Filed to story: The Luna Mated to Triplet Alphas Novel
I could tell she was annoyed I had gone straight into asking questions about Chasity’s parents without much preamble. Did she just say Chase Case? Was she making this up to throw us off the trail? Did she not wanna face her stepbrother?
“Chase case?” I asked incredulously.
Mom laughed suddenly.
“I didn’t name him,” she retorted, snorting with laughter.
I chuckled half-heartedly.
“What was Chasity’s Mom’s maiden name?” I asked.
“Smith,” said Mom immediately.
I paused after I wrote it down. I had expected her to hesitate for that one, to have to struggle to remember. Many people did not know the maiden names of the married women they knew. Mom must have paid closer attention to her stepbrother’s mate than I thought.
“Did either Chase or Chalice have a best friend? Or friends?” I asked.
We would need to interview more people than just Mom to get to the bottom of this.
“Yeah, ummm, Chalice was the social one. She liked a lot of attention, that one.” Said Mom snidely.
Just as I figured, Mom had a problem with Chalice so she had been keeping tabs on her somewhat.
“Remember any of their names,” I asked hopefully.
“Deirdre and Didi were her two main girlfriends. They were best friends,” said Mom.
“Describe them!” I said eagerly, my pen at the ready.
This would be a big help. Surely any friend worth their weight would know where they might have gone, their old haunts, their potential hideaways.
“Deirdre was a tall, statuesque girl. She looked like a model. She actually did some modelling. I wonder what became of her…” said Mom, trailing off.
Why was that name so familiar to me?
“You mean Deirdre Binx?!” Asked Calix incredulously.
Huh? Calix knew her too.
“Yes! That was her last name! I remember now! Tall, dark skinned, high cheekbones. You could cut cheese with those cheek bones!” Said Mom, laughing.
“Mom!” Exclaimed Felix. “Deidre really did become a model, an international supermodel. She’s retired but she’s the real deal!”
Wow, ok. I was not up to date on my pop culture or whatever but my brothers certainly were. I had assumed Deidre’s name was familiar because she was someone from the gym or something.
Calix googled the name and showed the page to me. There were millions of pictures of her online. She had a summer house in LA in the human realm. Wow, Chasity’s Mom had such a famous best friend. None of that added up. I had to assume Deidre knew Chalice had a daughter, so why had she never inquired about Chasity even after her mother went missing? If my close friends went missing and they had a kid, I would at least send Christmas gifts or something. Didn’t she want to know how Chasity was holding up? Didn’t she want to reminisce and tell Chasity funny stories about her Mom’s glory days?
I wrote down Deidre’s full name and the alleged address of her Summer House as it was listed online.
“Then there was Didi Torte,” said Mom. “She was a short girl with blonde hair and huge orb-like eyes. She knew everybody’s business. A huge busybody!”
I could tell from the way Mom had described these people that she found Deidre impressive and Didi not so much.
“Do you have phone numbers for either of these people, Mom?” I wondered.
They were originally our pack members after all no matter where they lived now.
“Nope, sorry, Hun,” said Mom.
“What about Chasity’s father, any close companions?” I tried.
“Just one! He was a bit of a loner. My stepbrother. He was shy and sweet,” said Mom.
I found that hard to believe. He had been a drug addict with a party animal mate according to Mom so was he suddenly being dubbed shy and sweet and a loner?
“Ok and this one close companion was called?” I prompted.
“Dexter! Dexter Sharpe. He was an aspiring news reporter actually. He was a nervous guy with shifty eyes. Tall and thin, walked kinda hunched over with his fingers wiggling all the time,” said Mom.
“And what places did they hangout at, Mom?” I asked.
Mom made a disapproving “tsk” sound.
“Anywhere drugs and alcohol could be found,” she retorted. “Bars. There was a bar they frequented called The Serpent’s Tongue. There was a club where people would cage fight called A Fork in the Road and there was a casino they liked…” said Mom, stopping abruptly.
“A casino?” I said, eager to note it down with the rest.
This was the lead I had been hoping for! The casino where they had incurred their huge debts and possibly met with their huge enemy whether that be a loan shark, another gambler or the owner himself.
“Yeah, umm, it was called The Lucky Toad,” said Mom reluctantly.
“A friendly place?” I asked nonchalantly, trying to gauge how criminal these characters would be.
Mom snorted with laughter.
“Of course not, the guys there probably eat gravel and drink freshly mixed cement,” retorted Mom.
I could just picture her shaking her head and folding her arms at the indignity of it all. She was clearly not over her stepbrother’s past poor choices.
“They were animals! Always getting in fights. The police got called there so many times, they tried to shut the place down but couldn’t because the people that owned it had connections. The police just stopped showing up there even when called after a while,” explained Mom.
I looked at my brothers. We had our work cut out for us. We definitely had to track down and interview the three old friends of Chalice and Chase and question them. We also had to scope out the their three old haunts. There would probably be more people there to question if anyone was willing to come forward with information. I hoped we were not stirring up a hornet’s nest with these leads. I was not about to my Chasity, my brothers or myself get stung.
“Thanks, Mom,” said Calix. “I really, really appreciate it. It means the world to Chasity so it means the world to me.”
There was a pause.
“Well, then, if it means the world to my baby boy then it means the world to me,” said Mom, sounding strained.
“Thanks, Mom. It really does mean a lot to us,” I emphasised.
“Thanks for being cool about this, Mom! You’re a fox,” Said Felix.
“Oh, Felix,” chuckled Mom. “You know I did go to a few parties back in my day. I wasn’t wild and reckless like that girl’s mother, you know! I mean, I had a reputation to uphold, of course, but I did have my fun…”
“Awesome sauce, Mom,” said Felix, trying to cut her off.
“Amazing, Mom, thanks again,” said Alex.
“Thanks for sharing,” added Felix.
“Thanks Mommy! Love you! Bye!” Said Calix.
We all breathed a sigh of relief. We looked at each other.
“Fuck yeah! We did it!” Yelled Felix triumphantly.
He and Calix high-fived.
“I don’t mean to be a killjoy…” I began.
“Then don’t,” said Felix.
I rolled my eyes. Felix frowned. Calix pouted.
“Fuck yeah,” I said, smiling, high-fiving my little brothers.
“Whoo,” yelled Felix.
Calix did a strange little victory dance. We had not actually done anything, other than amass a couple leads. I just hoped they were true leads and not dead-ends.
I went over my notes. We had six main leads.
Deidre Binx, Chalice’s retired supermodel friend.
Didi Torte, Chalice’s busybody friend.
Dexter Sharpe, Chase’s alleged only friend.
The Serpent’s Tongue Bar.
A Fork in the Road Cage-fighting Club.
The Lucky Toad Casino.
My brothers were still celebrating. I was a man of logic but my wolf and I had this ritual. We would have hunches, and they were never wrong, literally never. We circled the lead we had a hunch about, the one we kept coming back to. We would see if our hunch was right yet again soon enough.
There, I said to myself as I stared at the name circled in red ink.
Deidre Binx.
Alex
Chasity was fast asleep in our bedroom. I perched lightly on the edge of the bed so as not to wake her.
“We’ll tell her our agreement in the morning then,” I whispered to my brothers. Felix nodded. Calix smiled. Chasity stirred. Shit! She was such a light sleeper. She blinked and looked at me, her pretty face confused. I touched her cheek.
“I’m sorry for waking you, Luna!” I murmured.
“Alex?” She mumbled.
“Yes, Princess,” I said.
“Did…um…did…” she began, pausing with a nervous glance at Felix.
She probably did not want to reveal him if he had not asked us about helping find Chasity’s parents yet.
“Yes, I talked it over with them,” said Felix, guessing her thoughts. “Your boys want to help as much as I do, okay.”
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