Chapter Three

Cara got up early in the morning to do her unfinished chores. She already had the intention of searching Priya's room for her pendant. Not quite long after one hell of a work. Laurel was woken up by her, a few minutes after she had done some hectic Job. "I want to sleep some more.' She grunted and reclined back to her bed. 

She walked hurriedly to Priya residence in the name of doing her laundry.

She knocked on her door but got no response from the inside. "Where could she have gone this morning?" She wondered.

The sun was just setting up when Cara got to Priya's apartment. She looked around her and tiptoed to and fro in search of anyone coming. "I guess this is the right time." she exclaimed feeling a sense of accomplishment.

The door creaked open as she pressed her hand against it gently and closed it behind her again the moment she got inside. She searched the whole room for the pendant, moving from one spot to another. "What is this, is this not Priya's gold chain... how come." She looked expressionless with what she found, Priya's claimed to be lost gold chain wrapped in a parcel and hidden in a box under the bed.

"I had a guess about this already... I knew it." She felt infuriated, knowing that Priya accused her falsely. "But where's mine." She whispered as she couldn't find her own bracelet. She stood on a spot thinking of where to search again.

She suddenly sniffed repeatedly. "This is the scent from last night... it's Ethan, where is it coming from." She peeped through the window to see who was passing by. She decided to follow after the scent of the scent."

On the norms, she shouldn't be seen either caught wandering around the royal residence with being directed to as this might lead her to being punished severely. She walked stealthily, trying to avoid making one hell of a noise with her shoes.

She walked a little bit and soon stopped on the balcony around Betty's residence. She felt stunned by what her eyes caught. "no it can't be... it can't be him... how come he is my mate." She growled, feeling so displeased.

She felt disaffected and displeased by what her eyes saw when she stepped into the balcony. "Why him, this shouldn't be," She said wearily, adjusting herself to turn around and leave the place. She had just caught Ethan and Priya kissing and cuddling with themselves on the balcony. 

Cara once had the thought that her mate would be someone that would feel the same way she felt. Allison Bradley had once told her about her father, Collins, who fought to save her when she had no one. Even before they mated, Collins had lavished his love upon her. Her nostalgic recollections made her shed tears that dropped on the ground one at a time.

Cara about to walk away hit her leg on a stick that fell on a steel refuse bin, making a high pitch sound. Priya and Ethan stopped suddenly at the sound of the object they heard and spotted Cara who was already leaving.

"Cara, Cara, wait up, I need to talk to you." He shouted, waving his hands towards Cara's direction. Priya felt disturbed as to what Ethan wanted to say to her. "Why would he call her, is she the next girl he is into," She wondered at the reaction of Ethan after seeing Cara.

Priya had always wanted Ethan's love and tried many times to woo him before she could get this chance with him. She had noticed on the second day of Cara's arrival at the pack how Ethan looked at Cara. "Only one who is in love could stare that way," She would say. That's probably the day Ethan set out for his long awaited adventure and the main reason why she got jealous of Cara.

"I haven't even met him yet, this is the first time I'll be seeing him clearly, how then does he know my name?" She thought to herself.

She turned back and walked slowly towards their direction. Priya left where she stood with Ethan and walked unsteadily towards the entrance of the door under Ethan's directive.

"Remember he is mine... don't try to do anything stupid neither seduce him." Priya warned her as she took her leave.

Ethan stared at Mia for some moment before speaking up. "You felt it too, didn't you... that's why you could come up here... I've known for some time now." He confessed, looking straight into her eyes.

Larry eyed Cara the first day she set his eyes on her and soon got to know that Cara was his mate but never took it to heart because of her low status.

"If you know that I'm your mate, then what are you doing with Priya?" She cut back with a sharp tone.

"Don't tell me that, you're just a low class slave, good for nothing, that's what my father said. what do you expect me to do, what am I going to tell my mother... huh." He retorted back in anger.

"And you are the Future Alpha of this pack, you could have done something... wait, are those your father's thoughts or yours," She said, wearily, almost shedding tears.

Ethan turned his face away from her in silence. Cara soon understood why he did that and stepped back a little bit from him after seeing what he is like. She felt dejected, as his words sounded like a bombshell. 

"But we both can still have a thing together... you know what I mean." 

"and be your lapdog... someone you sleep with, without any feelings attached." She hurled back at him.

"Then go away, I have nothing to do with you then." He rejected her immediately and she finished with her words.

Cara nodded her head in compliance to his rejection. She was about to take her leave when she stopped and turned back to him. Cara shifted aside and opened the upper part of her dress to reveal the tattoo on the side of her shoulder.

"I've seen this from somewhere. Why is that logo there on your shoulder, who are you," Ethan questioned, expecting a response.

"Through the course of your adventure, you would have heard of the Moonlight pack right...I'm his daughter, Alpha Collins Bradley daughter." She voiced out and rushed out of his sight after her last statement.

"Wait up, Cara, don't go yet, I... I didn't mean," He stammered and stopped when Cara walked out of his sight

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One could hear the sounds of wolves growling, dueling with themselves in a joking manner. One might even begin with the smell of the smoke coming from the burning tree. But Ethan did not notice all of these- instead she sat all by himself in the veranda of his apartment in silence, oblivious to the surroundings.

He watched as the birds flew and chirped over his head in the sky. Few hours ago, she had just heard his mate, Cara is not just a slave but one with a royal bloodline.

He threw stones against the tree planted by his mother at his apartment. He felt so outraged. Anyone could tell by the expression on his face.

"How did I miss that... I should have known." He bewailed as he turned into his wolf form reminiscing all he could have done to Cara instead of allowing her to walk away from him just like that. 

He stood up and punched the tree in front of him repeatedly as he conversed with his wolf. "what could I have done... She shouldn't have seen me with Priya, she felt so hurt."

"maybe, but you can't just blame yourself." His wolf replied

Ethan regretted his actions towards Cara. He beated himself up, piercing himself with his claws and watched them heal again. The most painful part is the fact that she has Alpha blood running through her veins.

"I have to get her back... I'm the future Alpha, I can do anything I want right." 

"Yeah... yeah you can." His wolf hurled back in a soft gentle voice.

Ethan felt belittled by Cara's response and attitude towards him when they met at the balcony. That made him turn against the tree in fury and flips into an intense destructive rage. He smashed the tree with his claws, screaming out Cara's name.

Ethan walked away suddenly and stepped down from the veranda, only for him to see Cara coming his way. He halted on a spot and thought about what to do to her the moment she got to where he stood.

Cara stared at him looking straight in his eyes as she walked up to him. Ethan was about to say a word when he stopped suddenly. Cara just passed by him, slightly touching him with her arms, without saying a word to him

"What the heck." He yelled, growling with a high pitch sound. He made no attempt to run after her nor call out to her. Ethan became very mad because he couldn't accept Cara being so indifferent and made up his mind to get her and punish her for her rudeness towards him. 

He took a step to take his leave when Priya bumped into him. She had been standing at one corner stalking Ethan to know what happened between him and Cara.

Ethan stared at her for a while without a word and walked away not looking back. Priya felt rejected at an instant. "Look what you've caused, Cara... you won't escape this." She whispered in fury and made haste for her residence.