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Chapter 120
Zora
We completed the shower and exited the bathroom.
There were joggers in the wardrobe, so I opted to pair them with a white t–shirt. He wore the same, and we headed downstairs for dinner.
The amazing thing was that we all arrived in the dining room at the same time, with wet hair and in joggers. I wondered if the men planned this, but it didn’t matter.
We sat at the table and served the food to eat.
“It was disturbing what we found back there,” Eloise began, and everyone agreed.
“Did you see the bondage pictures? Jenny and her Lord were into some kinky shit,” Kara said, and we all laughed. I was glad our men did not
take offence.
“No joke, but she wore the Mistress title with a capital M,” Eloise said, and we laughed.
“Honestly, it is sad,” Kara said, and we were silent.
“I want to know how your mother could stand that woman,” I asked Darius, and he shrugged.
“Honestly, if I were in her shoes, I would have found a way to make her disappear,” Eloise said, and we all laughed.
“You do not know how often I wanted to make Samanta disappear. Cruz wasn’t worth it. If he were, I would have committed a crime,” She added,
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and Darius laughed.
“Honestly, my father wasn’t worth the trouble. Trust me. With all I found, my mother could have as well driven a blade into his heart, and no one would fault her. He was shitty like that,” Darius said, and I placed my hand on his thigh to rub gently.
“There are a lot of things we need to figure out quickly,” I said.
“It is clear Jenny was the target, but why did they kill her in this house and not hers?” I asked, and Eloise raised her hand as if we were in the classroom.
“Did you see her windows and the silver on her doors? They had to get her where she was less protected.” Eloise said, and we all laughed. Although I agreed with Eloise’s deduction, it did not make sense.
“It doesn’t still make sense. This is the Wolf Lord’s house. Nellie is the
Wolf lord’s mother and lady of the north. There would be guards here: they were supposed to guard her. The main reason for bringing her here to live was to hide her and protect her from Hardy and other enemies. It means this place was heavily guarded. Why would they attack and kill her in a heavily guarded place?” I asked, and as I asked the question, a scary truth dawned on me, one I dared not speak. I was silent immediately.
“I guess we will have to read her journal to understand her mind, and we can figure it out from there,” Kara said, and everyone agreed, but I could not speak a word because the thought that loomed in my mind was the most likely answer, but I had to discuss it with Darius in private just in case I am wrong. I did not want to say anything that would hurt the investigation and people’s reputations.
“One of the letters read that she gave my half–brother money. I wonder why she would go out of her way and give him money, then scare him to not show up in Wonderland by telling him I am looking for him when I did not even know of his existence,” Darius said, and he had a valid
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point.
“Your mother did ask her to help overturn your father’s plans. Maybe that was part of it.” Marcel said, and Darius shook his head.
“I had ascended as Lord by then. It can’t be because of that. I suspect it
has to do with something else,” He said, and I was equally confused about that part.
“What about her child? Did it die at birth? I wouldn’t put it past our fathers to do that just to hide their secrets. Mind you; people would know that she was unfaithful to her husband, which would have been detrimental to the Lord’s reputation. The fact that our fathers shared her meant the baby could have belonged to any of them. What if they killed that baby? It will be understandable why she lived a solitary life and was always sad all the time. She dared not speak of it because it would reflect on her character. If the world knew of her affair, she would lose the right to represent the Babanins on the council, which would make her irrelevant, and I doubt your father loved her enough to make her luna. He couldn’t even if he wanted to. The Belyaev bloodline is premium compared to her Lawrence arse. She would always play second fiddle, and I think she knew it,” Marcel said, and we were silent because what he
said was true. He had hit the nail on the head.
“We need to study her journals together starting tomorrow,” Darius said with strong determination, and I squeezed his thigh.
I planned on telling him my thoughts when we retired to the bedroom.
I hoped it wasn’t what I thought, but that was the only plausible explanation for what happened.
“I think we will still need to comb through that building,” Raphael said, and I knew he was right because we were not expecting to find all we found there. There was a possibility that there were things there.
“For someone that keeps records for the council, it is amazing that she
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doesn’t have a computer yet. All the letters were photocopied,” Eloise said, bringing something vital to our attention.
“I thought that too. It was quite odd. I know she is old school and all, but it was quite odd that there was nothing on her desk. Do you think someone might have stolen the computer if she had one?” Kara asked, and we all looked at ourselves because she had given a valid point.
There was a lot of shadiness and bad blood around her. She might have something on it that they want to protect from getting out. We needed to find out.
“If she had a computer, I doubt it was in that office. Didn’t you see the number of locks on the door and windows?” Raphael said, and Darius shook his head.
“The culprit might have stolen it before the murder. The office and passage were locked after the murder,” Darius said, making a very valid point, and it was plausible.
“There is a lot to uncover. I suggest we stay another day here and go through the documents we have taken. Afterwards, we should copy them onto a system by having a Brian scan them into a computer.” I said, and everyone agreed.
We finished up and decided to retire to our bedroom.
As soon as Darius and I entered the room. I decided to tell him what I was thinking about Jenny’s murder. I just prayed he would not take offence.
Darius took off his clothes, leaving his boxers on and lay on the bed facing up and resting his head on his hand. He looked to the side and smiled at me.
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