Kidnapped and Rejected – The Return of Alpha’s Luna by Moon Claw

Chapter 56

The witness Janet wanted to talk to was Maxie.

Although Baron hadn’t been very nice to Maxie, he trusted her very much. He brought her to the first between–packs competition, and he even let her fill in as the substitute trainer while he was absent.

Maxie must know something about his dirty deals.

The only problem was whether or not she would be willing to tell Janet everything that she knew.

It seemed that Maxie was terrified of Baron. She didn’t even dare to say a word of defiance when Baron blamed her for the mad bear incident.

Baron must have found a way to control her somehow.

Janet needed to find out by what means Baron was controlling Maxie.

And she needed to win over Maxie’s trust.

Maxie was living in the central packhouse. Since she didn’t show up in the training field today, Janet thought she might have the luck of finding Maxie in her room.

Janet arrived outside of Maxie’s room and gently knocked on the door.

Nobody answered.

Janet didn’t give up. She knocked again.

This time she heard a series of light footsteps approaching the door, followed by a guardedly tensed voice asking, “Who is it?”

“It is me, Janet, from the Blood Moon Pack.” Janet leant closer to the door and

asked, “Can we talk for a minute?”

“I can’t think of anything we can talk about,” said Maxie warily.

It didn’t kick off with a great start.

But Janet didn’t leave.

Instead, she held the doorknob and insisted, “Give me a chance to talk to you Maxie. This is important. You don’t need to come out. We can talk through the door if you like.”

There was another long silence.

And then, the door was opened up a crack, revealing a small part of Maxie’s face.

“What do you need?” Maxie asked lowly.

training field today. I heard that Baron replaced you with Owen. But you were doing great training

And I don’t mind that,

nothing but waiving his fists in

Maxie’s face went pale.

pause, she muttered, “This is Riverside Pack’s business. And

Janet took a step further and put her foot

the battlefield together one day. I can’t stand aside and do nothing when a real capable person like you

her lips and subsided into

stared at her and asked abruptly, “What happened to

But her sleeves rolled up when she tried to

a few striking bruises on her skin. All seemed relatively

panicked and quickly pulled off her sleeve to

bother. I saw it already.” Janet said solemnly, “I get it. It isn’t easy for you to stand up against Baron’s tyrant. It took me a long time to learn about how to fight for my own

inhaled sharply. Her lips started to

still had the door half–open. But she stopped trying to close

do you want

Maxie asked eventually.

back to the training field? We both

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we can’t let

into Maxie’s eyes and

need to

shock

Maxie gasped in disbelief, “Do you know who Baron

His father won all those glories, not him. We can’t let

among the soldiers. You can’t

why we need to show those

a deep breath

there was an account book, documenting all details of Baron’s secret deals. If you happen to know

“NO!” Maxie snarled abruptly.

of fear and anger on Maxie’s face as she glared at Janet and cried, “Forget it!

Let’s

am done talking to

with a huge bang

took a quick step back to avoid getting hit by the

Then she frowned.

indeed an account

Maxie knew where

all

the idea of taking

too.

why did she react so strongly when Janet asked her about the