Chapter 3: At The Palace

Camila was still sobbing, as she hadn't thought that one day she would wrong her father and be sent out from her pack.

She had seen how her father had banished some of their pack members, and slowly, their pack was gradually reducing, as some Eastern Wood members even fled from the pack before news of their sins could reach her father.

Camila was absent-minded and didn't realize Henry had arrived home. She was waiting to be taken to the refugee house, as she knew no one in the Western Wood Pack, nor did she have any family there.

Camila knew that when the former Eastern Wood members her father had banished saw her in the Western Wood Pack, they would want revenge on her.

"Come down from the car, miss," Henry's deep, masculine voice jolted Camila back to reality.

She immediately snapped out of her trance as she stared back at him. She saw him step down and walk to her side door to pull it open for her.

Camila was afraid as her legs stepped down from the blue car. She hadn't even stared at the sleek car to know it was a Porsche, as her mind was preoccupied with the fact that she had sinned and the reason for her banishment. Her father was without mercy.

"Follow me," Henry said. Only then did Camila snap out of it, and she saw that everywhere was interlocked. She was amazed at the magnificent white mansion standing in front of her.

"Is this the Western Wood Pack refugee house?" Camila asked in shock. She didn't even know when they had arrived at the mansion. Henry laughed first before coldly replying, "No."

Camila gulped. She would have thought how rich the Western Pack was to have such a magnificent building for only foreigners and werewolves without a home. As they approached the front of the mansion—Henry had parked farther away at the garage—Camila was surprised at how magnificent the exterior view was. The white mansion was three times bigger than her father's. She could see the guards at the front as they all bowed to Henry, who was walking in front of her.

Henry approached the front door, unlocked it, and said to her, "Wait here first."

Camila watched him walk into the mansion as she stood at the front and stared around, wondering what would happen to her next. She couldn't trust anyone from the Western Wood Pack—not after all her training and her father's teachings.

Soon, two young ladies came out of the mansion, and Camila was shocked, as she had been expecting a much older man, probably someone of her father's age, to step out and judge her for her sins. But the two maids said to her, "Follow us."

Camila gulped silently and followed the maids as they walked to the back of the mansion. The two maids stopped, and one picked up a hose from the floor. She connected the white pipe to a tap and said to Camila, "Strip off your clothes."

"My what?" Camila looked embarrassed at the fact that the two maids in blue uniforms wanted to make her náked. She wondered what they were up to. 'Did they want to prepare me for that man to sleep with me?'

"No! I cannot strip off my clothes. Please let me go, as I do not mean any harm," Camila begged. She could see the two young ladies only stare at each other. The moon tattooed on their heads indicated they were born and loyal servants to the Alpha, as she knew how loyal her own maids at home had been. One of the maids then said to Camila, "You're a foreigner here, and we don't have time to interact with you now, as we don't know your mission in our pack. But Alpha Henry sent us to bathe you and to have you properly searched incase you're carrying any dangerous weapon beneath your dress. And please, be fast, as Alpha Collins and Luna Ruth are waiting to meet with you in the Grand Hall."

Camila gulped and knew she could not protest at that point. So she stripped off her light nightgown, as she was tired and needed a place to rest and lay her head so her wounds could heal.

After Camila stripped completely nàked, one of the maids gave her soap and a sponge to start bathing. Camila was shivering due to the cold, as she had previously been drenched by the heavy rain that had stopped.

Meanwhile, Henry was inside the mansion in the Grand Hall, and his father spoke to him, "Henry! How can you breach our pack's law and bring a foreigner here straight to our mansion? Do you want to risk all of our lives?"

"No, Father... Actually, I'm..." Henry tried to speak, but his father cut him off.

"You have no right to bring a total stranger here, especially from the Eastern Wood Pack. She will have to leave for the refugee house now, once she's done with whatever you've sent the maids to do with her. We don't mingle with foreigners or live with them, and once you fail to keep your guard up, they will trample upon us and obviously turn rogue to take over our pack."

"I'm sorry, Father," Henry apologized. His father sat on the throne, staring at him, while his mother stood aside with his two younger sisters. They were curious to see the foreigner he had brought home, as Henry had never made such a mistake before.

"It's alright. Send the guards to take her to the refugee house, and tomorrow they should bring her here first thing in the morning. I would like to see her and know whether she's telling the truth. If she is, we will allow her to join our pack. But once she's found guilty of lying, she will be punished extra and also forbidden to be a member of our pack," Alpha Collins said.

"Okay, Father. Can I go out now to check on other things?" Henry asked, and his father replied, "As you please. But send the guards to take her away once she's through with whatever you're doing outside with her. And like I said, let this mistake never repeat itself. It's good that the rest of the pack members are in their homes, so none of them would be aware that you dared to bring a total stranger to our mansion."

"I'm sorry, Father," Henry apologized again, as he could feel the anger in his father's voice. His father dismissed him. "Leave my sight."

"As you wish, Father," Henry said, and he walked out of the mansion. His mother and sisters followed him from behind, as they wanted to see the foreigner Henry had brought into their home.

Juliet and Madelyn Dominic were both angry, as they were twins, and they walked out of the mansion with their mother to see the foreigner too.