Millicent's POV

I went about my duties as though nothing out of place had happened. My wolf was wounded by Sylvester's rejection. I know that wolf Milly had looked forward to being with the Alpha but thank goodness, it had not worked out that way but I still feel for my wolf and this was another case against Sylvester. He had hurt my wolf by breaking the wolf bond between us.

I was asked to serve at the party. I had wanted to come to the party with any cloth I could lay my hands on. I was not particular about clothes in any case, but, Samantha would hear none of it.

'I am supposed to work the party', I insisted.

'So?' she asked her friend.

'So, there's no need over dressing for the occasion ', I said reasonably. 'I will end up getting stained in any case and the cloth will be ruined. I am a maid, let me dress like a maid!' I insisted.

'Okay. Then be a well dressed maid at this particular party. Aren't you supposed to be the personal maid to the Alpha? Then make the guest realise that our Alpha takes care of his own', she smiled.

If it were because of the Alpha, I would attend the party in rags to put a more dent on his reputation, I thought. But it will do no good and since this is my last night here, I better make the most of it and ensure I am remembered, not as the shabbily clad maid but the pretty maid.

'A penny for them?' Samantha said smiling at me.

'For?' I asked, distracted. Then, 'Oh. They are not worth that, I promise you'.

'Were you thinking about anyone in particular? Has anyone caught your fancy yet?' Samantha asked, still smiling.

'No. I have no time for that nonsense and you will do well to stop bugging me about it', I snapped.

'What is wrong, Millicent? Since this morning, you have been in a foul mood. Can it be because you found your wolf but are yet to find your mate?'

The mention of mate only served to antagonize me further but I took deep breaths. It was not Samantha's fault that I was mated to that horrible Alpha Sylvester. And she didn't even know about it. So it was not fair taking out my anger and frustrations out on her.

'I told you before and I am telling you now, I am not interested in having a mate nor any one for that matter'.

'You said so this morning and that is what is so surprising. The morning of your birthday when you are supposed to be so happy', Samantha said thoughtfully. 'But before today, you have always said you wanted a very strong mate who will help you soar higher than our Alpha. What happened all of a sudden?'

'Samantha', I said in exasperation. 'For the nth time nothing happened', and to divert her, I hastily changed the topic. 'I have decided to dress well to the party. It is my birthday afterall', I smiled.' Will you help me with it?'

'That's more like it! And to answer your question, of course I will,' Samantha said. 'Come let's get you dressed'.

The dress, Samantha brought out for me was body hugging, accentuating my curves. I was not voluptuous but I have full firm breasts and well shaped buttocks. my waist is tiny, my stomach flat.

Samantha then proceeded in releasing my flowing dark hair, brushing it vigorously, then picking a strand from either side of me, she let it fall on the each side of my face. Then she made a little bun in the middle and allow the rest fall freely down her shoulders. She made me up expertly and when I looked at myself in the mirror, I could hardly believe that the person starring back at me was myself. My light brown eyes were huge and very expressive and my lips were full and sensual. I wore a sandal that had a low heel to enable me work the party.

'Wow! you look beautiful', wolf Milly whispered to me.

'Samantha, I must admit you have really transformed me', I said meaning it.

'Thanks, but I really didn't do much. You have lovely light skin and with your beautiful dark hair and all your other attributes, it came out astonishing and that is how you look, dear friend', she smiled, planting a kiss on my cheek.

'Thank you', I said, touched. I felt bad that I was keeping so much from her friend and if I didn't tell her that I was going away - that I had been exiled, Samantha might never forgive me when she finds out later because definitely would, then she would think that I took our friendship for granted or was never sincere in my relations with her.

'What would you say if I told you that I was going away?' I said. Samantha must have thought I was kidding because she couldn't see any reason I would want to leave given my circumstance.

'Going away? To where? Why?' she asked bemused.

'I don't know but I can no longer endure what I have to pass through in this pack', I said and before Samantha could ask me questions I wasn't ready to answer, I continued, 'And you have always teased me about a mate. Who knows, maybe my mate isn't in this pack and I might meet him where I am going'.

'But I have not found mine as well but I am still here hoping. But it seems you are more anxious about it than you have been letting on', Samantha said eyeing her playfully. 'I thought it was odd for you not to want a mate. Now I know it is all a pretense but you need not do that with me. We are friends, you know'.

I smiled feeling worse for leading her to believe I was leaving to search for my mate but I consoled myself that it was all for Samantha's own good. The less she knew, the better!

'Maybe I should go with you. I need to find mine as well'.

'No, no. Please stay here!' I hastily dissuaded her from it. 'It will not be right for the both of us to leave like that. You might leave later but not now and you are having fun in this pack, so why leave? You will find your mate or he will find you eventually'. And so that Samantha does not start having more funny ideas, 'And oh, before Linda ma'am gets angry with me, I have to leave for the party right away! Thanks so much for the make - over'.

'Anytime. But it looks like you are serious about leaving', she said eyeing her friend.

Here we go again, I thought, growing impatient.

'And I know you don't know anywhere and you've always said you were an orphan', she continued. 'Also, you belong to Alpha Sylvester, has he permitted you to leave? Or are you running away? Going rogue?'

I could see that there was no way of escaping it, so I decided to speak the simple truth.

'Alpha Sylvester, has exiled me!' I blurted.

'What?' she asked wide eyed 'What did you do?'

'Maybe he got tired of seeing my ugly face or of maltreating me, who knows? He didn't really say and I didn't think it wise to ask', I joked. At least I hope it sounded like a joke.

'How can you make a joke of this?' she asked seriously. 'It is a serious matter!'

'Would you have me crying?' I asked resignedly. 'It is my fate and I have come to accept it. What else can I do?'

She thought for a while, and I could see that she was very sad on my account and angry with Alpha Sylvester.' I cannot make the Alpha change his mind, though I can guess why you might not want me to know you've been exiled. So the least I can do is to help you with a place to work, so that you don't feel too lonely. It will keep you busy and your mind creatively occupied. You can find other better places later'.

'Really? Where?' I asked, excited at the information and glad that I had decided to tell her I was leaving and why.

'It's a company owned by my father's friend. You might go there and try for employment. The pay might be small, I'm not really sure but at least you will sustain yourself with it', she said as she gave me the address of a company in another pack. 'I had wanted to go there but it had been my father last wish to remain here', she said slowly and I knew she was remembering her last moments with her late father.

No One knew better than I, the pain of losing a loved one. I hugged her, and vowed that I was going to tell her eventually how I came to be in the Moon Ville Pack and how my mate rejected me but that day was not today.

Third Person POV

Before going to dress up for the party, Millicent had made sure that the hall was set in a manner befitting a great Alpha. She had not done it to please him but just as a duty. She hadn't done it alone though. Decorators had been invited but she had been present to assist and her ideas had really helped to make the outcome more breathtaking.

Now that the party was in full swing, she found that she was growing impatient. She wanted to be gone from this place and see what she could make of her life to enable her fulfill her life's purpose.

Millicent moved about, serving drinks and food. There were alot of invited guests. Most of whom were Alphas from other packs. Some came with their Lunas, while others came alone with the intension to mate with any of the women in the pack that they took a fancy to before returning home to their Lunas.

Alpha Sylvester was happy at how everything was going. He had become engaged to Cathania, his first love and the daughter of his father's friend, Alpha Jerome of the Arcade Pack. Apart from his feelings for her, the union was supposed to solidify their parents' friendship and gain them more allies.

Alpha Sylvester was disturbed, though he tried not to show it as he smiled at his guest. His eyes kept following a particular girl around. He had not known she looked this good. He wondered at his conflicting emotions. He had always seen her as the maid and an object to unleash his vengeance on but though she was serving the party, he saw how beautiful she looked. He had also seen a few of the Alphas who did not come with their Lunas glance her way more than once and knew what they were thinking and a rage started up inside of him.

'Why are you angry? She is no longer yours', his wolf told him angrily. It had taken him alot of perseverance to be able to subdue his wolf and control his urges and feelings.

'Keep quiet! She is still mine as long as she remains here. When she leaves, then I shall accept that she is no longer mine'

'Is that so? Did you see how gladly she accepted your rejection? You denied me our mate and you want to take as your Luna, someone not fated to you. How is that supposed to work?'

'It will work just fine!' he snapped. He hated to be told that he had made a wrong decision.

'Alpha Sylvester', Alpha Donald called merrily. 'You have lots of beauties here I must say', His eyes were twinkling and following Millicent.

Alpha Sylvester saw how his eyes followed Millicent and grunted in reply.

As Millicent served, one Beta could not take his eyes of her. Almost all the male, actually. Millicent was oblivious to the stir she was causing and the appreciative stares she was getting. Beta Dan who had stood behind his Alpha since the party started was surprised when Alpha Sylvester turned to him in irritation.

Beta Dan quickly bent to know what his Alpha required of him but Sylvester just grunted, 'Stop standing behind me. Find something to do or join the party. I do not need you now!'

'Have I done something wrong?' he asked, not knowing the reason for his Alpha's obvious irritation.

'Just join the party, man!'

Beta Dan did not want to antagonize him further by asking more questions that may seem irrelevant, and he needed no promptings anyway, he wanted to enjoy the party too. So he moved into the crowd.

Since his Alpha had given him permission to enjoy himself to the fullest, Beta Dan decided to approach the object of his fascination but he went through her friend Samantha.

'Samantha', he said.'Could you relief your friend for a while? I want to dance with her'.

Samantha had been speaking to another Omega and smiling shyly because she noticed a Beta from another pack, looking at her with longing. She liked him as well. It was flattering seeing that he could hardly take his eyes off her. So, when Beta Dan came, asking her to relieve Millicent, she gladly did. Maybe, if Millicent took a liking to Dan, she would forget about leaving the pack and stay here with her. The thought of not seeing her dear friend again was unsettling. 'With pleasure', she smiled at Beta Dan and Beta Alfred who had been looking longingly at Samantha frowned. What was Dan up to?

'Here, let me help', Samantha said as she reached Millicent, taking the tray of drinks from her.

'No..'she started, but the tray was already out of her hands and Samantha was already moving towards the guests. She stood there, mouth agape but not for long as she was startled by a voice behind her. 'Can I dance with you?'

She swirled round to find the Beta.'Oh', she said thinking of a nice way to turn him down.

'Before you give me the excuse that you are serving the party, Samantha has already taken over for you at least for some time. You need to enjoy the party as well'.

She looked into his hazel eyes. He was not a bad Beta. In fact he was one of the best looking and well behaved Betas of the pack. She thought, Why not? It was her birthday afterall.

'Okay', she smiled, giving him her hand and he drew her to a side of the hall, swirling her around as they danced. She laughed, allowing herself to feel happy. And she was happy. She hadn't thought that she could enjoy the party this way but Beta Dan had a way with him and though she did not feel attracted to him, she enjoyed his company.

Samantha saw her friend laughing and dancing with so much vigour and smiled happily. She hadn't known Millicent could dance so well. Well, there hadn't been any opportunities for her to showcase her talent.

Alpha Sylvester who had been following Millicent with his eyes, saw Dan go to her and take her to the part of the hall, dancing with her with so much familiarity that he felt himself seething.

'Let it go', his wolf again. 'That you do not want her does not mean others don't as well'. Sylvester could feel the sadness in his voice. He knew that his wolf wanted Millicent but his pride would not allow him satisfy his wolf's desire.

'I do not want her!' he snapped at the wolf pestering him.

'Then why are you upset?' Wolf asked him.

He did not answer as he thought of a befitting punishment for his Beta. As for that whore Millicent, he was going to deal with her before she goes on exile. Was she not supposed to work the party?

'Darling, what is it?' Cathania who had been so happy at being engaged to him that she had been oblivious to all else asked. 'You look tense'.

'Nothing', he said mechanically, still not taking his eyes off the dancing couple. And she dances so well. He imagined how she must move if she were on heat and being claimed by him. 'Stop it!' he mind linked his wolf. 'Don't do that to yourself! I do not want to find out. I am way out of her league and will not stoop to claim her. Look at Cathania'.

'Yet you can't stop staring at her!'

He made an effort to take his eyes away but could not. He was getting angrier by the second at the way Dan was holding her close or maybe it was his wolf that was getting anxious, it couldn't be him, he had nothing to do with that weakling.

'Are you planning on mating her?'

Sylvester, jerked out of his stupor. It was Cathania.

'What do you mean?'

'I mean you seem to be unable to take your eyes off your maid! It is our engagement and you have not even spared me any look but you can't stop looking at your maid!' she hissed angrily.

'You don't know what you are saying', he said fiercely.

'Don't I?' Cathania asked hurt etched on every corner of her face. 'I have asked you if you have anything going with that maid but you always deny it but now I know that you do. Or you want there to be. You cannot resist her'.

'Yes, he cannot.' his wolf said to Cathania though she could not hear him. 'So back off. Your engagement to him is useless!'

'Shut up, Cathania', Alpha Sylvester barked. 'You are the one I got engaged to and the one I want to marry and make my Luna and you are here feeling insecure because of a maid?'

'Isn't she supposed to be working the party?' she asked furiously as she looked with jealous fury at Millicent who was still dancing happily with Beta Dan. Seething, she thought angrily, I have a mind walk up to her and rip that dress off her and then ask her to continue her work as the lowly maid she is. How dare she dress that way to seduce my fiance.

Alpha Sylvester tried to control himself and his wolf who was getting really anxious watching Beta Dan dance with Millicent and taunted Sylvester.

'Look how happy she looks. She is really enjoying his company. I could have made her happier if you had not rejected her!' his wolf said.

'Everyone present here, including my father have all seen the engaged man ogling his own maid when his fiancee was seated right next to him!' Cathania sulked.

'Shut up! Sylvester bellowed both to his wolf and Cathania, but the sound of the music prevented anyone from hearing him apart from those he had been speaking to, though he couldn't have cared less. It was his pack and he could do as he pleased in it. He owed no one any apologies nor explanations, especially not his future in - laws. He didn't need them, he was already very strong to take on any adversary. All the neighbouring packs feared him, His in - laws were the people who needed his influence.

He looked at the scene for a while and fortunately, the music ended and his wolf heaved a sigh of relief. At least now, Millicent would go back to her work.

But another tune started almost immediately and though she had wanted to leave the Beta and continue with her chores, he drew her back into his arms. He could not believe how good she felt in his arms.

'You should dress more like this', he murmured into her hair.

She smiled. 'Is it my dress you like or me?' she asked. She was feeling flirtatious because she was so happy.

'I like you very much but I'd also like to see you well dressed', he said and looking deep into her eyes asked, 'What made you dress up for the party? You normally don't dress up for any function held here in Moon Ville Pack'.

'Today is a special day!' she said mysteriously and felt again how sad her wolf was.

'How so?' he asked absently, smelling the vanilla fragrance in her hair. 'Oh, you mean because of the Alpha's engagement? I have to agree with you on that'.

'No. Not that. Because it is my birthday and I have transformed', she said proudly.

'Oh, that's great news but you should have told the Alpha it was your birthday and he would have asked another to take your place', Dan said.

Oh, he did that. Cathania has taken my place in his life, not that I care, she thought but said, 'I did but he would not hear of it. I was to serve the guests'.

'That's cruel!' he said frowning and looking at the direction of Alpha Sylvester. But Sylvester had bend down to speak sternly to his wolf and Dan didn't see the murderous look meant for him, in his Alpha's eyes.

'You speak as though he's been anything but!' she laughed as though intoxicated though she had had nothing to drink.

Beside Alpha Sylvester, Cathania was sulking. She could not understand why Sylvester was acting so strangely. If she didn't know better, she would think that he had just seen his mate. He was just too focused on that stupid maid. But it was not possible that such a maid was Sylvester's mate. She wanted to throw a fit because she hated being ignored. Her father had spoiled her silly, being his only daughter amidst two boys and Sylvester had not treated her badly until now.

Then Alpha Sylvester stood, and without a word to anyone, walked towards Millicent.

'That's the spirit. Go and claim her, right away!' his wolf egged him on.

He ignored the troublesome wolf that was being difficult to control this evening.

As he passed by, every couple on the dance floor stopped to look as he advanced. He was tall - very tall - six feet five inches. Very handsome with blue eyes. His look belied his ugly personality. Yet almost all the women wanted to be in his bed. How will it feel to be mastered by such a hunk of a man? They wondered.

He got to where Millicent was dancing and Beta Dan saw him too late. 'Is this where and how you are guarding the pack?' Alpha Sylvester asked him, angrily and without waiting for a response, grabbed Millicent's hand and jerking her from Dan, dragged her upstairs, all eyes following their progress, everywhere was silent as a graveyard. No one knew when the music stopped, they just wondered why the Alpha looked so furious and was dragging the little maid upstairs, leaving his guests uncurteously, no excuses nor apologies offered.

When the door banged after them, the activities resumed as though there had not been any interruption.

Some of the older men with wisdom, felt there was more to the action of Alpha Sylvester that met the eye.But they continued with the merriment, each deep in his own thoughts.

Behind the shut door, Alpha Sylvester pushed Millicent away from him and since she was not expecting that, she lost her balance and fell.

'What was that for?' his wolf queried him angrily. 'Was that really called for?'

Sylvester wondered what the problem was with his wolf tonight. He was the one who was anxious that Dan was getting too close to Millicent and yet he was angry with him for widening the distance between the two?

'What have I done this time?' Millicent asked, looking up from her position on the floor.

'You have the guts to ask me that?' Alpha Sylvester asked furiously. 'You neglect your duties and kept dancing with my Beta like a woman on heat and you ask me what you have done wrong. How dare you?'

'I dare Alpha because, I am as good as exiled', Millicent answered.' And by the way, you rejected me and I accepted you rejection. The mate bond is broken. So I can be with whoever I please. What has that got to do with you?'

Sylvester could not believe that the little imp could speak to him that way. But he let it slide. He had more important things to do right now and he knew his wolf which was struggling to be let out would like that very much.

'Everything!', he responded to her query. 'It has everything to do with me because I own you! As long as you remain here, you are mine to control and you must act as such, if you do not want to face my wrath'.

'That is no problem, in a few hours, I shall no longer be a part of your pack', she said as she heaved herself up from her position on the floor. 'May I go now?'

'You have always been too full of yourself. What if I claim you now before you go on exile? What will you do then?' he asked, a devilish glint in his eyes.

Millicent felt fear. She did not want that. That was not what she wanted at all. How was she to get out of this?