Chapter 102

Alpha Gabe POV

Cody walked in and took a seat. He had no idea why he was there and gave me a curious look. I just nodded towards Ashlynn and then gave her the floor. "Ashlynn has been reviewing some paperwork for me regarding the Godsend Pack dungeon."

"Okay," Cody leaned back in his seat. "Apparently I've missed something. Care to explain further what that might be?"

"May I?" Ashlynn asked.

"Please do," I gave her permission.

"As you know Shawna is here with Michael, the Protector for Alpha James. Shawna had this need to face her demons, return to the dungeon where she had been held and tortured. We got permission from the council to enter from the Godsend Pack side, since we blew up the opening on this side of the mountain. It seemed like this would be a quick thing to resolve. We enter with Shawna, let her sort out her feelings and then lock it all away so she could move on with her life. Except," she paused briefly and took a deep breath. "We found more than any of us could have bargained for."

"Don't tell me that someone was still using that dungeon?" Cody asked.

"Not exactly," I told him. "It seems though that we weren't as thorough as we thought we were because Ashlynn, Natalie and Shawna found a room that apparently no one else had noticed previously. A curious fact isn't it?"

"Indeed," Cody furrowed his brows. "There were people assigned to certain parts of the dungeon tunnels. I'm assuming this tunnel was not one I was assigned too, or Dawson. I'd never let something go unsearched."

"It would appear," I told him. "Ashlynn, go ahead with the rest."

"Yes, well the room looked like a laboratory. The electricity was working in there even, which means it had never been turned off at all. I was going to ask you Alpha, did they determine the power source?"

"Yes, there was a breaker to the central power station at the pack house. The power wasn't turned off because this is Montana and we can't have things going in disrepair, which means there had to be electricity for the winter to make sure water lines didn't freeze. This breaker was perhaps an oversight as well. I doubt there was much thought put into checking the buildings that each break ran and whether they should be turned off or not," I added.

"Makes sense." Ashlynn said. "Okay, so this laboratory seemed like a torture chamber at the same time. I would guess they were running experiements of some kind, but I can't understand why. They clearly were killing people, werewolves at the very least. There were jars of body parts, hearts and complete pups in jars of formaldehyde. It was awful. There was also a complete skeleton shackeld to the wall. I'm pretty sure the person had died there based on the signs present. It was a female. Uncle Gabe.....excuse me, Alpha, brought me this list of cataloged items found in the room and asked me to review them and tell him what it all was." She stopped and looked over at me. "I suggested that we have this conversation with you present because this is going to cause quite the stir around here. We also might find ourselves surrounded by council members again. Am I correct in that assumption Alpha?"

"I think so," I told them both. "I also have concerns that this is bigger than we thought. Someone missed that room, perhaps intentionally."

"Intentionally?" Cody asked.

"Yes I think so. I may even have an idea of who, but let's hear what Ashlynn has there," I pointed at the stack of papers in front of her.

"There are ledgers cataloged with names and dates. Initials that I assume represent subjects, test subjects," Ashlynn told us. "They were injecting werewolves with high levels of various poisons, they were harvesting organs and studying them. It's not like these were natural deaths with bodies donated, these were living werewolves, killed in that laboratory. Hundreds of them, if these records are correct. I ran a quick search for one of the names, it turns out she was missing from a pack in Washington State. So I looked up another, missing as well, from California. I'm sure most of these are all listed as missing. If we contacted the Alpha's of those packs we would probably know more," she concluded.

"Here comes my theory, but we'd have to do some more digging," I told Cody. "We have to be careful though, I want to have all the information needed before we present any of this. I believe someone on the council is involved in this. It's the only way that room got overlooked. We have to go back to the records and look at the names of all council members who were here for the trial. We need to check the catalog of names and compare the missing list, what packs they came from and how much effort was placed into looking for those victims. I think it can help us narrow it down. Unfortunately, that is going to take us more than a couple of days, so we need to get through this weekend run and then continue our research."

"Is this going to affect anyone here?" Cody asked. "Or do you think it's beyond the reach of our pack?"

"So far no one is on that list because we have never had anyone go missing from this pack. Maybe it's because our borders are secured so well. Maybe it's just a matter of loyalty. Either way, no one here should be directly affected," I lamented.

"What I think you mean Alpha," Ashlynn began, "Is that no one currently bound to this pack is affected. It doesn't mean that someone here now won't be." My niece was smart, I'd give her that.

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean."