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Zora’s POV
“I wasn’t really rich. Added to that was the fact that Brighton wasn’t a very rich area. But my wife always preferred the pleasure that money brought, so we often fought regarding money. One day, my sister’s mate died. He gave her money, which made my sister return to stay with me. She brought her son. As for me, I just had my twins, Iris and Donald. Not long after that, Mikhail joined me. Then, my household had three children.” Alpha Jake told his story, which surprised me because it turned out that both Donald and Iris were twins.
Somehow, I always thought that Iris was Donald’s younger sister. After all, that woman looked very young to be his twin. It seemed that she had some good genetics.
“Oh, I thought that Iris was Donald’s younger sister?” Kara also asked what I had in mind, which made her interrupt both Alpha Jake and I
The man just smiled at her.
“Well, she does look young. When people think that she’s Donald’s sister. I just let that be. But they’re twins. Iris doesn’t like people to know that she’s that old either because she feels it would lessen her chances to get some good suitors. That’s why I let her lie about her age,” he confessed what I thought was useless information, but I let that pass.
“By the way, my sister spent lots of money on the three children we had in my house. Yet, she never gave my wife money as much as my wife wished whenever my wife asked her for money, which I felt was fine and a tad bit too kind of my sister. My wife eventually started to get mad about our financial difficulty and took it on me. It wasn’t that we were very poor. Rather, she compared me to all the rich Alphas from the west
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who made me feel poor. The moment Collier had problems with the leading Alpha from the west because the leading Alpha had grouped with the leading Alpha from the east to depose Collier of his lordship, Collier then struck and took over the west. Immediately, the east surrendered. Then, the east decided to kill the ones the leading Alpha from the east admitted for being responsible. But all of us realized that those people that were killed were just scapegoats. Still, the east agreed to pay the taxes. That made Collier let them be. However, the west was still taken because the leading Alpha of the west was the one who headed the attack All of us were then asked to surrender something. Since my sister had no mate anymore, she offered herself to go. But I didn’t know that my wife wanted to be taken too. My wife eventually told the warriors to take her too. When I tried to prevent her from going to the north, my wife coldly told me that she would prefer to be the Dark Lord’s concubine compared to be my Luna. Although it really hurt, I eventually released her.” Alpha Jake ended his story and I could hear how hurt he was from his cracked
voice.
However, I knew that was the reason why Alpha Jake could work on his duty without his mate. At the same time, I also realized that the war was the war that caused my parent’s demise, where Ramsey had killed both of them for warning Collier about what Ramsey did. Back then, Ramsey was the leading Alpha. Casey had made a promise that he would depose Ramsey as the leading Alpha from the east for my sake. It made me sigh because I recalled Casey, so I tried to take him out of my mind. Then, I fought my best to not cry as I comforted myself.
“Why didn’t you tell your twins that their mother left on her own wish? Thanks to that, the twins had lots of hatred for the Hand family,” I firmly confronted the man who immediately bowed his head in shame.
“Well, my wife was gone. Also, she would never return to us. I didn’t want to ruin the fact for them,” Alpha Jake told me, confessing his own excuse for keeping the truth away from his own twins.
“Did you know that Collier wished to return your wife back to you after
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your sister asked Collier to give your wife back to you?” I asked the man again, but he just shook his head.
“Well, the thing was that your sister was Collier’s favorite mistress. Some people might say that the Dark Lord cherished your sister. Then, your sister asked the Dark Lord to return your wife back. Eventually, your wife got upset and she went into a rampage because of her jealousy. Eventually, your wife killed your sister brutally. However, it pissed Collier so badly. That man ended up confining your wife in a dungeon before he had her killed for her crime,” I grimly told the Alpha about his wife’s fate, which caused his tears to quickly streamed down from his eyes to his face.
I realized that my investigation was going somewhere. However, I wished to confirm some things first with Alpha Jake before I told him my own reason for being here. So, I gave him a minute to let him regain his
composure.
Soon enough, I could see the anger he had from his eyes. However, I realized that his anger was directed towards his wife, instead of the Dark Lord at the time. Collier.
“Alpha Jake, I truly have my admiration for you. That’s why we are here. If the attackers hadn’t gotten help from inside your pack, it would be impossible for the rebellion’s conspirators would happen to know to strike your pack and manage to succeed. I already knew that those people had orders from the Northern Council, but why was your pack attacked? Why did they attack your pack out of all the packs that were existing in the east?” I asked again, but Alpha Jake couldn’t answer the question I gave him this time.
“I believed that your children were the one that gave you advice on not confronting Darius about the sudden attack on your pack. In fact, I was sure that it was Iris who had told you and assured you of it,” I continued telling the man who quickly nodded while he was looking at me with confusion.
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“Did she have any reason to do that?” I asked as I demanded answers from Alpha Jake, but the man looked very confused.
“Since I came back from the Brighton Pack, I did try to put the puzzle together,” I said to the man.
“The anger, the overall coldness, and the poisoning,” I slowly mentioned to him, causing him to exclaim.
“What do you mean by poisoning?” the man questioned in return.
“Alpha Jake, I was poisoned. Had I not returned back to the north the day I did. I might either have lost my life or miscarried my baby,” I firmly replied to his question, which prompted him to become anxious about it.
“I could remember that you were pursuing an Alpha suitor for your daughter. Iris,” I told the man who immediately nodded his head.
“By accident, did you ever try to offer her to Darius in the past?” I asked the man carefully, but he shook his head.
“Lady Nellie Hand threw a party. She invited all the daughters of the Alphas for Darius to be picked for his Luna. However, the young man didn’t choose any of the daughters as his Luna. Iris was also among the daughters. Darius did dance with her, but there weren’t any chemistry between the two of them. Nevertheless, my daughter didn’t accept it very well. Still, she already moved on from your mate a long time ago,” the man stated firmly, making me know that I was spot on.
Ever since Nellie had informed me about Jake’s wife and her scary behavior, I already thought that what happened to me in Brighton was poisoning.
“Alpha Jake, I would like to ask you to bring Iris for interrogation. I want your daughter to give me the reason why she did give me poison and the one who made her do it. There had to be something that caused her to deliberately hurt both Darius and I by aiding Brighton’s sudden attack to
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be a success and preventing you from opposing Darius. If we hadn’t come to Brighton, that would have worsened. In fact, you might have joined the uprising against my mate. Is my deduction correct?” I sharply asked the man who kept his silence.
“I want you to tell me the truth, Alpha Jake. You’re an esteemed visitor here, not a convict. In fact, I see you as a friend, Alpha. Please rest assured because I’m not trying to lure you into something,” I tried to assure Alpha Jake, which made the man nod hesitantly.
“Can I assure your loyalty to bring Iris here? I had already delayed her arrest and prevented my mate from going after it because I didn’t wish to give you any disrespect. Do you think that you can compensate for my goodwill with your faithfulness, Alpha?” I questioned him again, prompting Alpha Jake to take a deep breath before he sighed.
Alpha Jake’s eyes were teary as the man knew very well the involvement of what his daughter did.
“She doesn’t live in Brighton, Lady Zora. She couldn’t have worked with the perpetrators. Recently, she just came back permanently.” the man desperately explained it to me as he tried to show that his daughter didn’t have any reason to guide the perpetrators of the attack to succeed.
“Still, that doesn’t change the fact that Iris was there when I came to Brighton. She eventually gave me the poisoned food,” I firmly told him as I gazed at him sharply.
“Alpha, will you bring your daughter to me?” I asked him again.
“Please give your own word to me that my daughter will get a fair trial,” Alpha Jake asked me as he almost weeped, which I responded with a firm nod.
“I swear on my wolf form that your daughter will be freed if she’s found to be innocent,” I promised the Alpha who then nodded sadly.
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I had informed Alpha Jake about his wife so that he would realize that his daughter was just like his wife. Iris was envious, easily upsetted, possessive, and vengeful. If I was right, they wished to murder me that would force Darius to go to war with the west. It would give the west support to overthrow Darius‘ lordship. Obviously, there was no way that Iris wasn’t one of them.
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