Morgan Amra and I know that Midnight didn’t mean to hurt us, that he was just lashing out because of the situation and that he will hate himself the moment he realizes what he said. “Gamma floor.” I order when I hear Gillean say that she never left the Gamma floor the normal way and the moment Gillean says that he is still looking for other footage I close the mind-link with Kieran. I walk towards the stairs and my team follows me up the stairs, Tristan right beside me. The Guards outside the door step aside the moment we approach the door and I slowly open the door as I look at the floor. Emilio and Chaya slowly walk into the living room with Deacon and Skylar, Tristan and Ace stick with me as they promised Damon and I look around the kitchen to see that Thora’s mug and plate are still on the kitchen island. No signs of a fight or a struggle, meaning that Jo-Anna must have given Thora a sedative and I wonder how Jo-Anna managed to get close enough to Thora. I don’t find anything in the kitchen and I slowly walk from room to room. Every room gets checked thoroughly before we move on to the next one and we make slow progress as we look everywhere for any clues Jo-Anna might have left behind, but so far we haven’t found anything that can help us. I open the door to Dalton’s room and I find the same thing I found in the kitchen, no signs of a fight or struggle. I see a towel on the floor and Tristan tells me that his shirt is still in the bathroom. I kneel down to grab the towel when I see something half hidden under his nightstand and I lower myself further to the floor to see a syringe, “Tristan, I need you to bag this.” I say as I get back up and I point at the syringe on the floor. Faith is holding open a bag as Tristan puts some gloves on to grab the syringe, I want to make sure we have every piece of evidence against Jo-Anna and I hope she will claim she had nothing to do with their disappearance. We just checked the last rooms on the Gamma floor but we didn’t find anything else, I lean against the wall as I look down the hallway and for a moment I just listen to the silence. My eyes fly open when I realize I hear more heartbeats than I should and I raise my hand to make everyone stop dead in their tracks, again I listen to the sounds around me. I strain my hearing to find out where the sound is coming from and I realize it is coming from somewhere below me. “We need to check both rooms, there has to be a hidden passageway.” I say as I start knocking on the wall, Tristan and Ace walk into the room on my left and Deacon and Emilio walk into the room on my right. “Found something.” Emilio says as he pops his head out of the door and I follow him into the walk-in closet, Deacon knocks on the side wall of the closet. “Faith, knock on the wall next to the bathroom.” I say and she confirms that the space behind the wall is hollow. I let my hand slide over the wall in the closet to find something to open a secret door with, suddenly I hear a soft click and the wall slowly moves towards me. Deacon and I step back to allow the wall to open up completely and we both stare down a winding stairs, leading to the Goddess knows where. Tristan asks if we should warn Jaylen, but I tell him it will be best if Jo-Anna doesn’t get tipped off. “If she comes back before we find Dalton and Thora I want to know what she does, I already alerted Amir to keep an eye out for Jo-Anna and to warn me the moment she gets back. If she heads to the Royal Wing I will ask Kieran to leave the mind-link open again.” I say as I turn the flashlight on my phone on, I slowly walk down the stairs as I light the way down and I try to remember the lay-out of the ground floor of the Royal Wing. I stop walking for a moment and ask Emilio to turn his light up, we can see that the stairs also leads up to the Beta floor. A moment later Skylar tells me through the mind-link that it looks like it leads all the way up to the King’s floor and I ask myself if she could have left the Royal Wing by exiting on the Beta floor or the King’s floor, where could these stairs lead us? I picture the ground floor in my head as I remember the tour I got from Dalton and Thora, the living room and dining room were situated to the left and the kitchen to the right. The stairs were placed in the middle of the hall and behind the stairs are the offices that belong to King Damon and his Mate when she was still alive. There is a meeting room behind the kitchen, but it isn’t as big as the outer wall might suggest. I asked Jaylen about it but he didn’t have an answer for me, there hadn't been any adjustments made to the Royal Wing in ages and according to Damon that meeting room had been there from the start. I think I figured out where we will end up with this hidden stairwell, but where did she hide Dalton and Thora and why didn’t anyone hear them.