Chapter 87 The Truth
[Edward’s P.O.V.]
Rose’s “eavesdropping” ability had helped a lot. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have found out that Christis was poisoned to death by the face mask.
When she asked Champion to tell this information, I realized that I had wronged my wolf earlier. Rose could speak to him. She probably just haven’t found the ti to tell .
Since Christie was an orphan, I had Simon and the servants start cleaning her things in the hopes of finding more clues. I had the ranked mbers wait elsewhere to help identify if any of the items belonged to them.
We finally found sothing – Jane’s uncut dress and a bracelet in Christie’s bedroom. When we showed them to Jane, she claid them in surprise. Since she had so many things, she didn’t even notice they were gone. And we found receipts from two pawnshops – Christie had pawned off an erald ring more than a month ago.
I imdiately sent soone to the pawnshop in the city, and sure enough, the ring that Christie pawned off belonged to my mother. Unlike Jane, my mother knew that the ring was missing and had tried to find it but she thought she was too old to rember where she had put it so she thought that she had lost it. It was worth nearly $3,000, but Christie had only earned $400 from it.
I asked Simon to round up a few of the maids with whom Christie was friendly for Patrick to question them. More than one of the maids said that Christie had bragged to them about her free access to our rooms as the maid of the ranked mbers, allowing her a first-hand advantage in acquiring things no other servant would ever had access to. According to them, Christie had always been unhappy with her background and wondered why others could enjoy sothing so good while she was always just a maid.
Hearing this made a little angry because it was obvious that they knew Christie was stealing from the ranked mbers but no one reported her. Clearly, there was a serious problem with the castle’s logistics.
I ordered Simon to gather all the servants to et in the clearing behind the castle in ten minutes.
Three minutes later, all the castle staff were already present.
I had soone dump all of the things we found in Christie’s place in front of them. They were the items she had stolen from us. The ranked mbers were present too – Rose and Patrick stood on either side of .
“Burn them,” said I to Patrick.
“Edward?” Rose tugged at my sleeve as if I might be going a little too far.
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“I said burn them.”
Patrick picked up the gasoline and poured it over the items, then lit a match and threw it in. The flas imdiately engulfed the pile of things.
“These items were stolen from the rooms of the ranked mbers. Moreover, it has co to our attention that so of you knew what she had been up to but didn’t bother reporting it. Perhaps I haven’t been treating you well enough. Or perhaps I have been treating you a little too well.”
I spoke with my Alpha voice, making the servants anxious. They didn’t even dare to breathe loudly. “I may feel sorry for Christie’s death, but that doesn’t an I condone her bad behavior. In fact, Christie died because she stole Rose’s mask which had been poisoned. I will find out who did it and return the favor. If anyone dares to touch Luna Rose or any other rank mber, his end will only be worse than this pile of items.”
I looked at Simon as I finished speaking and he started to look a little depressed. My words must have scared him. He had once taken a knife for my father in a small-scale inter-pack conflict, and I was very impressed and grateful to him for that. But as the castle’s promoted Head of Logistics, he didn’t seem to be managing them very well. Otherwise, none of this would have happened.
I knew that my words today were a little too harsh, but I had no choice. Although I did not truly think that the servants in the castle would dare to poison Luna, I thought it would be a good opportunity to take advantage of their propensity to gossip and spread the word of my threats.
After reprimanding the servants, Rose and I returned to our room. “Do you rember when Sarah tried to drug you but swallowing her own bitter fruit back at New Moon Pack? You told that it was quite a strong aphrodisiac.” “Yes, I think so. Do you think Sarah is involved in this?”
“I don’t know. Even if it was her, how could she have entered my room?”
“Maybe there’s a mole in the pack. I’ll strengthen the security and the managent of the pack.”
Following that, I imdiately gave my orders: every mber or visitor of the pack must register themselves upon entry and exit of our territory, especially the castle. In addition, the public areas on the first and second floors of the castle were now closed off with limited access.
We were getting pretty close to solving the mystery, but none of us could figure out why Christie had written Rose’s na before she died. Did she already know that there was sothing wrong with the mask she stole?
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