A Gamma's Revenge by Ylyanah

| Chapter 79 Answer Zalia Finished I am glad everyone accepts my answer to Slater's question, I already knew who I would chose as my Beta when Deimos askedthe question. Figuring out who to ask to becmy Gamma was a bit more complicated and I wasn't sure my choice was the best until today.

Dinner tcomes quickly and I see Omegas walking towards the Alpha office, an indication that they are no where near done and I hope this won't take Alpha Epps to long from his Pack. I decide to see how serious Slater was about Little river Pack looking for a new territory, "Dagda, is it true your Father wants to expand the territory?" I ask.

"Yes, Zalia. We out grew our territory about two years ago and we have trouble housing the unmated males and females that no longer want to live with their parents. Dad also has quite a few request from Wolves that want to move to our territory, but we just don't have the space to take them in and I know he really would like to accept all of them. Dagda answers.

During our meal we talk about various options, but none of the are adequate and we end up back were we started. Alpha Eros should look for another territory, instead of trying to expand his current territory. I lean back in my seat to see Pack-members coming and going, every conversation revolves around one topic; the money Brad stole.

Everyone has an opinion about why he did it, how he did it and what he was planning to do.

Axelle is sitting at a table not far from us, but I haven't seen Elinor or Hester at all during dinner. My best guess would be that the conversation with Axelle didn't go the way Elinor had hoped and she is currently on the Beta floor licking her wounds.

I feel sad that I have lost sof my best friends, but hever asked for any of this and I can start thinking in the "what if" but it just won't doany good. Things are the way they are and everyone will have to get used to it, which will be easier said than done for sDanny's words still run through my head and I wonder why Elinor thinks she can defeatin a challenge.

She has seentrain beside her Brother, she has seenspar with her Brother and she has seendefeat him every single time. Leavingwith the million dollar question, how does she plan on defeatingand only one answer comes to mind. She is planning on cheating.

I am not really familiar with ways of rigging a fight and didn't have to use for that knowledge, but I guess I will have to start looking into that. I want to be prepared if Elinor plans on cheating, because I don't want to lose this fight. Her family doesn't deserve to be ruling Moon Stone Pack, Brad took control under false pretenses and this is where it ends.

Twilight draws my attention to her and I lean closer to Deimos as I let myself draw back a little further, not enough to scare Deimos but far enough so no one sees what is going on. By the tI am done I find myself in Deimos' arms and we are on our way to the Gamma floor, Leander and Danny right behind us.

Once the door to my room is closed I look up at Deimos and through the mind-link I tell him what Twilight had cup with. "Are you kidding me? Twilight cup with that." He asksas we sit down on the bed and I just nod my head before I snuggle closer to his chest.

"Twilight feels it is the best solution and I agree with her. Neither one of us trusts Elinor anymore and both of us think she might stoop so low that she will try and cheat to win. It will solve a lot of problems and it means I will have less to worry about when it concerns Crystal Cove Pack." I say as I listen to his heartbeat and feel his hand running up and down my coine.

1/3 16-37 hu, Jan 30 Chapter 79 Answer 62% #Finished "I cup with the other part of the solution, but that still leaves the question of the Beta and Gamma position. I just hate that it means that they will never get a chance to fulfill their destiny, but I know I need people aroundthat I can trust." I mumble as my eyes slowly close on their own accord.

Sweetheart, wake up." I hear the familiar voice of my Mother whisper and I open my eyes to see her sitting in front of me, but I am no longer in my own bedroom. I am in the bedroom of my parents. She is dressed exactly the slike last tand I hear her tapping her foot on the floor, which is strange with the carpet that is under the bed.

I slowly look over the side of the bed to see that the carpet is gone and the floorboard she is taping on with her foot is a different shade from the rest. If this is anything like last tthan I know that Mom won't speak, that I can't speak and that this is a clue that I need. I smile at her as I mouth "I love you" and she does the sin return before she slowly fades away again.

I shoot up straight in bed, knocking Deimos out of the way and before he can say or ask anything I jump out of bed. I put on my sweatpants as I rush out of the door, nearly tripping as I try to put them on and I burst into Dad's bedroom without knocking. I grab the carpet to pull it away and a smile appears on my face when I see the discolored floorboard.

I feel along all sides of the floorboard, but I can't find a place to lift it up and I am about to lose my patient when a knife is held in front of my face. “Thanks, Leander." I say as I grab the knife and finally I am able to lift the floorboard, but Dad stopsby placing his hand over mine.

"Zalia, how do you know about your Mother's hiding spot?" Dad asks and my head snaps up to look at him.

"Have you ever looked in here?" I ask him, but the look on his face already answers my question. He respected Mom's privacy, even after her death.

I lift the floorboard up and in the hiding spot is a small ron box I have seen before. Mom would sometimes sit on her bed, holding it in her hands with far away look in her eyes and even though she never said anything I knew I needed to leave her alone for a while.

"I had another dream about Mom, she was tapping her foot on this floorboard. There has to be something in here that will answer a few questions, if not all of them." I say as I lean forward. I slowly lift the box from it's hiding place and take a good look at the engraving on the lid. It is the sengraving I saw above the door of Crystal Cove Pack.

I open the lid to be faced with Uncle Darric and Grandma, but anyone can tell that this picture is decades old and I find a few more pictures in the box. All of them from her past and I know she missed them. during the times I found her with the box in her hands Placing every picture o the bed I finally uncover a tiny cardboard box with a date and a twritten on it. It is the day of Slater's eight birthday and the tis from before his party, because Mom always organized our parties for the afternoon. I wonder why she was taping something before his party started, "Maybe she was testing the camera" Twilight says and 1 think she might be right.

"Is there anyway we can play this tape?" I ask as I pull it out of the cardboard box it had been in. Leander takes it from my hand to look at it and as he hands it back tohe nods his head, before he walks out of the bedroom. Deimos helpsup as Dad stares at the pictures on the bed and I see him staring at Mom's face, a tear slowly rolling down his cheek. "She was always so beautiful, I sometimes have trouble remembering her." I hear him whisper.

I know Dad removed every picture of Mom and hid them out of sight, they were a constant reminder of 2/3 1527 Thu Jan 2 Chapter 79 Answer way that he wouldn't see it every the walked into our room.

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"Zalia, everything is set up." I hear Leander say as I hold Dad in a tight hug, he gets up without releasingand Deimos givesa small smile as he follows us to the living room. Besides Slater and Leander no one else is there and Dad still refuses to letgo, sitting don on the couch facing the TV.

Leander places the tape in a device next to him and starts to fast forward to the twritten on the box, he pauses it before he hands Slater the remote to leave the living room. Once the door closes Slater presses play and our living room comes into view, "Let's see if you still work after last time." We hear Mom's voice say and we see the camera turning towards the open window.

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