The Alpha's Prisoner

"Of course.” she murmured frustrated and mad.

She should have thought about that.

Arden would never leave his office opened.

What would she do now?

Her mind was spinning and her heart was pounding so hard that her chest was hurting.

“Come on, Violet, think. Think!” she hit her head a few times trying to concentrate.

And then she thought of something..

But she didn’t know if it would work.

The door was made of wood, but the lock was made of steel. Since Violet had the power of the earth element, would she also be able to control steel?

After all, it was composed by natural elements. It should work, but she had never tried that on her training sessions before.

She closed her eyes trying to focus and then she heard a low click that indicated that the door was opened.

Violet exhaled, realizing that she had been holding her breath the whole time.

She entered the office and locked it again from inside using her powers again.

Where to start?

She ran towards Arden’s table and opened the drawers, searching between lots and lots of papers.

But they were only talking about laws and boring bureaucracy, nothing incriminating.

Of course it wouldn’t be that easy.

Violet went to the cabinet behind his table.

But it was also locked.

“Shit.” Violet murmured again looking around the room, trying to find a place where he could’ve hidden the key.

Her eyes immediately fell upon a painting hang on the other wall.

It was a picture of a wolf staring at the moon, which Violet thought it was horrible and not creative at all.

She rushed there and shook the object, hearing a metallic noise right after.

She looked down and saw a single key on the floor.

At least she was having luck that day.

Violet went back to the cabinet and opened it, but what she saw discouraged her.

The cabinet was full of boxes and briefcases.

She scanned it up and down, trying to find something suspicious.

The boxes were all the same and didn’t seem to contain anything important.

Some of them had some words written like expenses and staff, which Violet imagined it was from the palace’s administration.

She didn’t have time to go through all of that, so she had to be more specific and go directly toward something that was more obvious.

She squatted down, trying to scan the files that seemed to be forgotten on the bottom of the cabinet.

And then something caught her eyes.

It was a black folder, not very large, but it had the word confidential written on its side.

Violet immediately grabbed the folder and pulled it out.

She tossed it on the table and opened it.

At first, she didn’t understand what it was about.

The folder had a lot of papers with pictures and names she had never seen or heard before.

There was a lot of red ‘X's covering lots of pictures in it and the reports had a lot of technical terms and coded information.

Going through it, Violet then realized it was a list of people that the Diamond Pack had killed.

The files were all similar, the only thing that changed were the pictures of the members and the information of their packs.

And as she looked into it, something made Violet’s blood freeze.

She saw someone really familiar.

It was the picture of a little boy, and apparently he was playing in a yard with a man, that looked pretty much like him.

The boys’ eyes reminded Violet of someone, but she couldn’t make the association under pressure like that.

But when she saw the other pages attached to it, her heart almost stopped.

It was Lance.

The little boy was him, and the man was his father.

And in the middle of the file, she saw a document with his father’s and his mother’s pictures with an enormous red X on their faces.

But the picture from Lance was intact.

Actually, where it had the name of his previous pack, there was now the name of the Diamond Pack written over it.

And on the bottom of the page she read something that made her want to cry.

“Year: 1997. Mission: North territory conquest. Head of mission: A.M.T and Captain P. G.”

It couldn’t be.

Violet analyzed the paper again. A.M.T. were Arden’s initials. He used to sign his documents using that.

Violet knew because she saw him signing lots of papers during her life, even though she was never allowed to see what they were about.

Did Arden kill Lance’s parents, just to conquer some territory? Was that what those files were about?

And P. G. should be Phillip, the head of the guards from the Diamond Pack. He had been Lance’s captain for years.

Violet continued to search for something more.

And not even in her worst nightmares, Violet thought she would find what she found after that shock.

As she discovered a lot of documents that proved that Arden had killed thousands of members of smaller and defiant packs, packs that were against their way of governing, she found a file with her name.

A little baby was looking at her, with the most cute smile on her lips, and she had a woman and a man by her side.

Both of them with the red "X"s on their faces.

And when she saw her name and the names of the people on the picture, she came to her senses.

That file was about her and her parents.

Those were her parents. She had never seen any picture of them, but now that she saw, she wished she hadn’t.

Because she could not believe what was written at the bottom of that page.

“Year: 1992. Mission: Northeast territory conquest. Head of mission: A.M.T.”