CHAPTER 2: KYLIE

***DEREK***

I announced Kylie as my mate, everyone seemed to be happy, apart from one person who stood in the doorway with a very moody and sad expression, Kayla.

She didn't expect me to name her as my mate and Luna, at least, not after what her mother did to me 22 years ago.

Layla, Kayla's mother had been my mate, but she had rejected me in the most humiliating way by getting pregnant for my best friend, Pete. They had gotten married and ended up having a daughter, Kayla and now, 22 years later, the daughter of those who had caused me the greatest heartache was my mate.

Over my dead body would I be with her, Layla and Pete might have died early, thereby missing my chance to get my revenge on them, but their daughter was going to bear their sins.

"Derek?" Kylie called, I turned my face back to her.

"My father wants to have a word," she added, her voice laced with excitement and fulfillment, it was a great thing to be my mate.

As I walked to my soon-to-be father-in-law, In the corner of my eyes, I could see Kayla running out of the room, with teary eyes, and her friend, Sheila ran after her.

"So, since when have you known our daughter is your mate?" Sonia, Kylie's mother asked grinning ear to ear.

Instead of replying, I just smiled.

The rest went on and on as the whole pack celebrated, congratulations flew left and right to Kylie and me.

***

"I haven't seen Kylie, do you have an idea where she's at?" I asked her Sonia, her mother.

"I was about to ask you the same thing, we were supposed to have a dance together, but I can't seem to find her anywhere," Sonia explained, looking sideways to check if she could catch a glimpse of her daughter, but she didn't.

I walked around the room in an attempt to find her, but I still couldn't find Kylie.

"Alpha Derek?" Someone called out from behind me, tapping my shoulders, I turned to be met with a not-so-familiar face, I looked confused, giving the man a questioning look.

"Oh, I'm Randy, an omega, there's something outside you need to see sir," the man who I now knew to be Randy said, I couldn't help but notice the sadness and urgency in his tone as he spoke, at once, I followed him.

Randy led the way, he led me outside and to the corner of the palace, and there it was.

A very gory image of a lady lying lifeless on the cold floor, her face was ripped out, but I knew who it was, I knew that dress, that nail polish, that shoe, that necklace, it was Kylie.

My new mate and Luna had been murdered on the night I marked her, who would dare, my wolf growled in anger.

"Call me Kent,' I backed those orders out of my throat to Randy, he hurriedly scurried away and in no time appeared with Kent, my right-hand beta.

Kent stopped in his tracks as he saw the image before him, "is that…is that Kylie?" He said, visibly horrified by the image before him.

"We need to find who did this, we need to hunt them down, we need to show them, no one messes with Luna of Ravenclaw and goes with him," I growled to Kent who just nodded in affirmation, I might not have loved Sheila as much, but I sure as hell wouldn't allow anyone make away with a direct attack to my wolf. An attack on my mate was as well an attack on me.

Soon after, the news reached the whole party making everyone fretful for their lives, people began to leave one after the other, Sonia rushed to the scene and began to scream and cry, and her husband, Zane tried his best to hold onto his wife so, but it was proving difficult, the tone of the party went from a happy one to a sad one.

"You found anything?" I asked as Kent came back.

"Yes, but I'm not sure if you're going to like the results of this," he said looking worried

"Spill it," I ordered, but he was still hesitant, "that is an order from your alpha," I backed at him.

"Kayla," Kent mentioned.

"And what Is with her?" I asked.

"She was sent talking to Kylie a few minutes before Randy found her body," he dropped the bomb.

Kayla?

Kayla has done this to Kylie out of revenge?

How dare Kayla stand against me, how dare she?

"Find me Kayla right now, and bring her to me, search the premises, she must still be around, I will also join you in the search" I ordered and began to walk away.

The search for Kayla went on, but it was beginning to prove unfruitful

"Derek, Kayla has been spotted running away from the Pack's territory, what should we do?" Kent asked.

"She's running away? She must be real guilty, and there's only one thing to do, we hunt her down!" I backed as Kent.

"Listen up everyone, your Luna and my mate have been murdered by a young woman whom we all have one way or the other cared for after she lost her parents, and this is how she repays us? And, now, I want everyone to spread out and find her, bring her back to me alive, and let us show her Ravenclaw always repays what we owe," I ordered and every werewolf growled in agreement at once, and soon.

"I don't think we should hunt her like this, she is the last person to be with Sheila, but she is only an omega and Sheila is a beta, do you think she could kill her? She is just a suspect, for now," Kent said, trying to reason with me.

"If she wasn't guilty, why is she running?" I asked, but he couldn't reply.

"Now I want you to hunt her down, and bring her to me alive, I am going to teach that bitch a lesson, for the rest of her life, she will live in bondage" I spat in anger and walked out on Kent who followed behind.