The Luna and her Quadruplet Pups by Jane Above Story

Chapter 82

#Chapter 82- Motive

Ethan

“It’s all taken care of?” I ask, staring down the desk sergeant at the police headquarters.

She nods, averting her eyes from my dominant gaze. “Yes Alpha, Ms. Mechant

will be held at the sanitorium until her trial.”

“Good.” I answer briskly. “I want to be notified the moment a date is set, or if any new developments arise.”

“Yes sir.” She replies obediently. I’m about

to walk away when the detective on my Mother’s case catches my attention.

“Excuse me, Alpha, do you have a moment to talk?” He asks, looking far too pleased

with himself.

“Assuming you have something of consequence to share.” I grumble, closing

the distance between us.

“Of course, sir.” The man agrees, leading me towards his desk, “I would never waste

your time.”

I follow him at a distance, muttering under my breath and trying to guess what fresh hell he might be preparing to thrust me into. Taking the guest chair as he settles in front of his computer, I mentally count to ten, urging myself to have patience.

“Well?” I press when he doesn’t explain why he pulled me aside, “What’s going on? Have you found something?”

“As a matter of fact, we have.” He shares

with a smug smile. “As you know we collected a few boxes of evidence from your

apartment on the night of the murder,

including a number of items from your

mother’s room.”

“And?” I prompt him, wishing he would get to the point.

“Well my team has been going through that

evidence all week, and yesterday one of my

rookies came across a document we

previously missed – one which could explain your ex-wife’s motive for the

crime.”

wolf’s hackles raise. If the obnoxious investigator doesn’t stop insisting Jane is responsible for my mother’s murder despite my repeated orders to investigate Eve, I’m going to lose my temper. “And what document

snatch it up, scanning the contents of the form. The logo of an out-of- territory laboratory is stamped at

a table full of obscure biological markers and alleles, with each of the quadruplets’ names and my own

understand the

to read a percentage easily

and at the bottom of each column are the

%.

when she told me the pups were Eric’s, but I think I held off having the tests run myself because deep down I was afraid

ask hoarsely,

to this

than the joy of my

mistook it for a bill at

someone went through

that we found it.”

muse, wondering how soon

end.

theorizes. “Maybe she was going to use the test results to force

tried to confront her with it, and lost her life

result.”

still staring at the

way.” The investigator argues, “You’ve been telling me Jane didn’t have a motive to kill Petra all along, but

that Jane killed her

for you to find? If she knew this existed and was willing to kill to hide it, why didn’t she destroy

and ran before she could look for it.”

she made the call reporting my

she ran out, she had to

and she would have had

–

you arrived.” I counter, feeling more

minute.

and you don’t want to believe she’d do this, but all

to accept it sooner or

later.”

begun looking into Eve?” I question. “Have you given a

told you about

do respect, Alpha, you

my investigations as I see fit.” He grumbles

remain on the force.” I remind him. “If

and hard about how badly you’re willing to risk

indignation, ” Are you threatening me?” He exclaims in

outrage.

than a true laugh. “Was that

I continue, “if you

job,

hell of a lot better than you

I might not run your department, but I am your

feathers, he tries to glower

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