Episode 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 naked, and yet she did not care and wanted to report me to my father.

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

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

It was one in the morning. I looked at the door and pulled it open after I finished wearing my clothes. I donned a midi red dress that fell past my knee length.

However, as I pulled the door open, my father, Alpha Bruce, stood there and smacked my face once I opened the door.

"Mallory, what were you doing inside your room? And why does this place smell of sex? Who was he?" Dad asked, walking into my room. He went up to my bedsheet and picked it up angrily as he sniffed it.

"Tell me, Mallory! Who did you mate with?" My father demanded. He looked at me disappointingly.

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

"Mallory, I made the promise to your mother that I would protect you, and yet you couldn't wait to find your real 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 did not want Ace Lennox to be banished. He was the pack's future Alpha since my father had 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 and black slippers.

My stepsister Sonia came in, dressed in a long white nightdress that shined as she had 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 glared at me.

"You are lying about Ace. Why couldn't I detect his scent here? Has it gotten to the extent that you have to lie about Ace?" My father yelled, and I lowered my head.

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

"Shut up! 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 pointed, and my father went to the window and looked out.

"Ace cannot fly from this window. You don't want to tell me who the man was that 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 smell like, much more the future Alpha of my pack," Dad stated, and Sonia cried.

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

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

"I am not lying. Ace was here, and he slept with 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 standby and watch you slander the pack's future. Honey, Mallory needs to be punished. She needs to 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," Luna Lily stated, as she looked at my father's face.

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

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

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

The guards forced me 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 at me and then at my parents.

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

"Yes, Ace. 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 stated, as he stood there glaring at Ace.

"Yes, Alpha Bruce," 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.