Sold To The Billionaire Alpha
Chapter 50

Fox

I had teleported myself down to the dungeons, the same place where I had teleported Bisa and Mavis before I cast a powerful Glamour Spell. Orla and I had seen the very vivid but very fake deaths of two people who had not even been in the room. The first person I saw when I appeared in the dungeons was a worried-looking Bisa.

“Fox, you look so pale!” Squeaked Bisa, running towards me and cupping my face in her hands. “You’re cold and clammy and you’re trembling!” She said, her eyes filled with concern.

It was only when she pointed it out that I realised how sick I felt. I also realised that Bisa’s skin on my skin sent tingles running through me.

“I…that Glamour was so real,” I gasped, my voice hoarse all of a sudden.

My heart was racing and I felt nauseated. I was even short of breath.

“I feel awful,” I admitted to Bisa.

“I think you’re having a panic attack,” she said softly. “Oh, I wish Orchid was here. She’s a doctor. Just try to breathe deeply and evenly!” She said encouragingly as she pulled me towards the empty guard’s chair.

I collapsed into it and she quickly fetched me a glass of water. I drank it all in one gulp.

“I could’ve conjured that,” I said with a shrug.

She chuckled.

“Don’t use your magic on every little thing. It’s fine. Just relax a bit. At least we have Mavis in custody,” she said, forever looking on the bright side.

We both glanced at Mavis. I had teleported her into one of the cells. She looked pretty disgruntled about it. She scowled at us while sitting slumped against the wall with her arms folded.

“What happened?” Asked Bisa, standing near to my chair, close enough for me to smell her amazing perfume.

I looked up at her, my expression pained.

“She’s completely deranged,” I whispered. “I’m so glad I had the foresight to teleport you out of there.”

I had done a mental spread on everyone involved in this case. It was weird but I had read tarot so many times since childhood, I could envision the deck and pull the cards in my head when I met someone or encountered a problem. Tarot cards were always an easy guide for me in every problem. Jamie had taught me that trick: mental tarot reading. I smiled, thinking about my clever friend. I would not call Jamie and Jessie. I was doing this on my own. I had been relying on them for company way too much ever since…

I pushed that memory away. I sighed. I had drawn the Death card when I pulled Orla’s cards in my mind. I glanced up at Bisa. I needed to stay away from her. I had tried to pull her cards and I had pulled The Two of Cups, a soulmates card. Then, The Lovers, had come out of the deck. That card was self-explanatory. I had pulled The Ten of Cups, which represents bliss and completion and The Six of Cup, the happiness card. I had stopped pulling cards after that. I needed to pull her cards in real not mentally. I needed my deck. I wished I had brought it with me.

“Did she really try to kill me?” Said Bisa, pulling me out of my thoughts.

“She used her talon to slit your throat. I wasn’t prepared for how real the Glamour would look even though in reality she was letting the stuffing out of a scarecrow,” I explained. “Then she shot Mavis! Well, the scarecrow Mavis. That room is covered in stuffing.”

Bisa sat on the guard’s desk, staring into space.

“She really would have killed us. She did kill us! Well, in her mind anyway!” Exclaimed Bisa. “I better go back to clean up all that scarecrow stuffing before everything wears off and Orla realises the rouse.”

“NO!” I shouted, making Bisa jump.

I wasn’t letting her out of my sight until Orla was apprehended.

“It’s too dangerous. Besides, I cast a really powerful Glamour. Those scarecrows and their stuffing will continue to look like two corpses and b***d for a few hours. Orla or whoever does her dirty work for her would be scrubbing the floors and disposing of the bodies now with no idea that she’s cleaning up the scarecrows and their scattered stuffing,” I explained.

Mavis snorted with laughter.

“It is a little amusing,” said Bisa with a wry smile.

“Not for me,” I answered.

I felt Bisa’s warm hand on my forehead. I snickered.

“How can you tell if I’m feverish when you’re always hot!” I laughed.

Werewolves naturally had higher body temperatures.

“It’s possible! If you’re close to my temperature then you’re definitely ill! She said matter-of-factly.

“Am I?” I asked.

“No,” she said decisively.

“How are we gonna tell Orion what a monster his mother is?” I asked, a hint of desperation in my voice.

“He already knows what she’s capable of…he probably hoped he was wrong but he definitely had an inkling,” reasoned Bisa. “Are you feeling any better?” She asked sweetly.

“Yeah,” I mumbled.

“Ok,” she said softly. “Should we go get Orion? Where would he be?”

“He might still be at the Caro house,” I said, trying to get up.

I was a bit unsteady on my feet. Bisa grasped my waist. I was about half a foot taller than her and probably about fifty pounds heavier than she was but she had her werewolf strength. She did not seem to be struggling as she placed one of my arms over her shoulders so she could help me walk towards the portal.

“Why did you have such an intense reaction to your own Glamour, Fox?” Asked Bisa worriedly.

“I overdid it with the b***d,” I said, making up a dumb excuse.

“I care about you, Fox,” she said softly. “Please don’t lie to me.” She barely even knew me.

“Let’s focus on the task at hand,” I said bluntly, extricating myself from her warm embrace. “I’m fine now,” I said, shaking it off.

She reluctantly let me stumble towards the portal that led towards Gregoire. We passed through it and found ourselves in the basement of Orion’s vacation house.

“He’s not here,” I mused.

“How do you know?” Asked Bisa.

“Telepathy. Searching the minds nearby,” I said, already guessing what she would say next.

“Why can’t you search for Orchid?” She asked.

“Trust me, I’m trying,” I said.

“No luck?” She said.

“Wherever she’s being held is psychically blocked somehow,” I said. “Like the telepathic version of a program that keeps changing your IP address so you can’t be tracked online.”

“Was that analogy meant to make it easier to understand?” She chuckled.

“I take it you’re not into computers,” I laughed.

I marched up the stairs. The guards and other staff members ignored us. I supposed they recognised Bisa.

“Orion is nearby!” I said. “He’s in the Caro House!”

“Ok,” she said. “That’s nearby! We can walk!”

“Walk?” I scoffed. “Come here,” I said, grasping her by the waist more forcefully than I had meant to.

Our eyes met and those same tingles were passing through me. I took us to the Caro House in the blink of an eye.

“Are you bewitching me?” I asked her as our eyes met.

I was still holding her to me by the waist. She shook her head.

“Fox!” Exclaimed a deep voice.

“Orion!” I called back.

We were in some weird warehouse surrounded by floor-to-ceiling draws bearing girls’ names. I turned the corner and spotted him with Perseus, Talus and a woman I did not know.

“I have so much to tell you!” Both Orion and I said at once.

“You first,” I said, stalling.

“Firstly, Orchid’s phone is missing from her box of stuff here in the filing room,” said Orion. “Someone must have taken it!”

I gazed around me in wonder. Filing room?

“This is where they keep all the belongings of the kidnapped mates and other girls. The belongings that were on their person at the time,” explained Bisa.

“That’s awful. Barbaric,” I said, frowning, gazing around.

Bisa’s eyes widened. She nudged me. I realised I had said that in front of Orion and Perseus who had probably met Orchid and Rose that way.

“He’s right,” said Orion. “It is awful,” he said sadly. “Can you cast a spell or something to replace out who might’ve tampered with the box and took the phone?” Asked Orion, eager to re-focus the conversation on replaceing Orchid.

“Yes, it’s worth a shot,” I agreed.

“Secondly, Talus’ family is coming to help,” added Orion.

“They’re on their way?” I clarified.

“They’re here,” barked Talus excitedly.

Everyone was snow globe hopping all over the place these days.

“We didn’t see them at the portal?” Said Bisa.

“We must have passed through it after them but arrived before them,” I said.

Orion furrowed his brow.

“Teleporting,” I explained.

I heard the creak of doors as they opened and then I heard a woman’s voice. She had a cultured sort of accent.

“Right this way, Alphas and Luna,” said the voice.

I looked around to see a motley crew of pack leaders heading towards us being led by an elegantly dressed woman with deep brown complexion.

Orion

Finally, things were taking a turn for the better. Fox said he could cast a spell to see who took my Orchid’s phone, and Orchid’s supposed extended family was here. I turned around to see the seven-foot alpha, Alpha Thaddeus, flanked by his twin brothers, Timothy and Titus. Their father Timbre was with them. This was Talus’ elder brother. My eyes trailed over two dark haired companions, a large man and a beautiful petite woman. This must be Alpha Maze and Luna Friday. Sylvia had brought them to us. Sylvia hugged her adopted sister Salvia. There was a long moment of silence.

“True’s at home?” Asked Talus, making awkward conversation with his estranged elder brother.

Timbre nodded solemnly.

“Too dangerous for my Luna,” thundered Timbre in his baritone voice.

“This one wasn’t supposed to come!” Thundered Thaddeus, eliciting a silky laugh from Maze while Friday pouted over her mates wanting her to remain at home.

“And Fang had to be forced to come,” said a girl coming round the corner, flanked by two guys.

She looked almost exactly like Friday! This must be Raelynn and the disgruntled dark haired man at her side should be fang. The grinning blonde guy at her other side was holding her hand. I sniffed the air. Vamp. Raelynn saw how I looked at the blond man and stepped in front of him. Thaddeus put a hand on my shoulder.

“This vampire is my brother-in-law, a peaceful vampire coven leader, Lord Ezra,” said Thaddeus.

I nodded. I had heard the story but I had not had a vampire on my territory in a while.

“Anyone who is here to help me replace my Orchid is welcome,” I said graciously.

Raelynn relaxed a little. Ezra wrapped his arms around her. I sighed.

“We’ll replace her,” said Thaddeus confidently, clapping me on the back.

“Any leads?” Asked Maze in his silky sophisticated voice, leaning against the shelf.

“Well, whoever stole her phone would be the next lead. We have to search Orchid’s old apartment. We’ve got two of my pack members in custody. One of them claimed to see Orchid in the human park nearby with her ex,” I explained.

“And her ex is human?” Asked Maze, raising a brow.

“Um,” I said.

I had assumed he was. I did not know that with certainty. I had assumed Orchid was human and she wasn’t.

“Most likely,” I said with a shrug.

“And I was just about to hear about another lead. The same two pack members in custody, Mary-Sue and Mary-Beth, alleged that a lab tech falsified the paternity results for Talus and Orchid,” I said cautiously, my eyes trailing over Timbre and Talus who stood a foot apart, jaws set, arms folded.

“So she may not be your daughter?” Asked Timbre, raising his thick brows and stroking his beard.

“She is,” said Talus confidently.

“They fixed the result to be a false negative when it should have showed they were related but I had Fox on that,” I said, looking back at a pale Fox. “He was about to tell us what he found.”

Fox took a deep breath. Bisa rubbed his shoulder.

“You ok, there, sombrano?” Joked Thaddeus.

Fox laughed nervously.

“We found a lot more than we bargained for,” said Bisa.

Your mother is involved, Orion, said Fox in my mind.

My heart sped up. I understood his hesitance to divulge that in front of everyone.

“Please excuse me,” I said abruptly. “Thank you so much for coming to help. I just need a moment to see my…Wizard,” I said lamely, grabbing Fox by the arm and marching out of earshot. Bisa scurried behind us.

“To see his what?” Asked Raelynn.

“His Wizard,” said Friday to her half-sister.

“So if he has a Wizard, why was he looking at my Vampire like that?” Complained Raelynn.

“Let it go, Rae,” chuckled Ezra, kissing her gently.

“It’s not too late for you, Baby, and you, Sis, to go home and watch the kids while we work,” I heard Maze suggest to his mate and his half-sister.

“Me man, you women,” mocked Raelynn.

“Fe, fi, fo, f**k off you two! I don’t want you getting hurt,” I heard Fang grumble.

I pulled Fox outside the filing building and onto the grounds. I could just hear faint sounds now, no distinct conversation.

“Here should be good,” I said, a little out of breath.

Fox fixed me with an apologetic look. Bisa had the same apologetic look on her face. This would not be good.

“Tell me everything,” I said, looking Fox in the eyes.