Tyler stared at the phone in his hand, surprised that Alpha Carl had decided to make his relationship with Ethel known so soon. Maybe he just could not hold it back?"He should have at least seen Cardia about the mate bonding before doing this" He sighed heavily. Tyler had gone to see Cardia, just to confirm what he had heard from Alpha Carl but he had gotten addition information from her on how to restore their mate bond and it was one process he was not sure that Ethel would agree to. "Whatever it is, I'd be wishing them good luck" he mumbled. *The next day"You are not going to work, Alpha?" Ethel asked, noticing that Alpha Carl was not preparing for work. "You are right" he replied. "Why?" She asked softly. "Because I need to stay home today. I have so many things to deal with today, Angel" he finished with buttoning up his casual shirt. "I am really sorry that I have to bring all of this upon you" Ethel mumbled and Alpha Carl chuckled. "You really have an habit of think
Cardia was seated on a chair in the room, her eyes looking around the living room of Alpha Carl's home as if it was her first time in the house. She noted the presence of Alpha Carl and Ethel as soon as they were by the stairs and she stopped looking around. "Cardia" Alpha Carl called, his hands linked with that of Ethel. "Alpha Carl" Cardia stood up and bowed slightly. She glanced at Ethel who quickly greeted her with a bow of her head. "You are going to be the Luna. I should greet you" Cardia responded to her greetings.Alpha Carl and Ethel took their seat and Cardia did the same. "The solution to the mate bond?" Alpha Carl requested as soon as they were seated. "Can... Can we talk about it in private, Alpha Carl?" Cardia asked. "This concerns Ethel directly. There is no need for her to be excluded from the discussion. You may speak" Alpha Carl replied and Cardia sighed softly, pressing her lips into a thin line. "If you say so then" Cardia mumbled. "Go straight to the poi
Ethel pulled her knees close to her chest as she worriedly thought about what was going on. She could not even think of having to kill Lucy just because she wanted to be with Alpha Carl but then she could not think of giving him up too. She understood quite well that Alpha Carl needed their mate bond to be restored. She wanted it too but not as much as him. He needed it much more because of the powers of the moon ring. She sighed heavily and ran her hands through her hair and then suddenly all of her worries turned into anger, anger for the person who had manipulated the mate bond in the first place. If not for that person, nothing would be wrong right now. She would have met Alpha Carl, be his mate, love him and he would have mated with her and the powers of the moon ring would be his as it was supposed to be. Max would not even be an opposition. Everything would have been so perfect. Whoever it was, she hated that person and Ethel knew that she had to find that person.It coul
Alpha Carl got to the door of the room and was about to open the food when Ethel opened it. She was fully dressed and definitely ready to go out. "Ethel, where are you going to?" He asked. "I'm going to see Lucy" she replied. "You should not go out for now, Ethel. We just let the entire pack know about our relationship last night. The people outside are going to be a little bit hostile towards you." He held her hand to take her back in but Ethel withdrew her hand from his. "No. I have to see Lucy today and right now. I have to ask her myself if she manipulated the mate bond herself or if someone pulled her into it? I have to ask if she is even aware that the mate bond was manipulated?""Ethel, we will deal with that later....""No! I want to deal with it now" She cut him off. "Ethel" his brows arched and Ethel drew in a shaky breath. "Everything is frustrating right now. I can't kill her. I can't watch Lucy die because we want to restore our mate bond""Even if she is the one s
"Here you go" Ethel gave Lucy her handkerchief to wipe her tears with. "Thank you" Lucy mumbled, taking the handkerchief. She wiped her tears away and dropped the handkerchief. She looked at Ethel and held her hands. "Ethel, I am very sorry. I have not been a good sister to you. In fact, I have not been a sister to you at all. I'm really sorry. Please forgive me" she begged. "Lucy, it's alright. I love you and of course I forgive you" Ethel assured her and Lucy hugged her. "You are really kind hearted. Dad was wrong" she mumbled and Ethel pulled away from the hug. "What did Dad say?" Ethel ask and Lucy sighed. "Dad said you were weak and feeble hearted. He was wrong. Being kind does not mean you are weak or feeble hearted. You were just being kind" Lucy spoke softly and sniffed. "So...." Ethel drawled. "You want to talk about it now? About how dad brought you into this?" Ethel asked and Lucy nodded her head. "I would say Dad had been planning this for a long time." Lucy mum
Matthew (Ethel and Lucy's father ) was furious as he drove back home. Ethel had completely humiliated him. He would not have believed what he saw in the news if he had merely been told by someone. But it was all over the internet and there were pictures too! But that was not the exact reason why he was furious. He was furious because the witch was unable to do anything. He had gone to ask the old witch if anything could be done to make Alpha Carl love Lucy instead of Ethel but the witch had insisted that nothing else could be done. She had also warned him not to attempt doing more by going to visit more witches as it would lead to his doom. She advised him to just get Alpha Carl and Ethel be together but Matthew did not want that! With a groan, he hit the wheel of the car as he drove into his compound. He parked the car and alighted from the car. He immediately noticed the presence of another car and he sighed heavily. He walked towards the door, pushed it open and walked in to
"Alpha Max" Garry called, rushing into the room with a heavy carton box in his hands. "What is the issue?" Alpha Max asked his beta. "We got a package" Garry replied. "A package? From who?" Alpha Max asked, his right brow raised. He was not expecting anything from anyone. "From Carl""Carl" Max's eyes widened. "Open it up now" he ordered and Garry immediately opened up the box to reveal the head of their one last spy. "Damnit! That bastard!" Max cussed. "Alpha Max, we no longer have any spy with them. How are we supposed to pull through?" Garry asked. "This time I would have to think about something much more better, much more possible" Max was breathing heavily with anger. "There is a note" Garry noted, picking the note from the box. "What does it say?""Your head will be cut off from your body soon just like this. You like the cut pattern, right? If you don't, send me how you want your head to be cut off" Garry read the note out and it only increased Max's anger. "Carl r
Alpha Carl stormed into their room with Ethel following behind him. "Alpha Carl" She called. "Ethel, don't try telling me that you are really going to ask me to spare him cause this time I won't listen to you. I can not spare him. He is your father, I understand, he is your blood, I understand but he does not deserve to live. He has put you through so many things Ethel and not just you but your sister and your mother too. Don't tell me to spare him, Ethel. Don't." He stated firmly. Alpha Carl hated the confidence with which Matthew had spoken. He hated more the fact that Ethel had held him back when he attempted to touch him again. Yes, he loved her being soft and kind but not this time. Being soft and kind did not mean she had to be gullible and used by someone as cruel as her father. "You didn't even let me say a word, Alpha Carl" Ethel said and walked up to him. She cupped his face in his hands and stood on her toes to kiss him but Alpha Carl looked away. "You are not going
"Do you, Carl Hillard, the Alpha of the River Alley Pack take Ethel Adams as your wife and Luna, to stand by her and be with her all the remaining days of your lives, in good and bad health, in good and bad situations, to offer her strength when she needs it, to be her husband?" The priest asked. This time, Alpha Carl was much more at peace knowing that no one would barge in to inform them of an attack on their Pack. "I do" Alpha Carl replied all smiles. The priest gave a small nod and turned towards Ethel. "Do you, Ethel Adams take Carl Hillard, the Alpha of the River Alley Pack as your husband, to stand by him and be with him all the remaining days of your lives, in good and bad health, in good and bad situations, to offer him strength when he needs it, to be his wife?""I do" Ethel replied, almost too quickly. Alpha Carl chuckled at how ecstatic she was. Like they had planned, there were very few people at this wedding. They put on the rings and Alpha Carl had his chance to
A week later"You know I still can't push away the fact that our wedding wasn't perfect. We didn't even get any wedding shots or even get to dance" Alpha Carl pointed out, his arms wrapped around her waist in a back hug while his face was buried in her neck. "Yes, that's right" Ethel pouted and ran her fingers down to his own fingers, feeling the moon ring on his fingers.It was still shining, even after Lucy had survived. "I was thinking...." He turned her to face him and kept his hands on her waist. "How about we retake our vows? I am sure our pup would love that" he bent down and kissed her stomach.Ethel smiled as he stood up straight. "We already did the vows...." She started. "But you are right. I was planning on dancing and taking loads of pictures but none of that happened and our rings too...." She raised her hands up. "We could only find yours when we returned to where we dropped it" she grumbled with a cute pout. Alpha Carl ruffled her hair fondly "That's that. I wo
Ethel let her body drop into the nearest sofa as soon as she was in the living room. Tears filled her eyes again. The Pack members were cheering at their success but she was crying at her loss. She could not even tell her mother yet. She did not know how to break the news to the poor woman, how to tell her that barely a month after her husband died, her daughter had also died. They had confirmed that she snuck out of the house and they had no idea where her body was."Ethel" Alpha Carl whispered her name and scooped her into his arms. "It's going to be fine" he whispered and kissed her forehead while she sobbed into his chest. Suddenly the telephone rang but the two in the living room were in no mood to pick it up until Alpha Carl raised his hand to pay Ethel's hair and realized that the moon ring's light was flickering. "Flickering...." He mumbled the word and Ethel's eyes widened, seeing that. "Lucy.... She is probably not dead" the both of them shot up from their seat. Ethe
Surprise, shock and yet relief ran through Alpha Carl's body as he realized that the moon ring's powers was now with him. But it meant one thing, Lucy was dead.... Someone had killed her or she had killed herself to save the entire Pack. With his paw raised up and the moon ring's light shining brightly, everyone froze. The enemies froze because they knew they were doomed, the River Alley Pack members froze because they were relieved, Ethel and Tyler froze because they were breaking apart. Lucy was dead! They had lost her!Crumbling to the floor, Ethel shifted back to her human form. "Noooooooooooo!!" Ethel screamed out loud, breaking the silent freeze the moon ring's light had caused. "Lucy!" She cried out as her heart wrecked with pains. Her twin sister was dead. This was a nightmare she hated! She didn't want Lucy dead, she wanted her alive. Tyler's eyes filled with tears. He had asked her not to harm herself, he had told her not to die as long as he was alive but she went ah
Lucy was seated at the edge of the bed in her room, her feet shaking badly and sweats pouring down from her forehead. Suddenly, the door opened and beta Tyler walked in. Lucy was shocked to see him. They were in the middle of a war, how could the beta leave the war?"Beta... Beta Tyler?" Her voice was shaky and she could hardly speak in one breath. Was he here to eliminate her on behalf of the Pack? She was willing to do so now, anyways. "Are you here to get rid of me?" She asked, her voice still shaky. "Very much the contrary. Ethel was worried about you trying something stupid. She wanted me to come check on you and assure you that things are going fine" he replied, sitting on the sofa inside of the room. "Are.... Are things going fine?" She stuttered out. "Not at all. Things are going from bad to worse. We are losing men. Though we have managed to get rid of a lot, we are still very much behind" he replied. "Then why are you here? You... You should be there, fighting for t
Lucy's lips parted in a whimper. The bouquet of flowers in her hands fell to the floor. With another pack onto them, she knew they could not win, unless they brought the moon ring to shine, unless they killed her. She trembled with fear and her eyes filled up with tears. "N.... No" she shook her head in disbelief. She wanted what was happening right now to be just one nightmare of hers that stemmed from her fears but it wasn't a nightmare, this was reality. Just when she thought that her life could be good, just when she thought life could be peaceful for her, everything had come crashing down upon her. She wished she had never said yes to being the fake mate of the Alpha. Now, their fake manipulated bond was too strained to even work. Even if Alpha Carl slept with her and marked her right now, the moon ring still would not shine. Everything was on to her life. Her death was the only thing that could save everyone but death scared her, she didn't want to die yet. Ethel, see
"Do you, Carl Hillard, the Alpha of the River Alley Pack take Ethel Adams as your wife and Luna, to stand by her and be with her all the remaining days of your lives, in good and bad health, in good and bad situations, to offer her strength when she needs it, to be her husband?""I do" Alpha Carl replied, more than willingly. "Do you, Ethel Adams take Carl Hillard, the Alpha of the River Alley Pack as your husband, to stand by him and be with him all the remaining days of your lives, in good and bad health, in good and bad situations, to offer him strength when he needs it, to be his wife?"With a huge smile on her face and her hands clutching tightly the flowers, Ethel said the words. "I do"Loud cheering erupted amongst the guests as the vows were made The rings were brought forward and Alpha Carl slipped the ring into Ethel's fingers, his heart racing as he did so. She was finally his woman!Ethel equally slipped the wedding ring into his finger and the both of them raised thei
The Wedding Day"Are you sure I look good?" Ethel asked for the hundredth time after dressing up. "You look perfect, Ethel. Trust me" Lucy assured her and turned to their mother. "Doesn't she look perfect, mum?" She asked. The three of them were in a huge room that had been earlier filled with the people doing the perfect makeover for Ethel. "She does, she looks more beautiful than I looked on my wedding day with your father" their mother replied and the atmosphere of the room turned slightly sour. "You did not have to mention father" Lucy pointed out. "I am sorry. I... I just spoke, I did not think about it""It's okay. It's a happy day" Ethel lightened the air with a huge smile on her face. "That's right" Lucy affirmed. Lucy equally looked beautiful in her pink gown, her hair was styled beautifully and her makeup complimented her beauty. Lucy walked close to Ethel and adjusted the dress. "Is there anything wrong?" Ethel asked. "Not at all. And don't be nervous, Ethel. Eve
"I think this one looks really good" Ethel said, standing in front of a wedding gown. "No, no and no. You are becoming the Luna. This..." She pointed at the gown. "Is not good enough" she shook her head. "There is no such thing as you being a simple, beautiful bride. You are going to be a sophisticated beautiful bride" she added and Ethel chuckled. "Alright then. Why don't you choose cause I really do not know what to pick?" she responded. "Alright then" Lucy mumbled and looked around at the wedding gowns. "What about this one?" Lucy asked, standing in front of a sophisticated wedding gown. The wedding gown was decorated with tiny gems that caught the light of the room. It was a gown that would definitely catch the attention of even thousands of people. Lucy was sure Ethel would look elegant, beautiful and expensive in the dress. It was perfect."You have to pick this, Ethel.""It's really beautiful. You made a better choice""Leave things like this to me. I will make sure yo