Chapter 64
Christopher's POV
I was not going to believe that Millicent had left me.
I rushed into her room. She must be dressing in readiness for her flight.
'I shall stop you from this grievous mistake you want to make Millicent!' I vowed as I rushed into her room. She was not there. I flung her bed covers aside, still no Millicent. I went into her bathroom, no Millicent.
Confirming that she was not in her room and in the building, I raced to our favourite spot - the stream but she was not there either but I smelt her. Her smell was very faint.
I followed her scent, racing into the bushes, Zara was urging me on. We need to find our mate! He spoke in my head and I agreed hundred percent with him. Soon, her scent became stronger and then I heart the sound of racing and without thought, I raced after the racer, sure it was Millicent.
I caught up with her. And leapt on her, falling her to the ground. and falling beside her as we rolled on the ground together, due to the impact of our collision and fall.
'What do you think you're doing?' I asked, panting.
'I should be asking you that!' she said, harshly. 'What do you think you are doing? Are you planning on breaking my limbs?'
I was shocked. What had I done wrong?
'You did nothing wrong but I have to leave. We have no future together?' she said, reading my thoughts.
'You don't really believe that, do you?' I asked.
'Oh, but I do!'
'What about last night? Did it not mean anything to you?' I asked, not believing my ears nor the turn of events.
'What about it?' She asked, nonchallantly. 'We both wanted to scratch an itch and we have done that and are both relieved of it. At least I am. What more do you want?' she threw at me carelessly.
I was dreaming. I couldn't be hearing this correctly. What happened between last night and this morning to cause this twist?
I pulled her roughly into my arms and kissed her. 'I want you. I love you and I know you want and love me as well!' My hands finding their way under her blouse to her breasts.
'You are mistaken! I may have wanted you last night, but I do not want you anymore. I need to go discover other places and packs, meet others, compare...'
Her words hurt but I needed to make her see that she still wanted me. I kissed her demandingly, forcing her mouth open. How could she not want this? How could she not want me? She was only pretending, and I intend to find out the reason she felt she had to act this way. She opened her mouth and kissed me back... And I lost it.
I had started out to prove to her that what we had was not just an itch but but a great unbreakable bond but the feel of Millicent in my arms drove me crazy with want. This - loving and feeling - was what I had wanted us to do this morning, but we could do it here as well. The place our 'love mating' was done, did not matter, what mattered were just the people and the emotion behind it. And the feeling behind this was overpowering.
My hands found her breasts, and I tore her blouse off her, sinking my teeth into her soft breasts, she whimpered and moaned loudly as I sucked her nipples. She threw her hands round me and I groaned. My hands started caressing her body down to her buttocks. I cupped her buttocks, drawing it close to my shaft which was engorged with blood and nodding his consent to what I intended doing.
All of a sudden, Millicent pushed me off her, picked her blouse and raced off.
I was caught unawares. I hadn't expected that move from her, I had been so carried away, that I had let down my guard. I was dazed from my lust and couldn't think fast just then. I got up and ran after her when I realised what had happened but could not find her. I ran through the length and breath of the perimeter but there was no sign of her. She couldn't be that fast. I caught her this morning when she had had a head start, why would I not find her now that I started chasing her almost immediately she took off? I took off again, covering the areas I had thought were not important but still no sign of Millicent. Rather, it was as though I was running in circles.
I tried to sniff her, so I could follow her scent. I was surely going to bring her back. But I could no longer smell her and I knew she must have masked her scent.
'Millicent!' I howled thunderously. 'Millicent!' But there was no answer.
I fell on my knees and beat my clutched fist into the ground as I felt my heart being torn from me. 'Millicent!' I kept howling in anguish. The pain I felt was terrible. I clutched my heart.' 'Millicent!' I groaned. 'Why did you do this to us?'
I tried once more to find her, running in the direction I had seen her go but it was fruitless. I howled and howled her name but instead of Millicent, some wolves close by came in response to my call. They stood at a distance, staring at me. I must have looked terrible because none dared come close.
I fell down and lay there, wriggling in pain. I do not know how much time I spent there, but I felt that I still have a duty to my pack as their Alpha and it would not do for them to see me as devastated as I was. It was my personal problem, and I would deal with it. I was going to find Millicent if it was the last thing I did! I stood after that resolution and went back to the mansion.
Chapter 65
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....
Chapter 66
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.