The Unknown Lycan Princess - Chapter 90: Chapter 90

Ethan’s POV
I just laid here watching my mate sleep in my arms. Erica sent me a mindlink earlier to tell me she was going to stay with the pups so that Beth didn’t have to wake up to tend to them. She said there was still plenty of breast milk to last until we woke up. I caressed her back as she slept curled up on Alexi’s chest. I looked up and noticed that he was still awake too. We’ve been laying in here for about an hour now so I am surprised he was still awake.
‘Can’t sleep either?” I asked him in our mindlink.
‘No. I was just thinking about how easily those sect members got into the castle. They shouldn’t have been able to make it to our wing of the castle undetected the way they did. It is driving me insane that I don’t know how they did it.’ Alexi replied back to me.
I placed my hand on his arm that was around Beth to give him some comfort. I understand how he was feeling. If my family isn’t safe here then I want to have them moved. I don’t want anything that happened earlier tonight to happen again. I almost lost my son, and I won’t let that happen again if I can help it.
‘Why don’t you go and investigate where the guards encountered the group and see if you can track where they came from? I can stay here with Beth and Erica is staying with the pups tonight. You won’t get any sleep if you don’t try to clear your mind, and in order to do that you need to go find out what information you can. If you need my help with anything just send me a link and I will go to you. Ok?’ I said to Alexi.
He looked like he was fighting a battle in his mind when he finally sighed and nodded. It was tricky, but we managed to get Beth swapped over to laying on my chest and Alexi was able to exit the bed then without waking Beth up. I watched as Alexi got dressed and as he reached the door I sent him a link and said, ‘Be careful ok? We don’t know if there are any more hiding or not in the castle. Maybe I should go with you?’
‘No. You stay here with Beth. It has been long enough now that if there were more we would have known about it. Plus I can take a few guards with me if you are worried too much.’ Alexi said with a smirk.
‘On second thought nevermind. Go get yourself into trouble. That just means I get Beth all to myself then.’ him. Alexi gave off a soft chuckle before he nodded his head and walked out the bedroom door.
I started to rub Beth’s back again and slowly found my eyes start to droop until I fell off into sleep. Alexi’s POV
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I left Beth and Ethan in our room. I stopped by the nursery on my way out and saw that all our pups were laying on Link’s mattress with Erica laying on one side while there was a pillow barrier on the other side in case the pups rolled in the middle of the night. They may only be about a week old, but they are growing fast because of their genes. Werewolf pups age quickly mentally. I’m not sure if anyone really knows why either.
I closed the door to the nursery and exited the suite. Once I closed the room door I spotted a group of ten guards posted all along the corridor. Seems that Roman didn’t want to take any chances of another attack. I almost guarantee that the whole of the guard backups are on duty now. I can’t say that I am not thankful for that because I am. Anything to help keep my family protected.
As I approached the corridor that I helped the guard finish dispatching the attackers I was shocked to see Sandra and Alexander there. “I thought everyone went to bed?” I asked, startling them.
“Gods! Alexi. I swear you are going to give me a heart attack. Make some noise or something, why don’t you.” Sandra exclaimed.
“We could say the same thing about you son. What are you doing awake? I thought you and Ethan would be wrapped around Beth for the night.” Alexander said.
“I couldn’t sleep. I kept thinking about how they got into the castle. They shouldn’t have been able to do it without being noticed by anyone. So Ethan insisted that I come do my own investigation to settle my mind. It seems you two had the same idea though. Have you found anything?” I explained.
“You are right. We were thinking the same thing. We were just starting actually, and now that you are here you can help. Show me where the fighting was in this hall. I am going to try to do a tracking spell so long as that wasn’t cloaked too.” Sandra said as she got straight to business.
I explained where the fighting was when I arrived. Sandra went straight to work with her tracking spell. At first I didn’t think it was working. Then I noticed Sandra started to sweat profusely. Alexander was trying to get her to stop as soon as her nose started to bleed, but she kept going. Just when I was about to join Alexander in getting her to stop, a purple mist rose up from the floor and a trail started to appear. Sandra stopped then and slumped into Alexander’s arms. Out of breath she said, “I had to fight over a cloaking spell. It was strong meaning they have a strong witch helping them. That path should lead us to where they came in.”
Alexander picked Sandra up and carried her bridal style knowing that there was no arguing with her once she made her mind up about something. I admire Sandra’s tenacity. That is one thing Beth inherited from her. As we followed the purple mist’s path I couldn’t help to take notice that we were getting closer to Roman’s wing of the castle. I was glad to see that the path didn’t start in his wing, but it made turned at the corridor before it and stopped at a room that shocked us. Natasha’s suite of rooms.
“I swear if that b***h had a plan in place I am going to march down to the Underworld and kick her ass.” Sandra hissed
out.
“Easy darling. Let’s just see where it leads.” Alexander tried to soothe her.
I opened the door since Alexander had his hands full. We followed the trail to a storage closet in the suite. Then the trail stopped. I looked at Alexander confused then turned back to the storage closet. I decided to go in and check it out. As I walked in I opened all of my senses up and brought forth my feral side to heighten them even more. I stopped in the middle of the closet and just started looking at the walls and trying to see if I could find something out of place. As I scanned the room I noticed that a piece of cloth that was covering a large object was shifting slightly as if it were caught by a breeze. I walked towards it and placed my hand where the fabric was moving. I could feel a slight breeze on my hand so I tried to move the object, but it wouldn’t budge. I took the cloth off and saw that it was a wardrobe and the door was slightly ajar. I was about to close it when I felt the breeze coming from the wardrobe. Curious, I opened it up more and moved some of the heavy fabrics out of the way to see a doorway in the wardrobe.
I called out to Alexander and Sandra and said, “Hey I found something.” After they both came in, Sandra standing on her own two feet now, they came up to me to see what I found. I explained, “I think it is a secret passageway. This has to be how they got into the castle undetected. We haven’t had any guards placed in this wing since Natasha died.”
“I think you are right. I am going to call for a few guards to come and see where this leads. I think for now that is good for tonight. You need to get back to Beth and I need to get Sandra to rest as well. I will get the report from the guards in the morning before we all meet up at breakfast.” Alexander said.
I agreed so I said my goodbyes and took my leave. I can always come back tomorrow to check for myself if I feel the need or if Ethan wants to check it out. I made my way back to our suite and just as I entered back into the bedroom exhaustion finally hit me. When I laid my head on my pillow I gathered both of my mates into my arms and fell into a blissful sleep.