SCARLETT “Where have you been? How did it happen? Your father confirmed you dead,” Uncle Philip asked me. I locked gazes with my mother before responding, “I’ve been in Willow Brooke, Callum saw me and saved me. He staged my death too, to get my mother off my back!” I said. I saw her swallow hard as she shifted uncomfortably where she was seated. “What’s your relationship with him?!” He asked me again. I relunctantly lifted my gaze from my mother and it landed on Alex. “Callum is my second chance mate. I’ve been Luna in Willow Brooke for the past Eight weeks” I said my gaze darting between Alyssa and Alex. I lived to see this moment and they were responding just the exact same way I wanted. Uncle Philip exhaled deeply and propped closer.“Your father would have been really glad to see you. But I’m not going to waste any time here,” “I’m sure you heard the will. You are the rightful legatee of T-Corp. Should you refuse to take over management right, T-Corp will come back to us,
SCARLETTLater that night.“I’m not comfortable with you staying here,” Callum murmured. I gently took off my earrings and slowly turned to him where he laid on the bed facing up with his hands under his head, from where I sat in front of the dressing table.“It’s only for a few days. I won’t be staying here forever, once I’m done with everything I have to do here, I’ll come back home!”“Then how do you intend to manage this place from Willow Brooke?!” He asked, I slowly got up from where I was seated, wrapped my night robe under my burst and walked up to the bed to sit beside him.“It’s just a one hour drive from Willow Brooke to this place, I’ll come when it’s absolutely necessary for me!” I explained. He took his lips into his mouth and shook his head slowly. “Still. Everyone from your past is here, including your ex, who knows what he’s up to now, he only rejected you because you did not have a wolf then,” He grumbled. I released a muffled laugh against myself, as I got into the
CORA“Can you please just explain what the hell is going on?!” Alex’s voice thundered through his living room.“You asked me to trust you, to follow your plan, and now—” He jabbed a finger toward me, his eyes blazing crimson red with anger. “Now it seems like you don’t even know what the hell you’re doing!” I watched him silently, sitting still as he paced back and forth in front of me, his hands running through his disheveled hair in frustration. I slowly uncrossed my legs and set the wine glass in my hands on the table beside me. Rising to my feet, I fixed him with a cold stare.“You said you confirmed Scarlett was dead!” He growled his fists clenched at his sides. “How the hell is she back in our lives? And now she even has her wolf? What if she’s got her memories back? What if—” His words cut off abruptly as his voice rose to a roar. “What if she remembers everything?!”“Shut the hell up!” I snapped, my tone sharp and firm. “Why?!” He took a threatening step closer, his face
MEANWHILESCARLETT “Don’t hesitate to reach out to me if you need any help,” Uncle Philip said to me and I nodded with a small bow.“Yes sir,” “I won’t be able to stay for the inauguration, but you don’t have anything to worry about. Your mother knows better than to try anything funny,” he said and I nodded slowly again. “Thank you so much. I really appreciate all your effort.” I said to him, he shook his head slowly as he gently raised his hands to my shoulders. “Your father was my immediate younger brother and I know he absolutely adored you. Now that he’s gone, it’s my responsibility to make sure you’re safe,” he said to me and I nodded, slowly folding my hands behind me.“Thank you,” I whispered. He smiled and nodded firmly at me before he turned and headed towards his car. Immediately he left, my phone began to ring, I took it out of my pocket as I turned and headed back inside the house. It was a call from Callum.“Hi honey,” I greeted with a small smile as soon as I answer
SCARLETT Later that Evening.“Who is the lender?!” I heard my mother yell at Myla in the living room, from my room. “I-I advised her to invest, I didn’t know she was going to use her shares as collateral,” Myla stuttered in reply. “That’s not my question Myla! I said who is the lender! Who did the shares go to!” I heard her yell again. A moment of silence followed and Myla’s voice came again. “I-I don’t know ma’am” she muttered.“Well find out! I don’t pay you heavily to not know! It’s your job to find out!” “Yes, yes ma!” I heard Myla say, followed by shuffling of feet and then the sound of the door going shut. I slowly pushed myself off the door, as I crossed the room and sank onto the edge of my bed. I reached for my phone in my back pocket and dialed Callum’s number. The dial tone filled the silence, each ring echoing in my ears as I waited patiently for him to pick up. No answer. I tried again, and again, but it was the same outcome, no reply. With a deep sigh, I swiped
CALLUM NEXT DAY “Oh Kian. Thank you for coming!” I said to him as soon as he pushed the door to my office open and walked in.“When I saw your call, I just knew I have to be here. What’s going on?!” He asked as he settled into the chair behind him. “There are some things I need to tell you, I wanted to get my fact right before bringing it up to you” I said to him and he nodded slowly urging me to go on. “I have another biological brother,” I said to him. He furrowed his brows at me blinking rapidly as he leaned closer to me. “I don’t think I understand you,” he muttered, I sighed and began to get into details, explaining every single thing to him. He just sat there staring at me with his lips slightly apart. “So, Mother had another son that wasn’t you?! And he was human and now a wraith wolf?!” He asked immediately I was done talking and I nodded slowly. “Now he thinks he’s the rightful Alpha and he’s been the one causing troubles?!” He asked again and I nodded. “Goodness Cal
CALLUMLater that night ..“These are the only functioning surveillance cameras in the area,” Nolan said to me as he led me inside community control unit. I stood by the door and the staff there turned to greet me with a bow.“We’re sorry, but most of the cameras in that particular area is not functioning,” Someone, who appeared to be the head said to me.“Why the hell are the cameras not working and nobody thought to let me know!” I thundered, my angry voice taking up the whole space. They shook in fear with their head faced down. “Now is not the time Callum, Relax,” Cole muttered at the back of my mind. My hands balled into a fist beside me, I exhaled deeply and nodded slowly as their head bowed to me again, he gestured and led me towards a bigger screen. The video began playing, shadows flickering across the screen. Suddenly, two silhouetted figures stepped out of the dark. My hand shot forward almost immediately, pausing the video. I slowly zoomed in, the figures sharpening int
SCARLETT Next Day “Focus on your press conference, My Queen. Let’s talk when you get back,” Callum said over the phone. I slowly set my lipstick down and turned to face the camera. “Okay, Honey, I’ll call you once I’m done,” I replied softly.“You look absolutely stunning, My Queen,” he said, his words melting into me like warm honey. A wide smile spread across my face as I gently pushed my chair back and stood up.“Really?” I muttered, giving a small twirl in front of the camera, showing him the full outfit. His light chuckle echoed through the line, but even then, I caught the unsettleness in his eyes. He was trying to cover it, but I knew him too well. I know he doesn’t want me to worry about him, but he’s quite worried himself. I sighed deeply, leaning closer to the camera. “Everything will be fine, Alpha Callum. I can tell you categorically that you’re the strongest Alpha I’ve ever met. You’ve got this. Don’t worry, you’ll find him,” I said, my voice firm but reassuring. He b
SCARLETT “Scarlett!” I heard Callum’s voice as soon as I walked into the Packhouse and my heart unintentionally skipped a beat. I paused in my tracks as he made his way towards me, grabbed me by my shoulders lightly and began to look me over. My eyes followed his hands in confusion as he looked through my body as if checking for injuries. “Are you okay?”“Did anybody try to hurt you? Did anybody approach you today or anything?!” He asked all in one breath, I grabbed his hands almost immediately to make him stop. “Honey! I’m okay, what’s going on?!” I asked. He exhaled deeply and shook his head slowly. “Nothing, I just thought something bad had probably happened to you,” he mumbled, I slowly took my lower lips into my mouth and shook my head slowly. “I’m okay,” I said to him and he nodded slowly. “Where did you go?!” He finally asked. His question caught me off guard almost immediately like I didn’t see it coming. I raised my brows and pressed my lips against each other.“Hmm?”
CALLUM FEW MINUTES LATER “Seth, lead a portion of the warriors and go this way. Make sure you cover the entire surroundings,”“Nolan and I will lead the rest inside the building,” I ordered as soon as we arrived at the six-story abandoned building. “Yes, sir!” Seth howled, nodding firmly with a small bow. Without wasting any more time, Seth and his group moved away to cover the entire surrounding, while my group proceeded into the building. “Let’s split up so we can cover this place quickly. We mustn’t give anyone a chance to escape!” “If you find anything, even the littlest unusual thing, communicate with the rest of us! Everyone should put down the walls of their mind link! I don’t want any excuses!” I briefed them hurriedly, and the moment I was done, we all turned in different directions in the building. I moved stealthily through the dark hallways, lit up by a small torch in my hand. My senses on high alert as I advanced in my search. The scent of dust, mold, and stal
SCARLETT 10: 30pm “Woah! This is crazy!” I whisper yelled with my eyes wide open as I scrolled through my laptop. My phone was beside me on the table connected to my earbuds as I checked the file Annabeth sent to me on my laptop. “Scarlett, Crazy is an understatement!” “The whole time, the account we’ve been tracking is a fake account? It was created in Kael’s name but it wasn’t his,” she said, I exhaled deeply and shook my head slowly. “Do you think Kian did this?!” I asked reducing my voice lower than a whisper, she exhaled at the other end of the phone, I slowly turned to my phone and picked it up. “At this point Scarlett, I’m very suspicious of him,” she said. I dipped my hands into my hair and moved it backwards as I slowly leaned into the chair I was sitting on by the pool.“Is there a way we can confirm all this once and for all? And find out if he’s behind this or not and find who is actually behind this,” I said to her. “There’s only one thing we can do. We need ac
LATER THAT DAY CALLUM “I found a digital contract with your parent and Cora, it was clearly a rip off but your parents still signed it. It’s either she had something on them or they were just plainly oblivious of the whole arrangement, which I clearly doubt the former,” Nolan said to me as he walked into my office, took his seat across from me on the table and stretched out his tablet to me. “Where did you find this?!” I asked him as I gently took his tablet from him and looked through it. “Yeah, I was going to tell you, I found this safe in your father’s previous office and it contained a flashdrive, unfortunately this was the only document in the drive,” he said. I sighed and slowly reclined in my chair, “Scarlett keeps saying I should leave everything concerning Cora to her and focus on apprehending Kayden, but the truth is I think she’s starting to take on more than she can bear,” I said to him. “Well I think if we hand over all we’re able to find against Cora to her, it’ll
SCARLETT Next Day. 10:00am.A small knock came on my door, I slowly looked up at it and got up to my feet, Callum left for the office few hours ago. I adjusted my knee lenght floral dress and asked whoever was at the door to come in. The door slowly went open, Kaitlyn poked her head in a little bit before walking in fully.“Luna, I’m so sorry. I did everything to wash it but the stain just isn’t coming off,” She said. I sighed and rolled my eyes to the back of my head.“Kaitlyn, I already told you this before, forget about it, just dispose it, it’s not that big of a deal,” I said to her, she bit on her lower lips and bowed slightly. “I’m sorry, really,” she whispered.“Stop being dramatic Kaitlyn,” I said to her as I slowly picked up my bag on the bed and looked up at her.“It’s fine, I was just about to step out. Also, when I get back, I’ll like to have just meat, and make sure it’s well done,” I said to her, she nodded immediately in response. I grabbed the door knob and walked
SCARLETT Later that night …“Since I don’t have anything important doing, I’ll be visiting the orphanage often, Annabeth would join me whenever she’s chanced,” I said to Callum as I looked up to look at him through the mirror. I was seated in front of the dressing mirror applying face moisturizer.“Are you sure that’s convenient for you?!” He asked, I moved my head backwards almost immediately and I finally turned around to face him.“Convenient for me?! That’s my job! I should be doing it,”“Besides you guys are so busy looking for Kayden, I should be able to put things in order at the orphanage so this doesn’t happen again,” I said to him and he nodded slowly, turning his gaze back to the tablet he was working on. “Any progress though?!” I asked and he shook his head slowly.“No at all, just that Kayden apparently had the same pair of shoes as Kian,” he said, I slowly took my lips into my mouth and nodded slowly.“Any efforts on getting the lost footage files?!” I asked and he s
MEANWHILE TWILIGHT ZONE ALEX “Are you really going to behave like you didn’t stand there and let Scarlett beat me up?!” Alyssa said to me as soon as we walked in and she slammed the door shut heavily behind herself. I slowly turned to her, she had an irritated scowl on her face with her hand gripping her waist firmly. I rolled my eyes to the back of my head with a small sigh as I turned and walked further into the living room. “Did you just ignore me?!” She snorted angrily as she stomped towards me.“She asked you to stay back and you did?! Since when did you start listening to people much less Scarlett?!” She snorted,“Have you fallen in love with her?!” She asked, stepping even closer to me. I scoffed and shook my head at her.“I think the question should be, have you fallen in love with me?!” I queried raising my brows at her. “Our relationship is purely contractual and open, you and your mother needs me in your lives just as much as I need you both in mine, so don’t go aro
SCARLETT “Kian?!” I slowly unlocked the driver seat, pushed the door open and slowly stepped out. His eyes followed my movement and slowly landed on my face as soon as I stepped out fully and slammed the door shut. I saw the corner of his eyes twitch and his lips slowly stretched into a smirk that wiped off immediately, almost as if I was hallucinating and he didn’t smirk. “Scarlett?!” He whispered as he slowly dropped his hands, removing the gun from my face. I slowly stepped away from the car and walked towards him. “W-what a-are you doing?” I asked in a stutter, my voice barely above a whisper. His eyes slowly left my face and landed on my car.“I-I - must have made a mistake,” he muttered as he slowly returned the gun to his back pocket, he dipped his hands into his side pocket and took out a definely cut peice of paper.“Apparently, Kayden’s number plate and yours are similar, just the last two digits are different, I was so desperate to find him, I didn’t realize it wasn’t
SCARLETT Next Morning, 8:20am “Scarlett!” Myla exclaimed lowly as soon as she stepped out of the kitchen in her apartment and saw me walking inside. “You didn’t have to come here, I don’t want your mother to be suspicious at all,” she said wiping her hands with the back of her dress. “It’s fine, I’m leaving already,” “I’m sorry, I wasn’t able to listen to the meeting with Arthur yesterday, what did they talk about?” I asked. She exhaled deeply and slowly folded her hands across her chest. “Alyssa and Alex will get married still. Something about Veto power, the Alpha gets what the Alpha wants,” she said her face downcast with a small sigh. “I thought this would be the way to finally show everyone who they really are,”“But guess who turned the whole thing around, all under the disguise of being in love, what nonsense love!” She snorted as she slowly folded her hands under her burst. I reached forward and gently placed my hands in her shoulders.“It’s fine, they’d fall into your