'It's Ramla, sire."

Charlotte was enjoying a peaceful sunset alone, when Liam showed her his phone.


'Are you there?

Ramla."

She immediately responded to her messages.


'Yes!"

Ramla: 'His Majesty is worried about your well-being. Are you safe?"


Charlotte's heart overflowed with the warmth of her friend's consideration.

'I am good. Ask him to send me that box, I can't come out to receive it in person."

Ramla's instant reply refreshed her mood.

'On it. Please save my number, you can call me in case of any emergency."

...

As Eric's three days of punishment were over, he came out of the room only to listen an outrageous news.

'Vampire King has sent a gift for Luna."

'How dare he!"

Eric mind-linked Julian to send that box to his office, urgency to familiarize with that vampire's new strategy overpowered his desire to see Charlotte.

'What is this?"

A giant wooden box lying on the table aroused his suspicion.

'Crack it open. Casper is a lanky guy, who knows he is using this box to break into our Pack."

Rick's timely suggestion forced him to open that box, he extended his claws to pull the lid up.

'Don't touch it, Alpha."

From the end of the corridor, Charlotte hissed at Alpha Eric.

'Don't you have any manners? It's personal."

She wrapped her arms round the box protectively.

'This is a suspicious package, little one. Stay away from this death trap."

Eric tried to persuade her, but she didn't even budge.

'Casper has sent it on my request. It's not a danger to the Pack."

Charlotte looked at the box, 'Scarlet Adino" was glimmering on its surface.

'You, you are in contact with that bastard? So, I was right, you are having an affair with him."

Seeing him tuned into the older frequency, Charlotte got up and started dragging that box out of the office.

In a flash, Eric closed the door,

'I am asking something, little one. What's your relationship with him?"

Charlotte took a deep breath and replied calmly.

'His Majesty is my King, and my first chance mate. Anything else?"

Her gas-lighting was a deliberate attempt to convince him that he was losing the grasp on reality. Eric's temper shot up to the sky, he grabbed her wrist,

'Are you in a relationship with him?"

'Yes!"

Charlotte raised her brows and decided to explain her statement before Eric lost his mind.

'He is just my friend, nothing else."

'What's with this ‘just friends'? A man and a woman can never be friends, and in your case, it's impossible. You even went to see him in the hotel without telling me."

'Oh, really?"

Charlotte chuckled; her brows arched into a crescent moon.

'Do you think the whole Pack follows your footsteps, Alpha? I am sorry to burst your bubble, but some people have other problems too.

Not everyone is free like you to whore around."

Although Charlotte had sworn to herself that she would never tell him about that day, a sudden surge of fury slipped it from her mind.

'Don't cover your misconduct with slandering me. You know you have done something terribly wrong, why don't you confess it? I will forgive you, little one."

She felt a rush of emotions, her nerves tightened at the audacity of Alpha.

'The glorious mate-bond that you advocate every day and night would have informed you about any kind of cheating, just like it alerted me when you were having sex with Melinda. I didn't spoil your fun, Alpha.

You shouldn't interfere in my private life, what do you say?"

This surprise was enough to shut Eric's mouth, he stepped back and looked around, then fixed his eyes on the box.

'What's inside the box? Who is Scarlet Adino?"

The corners of her lips curled up in a smirk, she was glad at winning the first round of their face-off.

'She is my mother, and this box is of her belongings."

'So that's how, Casper is trapping you."

Eric sneered; his voice was laced with contempt.

'He must have gathered some random shit and fooled you into believing that these are your mother's. Smart move!"

Charlotte hardly stopped herself from punching him in his face and balled her fingers into fists.

'His Majesty is not lying. I can identify my mother's Royal scent."

'Your mother, a Royal?"

Charlotte rolled her eyes at Eric, as he was the last one to solve this puzzle.

'So that witch was calling you Adino because of your mother, not him. I thought, oh my goodness! So, the prophecy is right. You are the real heir of the Vampire Kingdom's Throne."

Charlotte sighed and turned to walk away.

'At least you should know about the person you are sleeping with. And for prophecy, I have proved it wrong by sacrificing my beloved in the battle that day. King Casper will lead the Vampire race in the future."

…

'Wear it, we are going out tonight."

Jason read this line for the third time, and still didn't believe his eyes.

'After that punishment, Mathew is taking me outside the Pack. Why?"

Then he checked the bag and his eyes popped out at his favorite color's clothes: Yellow and red stripped tank top with blue ripped jeans.

'Are you serious, ice face?"

He trailed his fingers over the fabric to feel the softness.

'It's so smooth, I love it!"

This special outfit blossomed happiness in Jason's heart, he hummed a song while slipping into those clothes. Mathew had arranged a separate room with a special glass window, so he could see the sun without getting hurt.

Unknown to Mathew's real motive, Jason was ready before sunset. He opened the icebox filled with blood bags for the need of his day.

'Better safe than sorry."

Mathew had checked the icebox in the morning, asked him to eat to his heart's content, but who knew whether he was sincere or not.

'You must be trying to find a chance to punish me again.

No, not at all."

As humiliation of previous canning was still fresh in his mind, Jason was extra cautious, not taking any risk. Mathew came back at 7:00 pm sharp. His mother stopped him for dinner, but he refused politely.

'Me and Jason are going out for fun."

His father scowled at his 'fun", but Mathew didn't bother him. He grabbed Jason's hand and kicked his racing bike; they reached G-spot disco in ten minutes.

Jason was quite disappointed at the short ride of the bike, but he had to rub his eyes repeatedly to confirm the situation.

'It's, It's a gay pub!"

'I didn't ask you to read the banner, Jay. Get in."