CHAPTER 6

Unruly behavior 🔥🔥🔥

**Lucas' POV**

To be completely honest, I seriously didn't know what to think anymore. On one hand, Simon and I both had our mate, a slave who was brought into our house from Alpha Klaus’ pack. Then there was Veronica, on the other hand, whom Simon had wholeheartedly accepted. We had both gone out to inspect the work of some laborers in the pack, and Simon had said he wanted to visit a friend in a nearby town.

“But why do you want to visit Maurice today? Can't we just go together on another day?”

“No, not at all. He will be traveling in the next two days, and I have quite a number of things to discuss with him. Or will you just come along with me now?”

“I think I'll pass on that. I'm already tired just standing under this scorching sun, so I'll just be on my way back to the mansion.”

“Alright then, bye.” Very swiftly, Simon instantly transformed into his wolf self and began running straight out of town.

I stood on the spot for a while, with no single thought coming to mind. As soon as realization hit me once again that the sun was scorching like there was no tomorrow, I quickly transformed into my wolf self and began running towards the mansion. As I progressed through the woods that led straight to the mansion's entrance, the closer I got to the house, the more heightened my senses became.

“Something is going on in there,” I mumbled to myself, as I increased my pace to find out what exactly was happening inside. When I got there, I could already hear the sounds of yelling and slaps echoing through the air. It angered me to know that the maids actually had the audacity to be fighting inside my house. I walked in, only to be welcomed by the scene of about 5 to 6 maids hitting and dragging Ashley off one of them, who was receiving slaps and blows from the ground where Ashley had trapped her. Of all things, fighting was definitely something Simon and I did not condone among our domestic workers. However, it further angered me even more to see that Ashley, of all people, was also among them.

“And what in the world is going on here?” I asked very angrily, and I couldn't help but notice that it was at the sound of my voice that each and every one of them stopped what they were doing. A few of them had even started fidgeting, but I was not surprised about that. Few of the maids who had been with us before had engaged in physical fights in the past, and it instantly cost them their jobs. This consequently got these maids to already be scared about what was going to happen to them as well.

“I believe you all can hear me because I asked a question that demands an immediate response. What exactly was going on here?” I spoke up again, and as I looked at everyone in the room very carefully, it was so obvious to see that they were all too scared to say anything; the fear was just written all over them. The room still remained annoyingly silent, so I just looked towards Ashley where she stood very quietly. I continued looking in her direction, and after a while, she then raised her head a bit to look at me. The moment she realized that my eyes were actually on her, she immediately looked back down, probably to avoid getting me too angry with her. I got that they were all scared and all, but having no one even saying anything to me just got me even more upset. I was about to yell out to them one more time when Mortica quickly stepped forward to speak.

She went on about Ashley not doing as told, and in my mind, I was just wondering what that had anything to do with the question I had asked. Giving her a questioning look, she instantly went straight to the point of what I had asked. Looking at Ashley, I couldn't help but wonder just why she had to get herself involved in all this mess. Well, whatever or whoever might have started this fight, I didn't care to know anymore. They were all getting punished, and there was no changing that.

I dismissed the rest of them, and they all happily left the room to go carry on their respective duties. Ashley was about to leave, but I stopped her. Without giving her the chance to respond, I instantly dragged her up to her bedroom with me. My original intention was to have her do all the chores by herself, but then it dawned on me that I had not asked for her own perspective as well.

When we got to the room, I proceeded to hear what she had to say, and after listening, I just decided to lessen her punishment. It wasn't really her fault, but still, she shouldn't have reacted to the maids through physical tussle.

After waiting for a while, thinking about what to give her as punishment, I finally came up with something. At the end of the day, the punishment I gave her was to remain in the room without food or water for 24 hours. No one was to visit her, and neither was she to leave to visit anyone until the time was up. Without waiting for her to react to the punishment I had given her, I made my way out, not wanting to look back to see whether she was hurt or not. She had committed a punishable offense, and I wasn't going to let sentiments get in the way of my judgment. I left the room and thought for a while just why Simon had to invite Veronica over for dinner with her whole family. There was already pent-up anger with Veronica towards Ashley, and from the looks of things, the feeling was definitely mutual. Fortunately for everyone, the punishment I passed to Ashley was one that would prevent her from meeting Veronica, and vice versa.