Chapter One

The two young girls conversed together in lower tones. Their friendship was not yet into its fourth month. It was approximately the length of time that they had been working together as a slave, and vigorously at the Shadow white pack clan.

Cara carried the bucket full of dung from horses they had just cleaned in the barn while Laurel packed the rest of the dung with a shovel as one of the werewolf meant to oversee them approached them but merely passed with a wave of his hand in their direction.

"I feel like running away from all this, I'm so tired," Laurel Sindy said

"I guess you're still dreaming. Running away from this place is like running hastily to your death," Cara Bradly replied her friend and turned to dispose of the bucket of dung in her hand on a hip of already disposed dungs.

Cara had been working hectically in the Shadow white pack clan as a slave. She got tired most of the time but put on a bold face unlike her friend Laurel who had made it her daily routine to complain.

"But what's your story, you never once talked about yourself and have always kept silent whenever I asked you about it." Laurel said with all seriousness to Cara. Laurel had been working at the pack as a slave before Cara became her companion

They've always been together, working and joking all the time but never really exchanged words.

It came to a time when Laurel mistakenly poured a bucket of water containing dungs of horses she packed on a werewolf. She was scolded and slapped numerous times until Cara yelled out with a high pitch sound at the werewolf in a slightly aggressive stance. Cara challenged the werewolf to a duel. The werewolf being a guy felt belittled by Cara attitude towards him. He fought with Cara but was defeated by her not until he called out to the rest of other werewolves watching over the slaves and beat up Cara till she bled from her nostrils and mouth.

Laurel became fond of Cara since then as she thought of her as a strong and brave girl not to talk of her beauty and tattoo on her shoulder which she has never seen before and with time became friends. Laurel would always question Cara but never get any answer from her.

"It's like war is coming, I mean, very soon." Cara said, changing the discussion from the question Laurel asked her about her story. "I thought as much, I mean, the clouds don't look too favourable." Laurel said, smiling.

Laurel paused, turned and looked at Cara in admiration. It seemed like she just digested what Cara said about an upcoming war. "What do you mean, by, war is coming… I don't get you well." She questioned petulantly.

Laurel did not notice the sharp end of the shovel handle and injured herself with it. She whimpered in a low pitch sound as her hand bled excessively. Cara rushed to her seeing drops of blood on the ground and made haste to wash her hand and cleaned it with her whitish gown already turned brown. Laurel walked away under Cara's gentle directive in order to go take a break.

She narrowed her thoughts with a pale expression on her face as she cleaned the barn and since Laurel is gone and now all by herself. She coughed repeatedly with her dirty hand covering her mouth. "you this stinking white tailed horse." She said feeling infuriated as one of the horses spilled the bucket of water with its foot.

She looked at her reflection in the small mirror hanging by the wall, already done with the work given to her by Eretria. 

Eretria is the Luna of the Shadow white pack clan. A fierce quick to judge charming Luna, but also got a gorgeous face, probably that is what Alpha Luke saw before she took her as his mate. Alpha Luke and Luna Eretria ruled over the packs with unique laws of conduct.

She rubbed off the stain on her tattoo clearly visible on her shoulder. A dimple pops up on her face the instant she smiled

She plaited her hair and packed it together as they extended toward her butt. She turned back towards the door to take her leave with the empty bucket in her hand and another bucket full of dung on the other side with the aim of disposing of it on the way back to her room.

She walked briskly in the fiery rays of the sun and felt a little bit shaded from it when she got under the roof of the big residence of Alpha Luke and Luna Eretria. She had always passed another route to her apartment or rather where all the slaves were being kept but decided to pass their residence since Laurel was not with her

She suddenly stopped walking in response to a scent she smelled from an unknown direction. She wondered how it was possible that she never seemed to smell that kind of scent before. She tried to focus in an attempt to get the direction where the scent was coming from.

"Hey, you there, you shouldn't be here… Show your face," She startled, hearing the resounding voice from behind her and derailed her from focusing on the scent she perceived.

She took a stance and ran before the werewolf could get to her. She knew that's going to be another punishment for her if she should get caught by the wolf. She hurried down to her residence with no aim of looking back at the wolf that spotted her. 

She soon entered her room. A small plastered room with cracks all over it. "Laurel, Laurel?" She called out her name in a loud tone. "Where could she have gone after getting her palm pierced open?" She pondered scratching her head with her palm. 

She took off her clothes to have her bath wrapping herself with a floppy grey towel. She soon sat on the small broken chair left in the room after taking her bath. She flipped her wet long hair as she rotated her head repeatedly. Water sprinkled all over the place wetting the pendent she placed on her bed. 

She took it up with a sad expression on her face as she stared at it. The pendant was given to her by her late mother. That seemed to be the only gift with her from her mother. She narrowed her thoughts and remembered how she felt when she perceived the scent on her way back to her residence. "I'm not even eighteen yet, I don't think I could make use of my wolf until then," She said to herself. "Maybe that was the reason I couldn't get the direction fast enough," She concluded.

"Until you turned eighteen before your wolf would show up," She recalled her mum telling her that when she asked her about how she first shifted to her wolf form.

Shortly after that, she stood up suddenly, hearing the voice of Priya yelling from outside the door of her room. She knew that something was off again. This is not the first time she was going to experience that but this was different. She could smell the scent of other werewolves that surrounded her. "What's going on," She grumbled, wondering what Priya was rattling about.

Priya was the adopted daughter of Alpha Luke and Luna Eretria. It was said that her father was a friend of Alpha Luke before he died alongside Luke during a war and her mother had died since she was little. Alpha Luke took her in as his daughter and had cherished her since then onward.

She had always gotten angered and jealous of Mia since the time she gave her a sharp unexpected reply. It was the second day of her arrival at the Shadow white pack clan when Priya called out to her to clean the stain off her shoes when she was sauntering around the clan. Cara who continued packing the dungs of horses acted like she didn't hear her nor see her. 

Priya was infuriated and walked towards her with an attempt to beat her. Cara, who got some reflexes, held her by her wrist before she could lay hands on her. "Don't you have hands to clean it yourself, spoiled brat." She said to her before she could say a word, still holding her hands.

Other slaves clustered around them laughing in a joking manner at Priya. Priya could say nothing but kept silent, feeling embarrassed. It was when the werewolves came before Cara left her hand. She was punished for what she did but Priya wasn't satisfied by it. "Why does she look so beautiful?" She would say to herself. Despite the fact that Cara was a slave working under her, she felt like she is more better than her, all because of her braveness and beauty.

She leaned her ears at the door to listen carefully to what she was screaming about. She got to know that it's all about her gold chain. Luna Eretria gave her the gold chain when she was first adopted and had always been on her ever since.

Cara hurriedly hid her pendant in a wooden box under her pillow. She had a hunch about Priya's motive as to what she might do the moment she bumped inside her room.

"Cara Bradley." Luna Eretria yelled as she and Priya broke into Mia's room with a group of werewolves and accused her of stealing her gold chain. Priya already had a conversation with Eretria about Cara stealing her bracelet before making the decision to check out her room.

She was questioned about what happened and how Priya's chain got lost. Cara had always been the one to clean Priya's room most of the time and she seemed to be the only suspect at the moment. At the back of Cara's mind, she knew that this was just a revolt and a devised plan of Priya to get Eretria to hate her. After hearing the side of her story which was different from what Priya had told her in the first place, She ordered the werewolves that came with her to search for Priya's gold chain.

The werewolves searched her room but couldn't find the gold chain. They were about to inform Eretria about it when another wolf spotted a part of the wooden box slightly exposed. "What is this." He whispered to another wolf as he picked up the wooden box and opened it up. He brought out the pendant and handed it over to Eretria.

The pendant has a symbol that looks like that of her tattoo. "This pendant looks like a royal one, where did you get this from," Eretria questioned her. Cara looked away from her, not saying anything. "As we could not find Priya's gold chain, this is now going to be hers." She said to Cara and turned to Priya and gave her the pendant as a compensation for her lost chain.

"She should be punished mom, you can't just let her go scott free." Priya muffled, leaping her legs on a spot. Priya turned to Cara and gave her a directive to kneel down for twenty four hours. The werewolves escorted Cara and stopped in front of Priya's residence. She knelt down on a rocky ground as she had been ordered.