After stopping Damien's intense questioning and getting both him and Chloe to pay attention. I started with a more methodology approach to come up with a reason why a man was inside a motel room with two people that wasn't even aware of his presence.
I thought maybe if the two of them put their heads together and try to recount what happened that night. That they may be able to piece together some type of memory of at least talking to the two men that darted past DeAnna that morning .
So I Spun my head around to direct my attention towards Chloe for a moment "Okay, babe. Tell us everything you can remember about that evening and don't leave anything out. No matter how insufficient you think it might be. Try to think about the people you interacted with that night . I mean, someone might have ask you to join them for a drink at a night club or a coffee shop and you forgot." I then turned around to face Damien giving further instructions."Now, don't hesitate to jump in if you feel like she may have forgotten something that took place that night."
Damien nodded confirming that he understood. And Chloe hummed and shifted Xavier on her lap,making sure he was comfortably snuggled close to her chest before saying "Well let's see,It was just a regular evening . After the shoot I had dinner with all the models, which wasn't much. I can't remember exactly what we had. But it was always pretty much the same. Something low calorie, low fat , and ,low carb. Definitely not suitable food to maintain a wolf's metabolism. Then I seen Joey ,and Walter come into the hotel dining room and I knew that they had already returned with all the props from that day's shoot..."
"Stop right there." I ordered, making Chloe startled slightly. She was a little taken aback by the sudden interruption but complied and waited for me to ask." Who is Walter and Joey?"
" Walter is my brother in law and Joey is his younger brother." Damien answered for her.
I bobbed my head in understanding and continued. " Okay, so could they have been the ones coming out of the room looking for you? I ask, directing my question towards Damien. "And since you were passed out in the floor they didn't see you and just brushed past DeAnna when she came to wake Chloe up?"
Damien rubbed his chin thoughtfully,then shook his head."I don't think so, I wasn't late for anything yet.Walter always spent that time of the morning looking through the photos he took the day before and preparing for the next shoot. Joey would usually just sleep in and I would order breakfast in my room. So I don't believe they would be looking for me that early in morning."
. "I don't think so either." Chloe agreed "the reason I say this is because of the way DeAnna was talking this morning. It didn't sound like she knew the two men that came out of my room. And for another reason if it was Walter who had dropped that speculum DeAnna wouldn't have assumed it was mine. I mean, Walter is married to Karly and the two of them were both like prison wardens. Karly didn't let us go out at night and party it was part of our contract. She said drinking and staying up late would cause wrinkles and bags underneath our eyes. Now DeAnna might have thought it was mine if it was only Joey coming out of my room because he was pretty popular with some of the girls. Not as popular as Damien with all his Alpha male mussels. But Joey was still cute and built well enough that Karly would occasionally use him and Damien if she needed a male model for the day"
" You modeled?" Abby blurted out, swinging her head around to look at Damien. And interrupting what Chloe was saying.
But Damien just sighed waving his hand dismissively. " Only a few times. If Karly needed a male model, Joey and I would do it to help her out and save her the trouble of having to search the area for the type of model she was looking for. It was just easier for her to use one of us because Joey and I fit the bill for what ever type of model she needed. Joey was only nineteen without an Alpha gene to make him appear more mature like Zack. So he was perfect for modeling jeans and sports wear the type of clothing teenagers wear. And I was twenty five so I modeled mostly suits and formal wear. But other then those few rare occasions we just set up lighting and props for Walter to take pictures." Damien explained, sounding a little embarrassed about his brief appearance in the modeling industry.
And Chloe didn't seem impressed with it either because after Damien's explanation She turned back to face me and continued. "Anyway, as I was saying, I can text DeAnna this afternoon to make sure that Joey wasn't one of the guys who left my room that morning. I would do it now but she's probably still in flight to New York."
I then glanced down at my watch to see what time it was. Realizing that it had been less than an hour and half since DeAnna left our house I was totally amazed by girls power.
Which I didn't bother to hide how impressed I was. I said proudly , " Your magic is awesome, babe. It saves us a lot time, you're right. DeAnna won't be in New York for another five hours. "
Damien rolled his eyes at my gushing admiration but I ignored him and continued. "We'll just put Joey on the back burner for now. At least until you can get a hold of DeAnna to confirm that it wasn't him .Okay, Babe go ahead tell us what else you can remember about that night."
" Now ,where was I? " she ask, tapping her lips as she thought about where she left off. " Okay, so I went upstairs to freshen up and put on a silk cocktail dress..."
" Stop." I ordered, but this time she didn't flinch. So I continued directing my question towards Damien. " What did you wear ?" I ask, just to see him frown.
"What difference does it make what I had on?" Damien grumbled , looking truly baffled.
" Okay, just humor me, what did you wear?" I ask again.
Damien shrugged " Okay,I don't see what it matters but it was ether a black or blue suit. I'm not really sure. But I do know it was one of those. Because I only had two suits with me. I went to Paris as a stage hand for my sister, remember?"
"I do remember, it was right after you had finished your education and training. Something like a little vacation before you enter into all the responsibilities of being an Alpha and CEO. Now was that a tailor made suit? Perhaps a graduation present from your mother, a suit that demanded attention for the next Alpha of the Ten Oaks Pack and CEO of Ross Building Company. Perhaps you had on a pair of diamond cuff links too. I'm sure Chloe must of had on some jewelry also. Maybe a big pair of Diamond earrings that her mother gave her as a going away gift." I rattled on,to finally see it click in his brain where I was going with my question.
However I wasn't actually going in the direction he thinks. But I thought if I fuck with him just a little he might actually come up with an idea of who thoes guys were.
And I believe it might be working because Damien's face twisting into a ugly grimiest. "Do you think, those two guys followed us to the hotel, in an attempt to rob us ?"He almost shouted, Making me snicker to myself at the offensive tone in his voice.
For Damien to get mugged would have been the ulmate disgrace No matter how drunk he was,his Alpha wolf would have taken over. And since there was no reports of a large gray wolf mauling two people on the streets of Paris I'm sure that didn't happen.
Now shifting in the middle of Paris wouldn't be ideal, but our wolf don't really care.Their job is to protect us and Alpha wolves are born protectors not only for their human body but for a whole pack.They're also awesome at detecting dangerous situations.
Damien's wolf would have smelled two people stalking them from a mile away and taken control over the situation. Especially if he was to drunk to control a shift. But my objective was to make him think , not come up with another half baked idea.
So, I shrugged, "It's a possibility, two attractive people dressed to the nines attracts a lot of attention. Good and bad.Just step back and let yourself see what others was actually saw when you and Chloe stepped into that restaurant together." I rambled on painting him a picture of what a human would see. "First off the restaurant wasn't the Dairy Queen and the two of you screamed money with your tailored suit and Chloe's designer dress. The two of you also stuck out like a sore thumb with your blonde hair and blue eyes among all the dark haired brown eyed locals in France." I stated just to see Damien stare at me like I was crazy and shack his head.
" No, damn way." Damien rejected the possibility right away ."My wolf would have perceived the threat and took over unless I was unconscious."
I then snapped my fingers like I hadn't already thought about that." You're right,Now were getting some where." I agreed "So, now we're both in agreement that you either knew the guys inside that room with you and Chloe. Or you were unconscious the whole time that they were in there . Now let's examine those two possibilities and see what we can come up with."I proposed, as I looked expectedly from Chloe to Damien and waited for them to speak.
Then finally Chloe looked at Damien with the same look that I was giving both of them." It had to be someone you knew. Because I didn't know anyone in Paris besides the twenty people in our group. And out of those twenty people their was only two men besides you. And we both know that we can eliminated Walter. Because if he was one of those guys we would have definitely heard about it from him and Karly both."
Damien hummed, " You're right it definitely wasn't Walter. But the problem is that I didn't really know anyone either. I mean we would go to dinner together every night, then when we came back to the hotel there wasn't really a reason for me to go out. Not to a bar or anything " Damien sighed and glanced over at Abbey for a moment then just blurted out.
" Look, I wasn't any different from any other young Alpha back then. The only reason I went to a bar was to hook up with a girl for the night. But with all the restrictions Karly had put on all you models it just wasn't necessary for me to go anywhere.There was always fourteen women ready and willing. Just as long as I had a bottle of Alcohol and kept quiet about it so that they didn't get into trouble."
Abby and Chloe both shot Damien a glare over his honest confusion. But I just chuckled and helped Damien try to smooth things over , " I can see your point. I don't think there's a single man alive that wouldn't choose to spend time with a different model every night. Then wasting time going through the local girls just to find one that looked half way descent and didn't want some kind of attachment. But there must have been at least a couple of times that you went out to just explore the local night life. Wasn't there?" I ask, hoping to get Damien to think of the people that he did get to meet.
But Damien shook his head. " No, I didn't go anywhere at night. I always went sightseeing during the day with all the girls. I even went to the liquor store on the corner right after we got back to hotel in the evening. Now Joey and I did do a bit of scouting to find the best liquor store in the area when we first got there. But we never talked to anyone except for the people at the checkout counter. And luckily the liquor store around the corner from the hotel had a great selection of just about everything.It carried most of the local wines and a fare amount of American whiskey two of the things that I bought the most of. But I never talked to anyone at the liquor store either. Just the old man that owns the place and his grandson that filled my order twice a week ." Damien explained with a touch of frustration in his voice as he kept trying to think of anyone that his wolf would be comfortable with.