A Gamma's Revenge (Zalia) novel Chapter 402

Chapter 402
Flashback

After my eighth birthday everything changed for me, I shifted for the first time and I was able to hide my scent and my Lycan.

Fortune needed to stay a secret, we didn’t want my Mother to know about her and we didn’t want to find out what she had in store for us if she ever found out about Fortune. It made it easier to sneak out of the house though and it gave me the change to train more than the two hours of training I got in school.

My Mother would always ask Dad about the assignment he had been on, but he never answered her questions and I truly believe if he had ever answered her questions she would have sold him out. I would follow Dad whenever he left the house and I overheard every conversation he had with Colter about his assignments, making me and Fortune feeling proud of what he had accomplished.

It is a week after I turned twelve, Dad just got back after being gone for almost two weeks and I can’t remember if he left for that long before. Most of his assignments are done within a few days, but they never take more than a week and for a few days I worried that something might have happened to him.

Mother is yelling at him as she always does after he returns and Dad always remains calm with her, but not today. Today he releases his aura to make her back off and something deep inside me tells me his assignment didn’t go as planned.

An hour later Dad leaves the house with a file in his hand and I follow him at a safe distance, he may not be able to smell my scent but I don’t want him to see me if he turns around. He meets up with Colter in an old cottage on the far side of our territory and as I suspected his assignment failed, his target is to well-guarded for anyone to get close to him.

Colter and Dad walk to the back porch to talk about my Mother and I sneak into the house to read the file Dad left on the coffee table.

His target is a man named Akar and he has bought sixteen year old orphans, pretending to give them a better life. Problem is that he is the kind of Wolf he tells the orphanages he will protect them from and none of them survive their stay with him, but he never mentions that to anyone.

I head back to the house to do some research on the guy, but I am not sure how I can help Dad with this assignment and the more I find on Akar the more I fear he will get away with his crimes.

Dad wasn’t kidding when he told Colter his house is guarded like a fortress, all the information that is available online about his house shows guards everywhere and even my cocky little Lycan isn’t confident that we could get in to his house.

A week passes and I still have no answer to my question, how can I get close enough to Akar to take him out. Dad left this morning for a new assignment and Mother left two hours ago, leaving me alone for however long Dad’s assignment lasts.

“Let’s go to the attic, I want to know what is up there.” Fortune says after I have finished my dinner and I make my way up to the attic with the argument between my parents on my mind.

I had just gotten back from school when I heard my Mother arguing with Dad and Fortune and I were both curious to find out what this argument was about. Mother wanted to clear out the attic, but Dad told her that that wasn’t going to happen and Mother wanted to know why he wanted to keep all the old junk of his parents. Dad told her it belonged to him and that it was his choice to keep their stuff or not.

Fortune has been nagging me ever since to go to the attic and with both my parents gone I think it is safe to look at whatever it is my Grandparents left here. I open the door to the attic and I don’t know where to look first, there is so much in the attic.

I see three storage cupboards standing side by side on one side and on the other side there are trunks lined up, in the middle of the attic is a table with two chairs. By the looks of it no one has been here for a very long time and I first have to clean the table.