Chapter 7: Wolf Ezra Disagrees

Alpha Sylvester's POV

Her reaction was totally unexpected and disturbing. What is wrong with Millicent? I thought, as I watched her walk away with her head held high. It almost felt like she was happy to be exiled. Why should she when she had no where to go? She had not gone out of the Pack since I brought her here.

'And why not?' Ezra my wolf challenged. 'You have not given her a reason to want to remain here with us'.

'And I do not want to', I said irritably. 'She has to suffer for what her father did to me!'

'Listen to yourself! You sound like a broken record. Repeating yourself all over again. Why must she suffer for the crimes of her father? She is not her father afterall and may not be aware she is paying for her father's sins!' Ezra was really furious. I knew it was because he hadn't wanted Millicent out of our territory, because he still considered her our mate and harboured the hope that I might change my mind and claim her.

'I understand how you feel Ezra, but you must realise that she has nothing to offer us. She is too weak to be my Luna. I need a Luna who will complement me so that together, we will be indestructible! I explained.

'And you think Cathania is the Luna that will do that for you?' Ezra asked.

'I don't think! I know!' I was getting angry with Ezra. Why wouldn't he support me in this?

'Why did you have to make her leave? She could still remain here as your maid', my wolf suggested.

'It would make everything awkward!'

'How so? Are you saying you have secret feelings for her? Feelings you are afraid to admit because you think it will make you look weak?' he asked.

'Hell no! Feelings for that ...that wret..ched ... maid?' I asked angrily, actually stuttering in my fury.

'We could have been with her right now. We had her with us but you let her go. We could have had her now and enjoyed every second of it. if you are sincere with yourself, you will admit that we could have had great fun mating with her', Ezra ranted in frustration.

'Shut up! I do not want her. Not now, not ever and I do not want to set my eyes on her ever again! She should be thankful she got off lightly. I could have treated her far worse!' I howled at Ezra.

'How much worse would you have treated her? You gave her hell while she was here!'

'At least I didn't make her my sex slave like I had originally intended!' I hissed at Ezra.

'Maybe, that would have been better', Ezra muttered and I felt him smack his lips with his tongue. 'But I guess that would have taken something from you. Something you are not ready to give or accept!'

There was no reasoning with the damn wolf and I was getting too exasperated with his continual convinction that if I allowed Millicent stay, I might fall in love with her, that will never happen and the earlier Ezra knew that, the better for everyone.

I went into my study to go through some correspondence but surprise of all surprises, I found I could not concentrate. My thoughts kept returning to Millicent and the joyful look on her face when I exiled her. I thought back at the look of disgust in her face when she had entered my office on a previous occasion and had seen me together with Cathania. Other females would have blushed and been aroused but she had been disgusted. I can still see the disgust in her face and hear it in her voice as she said, 'I knocked but you were obviously too busy to hear it'

This will not do! How can an Alpha like me be distracted with thoughts of such as Millicent. It is really quite unlike me. As I recalled that occasion, I wondered if I had secretly wanted her to be jealous of my relationship with Cathania or to arouse her. Preposterous! If I wanted to arouse her, or wanted her in any way, I'd just take her and she would be unable to do anything about it. I was the Alpha afterall.

I remembered that I needed to speak to my twin about some matters bothering on the security of the pack so, I called him.

'Brother how is the situation at the border?' I asked.

'I was going to call', Christopher said simultaneously with me. 'I believe congratulations are in order. Heard you are getting engaged today'.

'Thank you', I said but before I could say any other thing, he spoke again.

'I am sorry, my hands are tied at the moment and I won't be able to attend your party. The Pack comes first as you know'.

'Yes, apology accepted', I said. 'About the borders, anything we should know?' I asked again and soon we were engaged in a discussion that soon led to us arguing as usual. For the first time, I actually enjoyed the argument because it put my mind off alot of unwanted thoughts.

Christopher can really be very contradictory. He was always contradicting me. I do not know if our interests were not aligned or he just likes antagonizing me. It was good that he was not running the pack with me but guarding our borders. Else, I do not know how we would have managed the pack together without tearing each other apart first.

Being an Alpha was not an easy thing at all. There was so much to take care of.

'Daniel, summon a meeting of the council members. Something has cropped up. Christopher told me something we need to take very seriously'.

'As you command, Alpha but is there any need for that right now?' Daniel asked.

'What do you mean by that? Are you questioning my orders?' I asked in a very quiet voice which everyone, especially my Beta knew, was the calm before the storm.

'I'm sorry, my Alpha', Daniel replied hastily. ' I do not want to be presumptuous, but I thought that since this was a special day, your engagement ceremony, you might want to postpone it till a later date. Tomorrow preferably?'

I had totally forgotten where I was being distracted by unwanted thoughts. My rising fury calmed at the logic behind his words. 'You're right', I conceded. 'Still inform them that we need to meet tomorrow at noon. And Beta?'

'Yes, my Alpha?'

'Thank you for reminding me. Now we need to get prepared for the special occasion. Come help me get dressed!'