Chapter 160

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Aria

Ronan, Kade and Liam left for the capital this morning.

As frustrating as it was to know that I could not go with them, my irritation was quickly settled when Felix texted me a message that he had some information to give me.

After letting him do his thing with a list of names from one whole week. I finally have something to show for it.

Or at least I hope I do.

When I reach Felix and dex’s cabin, Felix is sitting on the sofa leaning over his computer.

“Find anything interesting?

Felix chuckles. “Did I ever.”

He sets aside his laptop and turns to face me.

“All right, so I’m not finished with every name yet, but I felt like there was something you needed to say.”

“ You have my attention.”

“Jack Griffith, are BlackRidge hotel guy, yeah so it turns out that not only does he have sypher blood in his lineage but He could heal incurable diseases.”

My mouth drops open. “ How is that possible?”

Felix gives a little shrug. “ I’m honestly not too sure but Laura has it that certain shifters manifested gifts beyond people’s wildest imaginations. And we see proof of those gifts everyday.”

“ But if he could do something like that, why would they kill him instead of taking him?”

“I thought about that too,” Felix says, rubbing a hand through his hair. “ What if they tried to convince him to join them and he refused.”

That would certainly ignite some anger.

It would also put them in a position where the male might know too much or they thought he ran the risk of joining the other side.

“ That’s definitely possible but then it only leaves me with more questions. Even if he did join them. What use will his skill be?

“ Maybe they wanted a way to ensure that they couldn’t die until they completed whatever their end goal is,” Felix said. “ But that is not all.”

I look at him waiting for him to continue as he sorts through a stack of papers.

“The next victim. Lindy Reed, she was half human. But her family came from a long line of empaths and when her wolf presented, it presented it with an incredibly rare and unique power. She could communicate with the full-blooded animals around her.”

“You’ve got to be joking.”

Felix’s eyes are bright with the Discovery. “ I’m not. I went through records of an old pack and there are even reports of her negotiating with the brown bears that live around there so they would stop attacking them when they were in their shifted wolf forms.”

Goddess.

That gift is incredible.

Was, I correct myself.

“What about her? What’s the theory for why she was targeted?

“This is where it starts to get weird,” Felix scrunches up his face. “Three months before she was killed there was a period where she went missing for two weeks. And the report here says that when she came back she was erratic and paranoid and kept on speaking about people who were waiting to take her or more accurately to take her blood. Naturally, everyone just assumed that she suffered some kind of trauma and was not out of her mind. But then she was finally dead in her apartment.”

“Do you think they tried and failed the first time?”

Felix settles more deeply into his seat. ‘“That would be my guess.”

“And what about her blood?

“Hmm,?”

“Her blood that she said the wanted. I haven’t did anything weird happen to it?”

“Based on the toxicology reports, everything looked typical for a violent animal attack.”

“It was the same with this third case. Denver Thompson. From the outside looking in the man was average. Average height. Average weight average in looks and average on the dominance scale. His family was also half shifters but what no one knew about him was that he had the ability to hit a range with his vocal cords that would put any shifter down on their knees.”

‘Like a dog whistle”

Sure, just imagine the dog whistle being a hundred times stronger.

I chew on my bottom lip thinking of the three stories I was just told. Two people with extraordinary or rare gifts.

To people that died because of those gifts.

And someone paying people to do it.

What the hell is going on?

At first, I could have sworn that this was some kind of law work plan. Stop our efforts from integrating our people with humans and now I don’t see how well it possibly can be.

The attacks and the people are too thought out.

“ At any rate,” Felix says, “It was a good call to make sure that Quinnie stays on packed territory.”

I nod absolutely.

“How long do you think it’ll take to get the information on the other five people?

“Depends on how deep their life is buried.”

“Do you think it’s worth it to keep digging?

“Honesty, yes. Whoever these people are, it’s clear that from planning this move for quite some time now. If you want to put ourselves on an even playing field we need as much accurate information as we can get.”

“Okay then. We keep going.”

“ It might also help if we had some backup.”

Ugh.

He doesn’t have to say her name. I know exactly who he’s thinking of and I’m ashamed that I was thinking of her too.

Hazel has a lot going on right now with her four infants and two toddlers running around.

The reality is though that we need her. We need that brain and that Mac for finding needles in a haystack. We all work better when we’re together.

“ Even if I did want to bring her in, how would we do it without the males noticing?”

“ Why don’t you want them to know?”

“ I don’t want to tell them what we’re doing until we have something concrete. Something that would be enough information for them to act. Otherwise it’s just going to get their hopes up for nothing.”

Felix smirks. “You mean that? Otherwise, you’re going to spend 90% of your time arguing with them just so you can do it.”

I blow out a frustrated breath. “That too.”

“I’ll help you figure it out.”

“ I’ll hold you to it.”

Leaving Felix’s den I head out to walk through the pack and check up on any of the elder elder members that might mean you help or just someone to talk to.

This is my favorite part of the day. The part when I get to connect with every individual on a personal level and I get to know who they are and what makes them tick.

It’s those small details that make the difference between a good Alpha and a great one and intend to be the best Luna possible.

It’s probably because I took these duties so seriously that I know when those in off smell coming from one of the den’s.

Who then belongs to Rosa elderly chef who recently lost her mates.

Her children have married into different packs so she’s spent the last 8 months relatively alone except for the visits I give her every other day.

As I walk past her den, I expect to be greeted with the soft fragrance of tiger lilies and pear and instead my nose is assaulted with something acidic, tangy, wrong.

A quickly joke up the stairs and knock on the door.

“Rose, “ knock, knock, “ Rose, it’s me, Aria.”

There is no answer so I try again.

And again.

Horrible possibilities start to cross my mind.

What if she fell. ?

What if she’s lying on the floor and can’t get a phone call for help?

“ I’m coming in.” I shout using my strength to kick the door until the loosens and breaks.

When I step inside the home my nose is immediately assaulted by the repugnant smells.

And there on the ground and lying in a pool of her own blood is Rosa.

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