Sylvester's POV

After arguing with Christopher over Millicent, I started for the mansion. I was seething. How long was this going to go on? Why does Christopher insists on the taking my mate from me? Sigh! Okay, so she is also his mate but hadn't we agreed to wait till it was all resolved? Why was he being so impatient? I wanted to have Millicent as well, I have a great uncontrollable urge to ravish her. I've had it for some time now, but I've been keeping my beast in check, why couldn't he? I wouldn't want him making me do what I might regret. If I had not controlled myself, we would have been engaged in a physical duel right now!

I got to the mansion and had intended going to my room but as I passed by Millicent's room, the anger and jealousy - I have come to realise what that hated feeling was: jealousy - filled me again and I just wanted to let it out, hurt her because she was hurting me continually by being with Christopher when she could be with me!

'What are you doing, Millicent?' I said furiously as soon as I barged into her room, ' I kissed you just 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?'

'Cheap?' she 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!'

Her words hurt me even more and got me angrier. So they had a much stronger bond than she had with me? Was she insinuating that my bond with her was weak?

'I am your mate as well and my feelings for you is not different from what you feel Christopher's is!' I shouted, not able to control my anger. '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'.

'What are you suggesting we do, a threesome?' she asked and I did not even want to acknowledge those words. I looked at her threateningly, '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'.

'What could you possibly do that will hurt all three of us at the same time?' she asked, challengingly.

'I will murder Christopher!' I said and she gasped, looking at me in disbelief. I saw the disbelief in her eyes and stance and 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?' she asked, still not believing.

'If that were true, then he would keep away from you!' I 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', she blurted, her eyes blazing. 'The person you care for is waiting for the time you will make her your one and true Luna!'

I stared at her, shocked to the bone. 'You knew?' I asked. Maybe I shouldn't be too shocked after all, she might have overheard my discussion with Cathania in Christopher's room the other day.

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

'Who told you?' I asked in a deceptively cool voice. 'Was it Cathania?' Maybe she hadn't heard it that day. What I believe happened was she saw Cathania in my embrace.

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

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

'Stop shouting and disturbing the peace of the pack!' she answered angrily. 'Nobody else but you told me!'

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

'I had come to confirm something from you and mistakenly went the wrong way and found myself in your previous garden', she began, looking daggers at me as though daring me to deny it and it was all I could do to keep looking back at her. 'where you were telling this to Cathania to calm her impatience!'

'Oh', I said as realisation dawned on me. '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!' she said.

'I can imagine!' I drawled, looking at her as I felt an uncontrollable desire fill me. I had often wondered how fiery she would be in my bed, why not I find out? 'That is why you keep throwing yourself at Christopher!'

'What...' she started asking but I did not give her time to continue as I pulled her to my chest and crushed my mouth on hers in a brutal kiss, biting and pulling at my lips. His hands moving round my body roughly. I wanted to punish her for making me jealous by choosing to be with my brother and not me. My hands went under her shirt, fumbling with her breast, rolling and twisting her nipple, hoping she would feel some of the pain I was feeling at her behaviour.

She raised her hand to strike me but I saw the movement and quickly forestalled it. 'Don't you dare!' I hissed, really mad now and beyond control. I wanted her wriggling under me!

I pushed her roughly down on the bed, pulling off her shirt. The sight I beheld caused me to catch my breath. 'Oh, my God!' I breathed awed. 'You are beautiful!' I have been with lots of women and seen the bodies of lots of females but Millicent's topped them all.

She struggled but her movement felt like caresses on my body especially my groin which was already very aroused.

My mouth descended on her breasts, I felt like if I didn't take them into my mouth, I would expire. Once my mouth touched her breasts, I felt like I was being electrocuted and I felt her answering shiver and knew it was not from a chill nor from repulsion. I bit her nipple, and grazed each with my teeth then sucked. I heard her sharp intake of breath and knew she was not as indifferent to me as she would have me believe.

'You want me too, don't you?' I asked, my voice rough and husky, as I moved my body so she could feel my need.

All of a sudden, she pushed me away with a strength I would not have imagined she had in that petite body of hers and jumped to her feet. She was really fast. She had taken action as soon as she sensed that I had let down my guard. She acted like she had had training.

'No! I do not want you!' she said in a loud voice, covering her chest with her hands, to hide her beautiful breasts from my view. I laughed inwardly, were those hands going to stop me from doing what I had in mind? Silly girl!

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

'You are being delusional!' she said panting.

'Ha,ha,ha...' I laughed harshly. 'Don't lie to yourself. We are mates afterall, how can you not want me?' I asked confidently and then said angrily, 'What does Christopher have that I don't? We are identical twins, apart from his hair colour being of a darker shade than mine, and his eyes a lighter grey, every other thing is the same. Why would you want and choose him over me?'

'Answer me, damn it!' I swore when she refused to respond to my 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!' I said furiously.

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

'He wouldn't, would he?' I 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'. I said. I hated myself for saying these words to her but I just could not stop myself. '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?' she asked furiously, glaring daggers at me. Then she picked her shirt from the floor and covered herself with it but I was staring at her open mouthed. She knew about that as well? I had kept that from her.

'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?' I asked furiously, as I recalled the event.

'After all these years, you have not given thought to the fact that you may have been mistaken about his involvement?' she asked, and I could see how sad she was '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?' I asked.

'I am sorry for your loss. Nobody 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 price and assuage your pain?' she asked, furiously. '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?' she screamed. '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 solve the mystery of my parents' deaths but he treated it lackadaisically!'

'And yet you wonder what Christopher has that you don't?' she asked, looking at me 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...' she said but I cut her off. Her words were grating on my nerves. I would have felt guilty for the pain she was expressing at her loss but putting me down this way got me angrier and I forgot all else.

'So you are adamant about not wanting to accept me as your mate?' I asked.

'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', she said, shrugging indifferently. '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', I said, hoping to appease her in the event that she was suffering from jealousy. 'Rest assured then that no one will be sharing me with you. That fear is taken care of now, isn't it?' I asked arching one eyebrow.

She shook her head, looking at me condescendingly. What was the matter with this female?

'I do not need your assurances', she 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?' she asked. 'And you say I should rest, assured of...what? Spare me!' she said, and in her agitation, forgot she was holding her shirt over her body. It fell, exposing her body to my gaze once more. She turned her back to me in a bid to put her shirt back on but her body which I had seen kept waking the sleeping beast in me and I knew I had no intention of allowing her cover those wonderful breasts. So, I pulled her back into my arms.

'You do not want me but you keep tempting me with your delectable body', I murmured.' My hands went to her 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.

'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 I started

kissing her neck, while my hands kept caressing her breasts and it felt good especially since her hands were still raised, entangled in the shirt she had intended putting on. '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, something hit me and I fell to the floor, and it leapt, landing on me.

'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. I should have known! I thought as he started hitting me with those iron fists of his.

Christopher's POV

I was still reminiscing about that time two years previously when a witch named Wendy had saved my life when I suddenly started having weird vibes. Zara, my wolf became restless and distressed. I tried to ignore him thinking that his distress was as a result of frustration born out of interrupted coitus with our mate. I did not blame him because my body was still protesting about the same thing.

But Zara kept nudging me and I felt very anxious all of a sudden and then a premonition of danger fell on me and I started running towards the mansion - to Millicent. I had to know if she was okay.

As I got to the door of her room, what I heard chilled me to the bones.

'You are an itch that has to be scratched and since you are not going to admit to your desire for me nor submit your body to me willingly, then I'll take it by force. I am the Alpha and can do anything I please!' That was Sylvester's voice and I need not wonder who he was talking to.

I pushed the door open and with my quick reflexes hit him in the jaw and he fell to the floor, releasing Millicent whom he had been molesting. I leapt after him and fell on him to keep him down.

'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!'

I said as I started hitting him on the face and other parts of his body, he turned over releasing his hand and hit me as well. I was able to dodge some of them but some caught me on the face and other parts of my body.

We jumped to our feet and stayed fighting, clawing at each other, panting... Millicent was screaming, calling on someone to help her.

'They will kill each other!'she screamed. 'Please come, someone, anyone!'

Alot of things were dislodged from the room and fell as our bodies hit them as we fought.

The noise must have attracted our Betas Samuel and Daniel ho came between us. They regretted it as we continued hitting each other, most of the punches landing on them.

Not until the chief came and ordered us to stop did we stop, both our bodies were bloodied.

'Stop this nonsense this instant!' he ordered.

We let go of each other, panting from the exertion. I like to think I was the greater warrior with all humility but Sylvester had really improved. And why not, he has to since he was leading a pack. But that was the farthest thing in my mind as I stood glaring at him. How dare he touch my mate intimately? The picture I saw as I barged into the room was etched in my mind and it was getting me all fired up.

'I'd like to see the both of you in the throne room immediately', Chief Scooter said. We went into the room after him.

The chief of the pack was like the grand father of the pack and the Alphas must respect him.

'Can you tell me what that was all about?' he asked as soon as the door was shut behind us.

When we refused to say a word, he startled us by laughing. 'Don't bother saying anything. This is about that female, er.. Millicent to whom you are both betrothed, isn't it?'

We still said nothing, but kept heaving.

'I understand how frustrating it can be for two strong Alpha male of equal rank to want the same female. Not just want but be fated to the same female. It is even worse when it is your own brother', he paused a while. 'But you have to be patient. The curse associated with such...'

'That rubbish about one having to die for the other?' I queried sceptically . 'That isn't going to happen. Sylvester here was almost on the verge of marriage to his chosen mate Cathania when you stopped him', I paused to take in air. 'I am mated to Millicent and both of us acknowledge the strong bond we have. The matter has settled itself! I have Millicent, Sylvester takes Cathania back!'

'It's not as easy as that', the chief said knowingly. 'But it might work out, though we don't have to be too much in a hurry to experiment with your suggestion, lives are at stake. We shall find out, just to be on the safe side and then we shall have this meeting again'.

'Just bear in mind that I have separated permanently from Cathania and right now, I want Millicent! She is my mate, too'. Sylvester who had been silent all this while said.

I glared at him and he glared back at me.

'If you really considered her your mate, you would not have harassed her the way you just did!

'We shall definitely find a lasting solution to this that will benefit all', the chief said, but I perceived he was not certain about there being an amicable resolution.

'If there's no other thing to discuss here, I'd like to go and see to something!' I said.

'Do not go near Millicent!' Sylvester warned.

'You have broken her heart and harassed her, she needs someone she can trust right now', I said, pointedly, looking daggers at him. 'Rest assured, we're not going to start mating as soon as your back is turned. And I'll definitely not descend as low as you did. I won't force myself on her! What are you teaching the rest of the pack for goodness sake?' I brushed past him up the stairs to Millicent's room where I found her crying.

'Oh Christopher', she said as she raised her head and saw me. 'It's you!' Then she stood and threw her arms round me, crying harder and my heart went out to her.

'It's okay, love', I consoled. 'Your love is here with you now!' If I thought my words would calm her, the opposite was the case. She sobbed louder.

'What is it, Millicent?' I asked alarmed.

' Is there something you're not telling me? Did Sylvester do something to you?' I could feel my heart thumping faster. Was the situation worse than I was envisaging?

'Oh, Christopher, I have betrayed you!' she wailed.