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 right hand with force, and she flinched and let go of me, so I ran back into my bedroom to get dressed as soon as possible.

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

It was already 10 pm, 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 and a pair of black slippers.

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

"Mallory, what were you doing inside here in your room and ignoring your stepmother's call? And why does this place smell of sex? Who was he?" Dad asked, walking into my room. He went to my bedsheets, picking 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 with disappointment.

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

"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 had no son. Ace was very skilled in combat and had defeated some packs that wanted to destroy ours.

I looked away from my father's face, hesitating to tell him who I 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 shiny white nightdress, ensuring to purchase the best quality.

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

"You're lying. 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! I'm 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 fly from this window. You don't want to tell me who the man you slept with was. As much as you don't have any scent, Ace has a scent of pinewood, and you think 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's 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 face with disbelief.

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

"Father, I'm 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 hard across my left cheek.

"Shut up, Mallory! I cannot continue to standby and watch you slander the pack's future. Alpha Bruce, Mlallory 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 on your behalf as she's only worthless, and of no value in this pack," Luna Lily said, as my father stood there silently.

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

"Father, I'm 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. I was taken downstairs to the first floor.

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

A few minutes later, Ace came in, and he looked like he had just taken a bath. His brown hair was wet, and he wore a yellow shirt, black shorts, and black slippers. He was very tall, and he looked at my parents.

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

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

"Yes, Alpha. I'm aware," 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.