Chapter 220
HANNAH
Willa appeared to be thinking as I continued. "I don't want to keep mine dormant for long. I feel now that I was given it for a reason."
Willa sat back with a sigh. "Yeah, I guess but you'll have to really give a lot of thought to how exactly you want to do that."
"I was thinking-"
There was a knock on the door at that point. A guard came in to say the Alpha wanted to see me immediately in his study. I went with the guard. Willa called out that she would be waiting for me.
"An issue that just came up," the Alpha informed me when the guard had closed the door behind him.
I frowned. "A problem?"
"Yes. Of a sort. More like a nuisance, maybe. Some members of the pack reported seeing strange, unfamiliar faces around. According to some reports, these strangers go around wearing masks."
He read the surprise on my face and said, "Yes. I was as surprised as you were when I heard that. How they got through the borders I don't know although I've just given an order for the border security to be looked into. These people went to the market area to cause trouble there. Reports of the exact nature of the trouble vary, and that's why I want you on the scene to check it out. My sons aren't around, and-" He gestured to the pile of documents on his desk, the ones on his filing cabinet, in his drawer and finally his computer. "Only an extreme emergency can take me away from here. I'm up to my eyeballs at work. Do you think it's something you can do?"
I nodded at once. "Yes, Alpha. I'll be glad to help. Do you think this... attack is serious?"
"I really don't know yet," he confessed. "I sent guards to the market but I got next to nothing from them." He shrugged. "I'm thinking it could be just the usual troublemakers that crop up in the pack once in a while but I think it still bears checking out. Also I want you to get all the information of what exactly happened, you understand?" I nodded. "Get all the facts. Find witnesses and make sure they're not exaggerated." As an afterthought he added, "Make sure the facts are not understated either."
I nodded. "Of course."
He began rifling through some papers at his elbow, looked up, and suddenly realized I was standing.
"Sit down. Sit down," he said.
As I lowered myself into the chair opposite his desk, he handed me a printed sheet of paper.
"To make your job easier," he went on as I took the paper. "There is a list of all the areas that reported similar incidents. There will be guards accompanying you there, of course."
While the Alpha typed away on his computer, I studied the list. I knew several of the places, and as for the ones I didn't, Willa would know.
I tucked it into my pocket and rose.
"Alpha," I said. "Can Willa go with me?"
A ghost of a smile briefly played across his lips. "Yes. I'm sure she will like that. Go now."
He was back to carefully going through the documents on the desk before I was out the door.
Willa turned up her face to me expectantly when I returned to her room.
"What did he want?" she said.
I told her.
"I asked him if you could come with me," I said. "He said yes."
Willa sprang to her feet. "Cool! This is a big job, you know. It's what he would send my brothers to do, and now it's us girls doing it. Today you get to be the er- commander of the guards?"
I burst out laughing. "Seriously Willa. You're killing me! I'm afraid this is a titleless job."
"Oh well. It's still exciting anyway."
The guards to accompany us were already waiting outside.
"You know where to go?" I asked the driver as he started the car.
"The market area," he said.
I nodded, and relaxed back against the plush leather seats.
"Do you think there's anything really in these attacks?" Willa asked me once we set off. "Anything suspicious?"
"Unfamiliar faces in the pack are suspicious enough. I'm wondering how they even got into the pack in the first place though your father said he's looking into that."
"But what does your instincts tell you?" Willa asked again.
"It could just be thieves and troublemakers in the pack, or it could be a new group planning something serious."
"I hope not," Willa said uneasily.
"Me too."
But I remembered Asher's visit to the school. He had said he had his own pack now. After thinking about it, I later brushed off his claim as boasting.
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