Chapter 5

The family table was cold despite the steamy hot pot in the middle. Alpha Maximus and Nora, Isis’s mum watched as the children stayed silent, both busy on the phone.

“Did you think situation is good?” Nora asked silently, slightly afraid something would go wrong if Isis continued begin like this.

Max sighed and picked spinach. “I don’t know what to do about Sam anymore”

Nora shook her head, looking at Isis and noticed that she was the one that was ignoring Sam and her attitude shows she was hiding something.

Smiling beautifully, Nora tapped her daughter. “Baby, drop your phone for a second and eat”

Isis looked up from over her phone with fiery gaze that sent panic to Nora’s heart. “Did I need your permission to use my phone now, Mum?”

Samuel Armani looked up from his phone and looked at the rude girl with a snort. “You seems to have no ounce of filter in your mouth?”

“Did you just speak to me?” Isis shot a glance at Samuel. “Since when did you have the right to lecture me about anything I do or not?”

“You should at least respect your mum!” He fired. “Can’t you….”

“Sam” Max called when he saw that the situation will go out of hand if he didn’t interrupt. “Drop that phone and eat”

Samuel also looked at his father sternly for a while, but given the stares from Nora  and Isis, he shrugged and obeyed his father.

Silence replaced the tirade once again and everyone eat in peace before going to bed.

Getting to her room, Isis sadly sank into the bed with her doll. ‘Only if you can shift, I would have suggested we go for a run to clear our heads’ Her wolf suggested.

She turned around  on the bed. ‘I don’t need a run to clear my head, I just want to get out of here, it’ s already suffocating so much that I wanted to give up everything and  run away’

But Isis knew that she wouldn’t be able to do that. She doesn’t have the mind to leave her mother behind, and the reality of this makes her more sadder.

Before she slept, she received an email from her department which was the reports for  the performance at the sports competition.

She eagerly checked her own and luckily, out of the 50 journalists that would selected for Hale’s class, she was the thirstiest with the worse result.

Hale’s suggestion was written by the side of the report which says. “One more chance, Isis Cepheus or else you will be withdrawn from class”

 Her heart sank. Hale’s class was the most important class at school! She flung her phone to the corner with sadness and pulled the duvet on herself.

‘She caused this’ She cried to her wolf. ‘Mum was the reason why I failed to interview Dalton!’ with that cry, she fell asleep in sadness.

Samuel Armani at his room was on call with Tiara, his girlfriend back at Vineyard pack; a beauty Gamma and a swimmer herself too.

“Don’t worry, baby. I will make sure I come back to pick you and keep you safe” He promised.

Tiara, a redhead coughed lightly from the other side before replying. “I trust you Sam. Just make sure that stepsister of yours doesn't try anything crazy with you. Let her know you have a girlfriend”

This made Samuel laugh. “Did you really think someone like Isis can be able to make me forget you?”

He was a very devoted boy to his girlfriend and Samuel wouldn’t want to hide anything from her and  so he told her everything about Isis and her mum.

Talking about if Isis could impress him or not made her remember what happened at the guest house the previous day and how he showed her his cock.

Samuel felt disgraced y his own action and quickly switched the topic. “So I’m resuming classes at EPC tomorrow”

Tiara sounded sad but replied before ending the call. “All I  know is that no girl must take your place in my heart”

“No never. No one will replace you in my heart”

***

“I go to school everyday with the bus, Max. You don’t have to give me a ride” Isis insisted as  Maximus insisted on taking her to school alongside his son.

Max was tired of trying to get Isis and Samuel on the same page and page he shrugged and kissed her goodbye and Samuel took his second car and left for EPC.

When they’re gone, Max planned to take Nora out for shopping things they need at home and he was waiting at the living room till she was done when he received a call from an unknown contact.

“Yes?”

The other line was dead silent for a while before a squeaky old voice came on. “Brother are you fine?”

His heart sank! That voice is none other than Antonio his brother.

He jumped up, “Why are you calling me?”

“I called to wish you a happy married life brother” Antonio Armani chuckled. “Your new wife looks very beautiful”

Hearing this, Max’s hot went cold. “Who told you about that?”

“Brother, I’m the Alpha of Vineyard now. I now have the power to look into a lot of things that I want”

Max balled his fists, “Now, do just that and stop…”

The line went dead before he could complete his words. He heard Nora’s footsteps and quickly pocked his phone but his heart wasn’t settled.

He was supposed be the Alpha of vineyard pack, but his brother, arranged some crime and make it look like Max did it. For this reason, Max and his son were banished from the pack they were supposed to lead.

He only wanted to live happily here with Nora and her daughter as his, and wasn’t expecting his brother to call now.

‘I smell that he has tricks up his sleeve again’ his wolf opined.

Nora noticed the discomfort look on his face. “What happened?”

Max quickly flashed a smile. “Oh nothing”

He had promised never to let Nora know real reason why he left vineyard  pack. He only lied he was an ordinary pack member who was widowed when his son was still young.

They both hop into the car.

From some corner, Antonio Armani smirked. “You really run away like a rat, brother”

The other person standing behind him also chuckle. “Now we should say hello to his dear son and new daughter, right?”

“Shall we?”

Then they left.