Chapter Five

We were soon on the road heading to Toby's pack, for right now I felt fine and wasn't missing him. But I guess I've only been away from the place 20 minutes, I wonder what it's gonna feel like after two hours. The car ride was silent, Brandon was just typing away on his laptop as usual while I was in my own little world.

In no time we arrive at the border of Toby's pack, wait I'm his mate, this is our pack! Okay try to put that at the back of your mind and focus on the task at hand. I get out of the car, making sure my name tag was visibly around my neck so the guard doesn't think we're about to attack. By the time I make it over to the guard, Brandon had just gotten out of the car, the dude needs to know when to hurry up.

"Hello, I'm Taylor and this is Brandon, we're from the alliance" I smile over to the guard who's face soon goes blank, this tells me he's mind-linking someone, Brandon finally made it over and his face goes back.

"The Gamma has just given you permission to enter, he will be here shortly to escort you to the site of the attack" he says with a bow of the head, I just take a look to Brandon unknowing of what he meant, we were here to see where all the threats were left from Richard.

"Attack?" I ask with a raised eyebrow, are they calling the threats an attack? But Lukas and Toby never call it that.

"There was a second attack last night with another threat left, this time he used one of the pack members" the guard explains which does make my eyes go wide, Richards never done anything like that before.

"Is the pack member okay?" I ask instantly getting worried, it was like an instruct for me to get protective over a person who I'd never met.

"He sustained many injuries, but he is doing okay ma'am. The man that attacked him told the pack member that he wasn't the target, so he spared him" the guard explains while a very tall handsome man starts to make his way over, I'm gonna take a guess and say this dude is the Gamma.

"My name is Jordan, I will be showing you to where the attack took place" he says always bowing his head towards me, is that how all these guys say hello?

I send him a smile before he turns and walks away, when I take a look at Brandon he was just staring off into space. I nudge him a little snapping him out of whatever trance he was in, he shakes his head before eventually following me, something must be playing on his mind, hopefully he hasn't found his mate too!

We continue to follow Jordan through the woods, some of the terrain was hard to navigate through. Jordan kept looking back to see if I needed help, the only thing he discovered was me helping Brandon. Once Brandon was fully over a huge fallen tree, Jordan told us we were here. I jump down off the tree and make my way over, thankfully they had left everything here so we could see what actually happened.

"The pack member was doing a final check of the land when the man lunged at him, he fought hard and managed to get a few hits in" Jordon explains as I knell down at the specks of blood that was splattered around, from the way in which some was dripping, it was clear that it was from the attacker that fled.

"We should process them to make sure it's definitely Richard and not some random attack" I say looking back at Brandon, who was insanely out of breath.

"I...forgot the bag" he says looking at me with an awkward look, of course he forgot the bag, why didn't I just grab it myself?!

"Than why are you still standing there, could you go and get the bag please?" I ask taking a deep breath in so I wouldn't throw something at him, he immediately nods his head and jumps back over the fallen tree.

"Can't get the staff nowadays" Jordan laughs with his hands in his pockets, I shake my head letting a little laugh out as I went "how's Lukas doing, I would mind-link him but Toby told me to only contract them in an emergency?" He asks I think trying to make conversation, honestly I didn't have anything else I could do until Brandon returned with the bag.

"He's fine, he talks a lot though" I say with a chuckle, remembering how he was on the car ride and after, but as I turn my head I spot something "what's that?" I ask rising to my feet and walking over to it, it appeared to be a black jacket looking thing.

"That's none of the pack members jacket" Jordan says from behind me, I turn to look at him with a raised eyebrow not knowing how he would know that "it has another packs crest on it, no one here is going to wear that and if they did, it would be ripped off them and burned. This pack doesn't deal with outsiders too well, very territorial" he explains pointing down at the jacket, this is where I spot the crest he's talking about.

The writing underneath was too frayed so I couldn't make it out, when Brandon gets back with the bag we can bag it and take it back to the alliance. We have scanners that will probably tell us where that crest came from. As like on cue, I hear Brandon making his way back over the tree, he's getting quicker with every jump. He looks around confused for awhile until I wave him down, relief takes over his face as he ran over, did he think I left him?

"I need gloves and a bag" I tell him as he ripped the bag open handing me a pair of gloves, this meant I could now pick the coat up to get a better look, I didn't need any of my finger prints or dna effecting what's on the jacket.

Once the gloves were on I slowly pick the jacket up, it seems old and I'm not talking a few years old, it looked older than me! I move to look in the inside pocket, when I reach my hand in what feels like an ID card fills the pocket. When I pull it out all our suspicions were true, Richards driving license was looking back at me.

"But why would Richard leave his jacket here, he knows whenever he does an attack we investigate it, this is like a gold mine?" Brandon says pulling one of the evidence bags out the bag, it's a bag in a bag!

"Well we know the attack didn't go as planned due to the pack member fighting back, this doesn't seem to have blood on it and he was definitely bleeding. What I'm guessing happened was he took his jacket off before the attack took place and either forgot, or was too injured to pick it back up" I say guessing while still inspecting the jacket, this has to be one of the biggest things we've got of Richards.

"How is having the jacket a gold mine?" Jordan asks as I carefully put the jacket in the evidence bag, Brandon making sure nothing fell out.

"As you said this has a packs crest on it, Richard would only wear this jacket if he was a part of the pack or it had some sentimental value, this is going to produce such a huge lead" I smile as we take the sticky bit of the evidence bag and seal it, it's safe from the elements in there "we still need to look around the area, if he's forgot something as big as his jacket, who knows what other little things he dropped on the way" I say rising to my feet and start to look even closer at the floor, any little detail we can find will be great.

Brandon stays behind to tag the jacket while I look around, Jordan not far behind me. I suspect he's just curious on what we're gonna find, I mean I am! I was walking past some thick grass when something stands out, I kneel down moving the grass away to see a tiny wallet like photo. I take the photo in my hands to see Richard and a woman smiling back at me, just staring at her face I recognised something about her.

"I think you've just found another huge lead" Jordan says from behind me, I turn to look at him sending him a confused look "that woman in the photo, is Lukas's mother" he says with a look, my eyes just go wide staring down at the photo.

Yep, huge lead alert.