"He sent me a voice message," Ethan announced as he entered the mansion. Lucille, Ben, Olive, and Clara were discussing something important when he arrived. His composure got their attention. "Who is 'he'?" Ben asked him. Clara stood up to meet her mate who enveloped her in his arms and kissed her neck, sniffing her warm baby scent that she had on. This was a way for him to calm himself amid the storm. "Astro." He answered. Everyone was stunned. Ben stood up and moved away from Lucille towards Ethan. "Are you kidding me? You aren't joking, right?" "Do I seem to be laughing?" Ethan answered him. He dipped his hands into his pockets and gave him the card that he had received earlier on. Ben quickly pulled out a laptop for use. They all watched the video.Olive could barely breathe after seeing his son's face for the first time in more than a decade. Different emotions gushed over, he just felt powerful as he watched Astro talk throughout with a silly smile on his face. W
Clara refused to listen to Ethan and immediately cut the call because she believed that it was going to be a delay on her part. She kept telling the driver to hasten up and follow Astro's car as she didn't want to lose them at such an important part.Her phone rang and it was Ethan calling but she refused to answer it. If she was done with this then he would know why she had to reject his calls.Suddenly a car from behind drove a bit to the front and someone mysterious pulled down the window. His eyes met with that of Clara's eager one and her widened after he pulled out a gun and stretched it to the tires. This scared her and the next thing that was heard was the sound of gunshots.★★★★★ "Have you tried her number yet?" Ethan asked Lucille worriedly as he paced up and down. No one knew where she could be and her number was not reachable. Ethan was passing through a lot of emotional torment so much that he could hardly breathe. "She isn't answering. Worst still, her number is u
Ethan was going through his clothes inside the closet, he was also humming a tune while doing so. Behind him was Clara, she was sleeping peacefully. The pack doctor had come to check on her wounds and they had healed quickly too. This was because she was a white wolf. She had fast healing abilities for herself. Clara shifted on the bed, she grimaced a bit because of the aching that she felt. She opened her eyes and saw that she was already inside her room. She remembered where she was, she was inside the car…she must have been rescued.She later heard Ethan's whispers and finally Rose from the bed. "Ethan?" She called him. He turned around quickly and rushed towards her. "How are you doing? How are you feeling? Do you need anything?" He asked concernedly. Clara shook her head as she held his hand. "No, I am fine, thank you. I am just a bit tired." She whispered. "Don't worry. You will be fine, okay? Just take a short rest." "Hmm."There was silence after he helped her to r
"What exactly is wrong with you? Why do you see me as something or someone you can trade to help this family? This family that I can not even call my own." Jackson shouted at his mum. He was getting tired of being treated as irrelevant. "Oh..so it's now that the family is irrelevant to you, huh? The roof you are sleeping under is provided by this family…" "Did I ever sleep peacefully under the roof? Did you allow me to sleep? Every night, you would always enforce your rules of doing something despite knowing my condition. I got to work late…just because of you, my salary was divided in half! Something that is not yet enough for me to enjoy yet you would still collect it from me. How can you be this evil? I am not getting married to that spoiled brat, let your husband get married to her instead.I won't lower my values and worth by getting married to someone like her." Jackson slammed his hand against the wall as he spoke furiously.His mother stared at him in astonishment be
"Guess who I saw today?" Lucille said as she was packing her clothes. Clara glanced at her and shrugged. "Your ex-boyfriend?"Lucille frowned, "I can assure you that you won't like Ben's reaction if he hears that."Clara laughed and went to Lucille's closet to pack out more valuable clothes to arrange. "So who was it that you met?" "Ophelia's mate."Clara was stunned, "Does Ophelia have a mate?""You did not know? But I talked about it during the whole period…where…?" "I must have forgotten but seriously, I don't remember. How did you know that he is her mate and not just any random dude who might have a crush on her?" "Exactly my thought but when she was locked up and I went to talk with him, I remember mentioning something about the guy to her…she didn't debunk my accusations but instead avoided talking about it."Clara sighed and then sat on the bed. "How could she just abandon her mate for Ethan? It doesn't make any sense." Lucille also sat on the bed. It ha
Clara however arrived late at the fashion house because the meeting had already begun. She just had to sneak in and follow up on the rest of the conversation. She brought out her phone and sketchbook for the meeting too. She listened to her boss talk more about a particular dress that looked flawless and plain. She talked more about her interest in wanting a new set of designs for this. Clara took note of every point that she was supposed to because she wanted to make sure that hers was the best no matter what. After the meeting, everyone was dismissed but before Clara could even step out, someone stopped her. "Who do you think you are, huh?" The lady in question was no other than someone who had considered herself an opponent to Clara's work and designs. She was like the A-stylist of the house but due to Clara's arrival, she became threatened and felt as if her crown of work was about to get snatched from her hands too. Even though Clara tried proposing friendship and wanted to
Ben laughed hard right after Olive told a joke about his years as a high schooler. He had been in the mood of telling one story or another just to make everyone happy especially Ben since he was missing his mate already, to top it all, Ethan had not given him a break since morning so Olive had to force Ethan to stop Ben from working and just relax since it was getting towards evening.Ben glanced at his phone. He had been expecting Lucille's call ever since she left but he didn't get any. He only got a few text messages but he needed more to be assured that she was fine. "What's wrong with you, Ben?" Clara asked after she noticed that he was getting uncomfortable. He looked at her. "Nothing much…it's just that Lucille hasn't called since she left. I am getting worried about her. She only sent me text messages which I am satisfied with. I tried to mind the link but it's not working." He answered.Clara brought out her phone instead, "Let me try her number instead." Ben nodded and
"Why exactly are you doing this? What's your propaganda, huh? How can you do this to your family?" Lucille asked him with anger. Astro burst out laughing like a maniac. He kept laughing as he walked from one place to another, unable to say what exactly was making him laugh. He had been laughing for three minutes straight and this was scaring the ladies. Then all of a sudden, he stopped laughing and his face grew dark. "Did you just say, FAMILY? You are a fool for saying such to me. Oh…oh, now that I am paying them back for their crimes, I am at fault and I do not consider my family? You were long enough with them. You knew that I was a part of them but you didn't care about looking for me…you didn't go ahead and meet that bastard of an Alpha and ask him why he did that to me or didn't he consider me a family too?All of you are hypocrites and I swear to pay you back according to what you have done to me! I will pay you all back and it won't be something you will like! You are a
Ethan settled down as far as he could from Ophelia and he had as many abled people beside him to probably stop him from strangling her to death. There were Clara, Ben, Lucille, and some other abled men for this short mission.The elders were allowed to start talking while Ethan kept shut because it was more advisable to do so. He wasn't in the right state of mind. "We received a letter on your behalf from this young man…" a woman pointed at Jackson while speaking to Ophelia. *Who claimed to be your mate? How true is this?" She asked her.Ophelia blinked, her heart was still racing, all of a sudden this apparent situation of hers opened the door for more headaches, worries, high blood pressure, and whatever one could feel and think about at the point of death. "Yes…yes…he is my mate." "He is human," Lucille said and locked eyes with Ophelia meaningfully. "Yes." She answered with a whisper. "Do you really want to apologize or you just had him do that as a fake? You've
"What do you think is going to happen now? Will he accept it? It's been days." Ben asked as he put Sofia to sleep.Lucille was dusting off imaginary dirt off her clothes and then looked at her husband after he mentioned that. "You didn't know?" "Know what?" "Luna has already sent a letter back to them but I think the question now is will Ophelia come or not?" She answered.Ben sighed, "I just don't even know my stand in all of these. Will everything go well for our good? Ethan doesn't seem like he is in a good mood to want to welcome anybody. He has been yelling at everyone at the company." He rubbed his hair.Lucille sighed and put down the big bear toy that she was holding. She went to meet him and wrapped his arms around her waist making him place his head on her tummy. "I know how badly you want to help me. Everyone is as confused as you are so don't hurt yourself that much. The pain is gonna be there but that day, Ophelia did recognize her mistakes and was trying
"At least, you were able to spread positivity through your behavior," Ethan said as he walked into the mansion with the ladies. "And I am proud to have given her a mark that she won't forget in her whole lifetime. I also told her that I am watching her. I can't easily forget what she did. I went almost naked on national TV. If I had been totally naked, I would have been going through therapy now and her apologies wouldn't heal me." Agnes complained and flung herself across the chair.A wolf passed by them carrying Sofia on its back. "Anyway, it is all gone now and she has turned a new leaf. Try being friendly towards her." Clara said as she rubbed her tummy subconsciously. "I will try to but I won't hesitate to bring her down to her knees if she goes insane." She threatened. Her phone rang, popping up Brown's name on the screen. "Hey…yeah, we are back. Alright, I will be there. No, there is no need for that, I can come all by myself. Hmm…see you later." She ended the c
Jackson stood to look at his mother who seemed to be arranging something in front of the house. He was squeezing his fingers nervously as he watched her. He was totally fidgeting.He didn't know how he was supposed to approach her because her actions were always unexpected. Rihanna sighed for the third time. Living a lonely life was hell and her husband was not around.Was he even worth being called a husband? Her present family was nothing but trash. There was no peace…no love, just her alone. There was nothing to gain as it was an absolute waste of time.She turned around and saw Jackson standing there, staring back at her. She eyed him without much reaction. One was expecting the other to tell him to come but staying off was probably better because anything dangerous could happen. Rihanna spread her hands open suddenly for him and Jackson's eyes widened. There was that rise of hope in his eyes as he looked from his mother to her hands that were opened in front of him. Rihanna ur
Jackson left the house after taking a day off from the restaurant. He was inside a cab heading to Lydia's father's house for a meeting. According to the plan that Ophelia had devised yesternight, he was to go to her father's place before she did anything dangerous while she promised to work on his mother instead.He didn't know what she was going to say to her but he hoped for the best. As he was going, he felt nervous because he didn't know what else he was going to face on his side.What if he didn't like him anymore and decided to punish him? What if things wouldn't go the way that they planned? He was sure of one thing and that was, Lydia was going to get mad at him. But he was ready to do whatever it took for himself to regain his freedom.The cab dropped him off at the gate and he paid the money before entering. The security man cross-checked diligently as he was supposed to do before letting him in while someone else brought him to the garden where the man was sitting.He was
"Why can't just people face what they are doing, huh? Why must they be concerned about other people's affairs?" Agnes said with frustration.Lucille came into the sitting room carrying a plate of fruit for Clara to taste. "What happened?" She asked. "Someone went ahead to spread pictures of Luna and Mr. Henry, claiming that the both of them are dating." She answered. "That's absurd," Lucille answered and collected the phone from her hand. She took a look at the contents and rolled her eyes afterward before taking a seat. "Well, to be able to sell, they need to provide enough false news. And telling the tales of Billionaires seems to work just fine for them, I guess." Lucille replied.Clara didn't even mind and only focused on eating her fruits. "I hope the Alpha won't get worried and over-jealous after seeing this. The pictures are quite intimate." Agnes showed Clara. "If he doesn't get jealous, that only proves he doesn't love me. If he considers this to be fake j
Jackson came back with a glass of drink for her and sat beside Ophelia who was sobbing. By now, she was trying hard to stop herself from crying and eventually started hiccuping so Jackson had to attend to her. "Here. Have some water." He gave her the water and she collected it with trembling hands. "Thank you."Jackson nodded and watched her drink all of it. What could be the problem? Who offended and made her cry? Why was she crying? She had always been that strong face woman that he knew so why was she crying?After a few minutes, she was done drinking the water and gently put down the cup. "May I ask why exactly you are crying?" Jackson asked her again worriedly. Ophelia bit her lips and fumbled with her fingers. Maybe she shouldn't have come here directly but she wasn't in the right state of mind to want to be alone. "I…I"Jackson sighed, "It's okay if you don't want to talk about it. At least, you came to me when you are unhappy and that's enough to keep me glad bec
Ethan drove out of the ice cream store that evening, feeling a bit pressured. Beside him was Ben who was going through the things that he had bought for the hundredth time in a row. "Alpha, the flavors are complete and I can assure you that she will love them." He said. "You are not here so how can you say that on her behalf?" Ethan raised his brows and Ben just scoffed. "I can't believe that you are behaving like this now. What happened to the strong Ethan I know? Come to think of it, during my time, you didn't consider me serious. You would mock me all the time and whenever I called to cry out to you for help, you just ignored me and reported me to Lucille for more suffering. Don't you think that it's my time to repay the deeds?" He smiled at Ethan like a maniac and Ethan successfully pulled out the leadership card against him "As your Alpha, you shall obey me." He ordered and Ben's smile slowly dried up as the corner of his lips went downwards. He was displeased at the
"Remember that you have to put on a good smile and act accordingly to the plan, do you understand?" Lydia instructed through gritted teeth to Jackson. The latter was dressed in a fine suit and his hair was well made so it could give him a more beautiful and innocent look.Currently, they were in Lydia's father's house for an introduction and Jackson felt more nervous than ever because he had not been in such a situation before.His pupils kept moving from one side to the other because of his anxiousness.Then suddenly, they both heard the sound of footsteps coming from the inner part. Unlike any other house with a staircase in sight whenever someone came in, Jackson concluded that they must be in the waiting room because there was no staircase in sight for him even though it was a big building that ought to have one.An aged man then appeared with a lot of electronic gadgets. Some were his phones. He seemed to be in his seventies as most of his hair had turned white. He was wearing