The Council's Arcane Academy
Aziza’s P.O.V. As soon as the door is closed, I sense that the woman is becoming anxious and her eyes keep looking around the room as if she is expecting someone to come out of hiding. I turn two armchairs towards the window and I sit down in one, while I gesture at her to sit down in the other. The window in front of us is wide open and I can tell that it is making her feel a bit better. As I look out the window, I introduce myself and tell her a little about my background. She starts to relax a little more, just before we hear someone yelling in the hallway. She shrinks in to the chair and her eyes are filled with fear. I link Ragnar to find out what is going on and I was right when I suspected that she feared her Mate. “Don’t worry. Ragnar won’t allow him to come in here and neither will Hunter, Hunter is the man that took away your attacker.” I say and she looks at me with something I can only call confusion in her eyes. “He is my Mate’s Brother.” She whispers and I keep quiet, hoping that she will tell me the story on her own. “My Mate and I met at a Ball organized by my Pack. He seemed so nice and charming, we danced, talked and laughed a lot that night. He walked me home and asked if he could see me again the next day. The next day we spent on my front porch, where he described his Pack’s territory, his home and the Pack-house. After lunch he had to leave and asked if he could call me. I felt flattered by him and his attention towards me. As an Omega in my Pack, there is not much kindness for us and looking back I know he had counted on that. After two weeks of talking on the phone, he came to visit me again and that night he was the kind of man every girl dreams of. He asked me if I wanted to become his chosen Mate and without thinking about it twice I said Yes. He was sweet and gentle as he marked me, but he told me that he wanted our first time to be in our home, in our bed.”I hear the underlining pain in her voice and I know that it didn’t go as she had thought. She tells me that he took her home and once she was inside the house, his Brother had stepped out of the kitchen. The men had made it clear to her that she was to be both their Mate and that they would share her. When she had refused, her Mate had told her that they would give her time and she had been relieved for a little while. She tells me that he had finally brought her to Roger and that Talon had been there as well. She tells me what the four of them had done to her that night and I want to rip all of them to pieces. “Tayla, would you be willing to testify to this in the Courthouse?” I ask her and she quickly nods her head. “I will contact the Council and ask them to send two females to pick you up. You will not be staying here a moment longer than necessary.” “Ragnar, if her Mate is still there I want you to put him in the dungeons as well. He will be charged as will his Brother, the one Hunter put in there already.” A few minutes later the door of the office opens and Ragnar tells us that her Mate is locked up. Ragnar’s P.O.V. I link Hunter on Aziza’s orders and before I can blink he has taken the Wolf down. I walk behind them to the dungeons and I quickly make my way back to Aziza as soon as I hear the cell-door lock. Aziza is talking on the phone and I can hear that she is talking to Council-member Finlay. The look on her face is a murderous one and I know it has to do with the Wolf we just put in his cell. “Ragnar, this is Tayla. Tayla, Ragnar is Captain of the Royal Squad that is assisting me in my investigation in to Roger. The Council has already send two females to pick you up. So why don’t we go to your house and collect the things you want to take with you. Ragnar and I will stay with you until your escort arrives.” Aziza says and I can’t wait to hear what Tayla told her. After we collected her belongings, I leave them behind in Roger’s office and make my way in to the dungeons. Of all my men, the one standing in front of me is the cruelest and I am glad that he is on my side. “Gunnar, I have no idea what they did to Tayla. All I know is that Aziza contacted the Council and that two females are on their way to pick her up.” Gunnar roars as he looks at the men in front of us. The men look at one and other, while Gunnar is still growling and roaring in their direction. Aziza links me to inform me that Tayla has left for the Council and I tell her that I will inform her Mate, she chuckles before she closes the link. “Gentlemen, just so you know. Tayla has just been picked up by her escort from the Council. Enjoy your stay here.” They are cussing and swearing as Gunnar and I walk away from their cells. Chase’s P.O.V. Hunter tells me that he will take care of this Wolf and I let him know that I will start on my investigation. I go through the file on my tablet to see which questions I need answers to.Roger took his first chosen Mate almost seven years after his fated Mate died and she was from this Pack. I wonder if it was a forceful marking or if she became his Mate willingly. Meara was nineteen when she became his Mate, they were mated for two years when she died in child-birth, just like his fated Mate. I decide to talk to the older Pack-members as they might remember more about her. Roger was seventy-three at the time and that makes Meara a little young for a chosen Mate. Most males that take a chosen Mate, choose someone that is closer to their own age. Don’t ask me why, but that seems to be the case for most couples of chosen Mates. I see a man working in his front yard and I decide that this will be my starting point. “Hello, can I ask you something, Sir?” I ask and the man looks up from what he is doing. “Thank you, I can use a break. So why don’t we sit down and you can ask me what it is you want to know.” He gesture to a few seats on the front porch and he offers me a soda. As I sip my soda, I take a good look at his front yard and I can tell that he likes working in it. “Sir, my name is Chase and I am a member of the Royal Squad that is investigating your former Alpha, Roger.” The man growls at the mention of his name and I hear a growl coming from the house. The door swings open and out walks a female, by the looks of it this man’s Mate. “What do you want to know?” The woman asks and I tell them that I am tasked with finding out as much as I can about Meara. They answer every question I have and I write down every detail, just as Aziza requested. I find out that her parents died in a rogue attack, when she was twelve years old and that Roger moved her in to the Pack-house after that. I find out that there had been rumors flying around the Pack about their relationship. I am informed that we should talk to the Pack-doctor about his Mates, because the Doctor let it slip once that he examined the girls every chance he got. They were unable to tell me what he had examined.
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