It's been almost a week since I met with my dad and a lot has changed, firstly I got my cast off my arm which was incredible! It felt weird for the first few days but now it feels like it's almost back to normal. It served as a constant reminder of Rupert and the attack but now it's gone, I feel like I can move passed it and get on with the more important things in my life. Erik and I have been working hard on the case against Gray's father, we just need to find more witnesses that will testify against him when it goes to trial, we have my dad but Erik told me we'd need a few more to really make people see what horrible man Preston was and mostly likely still is.
Gray and I have hardly seen each other this past week as we've both been way to busy, he's wrapped up with building the case on Daisy and finding Rupert. Either I'm with Erik working into the night or he's with Josh doing the same, I knew I'd be busy when
It's the morning after all that chaos, we managed to arrive in the safe house just before nightfall. They first wanted us to drive in a car up there but, as they were doing the routine check of the vehicle before we went anywhere near it, they found an explosive. Gray didn't want to take any chances so we went in wolf form, it was great! It's the first time since becoming Queen I've been able to shift."I felt like a free wolf!" My wolf cheers in my head causes me to laugh a little.The safe house is actually bigger than I first thought it would be, when you picture a safe house you imagine a tiny house in the middle of a wood right? This is entirely different, it's a huge mansion right in the heart of a huge town, once again I never imagined it to be like this. Gray explained this is the safest safe house around, Rupert's gonna find out we're i
I spent a few more hours in the meeting room alone, I kept going over the information Erik found on Gray's mum over and over again. Each time I read it I would become more convinced she was still alive, I just hope Gray takes all the information well too. I won't tell him until Erik is hundred percent sure the person he's visiting is Gray's mother, part of me hopes it is but another part doesn't. Gray will feel so betrayed if he discovers his mother has been alive this whole time and she never came home, at least with my parents I knew they didn't want to look after me and Kyle anymore, it gave me room to accept it. But Gray has had to try and accept the death of his mother, only to find out she could potentially still be out there.I stare at the photo of the destroyed house in front of me, it was so similar to how Rupert's turned out. Maybe that's where Preston got the idea to burn Rupert's from. I still haven't
After dinner we were just sat in the bedroom in silence, there's not much you can do in when it's light while here. It's too dangerous to go outside in the day in case we're recognised, which means we're stuck in this house all day. I sat on the bed while Gray took off the "normal clothes". At dinner we have a rule that we don't mind-link anyone and phones are off, that way we have each other's undivided attention. I assumed he would be quiet and not want to talk due to his mother, he was actually the opposite and was so talkative and happy which was shocking, but it did make me happy to see him happy after the last few days."I can guess that your dinner is over as I'm not being blocked out, sorry I had to drop the bombshell to the King over the phone but mind-link wouldn't work out there, I've just left but she's joining me and wouldn't take no for an answer" Erik voice says through mind-link, I take a look at G
"Rupert?" Gray asks dumbfounded staring at his photo, I just nod my head placing the photo on the desk."We had the same reaction to the news, we've found out that Rupert was also one of your fathers men that helped him commit such heinous crimes" I start to explain while Erik begins to pull more papers out, we fell down a rabbit hole investigating this "now all this linked together and I mean it all, Matilda's death, your mother as we now know, faking her death and Rupert's house burning down, they're all connected" I say laying the photos on the table, honestly it was a lot, we must have used about a tree and a half making all these up."But you say there was a witness there, if Rupert was working with his dad he wouldn't spill his guts to officials, after his dad killed Rupert's mate he didn't have anything to do with Grayson's family at all"
Guards immediately start to file into the office blocking any doors and windows, Gray's arms lock around me as the room instantly becomes packed as the shouting continues. I look back at Gray very worried who places a kiss on my shoulder, I think this was him telling me I was going to be okay."That is absolutely correct my love, no harm is going to come to you, I promise" he mind-links hearing my thoughts, I take hold of one of his arms that were still tightly wrapped around me.A few silent minutes in the room pass, the shouting got louder for a second but than stopped abruptly. But the thing that stood out to me was it didn't sound like a man, to me it sounded like a woman. In my mind I was trying to match the voice to someone I knew, but I couldn't place the voice with anyone. This would mean either Rupert has a very girly voice or, it's not
It was silent for what left like an eternity, Gray and I stood outside the door just staring at the women inside the door, who was also just looking back at us. No one dared to make the first move, I run my thumb over Gray's knuckles to show him I'm here but also in hopes to snap him out of it. It works and he begins to lead me into the room, the guard bows their head at us before leaving the room closing the door behind them. The stand off only continued, no one dared to move or even talk for a few seconds. Thankfully, Gray's mum spoke up."My baby look at you, you won't believe how much I've missed you" she says tears welling up in her eyes as she spoke, she then turns her attention to me stood beside Gray "you must be his mate, oh my you're so beautiful" she smiles at me, I send her a smile back at her kindness."Thank you, I'm Clara" I smile
We arrived back to the castle in the early hours of the morning, honestly I thought it would go as smoothly as leaving the castle would be, but boy was I mistaken! We were supposed to leave the safe house this morning, but Gray got word that Rupert somehow learnt the location of the safe house, he blames his mother for showing up. So late last night after being literally dragged from bed and into a car, we arrived at the castle in the really early hours. Gray wasn't kidding when he told me they put an increase in the guard presents around the castle, they're down every corridor and office I even saw them in a crawl space when I was walking around! Lets just hope they don't get too overwhelming, but I know Gray is only doing this as he cares.I was so nervous for the day ahead of me, if you remember Erik told me he had something he needed to discus with me about Cyrus. Everything with Gray's mother kind of put that
"I know you came here and spoke with your dad a few weeks ago, I haven't saw him since which means you've done one of two things" he begins to speak, in his mind he was leading this conversation "either you've off'd him, which I honestly think you don't have it in you or, he's agreed to something and you've let him go, which one am I right about Clara?" He asks me smirking, he tries to lean forward but the handcuffs behind his back prevented him from doing so."As much as you're trying to hide it, you're struggling right now aren't you Cyrus?" I ask with a smile, he looks annoyed at me for a second but I just continue "now you and I need to come to some sort of arrangement, if we do than you can be free of all these struggles, how does that sound?" I ask tilting my head a little as I spoke, he looks up at me giving me a look which showed he was intrigued.&nb