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Callox POV

After the meeting with the people of the pack, I called Liam to discuss the investigation we had planned to carry out,

He told me he had gone ahead to make some investigation on his own, just to narrow down the search, he gave me a list of guards who were on duty post the day Rayell left, and came back after a long while of missing,

I was studying the lists and also interviewing the guards, There were six guards on duty the afternoon she left, and then the evening she returned,

Liam called them into the royal court one by one,

The first one was a lanky lad, who looked quite young to be a guard, with red hair and spotted freckles,

“Did you happen to see Rayell on the day she left the palace unescorted?”,

“I was on a bathroom break in the afternoon, and by evening my post ended”, he replied avoiding my eye contact, why was he part of the royal guards,

“And you are?”,

“Derek Argonaut, Your Highness”,

From the house of Argonaut,

“How did you end up as a guard”,

“My- brot