The Pack's Weirdo : A Mystery to unveil
Chapter 45 - A closet full of skeletons?

Chapter 45: Chapter 45 - A closet full of skeletons?

I parked the car on the side and turned backwards. "Tell me what exactly happened". He pressed the bridge of his nose in irritation.

He opened the door and went out of the car; I also opened the door to go after him but found him already bending exactly to the level of my face. All the things that were swirling in my mind vanished, and all I could think about was his face which was inches away from mine. None of us said anything, for I don’t know how much time. We were constantly looking at each other, and slowly, his eyes shifted from my eyes to my nose and stopped at my lips. I was so nervous that I could hear my heart beating loudly and clearly.

"Shift..." I can see his lips moving, but my brain is unable to process any sound or visual. The only thing I knew was that if he came even an inch near me, the little distance between our lips would also vanish. He raised his hand and cupped my cheek... {Is he going to kiss me? Do I want that? Do I not want that?}.

"Aadhya..." he whispered, and his breath fanned my face. I tried to say something, but no words came out of my throat. The sides of his lips curved, and that cute dimple took my whole attention. "What are you doing?" I knew that he was saying something, but I could only see his lips moving. My brain was not processing anything. The only thing that I know is that even with beards, I can touch and point to the exact place of his dimple.

"Aadhya" he shouted suddenly, and I jumped on my seat. I would surely have bumped my head if it was not for the seat belt.

"Why are you shouting?" I whined.

"Because you are constantly caressing my beard for the last ten minutes" I suddenly realised that my hand was on his cheek, which I removed quickly after cursing myself in my mind.

"Why did you come here?" I couldn’t help but change the topic.

"Because I will drive from here, shift" I removed the seat belt and shifted to the next seat, but my question was still unanswered... I should not have cared about that stupid rogue when I spent some extremely mesmerising moment with an extremely handsome man, but sadly, I do care because I didn’t know when I killed him. Ryan sat on the driver’s seat and buckled the seat belt.

He looked at me and shook his head with a smile. "Aadhya," I hummed in response... {why is he looking extra handsome today?} ... I looked at his appearance closely, he was wearing a charcoal grey suit with a black shirt and grey tie while his hair was tied in a bun, but that’s how he was last day also then why is looking more handsome today... "Are you listening to me?" I came out of my trance by hearing his voice.

"What were you saying?" I asked him, and he chuckled.

"Seatbelt..." I quickly buckled the seatbelt and didn’t look at him this time... {I didn’t want to make a fool of myself again}

After a few minutes, he took a chocolate from his blazer’s pocket and extended it towards me. I took it without any question... {obviously, who will say no to chocolate. I was about to take a bite from my chocolate, but he suddenly started answering my question. "As soon as the rogue injected silver in your arm. You took your silver knife from your calf and beheaded him on the spot" he looked at me and smiled. "You can continue eating", I nodded, and he continued, "none of us was concerned about him or what happened that time. We all were focused on taking you to the hospital on time."

"If I would not have killed him, then we should surely have gotten some information from him," I said sadly and took another bite.

"When he injected silver in your body, he had signed his death warrant," he said in a matter-of-factly tone, and I couldn’t help but agree with him... {obviously, Ryan, king, gramma, matt... I don’t think he has even a single chance of surviving} ... "I also want to discuss something with you", I hummed because I was having a mouthful of chocolate. "Dee is going on a school trip for two days, so I don’t think you will be able to meet him this Sunday."

"Zhatsntfreryn, Ihventmthm......" I couldn’t stop myself from arguing, and he chuckled.

"Good kids never talk while eating," he said and ruffled my hair, and I glared at him while his eyes were trained on the road. I quickly gulped the chocolate, which is a pity because I always melt the chocolate on my tongue first and give the tastiest experience to my taste buds, but I really need to argue with him on this matter right now... {sorry, taste buds}

"That’s not fair, Ryan, I have not met him for so many days, and you are also not allowing me to meet him on weekdays. Is that why you were giving me chocolates so that I can’t argue with you in this matter?" I narrowed my eyes at him and took another bite.

"No, this one is for apologising for my morning behaviour," he said and took another chocolate from his blazer "this one is for coaxing you" I narrowed my eyes at him... {at least I can eat this one the way I like} ... "Fine, I will give you two more" he took more chocolates from his blazer. But I didn’t take any and looked outside the window. "Don’t act like this, Aadhya. I also wanted to meet dee. I promised him to take him amusement park this Sunday, but we need to respect the rules" I ignored him. "Don’t be silent. At least say something" I again ignored him. "How about we call him?" he suggested.

"He doesn’t have a cell phone" I can’t help but feel jealous of him. Why did he get to have a chance to meet Dee this last Sunday when I was in the hospital? I swear, if that stupid rogue was alive, I would have killed him again. Can’t he normally attack with knives, guns, claws, or in his wolf form? Why does that stupid use those scary injections?

"Yeah, but we can call in the hostel, and the warden can arrange a call with Dee," he said, and I huffed... {I should take whatever I am getting. Something is better than nothing}

"Fine", I finally turned towards him and took all the chocolates from him, "and for which mistake you were apologising before?"

"I should not have become mad in the hospital today. I behaved like a jerk. I should have understood that I can’t bound you to like me only because you are my mate" he looked at me and then ahead, "I believed that mates are bound to love each other and be with each other from the time they met, and it’s not my mistake. Everyone is raised to believe like this in the werewolf world, but it doesn’t mean that I will not respect your views."

"You are not thinking that something is wrong with you, are you?" I asked him because I really didn’t want him to think like that.

"Obviously not. I do believe in my ’drool worthy’ looks", he said with a smirk which made me laugh out loud.

"Wait, it means that you are not sorry about the punishment that you gave me in the morning," I asked him innocently, and he shook his head negatively.

"Rules are rules, and if you break the rule, then you have to face the consequences"... {jerk}

"You do know that rules are bound to be broken, don’t you?" he chuckled at my statement.

"I have a list of punishments. You can keep breaking the rules, and I will keep increasing your punishments," he said cockily.

"You know you are the rudest person on the earth."

"I know, I know" we reached the office, and he parked the car in the basement. "There are a few files on the back seat. Take them with you", he ordered and started talking with someone on call. I took the files, and we went towards the elevators. I was about to follow him inside the elevators, but I saw the person who had to change his hairstyle because of me, but he is not looking in good condition.

"Can I come in a few minutes?" I asked him. I didn’t expect him to accept this easily, but he didn’t say something stupid.

"Fine but be in my office after ten minutes and no stunts this time", he warned, and I gave him a toothy smile, and he chuckled. I went towards the guy who had two very deep gashes on his face, and his right arm was also covered in bandages. I can estimate the intensity of the attack that had given this kind of deep wound to a werewolf.

"Hi," he greeted me with a smile.

"Hi, I came to compliment you on your new hairstyle but got distracted by those wounds," I told him, and he smiled.

"Well, thanks for the compliment, and yeah, these wounds are really distracting. By the way, I forgot to ask for your name... it’s not like I need to ask that now. You have become quite famous, especially among werewolves."

"I wonder why," I said sarcastically, and he chuckled. "But how did you get that much injured, and why were your wounds not healing themselves?" I couldn’t help but ask.

"We were attacked with weapons which were covered in silver and wolfsbane. When they slashed our bodies, at first, our wounds didn’t heal themselves because of silver, and later when the doctor removed silver from our wounds, he found that those knives were laced with a high dosage of wolfsbane, which decreased our healing abilities for a few days. Now we are waiting for that wolfsbane to come out of our bodies completely, only after that can these wounds be healed faster..."... {that was a brilliant tactic} ... I can’t help but feel sorry for him.

"I just hope that next time I will get these types of wounds, I will be saving a good man and not a man like Mr. Wilson" this shocked me.

"You were serving Mr. Wilson?" he nodded.

"You know he is not the type of man I would like to work for, but duty is a duty, and we respect our alpha’s decision", he added and smiled. "I heard you were also in hospital. What happened, and are those bruises on your face because of that?" I need to talk to Ryan.

"Nothing serious. Werewolf training is triple hard for a human," I told him, and he nodded. "What’s your name, by the way?" I asked him.

"Duke"

"It’s good to talk with you, Duke, but I need to report to Alpha in five minutes now. We will talk later," I told him, and he nodded.

"Sure, bye, Aadhya" I ran into the elevators, and now my nerves are in a frenzy... {it’s clear now that those attacks on Mr. Wilson are not normal attacks. Whoever is attacking him knows that werewolves are guarding him, or he has not used silver and wolfsbane... but who can be that person? I don’t think this is the work of a werewolf because no werewolf would challenge the alpha king. Can it be the work of vampires? Or witches? But Ryan didn’t have control over the rogues.

Rogues became free of every type of werewolf’s hierarchy when they became rogues. Even alpha command also doesn’t affect them... {but Ryan is the alpha king} The door of the elevator opened with a ding sound, and I practically sprinted into Ryan’s office. I entered his office without knocking and found him talking with Garry about something. Gary gave me expressions of why-did-she-land-herself-in-trouble-? And Ryan’s expressions are of what happened-?

Before Garry could say anything about why I didn’t knock, Ryan beat him into it, "You again have questions, didn’t you?" he asked, and I nodded. "Have a seat, Garry. Her questions generally need a lot of explaining," he said and took his seat while Garry was astonished by Ryan’s calm demeanour.

"Our people were attacked at Wilson’s place" Ryan pressed the bridge of his nose.

"I am guessing you also know about the silver and wolfsbane then" I nodded and sat in front of him while Garry also came silently and took another chair that was next to mine.

"You were not planning to tell me this" it was not a question; it was just a statement that he didn’t contradict.

"This matter is not as easy as it looks, and although I don’t want you to know about this attack, I also know that you will find out about it eventually" I nodded.

"So, who is attacking him?"

"Not a human for sure.... but my concern is more about why he is being attacked. We asked him in the beginning if he knew who the attackers were, but he said that he had no clue."

"And you believe him?" I asked him, and he shook his head.

"No, he is hiding something. I have hired a few detectives to find every detail about him, but it is taking time. It seems like he surely has skeletons in his closet."

"And my view is his closet is completely filled with skeletons" A few creases appeared on Ryan’s forehead. "I doubt that he knew about werewolves."

"What rubbish", this is Garry’s reaction.

"No matter what the species is. Supernatural creatures never attack or even associate with humans unless they have something to do with them. Even the vampires hypnotise every human whose blood they take so they don’t remember them. Then why will someone attack Wilson so openly and that also with the weapons that no human can try to make," I stated the facts.

"Look, Aadhya" this time, it is Ryan. "I understand what you were trying to say, and I can’t say that I am also not thinking the same, but we can’t go and ask him what you know about werewolves until we are sure that he knows about us", he does have a point.

"We can’t let our warriors suffer because of an old man who is adamant about hiding something" I again tried to highlight my point.

"This case is not about that old man only. When supernatural creatures are also involved in it, they automatically involved me in this matter" {again... he does have a point.}

"What do we do now?" Garry shrugged, and Ryan was just blank.

"How about we talk to that lady again?" I suggested, and Gary cleared his throat while Ryan was stiff... {don’t tell me that again something happened that I don’t know about}

"Police found her dead in her cell after two days of her arrest."...