Visit from Jaden -2
With my knowledge of the Black Rose Pack, I knew them to be adventurous and always seeking a worthy challenge. This Alpha seemed like he was seeing things for the first time in his life.
“You said this was crafted by the Red Bloom Pack? And it’s popular? Why haven’t I seen it before?” Jaden asked, referring to a spoon I’d had since I was five.
“It was gifted to me five years ago. Very brilliant design,” I said,
“There’s hope for art in this world,” he cheered, admiring an aesthetically pleasing plate.
Soon, I grew tired of showing off my plates and cutlery. If he wanted a tour, Sasha could do it. I had pending issues on my table.
It clicked in my head that Your Silver had attacked them recently, though I didn’t quite understand why. Jake seemed to be hiding something. Hunters weren’t important enough to be kidnapped by a fearsome warrior like Your Silver; he could have killed them if he wanted them dead. Jake’s report that mere hunters were taken only meant he needed them alive, not with Your Silver.
I cleared my throat. “Mr. Jaden.” He snapped his head toward me, dropping the knife he had been holding. “You don’t mind me calling you that, right?
“No, but Jaden will do,” he replied.
His simplicity impressed me, though it would be frightening if it were an act. Of course, I trusted him.
“Your Silver is only known to free slaves. Why did he go after your hunters?”
His eyes dilated, and he looked down. Something was up.
“Apparently, he also targets omegas and hunters who aren’t happy with where they are. He turns them into rogues,” Jaden explained.
My face hardened. Your Silver took his hunters to be rogues? When did he start doing that? He could claim a lot of hunters and omegas, as many were unhappy in their current packs due to intimidation and abuse.
“Either that, or it has something to do with the Red Moon hunters that attacked years back,” Jaden added nonchalantly.
I snapped out of my overthinking and sighed in relief. “And why did he take those hunters?”
“Those hunters were warriors who fought him back then. I demoted them for their own safety, but he caught onto them,” Jaden
said.
“To kill them? That makes no sense. There must be something else he needs them for,” I said.
Jaden hummed thoughtfully but shrugged. “I’m investigating the families of those captured to find out. It could be related to Red Moon, as Your Silver saved Red Moon hunters that year. No results yet.”
I smiled. Jaden was easier to communicate with than Jake, so I asked again, “Could I be informed of the results of your investigation?”
“Sure. It might take a while, but I’ll let you know,” he replied simply
I nodded amiably and placed an old golden spoon my mother had been obsessed with in Jaden’s hands. “A souvenir from the kitchen.”
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Visit from Jaden -2
His eyes lit up, and he folded his fingers around it. “Thank you, I’d like to get more from the market. Can you take me there?” he asked, walking away.
I was exhausted from the tour. We hadn’t sat down for almost two hours, but I sucked it up.
As we moved toward the main hall, I spotted a figure resembling Jake climbing onto a horse. Wasn’t he supposed to be gone, or were my eyes deceiving me? The figure seemed to be holding my record book.
Jaden appeared in front of me then. “Alpha, is this palace designed th marble or bricks? I can’t quite tell.”
I was distracted and couldn’t see Jake anymore. Perhaps I had seen wrong, but if I hadn’t, something fishy was definitely going on.
