The car ride was heavy with an awkward silence, and for a minute Sam wondered if she should try an icebreaker, or to try to talk to the new guard. She decided against it, because they were going to be living in the same home for a long time. Besides, the car ride could quickly get awkward, and she didn't want that for the thirty minute journey home. Back at the mansion, she asked one of the servants to show the new guard over to the servants' quarter. This was because the servants had a home to themselves in that wing, and the security guards lived there too. She also asked the maid to ensure that they brought her some food to eat, seeing as they had been on the way to the mansion during the regular lunch time.Before she was whisked away into the rooms, the guard looked pointedly at Sam and said, “thank you, Luna Sam.” Sam was stumped for quite a few seconds. She had known that by marrying Alpha Amal, she had gained a new social standing, but for whatever reason it had slipped her

When Alpha Amal's car drove off with Vivian and the guard, he unconsciously lulled me along with him to our room, where he had been attempting to solve this case the entire time. It was easy to forget since he wasn't a messy person, but h had notebooks and maps tucked away into one of his side drawers for easy access. Back in the room, he brought out the binder of books and maps and identified the oath from his parents' mansion to his. “Sam, this walk would take about 15 minutes of your time. Remember how when we were driving, it was about 5 minutes of a trip?”“Yeah, why? Do you think the kidnappers had a vehicle?”“No,” he explained, “I think that whoever paid them to deliver my mother did, and lived around there. Because why else would they notice two figures in the bush? And identify that they were strangers?I don't know. I just have a feeling.”Sam found herself nodding in agreement. “It would also have to be someone who had visited the mansion enough times to know the lay of t

Sam and Vivian were at the edge of their seats listening to Alpha Amal's father talk and explain his actions. Alpha Amal was doing a good job, they both had to admit. He had managed to make his father so uncomfortable that he had began to admit the entire thing. She was invested in what had happened, and he did not disappoint.The feed from the camera was crystal clear, and she listened as he began to talk. “This all started a few years ago. After you had become the Alpha. I had been playing poker with Elder Mark since we were much younger, but he had the position of being the pack treasurer, and since I had no post, I had no access to the amount of money he had. We were close as kids, because his family was next in line for the throne before you were born, and the leading families have always been close. Anyway, a few years ago, the bets got greater, and we would place bets on who would win specific things. We used to even play games to see who would win them. It got to a point at w

Sam and Vivian quickly copied the tapes and moved copies around. If Elder Mark had enough money to harm Alpha Amal's parents, then he could have been paying a member of the royal force to do the exact same thing. She wanted to make sure that regardless of whatever foul play was happening, there would be a copy. She made three of them and gave Vivian one, asking the guard to go and hide it weather she saw fit. While Vivian went to hide one of the copies she made her way to her mother in law and her grandmother in law in their suite and give them a copy of the video for safekeeping. She asked Alpha Amal's grandma to please watch over her daughter while she watched the video and also warned her that it was evidence, and she was leaving it with them so be careful of the Elder Mark. It was important that she dispersed the copies as far as the could go because no one knew what could happen, and she wanted to make sure that the truth came out for the people of the pack. It was personal for

The days quickly passed by, and now it was the day they had all been waiting for. As she thought, that day, Nora knocked at her door with a dress, and when Sam raised a confused brow at her, she explained that Eileen had sent over the dress herself.She wanted to call Paisley and gush over her dress, and maybe talk to the other woman about her partner, David ‘Zack’ O'Hare and marriage, but she quickly snapped out of it. She had bigger fish to fry that morning. Like the fact that they were about to expose the richest criminal in their pack. She and Alpha Amal had ensured that the neighboring pack had given them enough men to watch the mansion, the shed in the woods, and the borders of their town. This way, every single member would be allowed to attend the celebration, especially since it was compulsory. There were no prisoners in the dungeon, because all the previous offenders had been released, and the few ones left were so important to the investigation that they could not stay hid