Chapter 117
Conrad POV
Councilman William was led through the house like a ghost. He seemed extremely shocked by the whole process and was staring into space. His pockets are searched, and the maid packs the bag with his clothes after it has been searched.
As he was leaving, Alpha Anthony came out of his room. Alpha William looked at him with pleasing eyes, but only found
confusion in return.
“What the hell is going on?” Alpha Anthony exclaimed with a shiver of panic in his voice.
“Alpha William had his disciplinary hearing today. He was found guilty of dishonouring the role as a councilman and is being kicked off the council, is being escorted out of the territory, and banned from coming back to the Royal Moon Pack“.
“You can’t do that. Who will vote for the South during this ceremony? He will need to stay til it is concluded“.
“As Councilwoman Valerie is from the South, she is stepping in until there is an election in the South“.
I can see his mind churning, looking for a way out. Then the realization dawned on him that there wasn’t one.
“Who has his phone?“. One of the guards handed it to me. I pass Alpha William a burner phone. “It only has Valerie’s number programmed in. Ask her for what you need“.
He just stands silent. I then hand the phone to Liam. “Have Nightstalker go through it“.
I can scent a faint trace of fear coming from Alpha Anthony’s room, but don’t care. They all have 24 hours tomorrow to find the information, as I spend time with my girl.
After dinner, I head to bed and fill her in on everything that happened with Cordelia and all the disciplinary hearing. She listens intently and contemplates what it means for us.
“So only Alpha Anthony is left“, she asks.
“Yeah. He is losing his position regardless, as there is more and more evidence piling against him. I suspect he has a deal with Alpha William for his vote, but I will only know when I check his files. At this point, I’m seeing if there is enough evidence to press criminal charges“.
She seems unsure for a minute and looks up at me seriously. “I can cancel the plans for the night away. We can do something simpler as it is quite far away and………”.
press my finger against her lips to stop her from talking. “You promised to tell me your final secret. Also, nothing is going to stop me from spending time away from all of this with you. Now go to sleep. The sooner we wake up, the sooner we can go.
She snuggles up to me, and I struggle to fall asleep with the excitement.
We wake in the morning, and I’m practically bouncing like a pup at Christmas.
I try to pick Lewana up so I can put her straight in the car so we can leave. It’s 7am and we aren’t meant to leave til 10am, but I want to have as much time as possible.
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We head to the kitchen to find Mary there packing a lot of food and, strangely, Donovan.
“What are you doing here?“.
He stuttered his response. “I wanted to see you both off to show my support. I helped Mary make protein smoothies as you are going on a hike. Berry for Lady Lewana and Banana and peanut butter for your highness“.
I look at Mary and raise an eyebrow. “He insisted on helping me to show his support, and it was the only thing I trusted
him with“.
I roll my eyes, and we both take the smoothies. “Donovan, I appreciate you are trying to make it up to me, I would prefer you just do your job and stay out of Mary’s kitchen“.
He seemed confused or sad. Not sure which, but he nodded and left.
Liam comes in and sees Donovan leaving, and just points, confused. “He’s trying to make amends“.
“Oh. Well, that might take a while. Have fun, you too. I will hold down the fort until you get back“.
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“Make sure that Nightstalker hacks that phone before I get back. And don’t do anything with Alpha Anthony until I am back, no matter what is on that phone“.
“I’m not a total idiot. Go have fun, you too“.
We get to the car, and she walks over to the driver’s seat.
“Can you give me a rough heading so I can drive?“.
She just smiles and gives me the keys. “Do you know the diner on the main freeway to the redwood forest? It’s about 2 hours away, so I thought we should go there and get breakfast before the hike“.
We get in and start driving. As soon as we are outside the territory, I hold her hand while we drink our smoothies. We sing random songs on the radio. We talk about anything and everything. I’m almost upset when we arrive at the diner, as I was enjoying the drive.
We pull up to the diner, and her face lights up. We head in hand in hand, and the waitress comes running up.
“Oh darlin‘ ya back. You had me worried as ya missed ya last two hikes“.
Her face freezes when she sees me. “Oh my hon, good for you“. She screams out the back at me, assuming I’m the cook. “HANK, EVEY’S ‘ERE AND SHE HAS A FELLA WITH ‘ER“.
“HE BETTER BE NICE OR I’LL COOK ‘IM ON MA GRILL“.
She starts giggling and yells back. “Don’t worry, Hank, He is“.
He comes out of the back and starts eyeing me up. “I’ll be the judge of that“.
He reaches out to shake my hand and grips it as hard as he can, so I grip back with the same strength while keeping eye contact. He shakes his head to both and walks back to the kitchen.
We sit down together and have breakfast. The waitress, Dot asks lots of questions to make sure ‘I’m good enough‘ and yells
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all the information back to Hank. I tell them who I am and that I’m actually a billionaire, but they don’t have a clue what
I’m talking about. It is obvious that if it doesn’t involve their small town, they don’t seem to care.
Perfect.
