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Carly forged deeper into what seemed to be the highly lit room that led to the exit of the pack house, her eyes glistened in shock as her nerves stretched tautly. She felt soft arms trailing on her neck as it hooked, and her eyes flared in serenity.

Her gaze flickered over to the feminine figure opposite her, sighing softly, she flashed a bright smile at Kihara, her sister. Swiftly, she ran a quick survey on her; caramel blonde hair packed in a messy bun, woodland eyes which she inherited from an ancestral trace, her face was mystically perfect, it seemed to have been sculpted by an artist.

“Carly!” Kiara yelled, raising an exaggerated brow as her jaws clenched firmly in frustration. She glared over at Carly who seemed to have drowned in her thoughts.

“Ugh,” Carly sighed, jerking out of her train of thought. “Why did you call my name so loudly Kihara?” 

Kihara’s brows crashed down. “Why are you so moody?” She questioned with an equal amount of care ringing in her tone. Silence rented the air with an uneasy sensation whirling in Carly as she sighed in melancholy pondering on questions in her mind of she could only ponder one at a time.

Her mind drifted back to the look on Alpha Oswald’s face when she visited; his face was diamond-shaped, it seemed to be clothed in a warrior's mask, midnight black hair which clung down, and the poignant need written in his eyes was charmingly inevitable as it glowed softly beneath his lustrous black lashes.

How could she ever cope with Luna Nikita? who had been rumored to be as cunning as a fox whenever Alpha Oswald was involved, recently, she banished a maid to go find in the wilderness without the Alpha’s intervention for she had tried to seduce Alpha Oswald. She could have sworn she saw the burning rage in her expression when Alpha Oswald had declared her to be his concubine, an evil smirk escaping her lips as always.

What would become of her once she moved into the pack house? 

She sighed deeply pondering on what could happen and how she would cope with the ‘evil’ Luna Nikita and the ‘domineering’ Alpha Oswald.

“Carly!” Kihara screamed out into Carly’s ears as she felt jerked back to reality, her eyes glistening in awareness as her head flung in the direction of her sister, Carly. 

Kihara’s brow quivered. “What are you thinking?” She mused dryly staring back at a dazed Carly.

“Well, I am thinking a lot nowadays.”

“You shouldn't be moody.”

“Why shouldn't I?”

“You just found out that you're the almighty, Alpha Oswald’s mate,”

Carly grunted, wiping some clouds of glistening sweat from her forehead. “Then so? That does not give me a smooth and carefree life,” Carly prodded.

“It does but you just can't see it,” Kihara flipped her hair sideways as she grinned sheepishly.

“Being his mate doesn't mean I’ll live in the highest of fantasies, It only adds to my fears!” She shrugged off Kihara’s hands.

“Fears?” Kihara asked, pouting her pink chapped lips as she pressed it into a tight line as she mused, “There’s no need to be scared sis, instead you should be happy you have finally found your mate and he's an Alpha of the mighty eclipse pack.”

“What about Luna Nikita, you know she won't stop at nothing to make my life miserable,” Carly’s smile disappeared.

“No she can't, Alpha Oswald will always be there to protect you, he'll be your guardian angel,” Kiara rattled, flashing a quick smile over at Carly who smirked in frustration.

Carly pouted her lips as her brows puckered. “She can remember what she did to Lucija who is now fending in the fields, does Alpha Oswald even know about it?” 

“No.” Kihara stuttered in a faltering voice as she didn't want to admit to the fact that she had lost as she snickered, “But yours could be different, have faith Carly, faith could move mountains.”

“It won't, it will only get worse than Lucija’s, I could have sworn I saw her smirk coldly when Alpha Oswald announced me as his mate before the entire pack and she mumbled some incoherent words which I couldn't hear,” She said with an unknown liberation as she poured out her heart before Kihara as they forged through the pack house's elegant golden gates as two huge figures hovered behind them.

She paused in her tracks and turned swiftly charging towards them. Over the years, she'd become an unequally skilled fighter with sharpened skills, she'd hardly become good at fisticuffs. Left to her, Carly knew she was no match before the two masculine figures but regained her proud demeanor.

Her brows flew up high with pride. “Excuse me?” She questioned smirking coldly, her jaws clenched. She glared over at the people behind her, a dark tall ebony skinned man with a lithe figure. He was bald as his head was in contrast to his eyes which were alligator green. Her gaze flickered to the other side, the other was a blonde-haired man with hair that flowed down with a parting at the center of his head, they both had puffed chests and enhanced packs dressed in the uniform for the guards in the eclipse pack house.

“Who are you?” She snickered authoritatively, forcing out a cruel look on her face.

“Ma’am we are your assigned guards that Alpha Oswald sent to follow you and keep out of danger at all times,” The blonde-haired one spoke first.

“Ohh!” 

“I am not a baby and perhaps I don't need two scary men hovering behind me like I am a Luna so you two are hereby excused.”

“But ma, Alpha Oswald insisted on the fact that we follow you just to ensure your safety in the open,” The dark man spoke afterward.

“You’re my assigned guard, right? Then I have every right to excuse you.” Carly rasped in a challenging tone, “You can go enjoy the rest of your evening doing whatever you feel like doing.”

“But...” The blonde-haired guard attempted speaking but his voice was interrupted by Carly,“ No buts, you both are excused.”

She made sure the two guards had left before she continued in her stride walking as courteously as she could. She glanced back at Kihara who glared back in momentary astonishment.

“Why are you looking at me with those eyes? You're giving me the irks.” 

“Well, I am only shocked.”

“Shocked at what?”

“At the turnaround in your life,” Kihara blurted out.

“My life?” Carly grimaced.

“Yes, of course, your life, within the blink of an eye you've become the apple of his eyes and already you're getting this amount of pampering from the Alpha, what will happen when you finally get married and move into the pack house, you'll be treated like a queen,“ Kihara’s smile deepened with a warm glow in her eyes.

“You just don't get it Kihara what getting married to him means....” Kimora continued hurling as they crossed through the street which was filled with malls, stores, and residential buildings that topped off to the sky.  Her gaze beamed on the huge inscription of a nightclub.

“What are you looking at?” Kihara asked and glared in the direction of the nightclub as a tug of emotions blew her away like a mighty wind, she felt her features softening rapidly, and her heart lurched almost immediately.

“Well I know Ryder broke your heart and so did your previous lovers but come to think of it, you know you have your mate, someone you could call on, someone you could rely on,” Kihara strutted taking the narrow street which led to their little abode.

Carly hovered close by as they walked into the dark, narrow street which led to their little abode. She noticed some figures at a side at a bricked walled fence with broken pieces of bottle littered around them, they looked unconsciously drunk.

Her hands trailed on Kihara’s as they held each other tightly strutting towards their apartment as a hand gripped her back.

“Hey harlot” One of them called having eye-to-eye contact with her. “Did you think you could get away so easily, you thought you could take the Alpha’s eyes off Luna Nikita and claim his attention well guess what! you failed woefully for we are going to give you the harshest beating of your life.”

“Excuse me...who are...you...” She stuttered in fear as she withdrew backward from the mighty figures before her.

“Wow, it seems pretty Miss slut has something to utter,” One of the men who seemed to be the leader of the gang snickered, projecting licking his lips sexily as he made his way before her. Carly felt her fears heightening and almost froze when his cold hands landed on her shoulders slowly tracing down to her breasts.

“Get your filthy hands off me” She shrugged his hands off her as anger gathered momentum in her; it surged deeper into her system as she stretched her hand and landed a mighty slap upon his face.

The atmosphere thickened with tension as a gasp escaped the leader's lips. Briefly, she saw storms of veins clouding a side of his face, she shivered at the view wishing she could drown in the ground.

“Well, what about we have some fun, don't you think so Carly Hayes,” His chin rose as he softly rolled the ‘f’, a grin cast on his face as the entire pack of men leaped forward cornering her In a circle.

She felt another hand trail to her hair and felt it gripped, clumps of her mated blonde hair pulled out from its roots as she shrieked In excruciating pain, she felt a vehement blow descending on her nose as blood oozed out of her nostrils, her head was slammed towards the nearby bricked wall. Her nose began to bleed. Her eyes filled with tears.

Her legs were roughly pulled apart, and she fought desperately, despairingly, trying to move but many hands restrained her, she flung her head in the opposite attraction and was shocked to see Kihara also cornered by a group of men.

Now pains, in waves, were everywhere. 

“Ain’t she lovely” The voice nearby was dreamlike as her consciousness waned rapidly, she felt the zipper of her dress being pulled down by a mighty hand.

“LEAVE HER!!”