep watching her as Roan tells her that Dalton and Thora are missing. If I had blinked or looked away I wouldn’t have seen the small, short smug grin on her face and now I am really convinced that she had something to with it.
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“Where is their nanny?” Jo–Anna asks and Commander Amir asks her who their nanny is. Jaylen shakes his head as he tells Amir that Jo–Anna thought that Morgan was hired as a nanny for Dalton and Thora. Amir has trouble keeping a straight face as he ask Jo–Anna why she thought a Commander in the King’s Army was hired as a nanny and even though she says she made an honest mistake none of us believe her.
Jaylen is pacing up and down the office again, while Jo–Anna tries to grab his arm again and again. Roan steps in front of his Aunt and tells her to sit down, but she pushes him aside as she tells him that someone needs to calm down Jaylen. “Jo–Anna, sit down.” Damon says as he steps in front of her and for a moment I believe she will try to go against him as well, but she is smart enough to understand that she is better off doing what Damon said.
Morgan
We finally reach the bottom of the stairs when I hear over the mind–link that Jo–Anna has returned to the Palace, “Deacon, I need you to head back up. I want to know if those stairs actually end up on the King’s floor, if it does and we find Dalton and Thora I want to take them up there.” I tell him and Skylar is already heading back up those stairs to investigate.
I ask Emilio if he has any idea where this space might be, he looks around as he is pointing in different directions and he comes to the same conclusion I did. tell them that they need to be quiet and again I concentrate on my surroundings, not only do I hear two heartbeats I also sense them behind the wall I am looking at “Check that wall, they are behind that wall say as I point at the wall in front of me and I let my hands slide over the wall like I did before.
-We
are on the King’s floor, we are in the same room as on the Gamma floor.” I hear Deacon say through the mind–link and I hear Faith mumble Yes just before the wall starts moving. I am the first one that can take a look inside the room and there in the middle of the room I see Dalton and Thora on the floor, “Ace and Emilio. I want the two of you to carry them up to the King’s floor, you are not to leave them alone. Tristan, go to the infirmary and grab a Doctor. Make sure he or she understands they are not to say a word.” I say.
Faith, Chaya and Danica will stay with me as their Mates do as I say and we make our way back to the Gamma floor. I listen through the mind–link with Kieran to Jo–Anna keeps asking Jaylen to sit down, that everything will be fine and that she will be there for him. Amra is dramatically gagging in my head and I know it is time to put Jo–Anna back in her place, “Let’s go to Roan’s office and save Jaylen out of Jo–Anna’s clutches.” I say as I walk to the door.
I tell the Guards at the door that the others are still searching the rooms for cues and the four of us start walking down the stairs to see unit members walking around the Royal Wing, each of them greeting us as we pass them. Beck and Moura are outside Roan’s office and I decide to take a look at the meeting room again, taking Faith with me as Chaya informs the others about what we found.
As I suspected there is no way anyone could have heard Dalton or Thora if they had been awake, that room must be soundproof. There is no way anyone can enter that room from here and I wonder why the room even exists, I can’t seem to find a reason for it to be there. Beck and Moura look murderous when I return from the meeting room and I tell them to stand guard outside the door, I don’t want Jo–Anna to try
to escape.
Jaylen’s head snaps towards me the moment I step into the office and a moment later I am wrapped in his warmth, “I am so sorry for what I said, Princess. There is no excuse for it, even though I think you already thought of a few.” He says as he holds me in his arms and I let my arms glide up his chest to wrap them around his neck, pulling him towards me until our lips ouch.
I hear someone clearing their throat behind me and as turn my head towards the sound I see Jo–Anna standing there with her hands on her hips, “Can I help you with something?” I ask her and I can see anger
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flashing through her eyes, but it doesn’t impress me or Amra. I let myself slide down Jaylen’s body and everyone can hear him groan, I kinda did that on purpose.
After I turn around in his arms I lean against his chest as he pulls me closer and we can hear Jo–Anna’s Wolf growl as she sees me in Jaylen’s arms, “Where did you hide the Pups?” Jo–Anna growls at me and 1 can’t help myself as I start to laugh. Jo–Anna keeps asking me where I hid the Pups and after she has asked me for the umpteenth time I am fed up with it.
“Jo–Anna, why would I hide Dalton and Thora? They are Jaylen’s Pups and as Jaylen’s fated Mate I accept them as my own, that also goes for my Lycan, Amra.” I respond and now she is really pissed off. She starts cussing and swearing, yelling at me that I am lying and that I took the Pups. “Jaylen is mine, he is all mine and no one else will ever have him.” She growls, just before she lunges for me and Jaylen turns us both around as an unknown male grabs her by the throat.
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