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I felt Lucas‘ body heat pressing against me and when I looked up he was looking back down. at me with his intense eyes and his arms were still around me.
I started to have those same feelings that I had for him two days ago, but then I came to my senses and I pushed him away.
“Emma. Please, just let me explain?” Lucas asked.
“No. I want you to get the hell out of here.” I demanded.
“Emma. Please?” He pleaded.
“How the hell did you even get in here? Unless you want me to set my dragon onto you again, then I suggest you get the hell away from my f*****g house.” I yelled.
“It started off as a bet. But that was before I got to know you.” Lucas said.
“I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to hear from you. I don’t want to look at you. Just get the hell out. NOW!” I yelled at him.
Suddenly there was a growl coming from the roof above us and when we looked up, Zidrith was looking down at us. His eyes fixed on Lucas.
But I also saw Jacob come running down the hallway to get to me.
“What the hell is going on?” Jacob asked.
“I want him to leave. I want him gone.” I demanded.
So Jacob looked at Lucas and the expression on his face suddenly changed from concern to
anger.
He grabbed Lucas by the back of the shirt and he started forcing him out of the house.
Every time Lucas tried to look back at me, Jacob would force him to keep walking and made him walk faster to get him out of the house.
Once Lucas was gone Jacob ordered all the guards to make sure that he didn’t come back.
I sat down on the bench in the courtyard, trying to control my tears but they betrayed me.
They started falling down my cheeks as Chloe and Lexie came out to see if I was alright.
“Emma. What the hell?” Chloe asked.
“They made a bet.” I said.
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“What are you talking about?” She asked.
“Lucas and Levi had a bet going. They wanted to see who could get me into bed first.” I yelled
through my tears.
Chloe and Lexie looked at each other shocked, so Lexie sat next to me and put her arm
around me.
“That explains a lot. I’m so sorry this happened to you.” Lexie said.
“Once Avery finds out about this, those two are gonna wish they were never born.” Chloe said.
“No. I don’t want everyone to know about this. It’s humiliating. They were just playing with me.
And I actually believed they liked me. I don’t want anyone to know.” I said.
“It’s alright. If I tell Avery not to tell anyone, then she won’t. But those two did mess with the
princess. If they don’t cop it at school then they will cop it from everyone else in pretty much every pack in the country.” Chloe said.
“I don’t care. It’s too embarrassing.” I said.
“You’ve got nothing to be embarrassed about sweetheart. You did nothing wrong. Do you hear me?” Lexie said, resting my head on her shoulder.
When I calmed down I went inside and I made sure no one was lurking around before I went
into the office and I locked the door behind me.
I sat behind the desk and I turned on the laptop.
I hacked into the files that my mother keeps locked, only because they are pack members
files.
I looked through the files until I found the name that I wanted. Lucas‘.
I opened his file and started reading through it all.
He came to this pack just before my birthday party (I already knew that), he works at the
forestry and he’s 22 years old.
That doesn’t make any sense at all. He goes to school. He goes to school with me. How the hell can he work at the forestry when I see him every day at school. And he’s 22. None of this
is making any goddamn sense.
I opened my notebook to a fresh page and I wrote down every bit of information that I could gather on him and then I switched to Levi’s file.
It said that he came from the same pack as Lucas originally. They are brothers. But Levi
couldn’t live with their parents anymore because of abuse.
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He allowed himself to be put up for adoption when he was 10 and no one fought my mother on the topic. She brought him to this pack and placed him with the family that he’s with now.
He actually is 17 and does go to school with me.
That’s why he’s in some of my classes and Lucas isn’t.
But Levi never outed him for the lies.
I thought that was weird if he wanted to win the bet.
I decided that I needed to do a deep dive. And it was lucky that I was on my mother’s computer because it had all sorts of encryption so no one would know that I was sneaking
around on the dark web.
It took me a while, but I finally found some information on their parents.
They died a few months ago in a rogue attack and everything they own went to Lucas but Levi is fighting him on that. He wants half of everything.
His file didn’t say too much about the abuse so I had to dig deeper for the files from their head warrior who would have documented any sort of domestic situation at their house. Just like
the police do for humans.
There were photos and everything. Levi and Lucas were taken to the hospital several times
with severe injuries, even before they had their accelerated healing and it looks like their parents really did a number on them.
It didn’t say why Lucas stayed and Levi left. There had to be a reason but I couldn’t find
anything here.
I printed out everything that I found on the two of them. Even their private pack files and I put
everything into a folder and I turned the computer off and I walked out of the office and I
locked it behind me.
I turned around and crashed into a hard figure that was standing right in front of me.
”
“Jacob. You scared the hell out of me.“,
“Sorry. What are you doing?”
“Just some royal crap.” I said, nonchalantly.
“Okay. Anything I can see?” He asked, reaching out for the file in my hand.
“Are you a part of the royal family?”
I pulled the file away so he couldn’t grab it and he realized that he had overstepped. So he
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pulled his hand back and he just stood there looking at me.
“I just spoke to your mother. They can’t make it back just yet. She’s not sure how long they are.
going to be gone for.” He explained.
“It must be pretty serious then.” I said.
“It is. She said that it is up to you if you want us to stay here with you. Or if you want us to give. you some space. You’re old enough and mature enough to take care of yourself. Plus, Anna
will still be here.” Jacob explained.
“I’ll think about it. But right now I’m going to bed. I’ll talk to you in the morning.” I said, walking
off down the hall.
As soon as I got to my room I put the file in my wardrobe, right towards the back of my walk–in
that was almost as big as another room.
I opened a drawer at the back and hid the file under the clothes I had in that drawer before I
closed it and I walked out into my bedroom again.
I knew I would get completely busted if mom found out that I hacked into her computer and it’s already possible that she knows about it. But I didn’t care. I needed to find out who these guys were before I decided what was going to happen.
Now that my parents aren’t here, I am the senior Royal family member in the pack. And I was the one that people had to come to if they had a problem. And I had to try and figure out how
to solve it.
This was definitely going to be interesting if I was now in charge. And I had a feeling that a few things were going to change around here.
