Filed to story: The Luna Mated to Triplet Alphas Novel
Felix and I nodded.
“Calix couldn’t make it today,” I said apologetically.
She laughed nervously.
“All three Alphas coming to see little old me,” she giggled. “I have three boys myself.”
“Yeah, you said that already,” said Felix.
I nudged him again.
Be nice! She’s being nice! She’ll be easy to interview! I said in Felix’s mind.
He sighed inwardly over mind-link.
Come on! Turn on the charm! Unearth f**kboy Felix just for today, I t**sed.
I was never a f**kboy! Snarled Felix.
Felix tried to pet Wynken, the orange cat, but he too was unsuccessful.
“Are your cats named after that poem?” Asked Felix.
“Yes!” Squealed Didi excitedly. “You know it?!”
We nodded. Didi giggled and clapped her hands together. Her smile faltered a little.
“What can I do for you, Alphas?” She asked nervously.
Before we could respond she began offering treats.
“I have apple pie, and ice cream to go with it! I’ll fix it right up!” She said.
“No apple pie for me, just ice cream! Thanks!” Said Felix.
What the f**k.
Felix! I chastised.
You said to be charming, said Felix.
Yeah, showing up uninvited to interrogate someone while you eat their ice cream is the very picture of charm, I said sarcastically.
“Nothing for me, Mrs Torte!” I said politely.
“Oh, please, please, Alpha, call me Didi!” Said Didi.
She scurried through a nearby door into what must be the kitchen. I could hear her bustling about and rummaging around in there. Felix and I sank into one of the squishy blue sofas. Didi returned, setting a tray down on the coffee table and sitting in an armchair opposite us. She had brought two bowls of vanilla ice cream despite my refusal. Felix also had a slice of apple pie in his bowl despite refusing the pie. She was definitely the kind of Mom who brought snacks and meals to her sons’ rooms even when they said they weren’t hungry. Felix promptly took both bowls and both spoons. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes while he tackled the ice cream.
“Should I bring more?” Asked Didi eagerly.
“No!” I said quickly.
We had chit-chatted enough. The ice should be broken by now. It was time to get down to business.
“Sorry to drop in on you like this out of the blue but it is very important!” I stated.
Didi nodded. Felix tried the pie.
“I’m told that you were a good friend of a woman by the name of Chalice a while back?” I asked tentatively.
At the mention of “Chalice” Didi stiffened immediately
“What can you tell me about her?” I asked gently.
Didi was wringing her hands.
“Alpha, to be frank, I know Chalice is the mother of your mate, little Chasity,” admitted Didi.
I straightened in my seat. Felix stopped eating.
Well, that was easy, said Felix in my mind. She’s an open book.
“But I don’t know where Chalice went! She just…left,” confessed Didi, shrugging.
“Right, but what happened before that?” I asked.
“She was tense leading up to her leaving. We were friends. We partied together. We skipped school together. We even got tattoos together!” Said Didi, laughing and looking away as the nostalgia hit her.
She showed us her tattoo of a full moon with a snake curled around it. I committed the image to memory. I would sketch it later.
“So Chalice has the same tattoo?” I confirmed.
“Yeah,” said Didi, nodding. “Hers is on her ankle though and mine is here by my forearm,” explained Didi, her fi**gers tracing her tattoo.
“I was wild back in my day. We liked to gamble at The Lucky Toad. A group of us, me, Chalice and Deidre Binx. We were inseparable at one point. We took care of each other. We had our vices. Chalice had pissed off her dealer and the Casino Owner! She owed both of them money!” Continued Didi, her exp**ssion growing sombre.
I immediately added Chalice’s “dealer” and “The Lucky Toad Casino Owner” to my list of leads.
“Was she ever threatened by either of them?” I asked.
“By her dealer, yeah, not the casino owner, he considered her small potatoes,” said Didi with a dismissive flourish of her hand.
That’s weird. I would think the casino owner would be just as mad as the dealer if he got stiffed, said Felix.
Yeah, you’re right, I admitted.
Casino owners did not tend to take kindly to gamblers who could not pay off their debts.
She might have had a good relationship with the Casino Owner or he might have felt sorry for her or something, I reasoned.
Either way, finding the The Lucky Toad Casino Owner would be easy. Finding Chalice’s old drug dealer on the hand…
“Who was her dealer?” I asked.
“A guy who went by the name Casper,” laughed Didi as she reminisced. “They used to call him Casper the Unfriendly Ghost,” she chuckled, slapping her knee, as she burst into a fit of giggles.
Felix just stared at her. I gave her a faint smile.
“I didn’t know his full name or his real name,” Didi said.
“You know if he still deals?” I asked.
“Of course! It’s a small town,” said Didi.
“Got a number or an address?” Asked Felix, getting straight to the point.
“I’ve got both!” Said Didi.
She called out the number and the address for us.
I guess we’ll be paying Casper the Unfriendly Ghost a visit, grumbled Felix in my mind.
Yeah, and we need to check out the Casino and its owner. This is the second time The Lucky Toad has been brought up. There just has to be something there, I reasoned.
“And this Casino Owner? Name and number?” Asked Felix, straight to the point as usual.
Didi bustled about looking for her cellphone. She found it in bet**en the cushions of the armchair on which she had just been sitting. She looked through her list of contacts. I was suddenly struck by the fact that she had known the number and address of Casper the Dealer by heart. Maybe she had not cleaned up her act quite as much as she had claimed.
“Here’s the number for The Lucky Toad casino,” said Didi, showing us the number on the screen of her phone.
I jotted it down.
“His name is Alexi Franck,” said Didi, referring to the Casino Owner. “I don’t have his personal number but uh he’s even less friendly than the unfriendly ghost I told you about,” She warned.
I noted all of that. Alexi Frank. Lucky Toad Casino Owner. Hostile.
“Thank you, Didi! You’ve been an amazing help!” I said in earnest.
“It’s a pleasure,” said Didi. “I can’t believe I entertained two Alphas impromptu today!” She squealed.
I smiled. Felix finished the last of his early morning dessert.
“Chasity is a lucky girl!” Squealed Didi out of the blue.
Felix and I exchanged a glance. Instinctively I knew what he was thinking.
“Do you know why Chasity was left with our parents?” Asked Felix. “Why not leave her with you for instance?”
I wondered if Didi knew that Chasity’s Dad was our Mom’s stepbrother.
“Me?!” Said Didi incredulously.
Felix nodded.
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