Chapter 35: The Lucky Toad Third Person
The triplet alphas had every pack member on high alert. Every warrior was scouring the pack lands for Chasity. The pack lands were on lockdown. No one could enter or leave without explicit permission from the Alphas. There was a curfew mandated by the Alphas. Beta Keaton was displeased. Something very upsetting had made his way to his desk this morning, the first morning after Chasity’s disappearance.
“What is this, Alpha?” Said Beta Keaton, beseeching his former Alpha Romeo handing him the list. Alpha Romeo scanned the list of suspects. He sighed.
“Roxie and Moxie are suspects!” Whispered Beta Keaton fiercely. “We’re friends, Romeo. Our children are friends. Felix and Roxie used to date. They were at her party last night.”
“That’s why the girls are suspects, Keaton,” said Romeo tiredly. “It’s nothing personal. The party was the last event Chasity was seen by many at. And all of the triplet’s exes are suspects. Even the party planner, Ronda, who they never dated! She just kinda envied Chasity.”
Keaton took a deep breath, arms akimbo, displacing his blazer backwards.
“The triplets even accused us,” said Romeo exasperatedly.
“You and the Luna?” Asked Keaton.
Romeo nodded sadly.
“Losing a mate is tough. It’s…there’s nothing worse than that…” said Keaton his voice cracking up. He had had his daughters with his second chance mate. His original mate had met an untimely end.
Romeo clapped Keaton on the back. “They’re not real suspects. They’ll just be interviewed.”
“I have a mate!” Snapped Roxie, glaring at the private investigator flanked by pack warriors.
He had brought in because he was the best. His name was Danny Saunders. He was almost as tall as the triples with chiselled features, a five o’clock shadow, an impressive moustache, dark eyes, thick eyebrows, full lips and shaggy wavy brown hair. He was in his mid-thirties. He had been a P. I. For the past decade and a pack warrior for seven years before that, from the day he turned eighteen.
“Ok, Ms Roxie, I know, just answer the question, please,” said Danny.
“I would never be jealous of Chasity. Felix and I were happy for each other when we found our mates,” Roxie said, sniffing.
“The question was did you tell Chasity to go to the landing bathroom knowing full well that Sandra, Tonya and Avery were waiting there to confront her?” He repeated getting tired of this.
“Well…yeah,” she admitted.
“And why would you do a thing like that, Roxie?” Asked Danny.
“Because l…I don’t know. Chasity was never popular before and now she’s like this…superstar or
something. It was annoying. I just thought it’d be funny if the girls ruffled her feathers. They were not gonna hurt her. No violence. Just bitchy insults. And well she vomited on them so she got them pretty good,” Roxie said, snickering.
Danny looked at her like the moron he thought she was.
“Ok, thank you, Ms Roxie, send the next person in,” said Danny.
Roxie strutted off in her five-inch heels while Ronda stalked in, on her six-inch heels. Roxie gave her a scowl. Ronda gave Roxie a smirk. Cattiness abounded in this investigation. Ronda sat down, flinging her
new platinum hair extensions, gazing intently at the handsome P.I. There wasn’t three of him but he was eye candy nonetheless.
“How would you describe Chasity?” Asked Danny.
“She’s…great,” said Ronda, older and wiser than Roxie. “She’s pretty, very smart. She’s a bit shy. Can’t fault her for that. She’s young. She’s growing into her personality,” said Ronda with a smile.
Danny grinned. “Do you think Chasity loves the triplets?”
Ronda twitched a little. “Yeah…yes…they’re all very in love.” She took a deep breath rocking on her chair a little.
“Calix called Chasity his goddess, isn’t that cute?” Asked Danny.
Ronda narrowed her eyes but quickly smiled. “Aww,” she cooed. Chasity’s POV
I had to pee on the stick. I wanted to know too. It had a price on it. I gasped and then a huge smile spread on my face. My kidnappers were amateurs. They did not remove the price sticker which contained the name of the pharmacy they ran out and got this from. Divine Lupine. An overpriced store that sold everything: hair and makeup products, snacks, perfumes, feminine products and it contained a mini-pharmacy in the back. There were only two branches of Divine Lupine on our pack lands. One was in the main town area. It was super busy with long lines and she-wolves shoving each other over bargain beauty products. I couldn’t picture Dante going there. The other was in the more secluded suburbs where rich pack members lived in a mall. The mall outlet was much emptier. No lines really. Friendly staff. No shoving. I was in driving distance of that mall most likely. I highly doubted Dante had a pregnancy test just lying around unless he was a humungous ladies’ man and even then a pregnancy test was a stretch. He must have bought it after I started vomiting. That meant I should be able to mind-link my alphas but I couldn’t. Hmm. Had I been injected with wolfsbane or silver or something. Were the walls in here specially designed to prevent mind-linking? Did that technology exist? My head hurt. My pregnancy test was ready.
I was so nervous. I wished my alphas were here. I pictured them here with me. Felix would pace up
up and down, anxious but hoping I was pregnant, anything that tied me to him forever was great in his book. Calix would be looking at me with his big blue eyes wide and trying to peak at the test before I was
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