Chapter 127

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[ALPHA DOMINIC’s Point of View]

My head felt like it was splitting in half.

Every time I closed my eyes, I could see my mother’s smiling face. And then the surroundings suddenly got dark. Shadows around her gathered and grabbed her violently, dragging her underneath the ground as she screamed in terror.

She was screaming for help. She was screaming my name.

I felt like dying. Dying from the inside and the outside. My wife prepared breakfast for me this morning and I felt awful that I couldn’t even touch it, let alone swallow it down my throat. My stomach had been feeling sick and I didn’t know if I could still recover from it. The nightmares, the guilt, the screams in my head—I was trying my best not to break in front of everyone. Especially not in front of Samantha. She was already devastated after she found out what happened to Mom and her, seeing me in agony would only make her feel more miserable than she already was.

While sitting on my swivel chair and staring at the huge window, I couldn’t help but clench my jaw in both rage and pain. I had to be strong. I had to know who did that horrifying thing to my mother and make them pay! I had to focus and make sure I didn’t miss even a small detail of the investigation. I had to know who did this or, goddess forbid, I would wreak havoc on anyone who had any connection to what really happened.

A few light knocks on the door distracted me from my thoughts, and I felt my Beta’s presence on the other side; perturbation filled his head, and I wondered what it was again. Liam had become a little restless since he delivered the terrifying news, and since then, I have hated that everyone couldn’t even look me in the eyes. I resented their perception of me as a wounded creature, unable to rationally process the disturbing things happening in Silver Crescent.

Everyone was questioning my capacity to rule at this level. They think after my failure to handle the Black Claws and losing ten elite Gamma soldiers in the forest, I wasn’t the Alpha they believed could protect them from those criminals.

The worst part was that they blamed my wife for everything. Olivia succeeded in convincing the council and the people that Samantha was responsible for bringing those bastards to destroy the pack. I should have banished her and Richard Bennett from the pack the day they stopped me from taking back Samantha in Silver Crescent. And now it was too late to rectify the situation.

But my eyes were open now to who truly cared for the pack and who didn’t.

“Get in.”

“Dominic.”

“How’s the investigation going, Liam?” I stood from my seat with a grave expression on my face. I unfastened the uppermost button of my shirt and exhaustedly loosened the collar. With slow steps, I walked away from my table and slipped my hand into the pocket of my pants. “Do you have a lead?”

Liam sighed heavily as he massaged the part between his eyes. I knew what that meant already. The hesitation in him made my chest tighten. It was suddenly so hard to breathe but I couldn’t let Liam see the panic in my eyes as he straightened his back and inhaled sharply.

I was starting to lose patience so I shot him a dark look. “What is it?” I snarled.

“I don’t know if this is true, Dominic. I have some leads from an anonymous source who sent me these photos. I am not sure if this will convince you, though. It was really hard to process when I saw these pictures.

“What are you even talking about?” I frowned at him and then took the folder from his hand.

That’s when I couldn’t believe what my eyes were seeing.

It was my mother talking to a woman with dark hair whose back was on the CCTV. But there was no mistake with this. My mind told me that a pin in her hair was very familiar, but my heart denied the thought. Her small frame, her clothes—

“Liam,” I uttered, confused and worried at what I was seeing. I stepped away from him and looked at the other photos. “There’s no way this can be true. We’re not sure yet if this is from a reliable source. Who the f*ck sent this to you? What if it’s a trap? Could it be someone who just wants to blackmail Samantha? We can’t be sure yet. Samantha can’t do this! She loves my mother like her real mother!”

“I am not saying Samantha did this, Dominic. But as I dig deeper into the investigation, it all points me to Samantha. Someone had witnessed her screaming and snarling at Lena in the waiting room at the pack manor. I heard it was about a diary or something. They told me Lena was so pale and looked terrified.”

“NO!” I panted as I propped my hands on the edge of my wooden desk. My razor-sharp teeth were bared in anger, fear, and denial. “This can’t be true!”

The photos were shot from the CCTV outside the eastern gates where the patrolmen found my mother dead.

I couldn’t breathe. I kicked my table and stepped away. I saw dark spots as I grabbed the photos and threw them away. My hands violently covered half of my face in shock and disbelief. But There was no way Samantha could do this to my mother. My mother loved her like she was her own, just like how Samantha loved her. There’s no way my wife could have done this. I couldn’t find any reason why she had to.

“How did you find these photos, Liam?” I asked, snarling with anger.

“It was on my table when I got there, Alpha,” he answered with a pale face. “Just like I said, it was sent anonymously. No one had seen someone enter my office but I found out my window was forcibly opened. Someone barged in and left that thing.”

That’s when my shoulders relaxed as I stared at the photos on the floor. There was a dark, anxious feeling in me that told me this couldn’t be my wife. There’s no way Samantha could kill my mother. She would never!”

“I have to go,” I said to Liam as I stepped over the photos and grabbed the jacket from a chair.

“Where are you going, Dominic?!” Liam grabbed me by the arm with fear in his eyes. “What are you going to do? We have to discuss this! We can’t let these photos go public! We have to find out who put these things on my table and make sure they don’t get them public! This is about Samantha and how we can save her from this someone who wants to destroy her completely!”

I wanted to go home. I was eager to hear directly from Samantha about really happened and if she had indeed visited my mother on the night of the incident. What were they talking about outside the gates!? Was the woman in the picture really her?!

A guttural snarl escaped from my throat when I decided that Liam was right.

We had to look for the source and destroy it.

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