'What's your problem, Sylvester?' I asked in angry frustration. 'Why do you like coming at the wrong times?'

'Christopher, I have a mind to fight you here and now!' he said. 'Why are you trespassing on my territory?'

'Your territory? Trespassing?' I asked, still very angry, my wolf furious at the interruption. 'How is she your territory? And how am I trespassing if I am with my mate?''

'Christopher, don't get me started!' he said as furious as I was. This mate issue was lingering too much for my liking. It has to be resolved so that we all know our stand especially those who don't already know theirs. As for me, my fate was with Millicent to whom I am mated.

'Sylvester, I should be the one telling you that. Do not get me started! How often does this have to go on? You keep interrupting my private time with my mate and you ask me not get you started?'

Millicent came and stood between us. 'I am mated to the both of you and I can choose to be with either of you or the both of you. Your childish bickering about it will not help at all! Infact I'll tell you sincerely, it pisses me off!' she said, walking away.

Sylvester stretched his hand to pull her back and most probably question the meaning of what she had spoken but I pulled his hand back. He could not drag my mate into our argument and I told him as such.

'Why not?' he asked. 'She started this! She should have kept to herself till all is resolved!'

'You cannot blame this on her', I replied. 'I started this and the mate bond took over. You may not understand it because you have not experienced it before, have you?' I asked furiously.

'How could I not have experienced it?' he asked, 'Am I not mated to her as well? Look, Christopher, we are brothers and I would not want us to keep having rows over my mate', he said tiredly. 'I am aware she is mated to us both but you alone cannot lay claim to her. She will either choose either of us who she prefers or mate with us both!'

'Listen to yourself!' I said. 'You claim to love her yet you are prepared for us both to mate with her. You are prepared to share her or are you pretending to love her?' I paused and shook my head. 'Though you are my brother, I shall not share her with you or anyone!'

'I shall not warn you again. Keep away from Millicent'! 'Or...' Sylvester left the rest of his words hanging.

'Or what?' I asked, ready to duel with him.' You seem to have forgotten I am the elder here!'

'Or I might have to do what I do not want to do to you!' he supplied.'

'And that is what?' I asked curiously. He did not say anything to that but left me staring after him, as he mumbled, 'It doesn't count that you were born some two minutes before I. We are twins. There's no elder!'

After Sylvester had left, I sat again in the grass and the cool breeze from the stream, calming me. I was restless. I needed to have Millicent. I could not explain how angry I was that Sylvester happened in on us at that time. What bad timing. I looked for my jacket and saw where it lay,folded neatly.

Millicent must have folded it when she got up and wire back her shirt. So thoughtful!

I picked the jacket and placed it on the floor close to me, then I lowered my self down, using the folded jacket as a pillow.

I shut my eyes and visualized Millicent and I as one, then she becomes pregnant with my pups and I spoil her silly and when she eventually gives birth, I spoil my pups silly as well. It felt like heaven and I wished for it harder. I did not know what it was about Millicent but I feel complete with her. She completes me and gives me joy.

I wondered what my life was before her. I had had other females of course both human and my kind but she is...

All of a sudden, I recalled Wendy. Wendy Palmer. I had met her when I nearly died at the border. Could the moon goddess have spared me because she wanted me to meet Millicent? My parents have always believed in the Moon goddess but I had been sceptical until Millicent nearly died of that wolfsbane poisoning. I believe the goddess answered my prayers and brought her back to me. So, she must have saved me at that time as well, using Wendy...

I had been sent to guard our borders being the better warrior and one with impeccable military strategy where Sylvester had been too impulsive but a great warrior nonetheless. I had been there for about two years when on that fateful day, I had sent my warriors out. They had been working very hard helping me out on a new strategy and I wanted them to stretch their legs, relax and have fun with any willing female of their choice. I was also going to relieve tension with any willing female that I fancied when I was through putting finishing touches to what I was working on, when the attack occured.

Some vampires and rogue wolves, out of no where, attacked me. My quickness of limb did not help me much. I killed a good number of them but I was outnumbered and could not get to my men through mind link. It was as though, we were blocked out- strange!

I did all I could but I was losing a lot of blood from all the areas I had been clawed and injured. I could feel myself losing strength, even as I continued fighting and wading off their attacks The rogue wolves started laughing as the vampires grew more blood thirsty. I started feeling dizzy, everywhere growing dark. I was moving from east to west like a drunk, not really seeing those I was fighting but determined to keep fighting till my men came back, praying the link would become active.

Then came a point when I knew I was gone and was going to fall, everywhere started moving round in circles and I felt I was standing on my head and then, the battle suddenly ceased and I fell, everything had gone black.

I woke sometime later and was shocked at my environment. Many strange objects and there was this tall beautiful woman saying strange things to me, then I realised she was making some sort of incantations.

'Who are you? Where am I?' I asked.

My men rushed to me. 'Alpha you're awake. Thank goodness. We thought we had lost you for real!'

'What happened?' I asked, my brain woozy and I had a slight headache.

'There was a battle. You are indeed a great warrior, Alpha Christopher. When we saw the number of bodies lying dead on the ground, we knew it had been a major attack and you single - handedly fought them all off. We are privileged to serve under you!' my Beta said, bowing.

I waved it aside and tried to sit up but could never not. The pain in my body, especially my limbs was excruciating. I recalled it all then. How the hounds and vampires had been coming at me from all angles and sides, only my agility and quickness of limb had helped me.

'Why could I not get to you through mind - link?' I asked. That question had been bothering me. It felt like there was a traitor in our midst but I was not going to alert them yet.

'I'm not sure', Samuel, my Beta said. 'I was going to ask why you didn't think it necessary to tell us what was going on through the mind - link. Then I reasoned that you may have thought you could tackle them alone but they kept being reinforced, and when you decided to alert us, you could no longer do it because you had become too week due to the quantity of blood you had lost'.

I nodded. But I knew someone or something had intentionally blocked the link and intimated the vampires and rogue wolves that I was alone.

'How long have I been unconscious?' I asked.

'About Three weeks!'

'Did you send word home?' I asked, hoping they hadn't. Sylvester, my younger twin had a lot to do, leading the pack and I didn't want to alarm him.

'We did but played down your condotion a bit because we knew you'd want us to do that. Your brother sends his best wishes for your speedy recovery'.

'Good!' I said nodding.

'I felt strange and restless. When I got up, I was drawn to the field where you were fighting', the strange beautiful woman who had been making incantations said.

'Who are you?' I asked again, looking at her but there was nothing in her appearance to show that we had met before.

'I am Wendy, at your service, Alpha Christopher.

I nodded for her to continue.

'I saw how bravely you fought alone but you were losing a lot of blood and could fall at anytime and they would definitely have killed you then for sure. So, I cast a spell and they could no longer see you. I then teleported the both of us to this place to tend to your wounds', she added.

'You are a...' I began, not knowing if she would feel an exception to the word.

'Witch', she completed for me. 'Witch Wendy at your service, sir', she repeated, smiling at me.

'How did you know where to find me?' I asked my men. But it was Wendy who answered again. 'I drew them to this place'.

Then my Beta, Samuel, continued the narration. 'When we got to this place and saw you immobile, we were going to kill Wendy but she told us what had happened and took us to our border where we saw the bodies and believed her. She has since tended your wounds and we are joyful that you are now awake!'

'I owe you my life, eh..Wendy', I said, looking gratefully at her. 'What can I do to show my appreciation?' I asked.

'Rest for now so that you can recover fast and let's be friends. I shall tell you what I want later!' she said coyly and I nodded.

Millicent's POV

I got to the mansion and climbed the stairs to my room. Now that I was not in Christopher's embrace, I was feeling very fatigued. I recalled the discussion we had earlier about my parents death and I felt the rage rise in me again. I was sorry that my mates' parents had to be murdered brutally like Christopher had described but I was angry at the same time that my parents had been made the scape goat because I knew my father was not a traitor or a betrayer of trust.

Something was nagging at the back of my mind but was proving elusive. I recalled that Christopher had spoken of sending his men to investigate the case. Now that he and I were getting close, maybe I should ask him to find out about my pack and what has become of it. Alpha Sylvester had not been interested in making it his but had left it in a state of ruin. Was it still in ruins or has others inhabited it?

Unbidden, the scene replayed before me. The death scene that has refused to leave my mind. Then when I got to the part where I was holding my dying father and he was calling for his wife, it suddenly came to me. 'I did not do it', he had told me.

I stood frozen. That was what Dad had been trying to tell me, that he was innocent of the crime he was accused of and for which he was brutally murdered.

'Dad, I never doubted you. I knew you could never do that. You were made to die a senseless death. You died for what you knew nothing about and so did my beloved mum and brother. I do not even know where you were buried. I will surely teach Sylvester a lesson. He will pay for what he did to you all!' I vowed.

I was still soliloquizing when the door to my room was kicked open.

'What are you doing, Millicent?' Alpha Sylvester said as soon as he barged into my room, fury in every fibre of his body. ' I kissed you today and you could not bear my touch but on several occasions now, I have caught you almost at the point of mating with my brother! Is that how cheap you are?' he asked trembling in rage.

'Cheap?' I asked, getting angry. 'Christopher is my mate as well and if I feel drawn to him, it is no fault of mine, you should blame it on the moon goddess who mated me to him and gave us such a strong mate bond!'

'I am your mate as well and my feelings for you is not different from what you feel Christopher's is!' he bellowed. If I hadn't known, I would have thought I heard anguish in his voice. 'The both of you are cutting me off as though I am not a part of this bond and I can no longer endure this anymore'.

'How do you suppose we do it, a threesome?' I asked, still angry with his overbearing attitude.

He paused, looking at me. 'If you do not leave Christopher and come to me, if you insist and keep getting close to him, then I'll do something that will hurt the three of us!'

The way he said it caused an unreasonable fear in my heart that I tried to brush aside. 'What could you possibly do that will hurt all three of us at the same time?'

'I will murder Christopher!' he said, looking at me unflinching and I gasped, looking at him in disbelief. He must have seen the incredulity in my eyes for he added, 'You know first hand what I am capable of, so you know that I can do it and you shall be responsible. So don't dare me!'

'You will murder your own brother who cannot bear to have any harm befall you?' I asked unbelievingly, recalling how Christopher had come to his defense, accusing me of getting close to his brother because I had plans to hurt him and virtually warning me against it.

'If that were true, then he would keep away from you!' he said furiously.

'You act as though you really care. We both know you do not care a hoot about me and just wants me to retain your title', I blurted, tired of all the pretense. 'The person you care for is waiting for the time you will make her your one and true Luna!'

Sylvester's eyes went round, his mouth hung open as he stared at me. 'You know?'

'Of course I know! I have known for a very long time!' I said, frowning annoyingly at him.

'Who told you?' he asked in a deceptively cool voice. 'Was it Cathania?' This male was really incredible!

'What does it matter who told me?' I asked.

'I want to know who told you this!' he thundered.

If he thought that shouting was going to scar me, he had to have a rethink.

'Stop shouting and disturbing the peace of the pack!' I said angry at his authoritative behaviour. 'Nobody else but you told me!'

'I told you?' he scoffed, pointing at his chest in disbelief.

'I had come to confirm something from you and mistakenly went the wrong way and found myself in your previous garden', I started looking him straight in the face and daring him to deny it. 'where you were telling this to Cathania to calm her impatience!'

'Oh', he said as realisation dawned on him. 'So, you were actually the one there that day. I have often wondered why I smelled you there. How did you learn to be that fast?' he asked.

'Is that really what we are talking about now? How fast I am? There are alot of qualities I have that you do not know about!' I said.

'I can imagine!' he said, looking at me in a very funny manner, a devilish twinkle in his eyes. 'That is why you keep throwing yourself at Christopher!'

'What...' I started but he had already pulled me to himself and crushed his mouth on mine in a brutal kiss, biting and pulling at my lips. His hands moving round my body roughly. I was still unmoving because it had all been so fast, taking me unawares. I had not known he intended such a thing. His hands went under my shirt,fumbling with my breast, the pain from the way he was rolling and twisting my nipple, brought to my dazed awareness what was happening.

I raised my hand to give him a resounding slap but he was fast and caught my hand in a voice - like grip. 'Don't you dare!' he hissed. He was looking like an animal - a dangerous animal - let out of the cage.

He pushed me roughly down on the bed, pulling my shirt of me and I was exposed before his roving eyes. 'Oh, my God!' he breathed. 'You are beautiful!'

I wriggled, trying to get away from him but his hands still held mine captive and his body pinned my down. His height making it impossible me to make good use of my legs. A kick to his groin would have solved this problem but I was rendered immobile.

His mouth descended on my breasts caused me to feel electric sparks. Desire shot through me. He bit my nipple, his teeth grazing each and he sucked and I bit back a moan, it was intense.

'You want me too, don't you?' he asked, his voice rough and husky, his bulge pressing on me.

I do not know where I got the strength but I pushed him away and jumped to my feet, panting from the exertion.

'No! I do not want you!' I said in a loud voice, my trembling hands covering my chest, to hide my breasts from his view. Thank goodness my voice came out firm and confident. I was trembling inside and wondering why I had felt a rush of desire for him when he touched me against my will.

'You can deny it all you want but I know what I know and I can smell it - your desire for me - on you'.

'You are being delusional!' I said still panting.

'Ha,ha,ha...' he laughed harshly but it sounded like a bark. 'Don't lie to yourself. We are mates afterall, how can you not want me?' he asked confidently and then said harshly, 'What does Christopher have that I don't anyway? We are identical twins, and apart from his hair being darker than mine, and his eyes a lighter grey, every other thing is the same, including our shafts. Why would you want him over me?'

I could give him a million reasons but it still would make no difference, so I kept quiet. I did not know where to start.

'Answer me, damn it!' Alpha Sylvester swore when I refused to respond to his question. 'What does my brother have that I don't? We both look alike, so if it is good looks I have it as well as he. If it's the title and position of Alpha, we both have it. Infact, you knew me as Alpha before him for goodness sake!' he said furiously.

'You are not compassionate', I said gently. Christopher will not force himself on me the way you wanted to just now!'

'He wouldn't, would he?' he asked angrily. 'Why would he when you give in to him willingly and I have to ... what? Grovel? Beg? You want me to beg you for it? Is that it? Then you should have said so from the start. Dear mate Millicent, could you open your sweet cunt for my cock to grease? Please, mate, I promise you, it will be paradise'. he said mockingly. 'I had to try this rough way to make you realise I am male as well and can give you what Christopher can and perhaps even better if you give me half the chance you give him.

'Was that how you gave my father a chance to prove his innocence before you brutally ended his life and that of his pregnant wife?' I asked furiously, glaring daggers at him. Then picking my shirt from the floor where he had thrown it, I covered myself with it.

'He murdered my parents! He was a traitor! A back stabber! He betrayed his own friend without a second thought. Why would I give him a chance?' he asked furiously.

'After all these years, you have not given thought to the fact that you may have been mistaken about his involvement?' I asked, sadly. 'He told me as he was dying that he was innocent. That he didn't do it, but at the time, I didn't know what he was talking about. It was recently that it dawned on me what he had been trying to tell me. You murdered an innocent man, Sylvester and I'm never going to forgive you for that!'

'And my own loss? What do you say about it? Do you think it was easy for me, having you here as a constant reminder of your father's treachery?' he asked.

'I am sorry for your loss. No body knows how painful the loss of parents can be, especially when they were brutally murdered more than I, but was that why you had to take an innocent life to salvage your pride and assuage your pain?' I asked just as harshly. 'Okay, let's assume O'Hara was guilty, which he isn't, by the way, what about his wife? And the innocent baby in her womb? They also killed your parents?' I screamed at him, releasing the pain, anger and bitterness I had bottled up inside me all these years. 'You are heartless, and ruthless! You do not have any shred of human sympathy, and neither do you know how to love. I pity you because you do not know what you are missing. What was that you said again, something about what Christopher has that you don't, you have the answer glaring you in the face. He never wanted you to murder my parents nor destroy my pack, not until you had concrete evidence but you were too vengeful and power hungry, impatient to show how strong and ruthless you could be and made the greatest mistake of your life!'

'I made no mistake! Your father committed the crime. And I gave him time to prove his innocence but he kept stalling so that it could all be swept under the carpet. If he were indeed innocent, he would have pulled all his resources and hastened to sold the mystery of my parents' deaths but he treated it lackadaisically'.

'And yet you wonder what Christopher has that you don't?' I asked, looking at him pityingly. 'He has compassion, he has a heart. He has even sent people to investigate the case from eleven years ago and he does not treat me like shit. He respects me. He is a great lover, I could go on and on...' I said but he cut me off.

'So you are adamant about not wanting to accept me as your mate?' he asked, changing the topic swiftly that my head swam.

'You have a chosen mate - Cathania. That was one of the reasons I decided not to punish her. Go to her, appease her. She loves you though you do not deserve it', I threw at him carelessly. ' On second thoughts, you deserve each other. Continue your marital plans with her and let this phase end!

'The case of you being my Luna will not end. Because of you, I have discarded Cathania and if it will give you any relief, I do not want her back in my life', he said arrogantly. 'Rest assured then that no one will be sharing me with you. That fear is taken care of now, isn't it?' he asked arching one eyebrow.

I shook my head. I have never seen a more arrogant male than the one standing before me.

'I do not need your assurances', I said. ' They are worthless as far as I am concerned. Can you see the way you just discarded someone who has been faithful in love with you all these years? She even tried to kill me because of her fear of losing you. Even recently, you promised her she would be your Luna and she believed you, working hand - in - hand with you. But look where her faith in you landed her?' I asked. 'And you say I should rest, assured of...what? Spare me!' I said, forgetting that my hand was what was keeping the cloth in place and as I wanted to place my hand on my hips, it fell and I quickly recovered it. Turning my back to Sylvester against my will I put the shirt on my head, intending to wear it properly but rough hands pulled me and I hit a brick wall which turned out to be Sylvester's chest.

'You do not want me but you keep tempting me with your delectable body', he murmured.' His hands went to my breasts again. 'I do not know what you have done to me but I can't stop desiring you. It may have started as a pretense but now, it's not. Believe it or not, I want you for myself'.

My hands were still raised in a bid to put the shirt on and getting them disentangled so I could push him away was not easy.

'You make my blood boil. I repeat that if I see you close to Christopher anymore, I will do the unthinkable and you better believe it!' Then he started

kissing my neck, while his hands kept moving from my armpit to my breasts and then up and down my breast with my hands still raised. 'You are an itch that has to be scratched and since you are not going to admit to your desire for me or submit your body to me willingly, then I'll take it by force. I am the Alpha and can do anything I please!'

All that of a sudden, he let go of my body and I heard a crash as something fell on the ground and then another flew past and landed too.

'You shall not take my mate against her will or you will answer to me and believe me, you don't want to do that!'

It was Christopher's voice. Thank goodness!