Chapter 2

Mallory's POV:

"Let me go!" I screamed as my stepmother dragged me by my left wrist and led me outside my room door.

I was nàked, and yet, she didn't care and wanted to report me to my father.

"Leave me alone!" I bit her hand with force, and she flinched and let go of me, and I ran back into my bedroom to get dressed ASAP.

"Mallory! Mallory!" She banged on my room door, and I knew that I would be reported.

It was already 10 p.m., and I looked at the door and went to pull it open after I was done wearing my clothes.

I donned a red dress that was past my knee length.

However, as I pulled the door unlocked, my father stood there and smacked me in the face once I opened the door.

"Mallory, what were you doing inside here in your room? And why does this place smell of sex? Who was he?" Dad walked into my room and walked up to my bedsheets and picked them up angrily as he sniffed them.

"Tell me, Mallory! Who did you mate with?" My father, Alpha Bruce Adonis, barked at me angrily. He looked at me disappointingly.

"I wasn't mating with anyone," I lied, lowering my gaze, and my father marched up to meet me angrily and grabbed me by my left arm.

"Mallory, I already made the promise to your mother that I will protect you, and yet, you couldn't wait to find your mate, and you foolishly slept with someone. Speak now! If I find out from the camera who you slept with, you both will be banished!" My father threatened as his blue eyes narrowed at me.

I didn't want Ace Lennox to be banished. He was the pack's future Alpha since my father has no son. Ace was very skilled with combat and fought very well. He had defeated some packs that wanted to destroy our pack.

I looked away from my father's face, hesitating to tell him who I had had sex with.

"Speak now! Or forever remain silent!" My father threatened as he wore a black garment.

My stepsister Sonia came in, dressed in a white nightdress that was shining, as she ensured to purchase the best quality of dresses.

"Dad, Ace and I did it," I announced, and my father's eyes widened in shock before he looked at me angrily.

"You are lying, Mallory. Why couldn't I detect Ace's scent here? Has it gotten to the extent that you have to lie on Ace Lennox?" My father barked at me angrily, and I lowered my head.

"Ace is the one who came here to meet me, Dad," I told him, and he yelled at me.

"Shut up, Mallory! I am going to ask you for the last time: Who did you mate with?" My father asked, not wanting to believe me.

"It was Ace Lennox. He was here. He left through the window," I said, and my father went to the window and looked out.

"Ace cannot be able to fly from this window. You don't want to tell me who was the man you had slept with. As much as you don't have any scent, Ace has a scent of pinewood, and you think that I don't know what my fellow pack members' scents are like, much more the future Alpha of our pack?" Dad said to me angrily, and Sonia cried.

"Father, Mallory is lying. Let us call Ace and ask him. Mallory wants to force Ace to become her mate just because she sees us together," Sonia said, crying, and I looked at her.

Even though she was taller than me and believed she will become the next Luna, I was her older sister.

"I am not lying. Ace was here, and he used me. Maybe he used a scent suppressant," I said, and my stepmother came into the room and smacked me very hard across my left cheek.

"Shut up, Mallory! I cannot continue to stand and watch you slander the pack's future Beta. Alpha Bruce, Mallory needs to be punished, so that she can learn her lesson. Maybe it's because she knows that Sonia is bound to become the future Luna and marry Ace. She wants to destroy their future together," My stepmother, Luna Lily, said as she looked at my father's face.

"Alpha, if you cannot punish Mallory, allow me to punish her, as she's only worthless and of no value in this pack," Luna Lily said as my father stood there silently.

"Take Mallory downstairs, and Sonia, call on Ace. He needs to answer to Mallory's accusations before I decide on her punishment," My father said as he turned around and walked away from my room angrily.

"Father, I am not lying. Ace and I are mates! You all have to believe me!" I cried as my stepmother ordered the guards to drag me out of my room, and I was taken downstairs to the first floor.

I was forced to kneel down, while my father waited for Ace's arrival.

A few minutes later, Ace came in, and he looked like he had taken his bath. His brown hair was wet, and he donned a yellow shirt and black shorts. He was very tall, and he looked from me to my parents.

"Greetings, Alpha. You sent for me," Ace bowed before my father, who was standing there at the Alpha's chair.

"Yes, Ace Lennox. I need you to tell me the truth before I decide on your punishment with my first daughter. You should know that lying to your alpha warrants banishment. I hope that you're aware," My father spoke to Ace as he stood there looking at Ace angrily.

"Yes, Alpha. I am aware of the consequences of lying to you," Ace replied with a bow of his head, as he avoided looking at me. His parents rushed into the hall to find out what was happening.