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Dallas‘ p.o.v.
Daxton and I follow Uncle Vaughn back to our private wing in the Palace. He is going to show us where the Guardians are housed and the offices that will belong to me and Joshua.
The first floor of the wing holds all the offices for the King, the Queen, the Royal Beta, the Royal Gamma and the Guardians‘ Captain. There are several meeting rooms of varying sizes, as well as a kitchen with a dining area.
We skipped it when we arrived yesterday, because Uncle Vaughn wanted me to spend as much time with the family as possible.
“We have a similar setup on the ground floor, which we use for any appointment we have with an Elder or a Pack’s leadership. This office will be your private office where you can work without getting disturbed by anyone. A closed door means no entry and if someone needs you, they will link you or knock on the door Uncle Vaughn explains.
He unlocks the door to my office and we both stop dead in our tracks.
There are stacks and stacks of papers on every surface in the office and it looks as if no one has been working here in ages. Almost as if Dezra walked in here to put a paper or a file on a stack and walked out without looking back.
“Damn, what happened here?” Daxton asks as he looks into the office, but his guess is as good as mine at this point,
“Looks like my Sister neglected her duties. How are we going to deal with this mess?” Uncle Vaughn responds.
I walk further into the office while looking at the mountains of papers, this is going to take a lot of time to sift through and I require some help.
“Qiunlan, can you help me and Daxton out?” I ask. “We might need more help, though.”
“I will ask my Brothers to help and you could ask Dave and Benton to help.” Quinlan responds.
Quinlan has a point, I can ask my baby Brothers for help. It will give us time to spend together and build on our family bond, but it also means extra hands to deal with this mess.
“You called….” I hear Dave say behind me and I turn around to see him staring dumbfounded at the interior of the office.
“Why don’t we start on sorting this out and Dad can continue his tour of our private wing?” Quinlan asks, and I grab both Uncle Vaughn and Daxton to speed–walk out of the office.
Both men are chuckling as we walk down the hall to Joshua’s future office, which is the total opposite of what we found in Dezra’s office. A few files are on the desk, but aside from that, there is no clutter and it is clear that it was recently cleaned.
A Servant walks in while I am sitting behind the desk to see what kind of files are on the desk.
“Excuse me, can you tell me who is responsible for cleaning the Beta office?” I ask her and she looks at me as if I asked her for her firstborn or something.
“Princess Dezra had forbidden us to clean her office. She said she would take care of it herself and we couldn’t get into her office if we wanted to because she kept the door locked.” The Servant answers.
Sounds like someone didn’t want anyone to find out that she neglected her duties. Even though I doubt any Servant would tell Uncle Vaughn about the mess in her office, I understand that Dezra wasn’t willing to take the risk.
“I want the entire staff down here, chances will happen and they will be effective immediately.” Uncle Vaughn says.
He follows the Servant out of the office and for a moment, I contemplate staying in here to hide. I decide to go to my own office and help my family with clearing the files in there. In the meantime, I can listen to what Uncle Vaughn says to the staff.
I chuckle when I see the miserable looks on my family members‘ faces, but the second I grab a file from the stack, I understand why. Dust is flying in all directions and the file is even a bit sticky from I don’t know what.
“I want you to understand that I am not holding this against any of you, but from this day forward, I want to be informed when
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someone takes away one of your tasks. Walking into the Beta office, I was stunned to find it cluttered and not cleaned in ages. Currently, the office is being cleared of all paperwork that should have been filed years ago. Once that is done, please clean it from top to bottom and remove everything that is broken or damaged in some other way.” We hear Uncle Vaughn say.
Looking around the room, it will mean that half of the furniture needs to be replaced. I doubt you can clean a layer of dust that has been collecting here for almost two decades.”
“Your Majesty, I apologize for saying this, but I refuse to clean the Beta office.” The Servant, whom I met in the office meant for Joshua, responds.
It is quiet for a moment and itke me, the others are listening to hear Uncle Vaughn’s reply.
“Your Majesty, Princess Dezra will never allow us to enter her office. She made it clear that she has no problem with taking our jobs away.” I hear someone else say and still, Uncle Vaughn hasn’t responded.
“Elder Jeff, why didn’t you inform the Servants about Dezra?” Unde Vaughn asks and I look in Quinlan’s direction to see an angry expression on his face.
We both get up from the floor, slowly walking toward the open door to give Elder Jeff time to respond.
“Because that is none of their business. They need to do their job and keep quiet about anything that doesn’t concern them.” Elder Jeff answers as we both look around the doorway.
“So, you are saying that Dezra’s death penalty doesn’t concern them. You are saying that my new Beta doesn’t affect them. will discuss your position as an Elder during our next meeting, Elder Jeff. Now get out of my face.” Uncle Vaughn says.
He explains to the staff what happened and what has changed within the Kingdom’s leadership.
