SCARLETTI sighed deeply and stepped out of my room as I headed towards the pool by the side of the Mansion. I’ve somewhat come to enjoy sitting here and staring at the water with my thoughts.I drew my phone out of my pocket, immediately after Doctor Salem gave his report, I created new socials to monitor my family. I’m still quite curious, I know for a fact that my mother and Alyssa were in on this, but what about my father. Was he really oblivious to the point of my death or did he know also, did he keep quiet and push me to my death by claiming to send me away to shadow flake to start afresh?Sometimes, I’d feel a burning sensation in my chest to storm back to my father’s house and confront them, but I know I wasn’t prepared to face any of them yet, I’d just break and fall back into pieces, I don’t even have anything to prove myself with, I don’t even have my wolf yet, they’d most probably kill me the moment I arrive.I turned to look at the entrance and I saw Kian walk in, my eye
CALLUM10:30pm “What’s the plan, Callum. The first full moon is in the next twenty- one days, we should get started on preparing the warriors,” Nolan said over the phone, his voice firm and I could tell his hands were balled into a tight fist as he spoke. I gently sat up in my chair, exhaled deeply and straightened my shoulders. It’s high time I put him in his place finally, Alpha Kade used to be the leader of the Moonbound Alliance until I got back from my training. It’s true we were the weakest pack and Alpha Kade usually didn’t hestitate to exploit us, but that ended the moment my parent died and I took over. I always knew he wanted the leadership of the Moonbound Alliance to be in his household and nobody dared go against it with him, until I did and I won. What makes him think, I won’t win again. “If Kade wants a fight, he’ll get one. This isn’t just about a throne of the Moonbound Alliance anymore. I’ll make sure he never questions our strength again.” I said and Nolan mutte
SCARLETNext day. 10:00am “This has been happening for the past two days,” one of the Elders said, gesturing to a younger wolf standing beside him, probably an omega wolf. The young wolf stepped forward and handed me a tablet. I glanced down to see a picture of a little girl, no older than ten, staring back at me. My brow furrowed in confusion as I slowly looked up at the three elders seated across from me, was I supposed to know her or something?“Who is this? And what exactly has been going on?” I asked, my confusion worsening at their silence and awkward stare at me.The elders exchanged looks, as if my question was the most absurd thing they’d ever heard. Their expressions made it clear that I should already know the answer or what they were trying to tell me. “Don’t tell me you haven’t heard that three children have gone missing in the last two days,” another Elder said, his tone sharp with disbelief and disappointment as he stared at me.“So what have you been doing since you
MEANWHILE.CALLUM.I stood with my hands folded across my chest at the exit of the woods, waiting for Scarlett to come out. It had been over three hours since she’d gone in, and I was starting to feel uneasy about the whole thing. I hadn’t intended for her to stay in this long. Even if she couldn’t reach to her wolf to sniff out scent, she should’ve found the cat by now—or at least returned. “I told you something feels off,” Cole, my wolf, growled in the back of my mind. I dismissed him with a sharp shake of my head. “This place is safe,” I muttered, more to myself than him. I had ensured it. Checked it. There was no reason to think otherwise. Still, I felt disturbed as time ticked by more quickly than before now. Slowly, I unfolded my arms, letting them drop to my sides. I was just going to wait for her. The thought that she should’ve been back by now disturbed me and without another thought, I headed into the woods. Both the scent of Scarlett or even the cat. I couldn’t sense
SCARLETT. Few hours later. Callum gently wrapped his arms around me, lifting me up from his bed effortlessly. I had surprisingly woken up few minutes ago to find myself in his room. He carried me in bridal style and carefully set me down on the sofa in his room. My jaw dropped slightly as he pushed a table filled with all sort of food and vegetables closer to me, stopping it right in front of me. I wasn’t feeling any pain, just basically feeling weak because of the strength of the chemical. “Eat,” he ordered quietly, stepping back and crossing his arms over his chest as he sat on the edge of the bed. I swallowed hard, tucking my lips between my teeth, and gave a small nod. “Thank you,” I murmured, my voice barely audible. With trembling hands, I reached for the spoon on the tray, I could feel his gaze on my every move all the more making it difficult for me to function properly. He sighed deeply, got to his feet, and approached me. Without a word, he took the spoon from my hand
SCARLETT.“Can I have the notes he dropped at the crime scene?” I asked the headmistress. She turned to me briefly before nodding. “Of course, of course. You’ll have them as soon as we return to my office,” she said to me, leading me toward the control room to review the CCTV footage. As we entered the room, I glanced around at the setup. “Is it just one person monitoring all the cameras?” I asked, as I could only see one person with how big the room looked. The man quickly stood up and greeted me with a slight bow. I acknowledged him with a small nod and turned back to the headmistress. “This place is very understaffed,” “We need to fix that. Put out a vacancy notice and send all the applications to me—I’ll review them personally.” I said to her and she nodded.Turning back to the man at the console, I asked,“Have you made any progress recovering the lost file?” He looked up at me, his expression a mix of fear and frustration before shaking his head slowly. “I’m working o
CALLUMFew hours later. 6:30pm“Are you even listening to me?” Nolan’s voice cut through my thoughts, pulling me back to the present. I sighed lightly and looked up at him. “Man, it’s getting harder to control myself—and my wolf.” “The more I’m around her, the more I just want to hold her in my arms, Nolan,” I admitted surprising even myself, my voice low and raw. Never did I think I’d be this vulnerable anytime soon. Anytime I see her, I just feel this almost irresistible urge to hold her, kiss her silly, and tell her how damn attracted I am to her. Nolan sighed deeply, setting his tablet gently on the table before folding his arms and fixing me with a pointed look.“Then why don’t you tell her? Tell her she’s your fated mate, it can’t be that hard right?” He asked and I shook my head slowly. “You can’t bring yourself to tell her because of who her mother is, right? But you still took her because the elders were threatening your position as Alpha. You used that as your excu
SCARLETT.Next Morning. 7:30am. I groaned lightly in my sleep as my eyes fluttered open. “Do it more, it suits you” Callum’s words yesterday night ran through my mind again and I felt my stomach somersault. I slowly sat up on my bed and palmed my face, I thought, this thought of what he said messing with my head had stopped the moment I was able to sleep but apparently not. I gently pulled the duvet off my body, slid into my flip flops and got up to my feet. I yawned widely as I headed towards the door to grab a bottle of water downstairs. Immediately I opened the door, the door to Callum’s room also opened and he stepped out. He paused in his tracks immediately and slowly looked at me. I felt his eyes scanning me from head to toe, I swallowed hard and immediately raised my hands to my hair smoothing it. “Do you have anywhere to go today?” He asked and I shook my head slowly in reply. “I don’t,” “Okay then. Call me if anything comes up” he said and with that he walked away. I
SCARLETT “Thank you!” I said to the taxi driver immediately he got to the front of my house. I settled the bills, opened the door and got out. Just as I was about to enter the house, I heard a loud honking sound, only then did I realize there was a car packed by my house. I was so consumed in my thoughts to realize. I turned, the door slowly went open and I saw Callum step out of the driver seat with a big flower bouquet in his hands. I rolled my eyes to the back of my head as I stepped back, folded my hands across my chest and waited for him to make his way towards me. “My Queen,” he said as soon as he got closer to me and stretched the flowers to me. I raised my lips in a sheer.“Don’t call me that,” I mumbled and gently took the flowers from him. “I’m sorry, ““Honestly I had no idea why I didn’t tell you about it, I guess she’s just a part of my life I so desperately wanted to forget,”“Still not an excuse, you should have told me. I deserved to know, not just setting me up
DAY OF THE ANNIVERSARY Hours before the Anniversary ….SCARLETT “If you would just talk to him, he’s been trying for two days now,” Kaitlyn said to me, she was seated on my bed, while I was seated in front of the vanity mirror applying makeup. Cora and Alyssa had gone ahead to set things up and it was just me at home. I paused and slowly looked up at her through the mirror. “You don’t understand do you?!” I muttered and she sighed deeply. “He lied to me, he told me I was his first ..”“Knowing fully well that I wasn’t, that hurts like crazy,” I paused as she completed my statement for me. I rolled my eyes to the back of my head and resumed applying my lipstick, her phone dinged and I turned to her immediately,“Is that Myla?!” I asked immediately and she nodded slowly. “She’s on her way here,” she muttered and my shoulders slumped. “No other thing?” I asked as I closed the lipstick and replaced it in my drawer. “You really don’t want to know the answer to that,” she mumbled, I
SCARLETT Later that day … “I’ve sent Kian’s location to you, Kaitlyn says he’ll be there for a while, since my mother has me already, he’s making an attempt on Callum’s life,”“I’ll update you as she updates me,” I said to Myla over video call and she nodded slowly.“Is Cora still looking for me? Do you think I should take my mother away so she doesn’t find her?” She asked, I bit on my lower lips and nodded slowly. “I’ll take care of your mom don’t worry,” I said to her and she nodded with a small exhale.“Thank you,” she whispered and I nodded slowly. “The anniversary ceremony will hold in two weeks, I plan for us to get our facts right and expose my mother on that day, I’d do it when it’s time for me to give my speech,” I said to her and she nodded slowly. “I’ll keep Callum in the loop,”“Do you still not want me to tell him the truth?” She asked and I shook my head slowly. “I think it’s best I tell him myself, I’ll find a way before the anniversary, just so he’s not caught of
SCARLETT NEXT DAY. At the hospital. “Here’s the result,” I slowly took the envelope from the doctor and stretched it out to Kaitlyn,“Will you open it?!” I asked, she swallowed hard and slowly took the envelope from me. I watched as she tore the envelope open with shaky hands. She slowly dipped her hands inside it and took out the white paper in it. Her gaze fell on it and her eyes went tightly shut.“What does it say?!” I asked my voice barely about a whisper.“It’s a hundred percent match.” The doctor supplied immediately.“Although something is surprising, the report says that you both are identical twins sharing the same parents, it doesn’t seem that way to me,” he added and I nodded firmly at his words.“I understand this is your office, but please can you give us a minute? I need to talk to her,” I said and he nodded slowly. “Sure,” he muttered and with that he pushed his chair backwards, got up and walked out. I exhaled deeply and the next thing I heard was Kaitlyn whimperi
CALLUM Later ….“His name is Marcus. He’s been Cora’s accomplice for the longest time,”“He has been helping her make all the potions that makes her execution seamless. He’s also Alyssa’s real father” Myla said to me, my gaze intensely on the building in front of us and I nodded slowly. “I’ve been seeing him for some weeks now, he has helped Scarlett and I a great deal,”“When I spoke to him today, Cora found out that he has been seeing me, I know she’s going to do something to him, this is my chance to make him escape her,” she said. “I’m only doing this because it’s what Scarlett would have wanted, and you should know, he most definitely won’t go Scott free,” I said to her and she nodded slowly. “I understand that. We just need him to be alive as our witness,” she responded, with that we both stepped out of the car and I headed towards the door. I insisted Nolan stayed behind with Annabeth while we settle this quickly. As soon as we got to the entrance I tried to open the door
SCARLETT “Scarlett!” My mother yelled as she forcefully pushed the door open and barged in.“Scarlett!” She yelled even louder. With shaky hands I slowly pushed the closet door open and peeked out. “Mom?!” I whispered, I saw her pause and slowly turn to me. I slowly opened the door fully and stepped out limping. “M-y—Myla, she tried to kill me?” I stuttered as I stretched out the wrist I had stabbed myself in to her. Her eyes widened almost immediately and she stepped closer to me. “She did this to you?!” She asked, I nodded firmly, winced pretentiously and stepped away when she tried to touch the hand. “She — she came here, plugged in, like she was being controlled by what she was listening to, I couldn’t even defend myself because I don’t have a wolf.” I said, she stiffened and slowly looked up at me. “You don’t have a wolf?!” She whispered and I nodded slowly. “I don’t remember ever having a wolf? Did I develop one in the last Eight months?!” I asked, she swallowed hard and
SCARLETT I watched as she froze over her hands gripping the door knob tightly. I wiped my tears dry and dropped the picture onto the space beside me. “Kaitlyn Pierce, my twin but we were born two hours apart which practically makes me your older sister,” I continued my voice barely above a whisper but loud enough for her to hear me. “Kaitlyn Pierce , you swore never to get married because you were scared of how badly Father treated mother, but you never said a word of it out, you told just me because you knew mother would freak out if you ever mentioned a word of it,” “Shut up!” She growled as she turned the door knob locked and swiftly dashed to me.“How did you find out so much about me! Since when have you been stalking me! Who did you pay to find out about me!” She growled in my face. I didn’t flinch, I just kept staring at her.“We were the HK twin from silvery Island, we were a force and we were unstoppable even at our young age. I was the stubborn one and you were the peace
TWO DAYS LATERCORA “What the hell Kian! After I told you to leave her to me!” I growled, my eyes on Scarlett who was lying almost lifeless on her bed in her room. Her head was wrapped in thick bandages. She looked pale white and her lips was very red. “You even had the mind to bring her here? Where do you think is the first place they’ll try to look for her?!” I asked turning to Kian where he stood by the foot of the bed. Alex was seated by her vanity table and the new girl Kian came with — Kaitlyn, stood by the other side of the bed. She had a look of strong hatred for Scarlett as she stared at her on the bed, I don’t know why but I just have an unsettling feeling around her. “You should even be thanking me for saving her life, left to Kaitlyn, she would have been dead!”“Don’t worry about them looking for her here, they’re probably caught up with looking for her in the alliances surrounding that ocean” I said to her. I slowly turned to look at Alex,“You should thank me, I wan
CALLUM 11:00pm …. “Seth, is everybody ready?!” I asked and he nodded slowly. “Great, I’m coming with you!” I said and got up to my feet. “No no, you don’t have to. Trust me, we’ll get the job done,” he said. I passed him a long stare and shook my head slowly.“I want to be there, so I can be sure you’re doing your jobs thoroughly,” I muttered. Just then, Gina walked into the living room with her hands behind her. “Callum, there’s something I need to tell you,” she mumbled. “Gina, please hold on, now is not the time, I’m actually very busy,” I rushed my words without sparing her a glance. I slowly bent and reached for Scarlett’s clothes folded on the floor. “Incase you might want to send those scent trained wolf to sniff her out,” I muttered handing over the bag to him. “Kian is not dead,” she said. I paused and slowly turned to look at her. “What are you talking about?!” “R-remember that —that night? When I said he didn’t find me ? It was a lie, he found me,” she stuttered s