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Chapter 116
Darius
We arrived at Jenny’s house, and I was surprised that no one was in sight. I had asked that the place be guarded, but it seemed no one was there.
“Did we not put guards to guard the place?” Marcel asked, and I wondered why he was asking me these questions.
“I will call Brian Wilson to find out why no one is here,” Raphael said, and we entered the building.
It was dark and dusty, and I did not think it was safe for pregnant women to inhale so much dust, but I knew Eloise and Zora were stubborn, most especially Eloise, who had been dying to leave the estate.
Kara found a switch and switched on the light, and the living room looked trashed.
Zora rushed to the door in the corridor and tried the lock, but it was locked. The door seemed to lead to the hallway that led to the rooms and probably her office.
She examined the lock, and I moved close to see what she was looking at while the others snooped around the anteroom and the living area.
“There are scratches on the wood,” She said, and I knew what it signified.
“Someone tried to get in forcefully but failed. Maybe there were guards, or the person ran off, but it seemed they did not have the time to break through discretely. I guess it was because people were guarding the place. If not, they could have smashed the door to get through.” She pointed out.
I touched the door to understand the type of wood it was made of, but
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immediately, I felt a familiar weakness that comes with silver.
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“Thick Oak. It would not have been easy even for a wolf because it has silver in it.” I said, feeling weak just by touching the door.
“Jenny wanted to keep people out,” Zora said, and I smiled.
“Do not overthink it, darling. She might have only been protecting herself. She lives alone, you know,” I said, and Zora smiled.
“We need to find a way in,” I said, trying to see how best to bring the door
down.
Zora took out two pins from her hair and smiled at me. I was amazed when I watched my mate pick the lock on the door.
“How did you know how to do this?” I asked, and she laughed.
“Casey and I used to…” She said and looked at me worriedly as if she had said something wrong.
I wondered why she would think that way when she rejected her fated for my sake. Casey paled in comparison to her fated.
“It’s okay, green eyes; he is a part of your past. You can speak his name,” I said, and she smiled.
“When I was seventeen, we were not supposed to be dating because I was under–aged; my aunt then used to lock the doors to prevent me from going out at night. Casey taught me how to quietly pick her lock when she was sleeping at night so we could hang out without her knowledge,” She said, laughing. I realised it was a happy memory for her.
“I have never asked you of your parents, Zora. Hope it isn’t a sensitive topic?” I asked her, and she shook her head.
“Not at all. My father used to be Casey’s father’s Delta. My parents were
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killed when they went on a trip. No one told me how it happened, but my elderly aunt raised me. She died a month before my wedding. She was my last relative,” She said. My heart broke because I could only imagine the trauma she went through when Casey betrayed her because he was her only family.
He was the only person that was related to her and hers alone. I could not speak because being alone was the worst thing ever.
She looked at me and smiled, and I plastered a smile on my face.
I looked into her green eyes, although she had been through horrible things, she still found a reason to smile and dared to open up to love and be loved.
knew then that breaking her heart would be an unforgivable sin
I vowed to ensure she would never regret loving me. I will try to be everything so she will never feel alone or feel like she is lacking.
“We are in,” She said and stood up, snapping me out of my deep thought, and I smiled.
We walked into the hallway, and it was dark, but my vision was better than most wolves.
Borrowing Cremin’s eyes, I could see clearly and found the light switch, which I turned on. There was a door down the hall; I suspected it was either the master bedroom or her office.
There were three doors in the corridor, and I moved to open them all. They were not locked, and I discovered they were rooms, leaving the door I had my eyes on from the onset, the one at the end of the corridor.
Zora tried the lock, and it was locked. She smiled at me and squatted to do her magic.
She opened the door, and it was Jenny’s office.
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Something peculiar about the office was that the window was covered with silver shields. She was trying to keep someone, or people out.
We began to search through her desk.
I saw a cabinet and reached for it.
There were many files in the cabinet, and I went through them and saw one labelled David Pavlishchev and the Hands.
I had always known she had a knack for keeping records, but this was a bit extreme.
I took it out, and it was just pictures of a man that looked very much like Abelardo, but he had the legendary blonde hair that westerners have.
I flipped through the files, saw photocopies of handwritten letters, and realised Jenny had photocopied the letters she had mailed and received.
The older generation stuck to the letter system and is still yet to change it.
They claimed it was imperative that the receiver knows the sender that sent it, hence why the handwriting is unique to everyone. The letter
carried the sender’s scent and seal.
I could see a Sage and white photocopied image of the Babanin’s seal on the paper indicating she or a Babanin wrote it.
I took out the file and went through it.
The dates were distinct. A letter to my mother caught my eye, so I read that first.
“Dear Nellie, I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to you as your friend and a council member. I want to give you a heads up on your husband’s wishes before he leaves for pilgrimage. He requested that your ancestral seat on the council be given to his son, David. I know you have requested the Balyaev seat be given to Abelardo, but this will not be so as
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the lord himself has given it to his son. Because you are his wife and the rightful heir to the seat, he can also give it out as he owns the seat by marriage. The Balyaevs are the original head of the council before Lawrence. It means David will head the council while Darius will be lord. I am giving you a heads–up so you will not be surprised when it happens.
Yours faithfully, Jenny Lawrence Babanin.” It read, and I was shocked at the discovery. Why would my father insult my mother this way? There were so many letters to be read, and I was motivated to go through them all.
I took out the following letter, and it was a letter my mother had written to Jenny.
“Dear Jenny, I am pained to my soul that Collier would do such a thing to me. Kindly let me know if there is a way to overturn this injustice. That seat is rightfully mine, and I want Abelardo to sit on it as head of the council. Please, I need your help. You know everything, and you know that bitch Alissa and everything she did to me. Please help me overturn this cruelty. Yours Nellie Balyaev Hand”
It read, and I went through Jenny’s scribbles.
Studying the scribbles, she was tracing David.
I wondered what she was tracing him for. Was it to do my father’s bidding or my mother’s bidding? According to the scribbles, David had moved from Grizlo to Haddad, then he moved to Wonderland and went to the west to live in Gad, after which she lost track of him. Why was he moving about so much?
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