The Pack's Weirdo : A Mystery to unveil
Chapter 46 - Grey is not just a color

Chapter 46: Chapter 46 - Grey is not just a color

"And let me guess... they found nothing" Ryan nodded. "I really can’t take so much suspense in my life now" I am fed up with all this. My life was never normal, but from my last birthday, I feel like someone blew up a suspense bomb in my life... every step, every phase of my past life is a mystery to me, and now I am not willing to make my present a mystery too. I got up from my seat and looked at Garry. "Give me some work, Garry, or I will surely become insane."

"I also think that you should stay away from this matter," Ryan said to me and then looked at Garry. "Send me those files that I asked for, and I am guessing that there is no meeting today."

"Yes, alpha, but there is a lot of pack’s work piled up because of your absence from the last ten days"... {I didn’t know he was skipping the office for me}

"Fine, send all the pack-related files to my office. Aadhya, complete your work within three hours at most, then we have to go to the pack’s office," he told us, and after that, Garry and I both went to my cabin.

"You have become a good friend of Alpha.’’

"I also think so," I said to him with a smile.

"It’s good to know someone other than delta who can talk casually with alpha. Even Beta Ellon and Gamma Mia also talk with him only about the pack’s work."

"It’s not their mistake, though. Mia and Ellon are both sweethearts. Only alpha likes to behave like a jerk," he chuckled.

"So, you are friends with beta and gamma too," he again asked me, and I nodded.

"Actually, their mates are my childhood buddies, so your beta and gamma both didn’t have any other choice than to accept me as their friend.... but who is your delta? I have not met him till now," I asked him, and a smile came on his face.

"Oh, you have not met with delta jack... then you surely missed someone very important. He is the most cheerful person I have ever met in my life. He is not only the delta of our pack but also the best friend of alpha Ryan. We have heard many stories of their friendship; you can say that they both are more like brothers than friends," he said with a smile.

"Where is he? I actually have had my fair share of very important meetings with alpha, but I have never met him or even heard his name."

"He became a father a month ago, so he is on paternity leave. Alpha Ryan didn’t like to work without delta jack, but this time he couldn’t stop him from taking leave. Everyone knows the importance of finding their mates and starting their family with them. " I can clearly see the longing in his eyes.

"Why didn’t you attend the mate ball, Gary?" I asked him, and he gave me a sad smile.

"Alpha Benjamin needed my help in a very crucial case, so I needed to help him with that. But I am not regretting the decision. He is going to come back very soon from the blue moon pack, and after that, I will get the chance to explore different packs with him. He handles outside matters for alpha Ryan" he said with a smile and then extended a file towards me "now we should start working, or you would not be able to wind up all the work within three hours". I nodded, and with this, he explained the work to me, and I started doing the things.

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"I am going into dungeons. You want to accompany me?" Right now, we both are sitting in his pack’s office... {Yeah, I didn’t know that he had such a massive building as an office within the pack} ... We came from knights four or five hours ago, and from then, we are doing all sorts of work that the alpha king is liable to do. There are many reports from the council that needed his immediate attention, and a few reports are from different packs too. After reading those reports, he needs to prioritise which matter should be looked at instantly and which can wait for a while.

Most matters are concerned with rogue attacks, vampire sightings, etc. I get to know about many new things in the last five hours, like vampires, werewolves, and witches are not enemies of each other, and no matter how hard it is to believe, Ryan actually has very decent relations with the vampire king.

"Why do you daydream so much?" I came out of my thoughts by Ryan’s voice, "now tell me are you coming with me in dungeons, or will you sit here and read more reports?" he asked me, and right now, I really don’t want to witness him ripping someone’s throat or even to smell that stupid stench of blood... {but I do want to meet Amara.}

"How about I join you after an hour? I only wanted to go there because I wanted a second meeting with Amara,’’ he thought for a second and looked at me sceptically.

"That’s alright, but why am I getting a feeling like you are not going to sit here and read the reports casually" ... {I don’t know when and how he started to understand me so perfectly}

"You told me that I can talk with dee. Finally, I got the time, and I think dee would have also come back to hostel now" he nodded and extended his mobile towards me.

"Warden’s number is saved with the na.."

"Name of warden... yeah, I know" I completed his sentence for him.

"How?"

"Because your creativity level is zero, and you are not very good at remembering people’s names."

"Seems like someone is observing my behaviour very closely" he raised an eyebrow with a smirk and leaned towards me a little.

"Oh, believe me, I am observing many more things than just your behaviour, Ryan." I also leaned toward him.

"For example?"... Now his smirk is turning to a gentle smile... {damn that smile}

"You are a badass with a good ass," I said thoughtfully, and he broke into fits of laughter.

"Well, thanks for your compliment, Chicky. I will remember that I have a good ass" he stood up while shaking his head fondly.

"What is Chicky?... Who is Chicky?... Why did you call me Chicky?... I don’t like Chicky.." I said all the sentences while scrunching my nose in distaste, "It doesn’t even sound badass." I complained.

"Because you are not badass, Chicky", he pinched my nose, and I glared at him, "but you too have a good ass" I pouted in irritation and tried to hide my blush... {he complimented me} ... then he walked towards the bathroom and came after some time now dressed in casual clothes.

"Why did you change those clothes? You were looking good," I asked him.

"I don’t like my clothes to get dirty" I rolled my eyes at this... {obviously, he was going to the dungeons}.

"Yeah yeah... king already told me this", he nodded.

"We will meet in an hour at level four entrance. You are not going alone there... understood", he said the last part a little strictly, and I rolled my eyes.

"You are saying as if your guards will let me enter there without your permission," I stated the truth grumpily.

"I can’t take any risks when I already know that you can command them to do so" my eyes lit up on this, and he sighed. "I just gave you an idea, didn’t I?" I nodded cheekily, and he again smiled... {I really like it more when he smiles} ... "Don’t go there alone, Chicky.. for me, please" I can’t help but agree with him... {Who will not listen to him when he is so, so.... heart touching} ...with it he went away, and I called the warden from his mobile phone.

The warden answered the call after a few rings. "Yes, alpha"... {it seems like she already has his number}

"I am his assistant; I think he has talked with you about a student Diego," I explained, and she didn’t question anything.

"Hold on for a few minutes. I have already called him. He will be here soon" I waited patiently for a few minutes when I heard the excited patting of footsteps coming towards the phone.

"Addyyyy", he shouted on the phone excitedly, and I couldn’t help but mimic his excitement.

"Deeeeeee", I said in the same voice, which made him laugh... {damn, I missed him so much}

"I missed you so much, addy... Have you been a good girl?" he asked me, and I couldn’t help but laugh at his antics.

"That should be my line, dee", I heard him giggling from the other side.

"I have been a good boy. I even ate greenies in my food because my friend said that his father said that eating greenies can make us bigger fast" ... {yeah, he doesn’t like green vegetables... thanks to that friend’s dad} ... "But I miss you, addy. Can’t you come here and live with me, please" ... {ok, now he is making me emotional}

"I also want to meet you and stay with you dee, but that is school, and in school, only teachers and students are allowed}

"Then be my teacher... you can be one, you know so much ... you know so many numbers, you also know the spelling of elephant, and you can also draw dinosaur... and that also big one," he said in full sincerity, and I can’t help but laugh with emotional tears in my eyes.

"But if I came to your school, then who would fight and stop bad wolves from harming others?" Sometimes I feel glad that I am Dee’s superhero.

"But we have Alpha Ryan now. You can come and live with me; he can take care of the bad wolves. He will even buy chocolates for us"... {yeah, he is very much capable of doing so}. He gave me one last time," It’s so hard to believe that dee stored his faith in Ryan so easily, he is not an easy kid with an easy childhood, but I am happy that at least he started to trust someone other than me. I don’t want him to feel like no one is there to watch his back because I know this feeling very well.

"Alpha Ryan also needs my help. There are many bad wolfs, and he cannot take care of them alone... but I promise that when you come back from your trip, we will spend a lot of time with each other," I tried to cheer him up.

"Promise"

"Pinky promise" I know that he is assured now... {ahh... the impact that pinky promise had on him}

"How many friends have you made till now?... and how is everything there? You are liking all those things or not?" and with it, Dee’s blabbering about the time he spent there started... and dude, did I not love it? I love everything related to dee.

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"Here is your phone" I gave Ryan his phone, and we both went inside level four.

"Alpha", a bulky-looking werewolf came toward us. "The prisoner you asked for is in chamber four. She has neither said anything nor done anything to cause a problem to us till now, but she keeps murmuring something always, which is generally in some weird language" Ryan nodded towards him, and we went to chamber four.

She is sitting on the floor while her legs and hands are tied with silver cuffs, and I can smell the extremely high dosage of wolfbane from her. She had cut marks all over her hand that I gave her last time, but those wounds are healed now... but silver does leave scars... {Don’t feel sorry for her, Aadhya. She is not my gramma, and she is the one who has given so many wounds to my gramma}. When we entered the dungeon, she didn’t look at us. She is constantly looking outside from a very tiny window on the wall.

"Do you think that you are ready to answer our questions?" Ryan asked her, but she didn’t even turn to look at us. "I really don’t want to torture you but don’t think that I will stop her from doing anything with you" on this, she turned and looked at me. If I am not wrong, I saw a weird emotion in her eyes for a nanosecond, but that was for such a short time that I couldn’t identify or understand what it was. We waited for her to say something, but she again turned her head towards the window.

"Do you again want some alone time with her?" he asked me, and I shook my head negatively. We turned to leave, but I heard a very slight murmuring.

"Grey is not just a colour" We both stopped and turned towards her.

"What did you say?" I asked her, and she turned towards me.

"Nice tattoo" with it, she again started looking out of the window. We waited a few more minutes there, but after that, we came outside.

"Do you think she means something?" Ryan asked me, and even after thinking a lot, I didn’t understand what she was saying, so I shrugged, and he nodded. When we were coming out, I felt a strange connection coming from the opposite side of the dungeons, so I stopped.

"What happened?" Ryan asked me, and I couldn’t help but feel uneasy yet attached somehow.

"What’s there?" I asked him while pointing towards a door on the farther corner.

"There are some very old prisoners in dungeons. Their crimes are not so severe that we put them to level four or five but still, we can’t set them free. Although it is a dungeon, we have a hospital here for emergencies. So, there is a hospital behind that door."... {That’s not the connection feeling, dude, That’s the spooky feeling from those medicines. Damn those hospitals}.

"Is there something wrong?" he asked me, and I shook my head... {no more stupid smells} I looked at his watch, and it was showing 9:00 pm...

"We should go home now" He nodded, and we finally came outside the dungeons.

As soon as we reached home, the delicious smell of steak invaded my senses. Without waiting for a minute, I ran into the kitchen and found gramma singing and swaying her hips while cooking the food... {only I knew how much I miss her cooking}

"Noohh..." I was about to enter the kitchen, but she shouted at me, "you are reeking of wolfsbane, go and have a shower first."

"But steak..." she narrowed her eyes at me, "You are not going to give me anything till I comply, are you?" She is still looking at me with narrowed eyes.

"Fine old woman... I know you never loved me more than your stupid cleanliness" I tried to throw tantrums. "One day, you will have a complete clean place for you and a lot of steaks, but I will not be hungry then, huh" I threw my arms here and there and went towards my room... {a hungry girl can throw tantrums}.

"What was that?" I heard Ryan’s voice and gramma’s chuckle.

"Nothing, just trying to throw tantrums. Every time someone denies her food, she just acts like this," gramma said, and Ryan chuckled.

"But I do have to accept that this delicious smell made me hungrier.".... {haww, he is going to finish the whole steak} I again ran towards the kitchen and took Ryan’s hand in mine.

"Didn’t you hear that we are reeking of wolfsbane? You also have to take a bath." I pushed him towards the stairs, and he looked at me with an amusing expression, "Go fast", he chuckled and shook his head but finally went away.

"If he comes before me, you are not going to let him finish everything, ok" I pointed my finger at gramma, and she nodded. I ran to my room and took the quickest bath of my life. When I returned, Ryan was not there, but the steak was already on the dining table, and gramma was waiting for us. Ryan also came after five minutes, and then we all had the most delicious food of our life... no, day {and today is the day when I am promising myself that I will eat a lot and lot of delicious cuisines in my life.}

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"How can you even move after eating so much?" I asked Ryan while still sitting on the dining chair... {I think I should not have eaten so much}.

"I have duties to do" Ryan is going for his night patrolling, and I am not able to understand how he is able to do this... {but that’s good he is going, or I would not have even thought of executing my plan today.}

"Bubye then, take care. Good night," I told him and yawned... {I definitely ate a lot}. He chuckled and went out of the house.

"I am also going to sleep now" gramma kissed me on the cheek and went into her room. I also went to my room and from the window saw Ryan going into the woods. I took the pillows and covered them with a duvet.

"I just hope that Ryan will not find out about this tinni tiny rule-breaking".... {Is it really this tinni tiny?} I can’t help but ask myself.... but now it is not the time to question my plan. It is the time to execute it.