. Chapter 2

Limuel sat up quickly while trying to figure out who could be at the door. The knock didn't last for long as he heard another footstep coming closer.

"The Luna doesn't want to be distributed. I believe she is fast asleep now." A voice from outside said to the other.

"Alright, head maid. I just thought to check up her if she needed anything." The maid replied.

Limuel heaved a sigh of relief and laid down back. He soon fell asleep as he also took a sleeping pill.

It was evening and the other family members had started arriving for the birthday celebration. The family members that were present shook hands and greeted one another as they waited for the celebrant to arrive.

The host of the party, alpha Martins was already in the hall welcoming the people who had arrived but his Luna was not yet around. He looked around the hall to see if he could catch a glimpse of her probably she was too busy doing some finishing touch preparations.

"This is unlike Li. Where could she be?" He thought.

Becokning on a maid nearby, he said, "Go find Luna Ashley. I have not seen her in the hall."

As he finished talking to the maid, the front doors opened. The celebrant had arrived!

Alpha Martins walked briskly yet maintaining his aura as the alpha to greet his father.

"Welcome father." He bowed his head respectfully.

"Thank you, son. Where is my daughter in law?"

" She went to get something quickly. She will be here soon." He said, covering up for his wife's absence to welcome his father.

"Okay. Then..."

"Alpha!" The maid came back looking a little bit worried.

"What is it?" Alpha Martins asked.

"I can't find the Luna anywhere around the house and her room is locked. I couldn't open it because I don't have access to the master key."

Everyone including his father looked at alpha Martins, worried and baffled. Luciana stood at a corner, smiling mischievously.

"Alright, meet beta Carl for the key." He finally managed to say to the maid.

She goes to beta Carl and then gets the key.

However, opening the door, the sight she saw made her scream at the top of her voice.

Just then, she hears the alpha's loud growl. "What's going on?"

ASHLEY'S POV

I hear the voices of different people talking at the same time. Am I dreaming or hallucinating? Opening my eyes, I realize there is a young man lying beside me and a small crowd had formed in front of me. My sixth senses tells me something is wrong.

"What is happening here?" I jerked up in alarm.

I am not sure what is going on but then it dawns on me that I was naked and not just naked but with another man in bed.

"Somebody tell me what's going on? Why am I in this state?" I yelled.

" No! You tell me why you are lying down peacefully with another man by your side. And oh, I thought you were getting ready for the birthday celebration. Is this public disgrace?" Martins growled back in anger.

I could see his wolf was getting hard to control.

I look around and see quite a number of his relatives in the room. I still could not understand what was going on.

Martins could not hold back his anger seeing me, his wife with another man on our bed and so he pounced on the man.

Beta Carl rushes in and tried to calm him down.

The unknown man to me woke up in the struggle and tried to run away. One of the maid recognizes him as Limuel a servant who was newly employed.

The pain on my husband's face increased.

"Please, please Martins! I wouldn't dare cheat on you. This isn't my doing. I don't know how all this happened. The last thing I can remember is falling asleep and then waking up to this mess." I try to plead with him.

But I guess nobody including him was going to believe me.

"Aren't you so cheap and lowly? I regarded you as a best friend  but is this how you treat the people around you? Are you going to repeat the same thing that happened two years ago but in a different way? You still have the conscience to sleep with another man."

Everywhere suddenly became quiet as all turned to look at who had just spoken. I also turned to see where the voice came from. It was Luciana!

Everyone was baffled by Luciana's words. What does she mean? What happened two years ago? I thought they were best friends?

I could hear the whispers and hushed voices coming from different angles.

Beta Carl broke in, " Luciana, what is this all about?" 

"Alpha, beta, I need your permission to speak on something important." She said.

" Go on." Martins said.

"Well, I only found out recently and thought it would be like supporting a murderer if I kept this to myself."

A murderer? What is Luciana up to? Why is she calling me a murderer and looking at me with contempt? Oh, no! With tears welling up in my eyes, I could not believe it was what I was thinking.

"The Luna here is the one who killed your niece two years ago."

"Killed? I thought she got missing and her dead body was found months later." Somebody said.

"That was all a cover up. She deliberately knocked her down, threw away her body and buried the whole matter." Luciana sneered.

"Impossible! Do you have proof? How dare you slander the luna? Beta Carl protested.

"Quiet, beta Carl. Go on with what you were saying Luciana." Father raised his hands to shut the beta up while he gave a go ahead to Luciana to keep speaking.

"Yes, there is a witness to prove what I just said. I insisted on following Ashley that day but she refused. I noticed something off about her behaviour lately and decided to find out what was wrong. I will allow the witness speak by himself." Luciana said.

"Alpha, I was at the scene when the whole incident happened. Luna Ashley ran over her, came out of her car, picked the body and drove off quickly. I quietly followed her and saw her disposing off the body at a place close to the human territory where nobody would discover quickly." The witness said.

I was shaking visibly at this moment. Fear and guilt was written all over my face.

"Luna Ashley is this true?" Martins voice jolted me back.

"I... didn't... Well, it's not as..." I started stammering.

"Answer me!" Martins shouted.

"It's true but I didn't hit her intentionally. It was a mistake." I managed to say with tears in my eyes. Loud gasps escaped the mouth of everyone in the room.

I couldn't believe that Luciana would do this to me. Alpha Martins stormed out of the room and I was scared of what would come next.