Sylvester's POV

Thinking back at what happened with Millicent, I feel like a heel. How could I had done such a thing? Here I was trying to win her heart but now, I have succeeded in driving her further away from me. Christopher was not helping matters at all, by getting too close to her.

Ezra was also not being considerate. I wasn't trying to pin all of the blame of molesting our mate on him but he acts like the beast he really was.

Christopher had gone to console Millicent and though the idea did not sit well with me, there was nothing I could do about it.

Millicent could not want to mate with Christopher now. She must be too humiliated and furious by my actions to think along those lines.

I recalled how she felt in my arms and knew that I had to have her. I had almost won her heart in the past and I could still do it. I wondered why I had not felt this way before Christopher came back, the mate matter would have been a seal, settled and delivered deal. But be that as it may, I will still remedy the situation in my favour. After all, Millicent was not really indifferent to me. I smelt her lust for me for an instant there and it had almost driven me insane.

I walked dejectedly into my room. I walked past Millicent's room, but heard nothing and knew she must have gone to sleep.

Ezra was distressed. 'I understand you, beast', I tried to pacify him as I spoke to him in my head. 'She will not want to see us now. We have had enough fun for one day. Let's go and sleep. I am exhausted. That female can really be exhausting', I said and smiled. I would prefer her exhausting me because of the fierce mating we would engage in.

Ezra refused to be pacified and I refused to pay any attention to him. He was not going to lead me to committing any other offence that would further push Millicent away from me!

I got into my room and the thoughts of Millicent would not leave me. I thought about her soft firm breasts, her tiny waists and firm well shaped buttocks. And I got really excited.

A knock.

Oh, who could that be? I did not want any disturbance. Not now that I was enjoying my thoughts of Millicent.

The door was pushed open before I could invite the intruder in. It was Cathania. She was the only one who could come into my chambers without being summoned. But she should know she had lost that right the day she poisoned my mate, Millicent.

She walked in confidently and before I could protest, she pulled at the rope of her robe and it came undone, exposing her beautiful body.

I was already excited from the thoughts I was having of Millicent, and I found that I was fascinated with Cathania's body. In fact, I was not seeing Cathania but Millicent.

I pulled her to me and started kissing her like I needed her kisses to save me from drowning.

I pushed her on the bed, tearing off my clothes.I straddled her. 'I knew we were always meant to be together!' she said.

I took her nipples into my mouth and pulled hard and she moaned.

'I could make you cry for more Millicent,just accept me!' I said and the female under me, went still.

I looked up to see the shock on her face and to realise that she was not Millicent but Cathania.

Shit!

I rolled off her and got up, she got up from the bed as well, her face blazing.

Before she could say anything, I asked, 'What are you doing here? Were you. OT asked never to step foot in this pack again?'

'Sylvester, how could you do this to me? You do not even recognize my touch anymore. How could I be with you and you thought it was Millicent? You are so consumed with your lust for her that you can no longer think straight!' she spat out.

'If you are through with your litany, you can leave before I call the guards or push you put myself!' I threatened. 'In fact, they have to answer to me, how you were able to pass security and come into my room without being detected.

Cathania who kept alternating between being angry and begging me to accept her back into my life, threw herself into my arms, her hands going round my neck. She was still naked, she had not tied her robe back. She started kissing me. I thought of Millicent with Christopher and how I had caught them on various occasions at the point of mating and felt, that I could fuck Cathania and salvage my pride.

I twisted her from me, bending her over the cabinet beside the bed, I saw her fluid glistening in her inner thighs and my beast reared his head. I was going to plunge into her when I saw Millicent's face and the desire went out of me. I pushed her away from me.

'Get out Cathania!' I barked, not understanding what was happening to me. I was never one to forego an opportunity to ravish a female and Cathania is one female I have always loved mating. She knew how to satisfy me. But all of a sudden, I just did not feel I should get intimate with Cathania.

'Why Sylvester? You used to love me. What changed?' she asked, very hurt.

'My priorities', I replied. Then more gently because I knew how she must feel. I feel the same way anytime I see Millicent with Christopher.

'Cathania, it's not you. You are a very beautiful woman, and with your social standing can eat yourself any male of high standing but that male is no longer me', I said. My heart belongs elsewhere.

'Funny to hear you say that about someone else when you usually said it about me whenever you wanted to discourage their advances', She smiled sadly. 'What is it about this Millicent?' She asked. 'Right from the time she was a maid, she had always been a pain in the ass'.

'You will watch how you speak about her for she is my Luna!' I said. 'Just go back home to your father and he will fix an alliance for you.

'Since you are adamant about making Millicent your Luna, not considering hers and your brother's feelings, go ahead and just fuck me one last time. I want to feel again ow you make me feel when you are banging me'.

Sylvester himself was nursing a frustrate desire and felt what did he have to lose?

He decided to oblige Cathania. They had been lovers for long afterall and he could understand her need.

He bent her over the cabinet again and with a growl, plunged into her....

Cathania ended up spending the night with me and we mated two more times before morning. She was insatiable and I imagined it was Millicent I was mating, that made the experience more body quaking.

Very early, though, I woke her and asked her to leave. 'Do not come back here again. You asked me to fuck you one last time and I obliged you. Let us part as friends', I said. 'Whatever you need, I shall give to you but leave Millicent out of it. It might seem otherwise, but she really has done you no wrong!'

Cathania smiled, but said nothing and very soon was ready to leave. She kissed me. 'Enjoy your life!' she said simply.

After Cathania left, I felt guilty, that I had betrayed Millicent. But she is the one who keeps betraying me with my own brother! I thought, trying to rationalize my actions and assuage my guilt.

I put on my jumpsuit, wanting to go jogging. I had never gone jogging this late before but for the fact that I hated missing it, I would have stayed back. I had been battling with my guilt and trying to dodge Millicent. I hadn't wanted to see her before my jog, so that she would not read the guilt in my eyes or sense it from my countenance. I was begining to realise that little escaped her prying eyes.

I had just stepped out into the reception hall when Christopher came in looking sad.

'Sylvester, what did you say to Millicent?' he asked.

'What do you mean, what did I say to Millicent?' I asked. I had been about to ask the reason for his moody countenance.

'She ran away for goodness sake! She is not supposed to, not after.... what did you say to her? You must have threatened her with something.

'Ran away? Why would she run away?' I asked not comprehending.

'I should be asking you that. She just up and left and I tried running after her but could not catch up with her. Can you imagine that?' he asked, sounding incredulous. 'It was almost as though she disappeared into thin air', he added.

'Oh, she is fast, believe me. I have experienced it first hand', I said. 'But how did you know she ran away, was there a quarrel between you two?'

'Sylvester! Tell me truthfully, is there something I should know?' he asked. 'Was there a reason, any reason, Millicent would have, to run away? Apart from your act yesterday of course', he added.

I sniffed. I could have sworn that I smelt Millicent on him but it was not possible, he was complaining of a flight.

'Maybe, you should be telling me something I should know', I said, my eyes yellow and my beast very close to the surface. 'What should I know about you and Millicent? Why do I smell her on you?'

'Are you really interested in knowing that or finding out where she has gone to and helping me bring her back?' he queried.

I felt that he had a point. What was the point fighting over someone who was missing, when we could be combing the perimeter and bringing her back home. Then and only then would I unlease my anger on the both of them for this betrayal.

'What are you waiting for?', I asked, already calling the fastest men I had. 'Time is of the essence!'

'Something you have to know, Sylvester', Christopher said. 'She has the ability to mask her scent. So, we have a hell of a search before us!'

'I found her before, I'll find her now and I will make her mine, this time with or without her consent!' I said.

'She is already mine. And when she returns, she will be crowned my Luna!' Christopher howled. 'So keep off! She's off limits to you and all others!' I felt jealous of his confidence. Millicent must really care deeply for him to have given herself to him without second thoughts and run off to save his life. A murderous rage filled me. I had spent the night with a female but all the while thinking, imagining she was Millicent. Not fair to Cathania but that was how bad my obsession for Millicent was. But Christopher had had her without any preamble. I faced Christopher growling in rage at him, he got ready his claws, returning my growl for growl. Our growls grew fiercer. It was as though we were getting ready to pounce on each other.

'Let's find her first and then, we shall deal with this whatever way you like!' he said, and I had to agree with him grudgingly.

One of us had to stay home of course, to look after the pack, the pack had two Alphas, afterall. The search began in earnest as soon as all that was resolved, with Christopher, leading the search party and I was giving them my input through mind - link. We searched and searched for days but found no result.

It occured to Christopher to ask Samantha. Samantha had gone back to her pack after Millicent fully recovered, to get her things, on Millicent's behest, to stay with her permanently since she had nothing and virtually no one to return to in her late husband's pack.

'I do not know where she can be', was Samantha's response. 'Did you have a row? A fight?' She asked, puzzled. 'She never told me she was planning on leaving. She was very happy being here, or so she led me to believe and that was why she asked me to come back and stay with her', she sounded as though she was trying to convince herself. 'If she had planned to leave permanently, would she have asked me back here?'

I was haunted by Christopher's question. He had asked if I had said anything to make Millicent decide to leave the pack. I realised, I was the one who had actually driven her from The Moon Ville Pack, with my threats.

She had been with Christopher and had run away scared. Coward!

'Have you searched for her in the Moonlight Pack where you found her the first time?' Samantha asked.

'Apart from this territory, that was the first place we searched but she was not there', Christopher supplied, disheartened.

'We asked the family she stayed with but they had not seen her since she left the last time', I said.

I had threatened the family, searched through their things and chambers over and over but there was no Millicent hiding amongst their possessions.

It is already two months now and Millicent was still not back and no one seemed to know where she had gone, nothing has been heard of her. Like Christopher once said, It was almost as though she had disappeared totally from the face of the earth.

Millicent's POV

I ran with the speed of a whirlwind, knowing that if Christopher caught up with me this time, I would be totally undone and would not have the courage to resist him nor go away again. The thought of the consequence of such an action pumped adrenalin into my bloodstream and I ran even faster, masking my scent all the way.

I heard his anguished howl and it broke my heart. It was the hardest thing I had ever done - running away from love and happiness. It took all I had not to turn back and run into his arms and soothe his pain. I understood how he felt. It was like finding everything you ever wanted and then all that you ever desired slips through your fingers or is taken from you and you are left with nothing. The only difference is that I could go back if I really wanted to and if I was ready to bear the consequences, which I was not but he did not have that choice. If he did, he would come after me and damn the consequences.

I knew the first place Sylvester would ask them to look was where he found me the first time, so I went beyond that pack to another, with the intention of coming back to the Moonlight pack when things settled.

I found myself in the Blood Moon Pack.

The security there was awesome. Hardly had I stepped foot in the territory,than I was accosted, surrounded by warriors with sophisticated weapons.

'Who goes there?' I heard a harsh voice shout. I stopped, praying that I'll be safe.

I raised both hands in surrender.

'Who are you?'

'I am Millicent'.

'What is your mission here?'

'I have been exiled from my Pack by my Alpha and I have no place to go. I decided to live among you. I mean no harm', I answered.

'You are a spy come to spy on us!' the voice said, coming out into view and that was when I saw that he was not the only one but that they were many.

'You will have to present yourself to our Alpha', the speaker said. 'That is the standard procedure!' he said. 'He will decide if you are telling the truth. And if you are not, the goddess help you!'

I nodded, accepting their conditions. It was not too far different from my encounter at the Moonlight Pack, just that it was Raph who found me and because of his instant likeness for me, he took me home to his aunt first before presenting me to the Alpha Blake.

They matched me to the palace of their Alpha but I had to wait at the reception be ause their Alpha whose name I later learnt to be Martins, was in conference with another Alpha.

I had come this far and I was prepared to wait.

After about an hour, I was already dozing, from fatigue. The run had been draining. Also, I hadn't really slept well due to the incredible night I spent with Christopher and had had virtually nothing to eat. So I was dozing when one of the guards nudged me.

'Stand!' he ordered, 'the Alpha is entering the reception hall!'

I rubbed my fingers over my eyes hoping to rub off the sleep in them.

'Alpha!' all in the reception hall, greeted the Alpha, standing, with their heads bowed.

He lifted his hands in acknowledgement of their greetings and continued laughing and discussing with the Alpha who had come to see him.

As they passed by me, I heard the voice of the Alpha who was with him and was shocked. Was this not...

'Millicent!' he called.

'Alpha Blake!' I greeted with my head bowed in respect.

'What are you doing here?' Alpha Blake asked.

I considered lying but decided against it because lying would give birth to more lies, since one would keep lying to cover the previous lies or risk getting exposed.

'I have come here to seek shelter, Alpha Blake', I said. 'I had to run away again from my pack!' I said and he narrowed his eyes at me, then whispered something to the host Alpha, who nodded.

'Follow me', he ordered and I obeyed.

'Raph told me after much persuasion that an Alpha came for you, claiming you were his Luna, while you were in my pack, is that true?' he asked as soon as we entered a room and the door was safely shut behind us.

'He is right, Alpha', I affirmed.

'Was it the same Alpha that had exiled you?' he asked.

'Yes, Alpha!' I answered a little uneasy but knowing that if I wanted his support and that of the Alpha of this Blood Moon pack, then I'd have to be as truthful as was possible.

'Who is this Alpha and what pack is that?' he asked.

'The Moon Ville Pack', I started. 'Headed by...'

'Alphas Christopher and Sylvester!' he completed the sentence for me.

'You seem to know them very well', I said astonished because I had seen a lot of Alphas visit Sylvester before my exile but never saw Alpha Blake among them.

'Oh, I do. But Christopher is a better Alpha than his younger twin', he said. He knew them well indeed, I thought.

'I do not want them to find me!' I said,thinking that now that he knew I was from the pack, he might want to tell them about my presence here.

'Of course! Your secret is safe with me!' he said, deep in thought.

'Thank you, Alpha Blake!' I said sincerely grateful.

'But what I do not understand is what you are running from', he said. 'We need to have an idea so that we don't bring a war down on ourselves. I'd like to protect my friend's interest. So if you are going to stay here, you have to be more forthcoming!'

'What would you like to know, Alpha Blake?' I asked, knowing that he spoke the truth.

'Whose Luna are you, Christopher's or Sylvester's?'

That was a billion dollar question. But I knew I had to answer him.

'Alpha Blake, it is a long story', I said. He opened the door to a large room, and entered. I followed suit.

'Go right ahead and speak, I have the time!' he said, sitting and resting his back on a chair, indicating that I sit as well, in a chair facing him. I wondered, because I knew he had been on his way back to his pack when he saw me at the reception. Why so much interest in my story?