Chapter 30 – Zalia the Rejected Gamma

“Ammon would like that a lot.” I finally say after I have caught my breath. “He really likes your attitude and the fact that you lack a filter. The Palace has been a little more quiet since the meeting ended and everyone misses you around here. Oh, before I forget. How is

Slater doing?” I ask her.

She tells me she went to visit him, “Only to find out he found his Mate and neglected to tell his family, but with everything going on in his life who can blame him? Besides, Bellona is a very lovely girl and just looking at them tells you that they love one another a lot.” She answers.

I tell her I will inform the others at dinner about Slater and Bellona, that she will always be welcome at the Palace if she needs to and before I disconnect the call I wish her luck with the competition. I have just put my phone down when Sila walks in and I quickly tell her why Zalia called.

Sila grabs my arm and pulls me with her as she walks out of my room, she quickly makes her way down the hall to Alwin’s private office and after knocking she immediately walks in.

“Alwin, did you get a request from Alpha Brad?” She asks before she sits down in a chair and he tells us that he did get a request from Alpha Brad.

Zalia

I never knew an Alpha had to have permission from King Alwin to hand over the Pack to another heir and I think back on a conversation I heard between Alpha Brad and Luna Hester before I went to my first meeting. Donovan had just turned sixteen and it would be our first time attending the meeting, Alpha Brad didn’t take us along after Donovan turned fifteen.

He had told us he didn’t like the fact that most Alphas and Lunas used the meeting to hunt for a Mate for their Daughters, so he refused to take Elinor, Kali and Slater along until they asked if they could come along. They wanted to see for themselves if the stories we told them were true and after the first day of the meeting, Elinor had told me she regretted coming along.

But something had been bugging me during the entire meeting, the conversation I had heard between Alpha Brad and Luna Hester and no matter how I looked at the conversation it never made sense. It still doesn’t make sense, but at least now I understand that they feared someone would find out that they did something against the law.

I had only heard bits and pieces of the conversation between Luna Hester and Alpha Brad, I had heard them mention Donovan’s name and something about a relative of Alpha Brad that I didn’t know he had. Luna Hester had sighed in relief when Alpha Brad told her that the only person who could reveal the truth wouldn’t be attending the meeting that year.

Remembering the conversation and adding the information Asha gave me I now understand that they did something against the law, but I still don’t understand what it is they did or why Luna Hester was reluctant to take Donovan to his first meeting.

Maybe after the competition is over I should talk to Asha about this, she might be able to understand what could have happened or what they had been talking about. Right now I have to concentrate on the competition because tonight I will pay Amber Moon Pack a visit to take out their leadership and get a picture of their hint. A hint I need to find their reward and with the hint from Sundown Pack I will go to the palace to find both rewards in one night.

Tonight at eight the fourth day of the competition will start, I will take the fifth day of the competition off to rest and come up with a plan to retrieve the rewards from the hints. I will also use the day to ask Gaia’s brother to help me get a confession from Donovan, as a male he will probably be able to make Donovan confirm that he never intended for me to take over the position of Gamma and I know that the King will need it to approve Elinor to become the next Alpha of Moon Stone Pack.

Zalia

Kianda and Hestia keep me company during lunch and I tell them about my conversation with Asha, like me, they never knew that an Alpha needs permission to hand over the Alpha position to another than his firstborn. “Do you think that the King will approve Alpha Brad’s request?” Kianda asks, I explain my plan to the girls and both of them agree with me that Gaia’s brother will help me out.

I already know where to find my first reward, but I will not know where else inside the Palace I need to go to find the second reward until I have taken out the leadership of Amber Moon Pack. I just hope I will be able to sneak in and out of the Palace without getting caught, Leander will probably be on the lookout for the person that had been staring at him the other night and he might even ask Eryx and Deimos to help him out.

I wouldn’t put it past him, he probably doesn’t like the fact that he couldn’t find the source and I don’t think Eryx and Deimos appreciated the fact that he woke them up. They will probably want to know who it was that gave Leander the creeps and that means that I will have to be extra careful when I go to the Palace.

Maybe I will make it more interesting for myself and see if I can take something personal from Eryx and Deimos, maybe even something personal from Ammon or the King. I would like to see the look on their faces when they realize someone entered their private rooms, maybe I should tell Asha and Sila about it and have them place cameras inside their rooms.

Both of them would probably have a lot of fun knowing what I am up to, but Twilight tells me it will be much more fun if no one knows about it and to see if anyone can figure out who took their personal items. “Do you have any idea what you would like to take from their rooms?” Twilight asks me and I tell her I already have an idea on what to take, but that I need to see first where those items are.

“If it is too difficult to take those personal items I will have to think of something else, but we will make sure that we take something that is noticeable. If I take something without them noticing it is gone it won’t be as much fun.” I answer Twilight.

I sit on the front porch when Gaia and her brother approach and I decide to speed up my plan. “Just the person I needed, I need you to do me a favor.” I say as I look at Gaia’s Brother.

“Alpha Brad needs the King’s permission to hand over the Alpha position to Elinor, but I doubt Donovan will confess to the King that he never wanted me as his Gamma.

If we could get a taped confession in which Donovan admits that he never planned on taking me as his Gamma, it would suffice in front of the King. I would appreciate it even more if he would admit on tape that he was planning on asking Slater for the position that is rightfully mine. Do you think you can help me out with that?” I ask him and with a huge smile on his face, he nods his head. “You can count on me. I will get that confession for you.” He answers.

I take a power nap before dinner and when Nyx knocks on my door I am already awake. During dinner, Hestia tells me that night patrol encountered the leadership of Amber Moon Pack, but as stated in the rulebook they didn’t interfere and according to one of the warriors they had looked disappointed when they left our territory.

Dinner passes quickly as we talk and eat, I have a few moments left before I have to leave and I decide to check my backpack for its contents. I am not sure what I will find when I enter those bedrooms, but I make sure I come prepared and I know the girls hope that I will get a few good pictures.

The girls follow me towards the border of our territory, I will head towards Amber Moon Pack while they are going on border patrol. I still have a block up on my mind-link and I know the girls will provide me with an alibi if anyone asks them where I am, hopefully no one will figure out the truth until we have to meet at the palace again.

Like the other night, I shift into Twilight to get to Amber Moon Pack undetected and after we have reached their border I shift back to my Human form, looking around for a place to hide as I hear some Warriors talk. “Why is Luke waiting to attack the other leaderships? Moon Stone Pack has been taken out and so has Moon Storm Pack, if he keeps waiting, whoever took them out will come for Luke and his leadership.” One of them says.

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