Expect The Unexpected

Chapter 20

"The safe is behind the big portrait he has of himself."Isabella told Tanya. The pair along with Rosalie were in Aro's office. They were there to see what Aro had been spending his time on. Sulpicia had claimed that she had never seen Aro do anything in their wing of the castle and that he barely used their rooms for anything other than to keep clothing and use the private bathroom to bathe. Isabella of course believed the woman as she had no reason to lie. It had taken some convincing but both former queens had come to terms with the fact they were being lied to. Isabella was glad because their mates desperately wanted to meet them. That was set to happen once the two women decided they were ready.

"You would think he would have picked a less obvious place to put it."Rosalie said as she went to Aro's desk and took a seat in his chair after leading Isabella to one of the visitor chairs and helping her sit down."This chair is horribly uncomfortable."

"I don't think the former kings cared about comfort. They cared if they came off as intimidating, powerful and wealthy. All of those things they tried to convey with their choice of furniture."Tanya pulled the painting off the wall exposing a large wall safe. She put the painting on the ground and then spun the dial causing the door to swing open."I got it open."

"What's inside?"Isabella had only gotten the location and the combination for the safe. She wasn't able to find out the contents.

Tanya began looking through everything."Paperwork we will need to examine more closely, a very old expensive looking ring, two external hard drives and a bunch of pictures that taking a look at were probably used for blackmail purposes."

"Do you think the ring was from Marcus?"Rosalie asked.

"Probably and if so I bet we will find another one when we go through his office."Isabella could easily see the pair exchanging rings and hiding them.

"We will need to look at these hard drives."Tanya was glad that Isabella had planned ahead and already acquired secured laptops for them to use to go over any sensitive materials they found.

"I'm surprised Aro even had them as he was very against computers and other forms of modern technology."Isabella had heard the man rant about how much more complicated things were with everything being digital.

"Well he has a computer on his desk."Rosalie turned the computer on surprised when there was no prompt for a password."One he didn't think to protect with a password."

"He probably never thought anyone would be daring enough to break into his office."Isabella didn't think Aro would have even considered someone betraying him.

"I'm not sure what we should do about these pictures."Tanya said.

"What do you mean?"Rosalie asked.

"Some of them are evidence of vampires and humans doing some horrible things. Things I know that not only I but the both of you would not like to let continue happen."Tanya was appalled by what some of the pictures depicted.

"I'm not surprised he was blackmailing humans."Isabella knew that Aro dealt with humans from time to time. It was necessary for keeping vampires from being exposed.

"If they are doing things that need to be stopped then I think we should have some of our people fully investigate them. That way we can get enough evidence for the human criminal systems to convict them."Rosalie suggested.

"Good idea. It would gain us good will with the various figureheads if we help them convict such high profile individuals. Most of the people from these pictures being those that I have no doubt have a lot of power and influence in the world."Tanya thought that Rosalie's idea was perfect. It would show the human authorities that they were willing to let them control their own species.