Hundred and Fifty–Five
Isabella’s pov
I was on my way down stairs for breakfast the next day when my phone rang in my pocket.
Plucking the device from my pocket, I answered the call without bothering to check the ID.
“Isabella.” Antonio’s familiar voice invaded my ears from the other end, causing me to groan out. He was the last person I wanted to speak to this early in the day. I was in a bit of a good mood today after the night I had with Alexander in his office and I didn’t want anything to jeopardize it
“What is it?” I whisper–shouted as I stepped into a corner in the hallway to avoid being overhead.
“Hello to you too Isabella…”
“I don’t have time for your fake pleasantries, tell me what you want or I‘ Il hang up.” I said interrupting whatever he was going to say.
“I Wouldn’t do that if I were you. You still need me remember?” he chuckled darkly.
“Just tell me what you want.” I whispered, annoyed at his unnecessary stalling.
“Impatient aren’t we?” he said in a mocking tone that made my blood boil.
“Just tell me what you want.”
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“Change of plans, I want the document by tonight.” He said with a serious tone.
“What?” My eyes bugged out of their sockets in shock.
“You told me I had till three days.” My voice came out louder than I intended it to. I did a quick sweep of my surrounding with my eyes to make sure no one was around the vicinity. Satisfied that I was alone, I relaxed a bit but immediately tensed up again when I processed what Antonio had just told me.
“I can’t get it to you today, I’m still looking.” I said carefully this time.
“Well, that’s too damn bad for you Isabella, I need the document by tonight.”
“No, I can’t get it to you by tonight, I don’t even know where it is.” I shook my head even though I knew he couldn’t see me. There was absolutely no way I could get the documents today, I didn’t even know where it was. I only suspected it was in Alexander’s desk drawer which needed a key to open, a key I had not been able to find in Alexander’s office or our room. I even checked his room and came up with nothing.
“Do I have to remind you of the tape I have of your parents? Or have you suddenly lost interest? If you have then I’ll have no choice but to leak out the video to your entire pack. I’m sure they’d love that their Alpha was responsible for his wife’s parent’s death.
I stiffened at his words and swallowed. I wanted to call his bluff but then I remembered Antonio wasn’t exactly a man to bluff.
“Fine!” I gritted out, “I’ll get you the document by tonight, just don’t do anything stupid.”
I had never once in my life strongly felt like murdering someone as
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much as I wanted to murder Antonio that very moment.
“good girl.” He said and although I couldn’t see him, I could tell he was smiling.
“I’ll be expecting you then, 9pm at our usual spot. Good day Isabella.” He said and hung up.
“There’s our favorite Luna…” Caleb hooted as I entered the dinning hall, a tired weight on my shoulders. He had a bowl of cereals in front of him and beside the table was a box of it.
“I’m your only Luna.” I joked despite how antsy I was feeling. Antonio had managed to destroy my little bubble of happiness today with his ridiculous demands. I was beginning to regret ever hosting a pack party to begin with,I’d have been in the dark but at least I’d have been happy.
I needed to find the document soon or all hell would break loose.
“Well, I am currently seeing the Luna of another pack so…”
“Don’t you mean sleeping with?” I asked with raised brows, not surprised that he was bedding another man’s wife at this point. I was at a point where nothing really surprised, Antonio had made sure of that.
“my God Isabella, her husband is dead, what do you take me for?” He fake gasped
“A man–whore of course.” I said without hesitation as I took out a bottle of water from the fridge and took a seat across from him.
“You wound me as always.”
I rolled my eyes at him.
“Where are the others anyways?” I asked, only just realizing we were
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alone.
“in a meeting right now.” Caleb answered with a spoon full of cereal about to go into his mouth.
“Why aren’t you with them?”
“Because I’m hungry. Plus It’s not a meeting that concern me, I’m actually supposed to be on my way to the northern border. ” Caleb said.
“I see.” I said simply. This was the perfect time to go find the key but the only other person that I’d seen the key with was Blake and if he was in a meeting now maybe I could get it from his office and If couldn’t, well, I’d have to check Mason’s office but the possibility of mason having a key was unlikely but I still had to try.
“Excuse me for one moment will you,”
“Where are you going?“Caleb asked, “aren’t you going to eat breakfast?” he gestured at the table that was now only being arranged by a maid.
“I’ll be back, I just have to pee, real quick.” I said to Caleb and went all the way to Blake’s office.
I didn’t think it would be opened but when I turned the knob it opened
at once..
The scent of Blake hit me as the door creaked open.
looking both ways in the hall way, making sure nobody was coming, I stepped into his office and carefully closed it behind me.
His table was neatly arranged as always and from just a glance I could tell the key wasn’t on it.
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Making quick work, I rounded his Desk and opened the first drawer but it wouldn’t budge as it was locked.
What the hell was with these men and locking their desk drawers? I pondered, exasperated.
Begrudgingly, I tried the second drawer and it slid open without any hindrance.
Inside the drawer, was a bunch of keys laying on top of a few folders and documents. I plucked the key and checked for the wolf head key but found nothing.
I decided to check for the key of the top drawer, inserting every small key that fit the lock until one of them could open it.
A sigh of relief escaped my lips after I inserted the third tiny key and it clicked open.
“Finally” I cried in relief and pulled the drawer open by the knob.
Inside the drawer laid what looked like a bunch of different spare keys
Of course the second in command would have spare keys in case the Alpha misplaced his own.
Without thinking too much about it, I searched one by one until I finally found a similar key to the one I was looking for.
“Yes!” I whisper–shouted as I plucked the key from the drawer. It was a different color but it looked like the one Blake had used to open
Alexander’s drawer the other day.
I placed the keys in my pocket and quickly locked the drawer and placed the bunch of keys back in it’s proper place and walked out, closing the door behind me.
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“Looking for someone Luna?” a voice called behind me startling me. I turned around to find a guard. He bowed down as soon as I turned.
“Oh, yeah, Uh Mr Blake…” I saod quickly.
“Oh he’s not in the office right now, I think he’s in a meeting with the Alpha.”
“Oh alright, thanks. I’ll just see him there then.” I said. The guard nodded and stalked off to stand in front of Blake’s office.
I turned around and ran as fast I could out of there.
I held the Pine document in my hands later that day in Alexander’s office when he had gone out with Blake and Mason. The key had opened the drawer easily and I had taken it out. Relieved that I had finally found it. I left his office and hid the document till night time when I’d have time to go see Antonio.
Antonio had his hands in his pocket, perched up against a tree waiting for me.
His gaze swept over me when I got closer and his lips turned up into a
smirk.
“Well, well, I didn’t think you’d actually be able to make it Isabella.” He said in greeting as he straightened from the tree.
“Here.” I handed him the document, uninterested in his games.
He took the document from me and read the content of it and then glanced back at me with a proud expression on his face.
“You got it.” He said in a surprised tone.
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“Clearly,” I bit out. “Now show me the video.”
“Of course, I always keep my promises.” He said with a smirk.
With snake like movement, he took out the phone from his pocket and pressed a few buttons and handed the phone to me.
“You know, I’ve sent a few of my my spies to get this from Alexander but they always came back with nothing. Good job.”
Ignoring him, I pressed play on his screen and the video began to play. It started from the former video he had shown me before.
Isabella can’t find out about this. Alexander said in the video.
Blake appeared in the screen just then and suddenly the video went blank.
I tried playing the video again but it cut at the same point.
“What the hell this?” I asked with narrowed eyes and in an impatient
tone.
He let out a dark chuckle.
“oh dear stupid Isabella. There is no video. I lied to you. Isn’t it obvious?”
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