“Where is she?”
Cassandra heard a feminine voice screech across the hospital as she sat outside the lady's ward that she had saved.
She had intended to take the lady to the pack immediately, but she started feeling severe pain out of the blue, and the hospital was nearer than the pack.
According to the hospital’s protocol, she couldn't leave until a family member or acquaintance of the person showed up.
The hospital staff had already called her friends and family, and thus, Cassandra was waiting for someone to show up.
The sound of high heels clicking through the marble echoed in the hallway, and Cassandra's attention snapped to the entrance, where a girl dressed in a blue body-hugging latex dress rushed towards her.
Their eyes met briefly, but the girl didn't pay any heed to her and walked inside the room.
“Hi, I am Tianna's friend,” She said to the nurse before hurrying inside.
“The patient has woken up. Do you want to meet her?” The nurse asked Cassandra, but she shook her head.
“She is safe, that's all I needed to confirm. Since her friend is here, I must leave,” Cassandra said as she left the hospital. She then dialed the number of the person she had left in control of the spying task for her.
“Hello?” Cassandra connected the Bluetooth before starting the car to the Divine Bloodlust pack.
“Sweetheart,” the man said, and Cassandra suppressed the urge to roll her eyes.
“Facts, Mr. Silver,” She kept her tone professional, and the guy on the other side sighed.
“Bummer,” Scott said, and Cassandra smiled.
If it hadn't been for her falling for Caleb after he came to their pack and that one night that changed everything, she would've dated this guy who had been silently persuading her for so long.
Apart from Betty, he was the one person who stayed with her through thick and thin, even when he wasn't a member of their pack.
She met him during her school days. After she did a background check on him, he told her that his father was the beta of the Sunrise pack.
Not all families are harmonious. His relationship with his father was quite strained because deep down, he blamed his father for his mother's death. If their father hadn't forced their mother to deliver another child for him, she wouldn't have died of complications.
Thus, he started living in the hostel near the school once he turned fourteen. That was when they met, and their friendship has stayed invincible since then.
He confessed to her once when he was drunk, and she laughed it off. The guy didn't mention anything after that, always saying it was embarrassing.
Scott never demanded anything of her; he maintained a pure, comfortable friendship with her.
Cassandra respected him for that.
“I indeed found something. I spotted her near the border and not alone. She was with the rogues,” Scott said, leaving Cassandra speechless.
She stopped the car in shock, sitting in the middle of the highway, her thoughts all messed up.
Did she hear it right?
Cassandra never liked Harmony. Despite the abuse that the girl claimed she went through, Harmony was too perfect, too kind, too warm, but in her eyes…too calculated.
Her speech was always soft, even when the person before her insulted her. It appeared like she was always auditioning for some kind of white lotus role.
At that time, she didn't think much about it. Her focus was centred on the Best Gamma trophy so she could become the Luna of the pack, but now thinking about all those things…
But now Harmony was seen with the rogues, in broad daylight, and near their pack. It was too risky.
“What more?” She asked Scott.
“I am still searching, sweetheart. But according to what I am seeing. Harmony isn't just Caleb's mate–” Scott started.
“She is a distraction,” or worse, an accomplice of something they couldn't figure out yet. Cassandra completed the sentence, not saying the last words until she was sure.
She entered the Pack's territory, the sunlight shining on her face through the windows making her look aloof. The guards, who had already been informed about her, bowed to her.
Cassandra nodded back.
“Bingo,” Scott said.
Cassandra sighed and unbuckled her seatbelt.
“Okay. Keep looking into it,” she said and walked towards the packhouse, her thoughts muddled.
The girl had already gotten the title of Caleb's mate before everyone and was now announced as Luna. What else did she want? Why was she meeting those rogues?
Were they involved from the very beginning? If yes, then why? And if not, then why now?
Her head drummed with an upcoming headache, and she was about to enter when she bumped into someone.
“I am–” Cassandra started apologizing, but the person beat her to it before she could.
“Are you blind?” the familiar voice asked.
Cassandra looked up, and her gaze met the same person she had met in the hospital.
It wasn't like they were in a narrow street. The girl bumped into her too. She could've avoided it, too.
She was apologizing out of humility, but some people didn't deserve it.
“Are you talking about yourself?” Cassandra raised her brows.
The girl before her narrowed her eyes.
“You… wait, aren't you the same girl sitting outside Dianna’s room? What are you doing here?” The girl narrowed her eyes as if she were looking at someone with low morals.
“Wait a second, oh my god, how could I forget? You are probably here to collect the prize for saving a life from the alpha, no?” The girl asked.
Cassandra sighed and looked at the girl like she had grown two heads.
“Look, I am in no mood to–” Cassandra started, still trying to be polite, but the girl grabbed her collar before she could complete her sentence.
“I know girls like you. You used Dianna as bait to come close to our alpha, didn't you? How dare you!” The girl said and slapped Cassandra hard across the face.
Cassandra's face whipped to the side due to the impact.
The girl packed a powerful slap. Cassandra could taste the familiar metallic liquid in her mouth.
Her gaze darkened.
“Have you lost your mind?” Cassandra asked.
She was about to get even with the girl when more pack members started to circle her.
“Marianna, what are you doing? That girl saved my life,” Dianna, the girl Cassandra saved, stepped out of her room.
Marianna scoffed.
“Dianna, nobody apart from the alpha knew you would return to the pack today. How come this girl happened to be at the right place at the right time? You said everything was happening deep in the forest. What was she there for?” Marianna paused with a squint.
“And look, she followed you here. She did it because she wanted to get close to your brother. Don't you remember what happened the last time?” Marianna asked.
Dianna's hope suddenly turned to sadness as she looked at Cassandra.
“Why are you here? Is there something I have that you left or forgot?” Dianna asked, still trying to see the good in Cassandra.
Cassandra sighed.
“I am here because your alpha invited me. I am the Gamma train–” she started to explain, but Marianna suddenly grabbed the locket around her neck before she could continue.
This locket… how could this locket appear here?
“Dianna, isn't this–” Marianna couldn't even complete her words.
Dianna’s pupil dilated at the realization, and she looked disgusted at Cassandra.
“How low could you stoop? You stole the necklace from her?” Marianna asked.
When Dianna returned to her senses after treatment, her necklace wasn't around her neck.
It wasn't a normal necklace. Only the members of the Callisto family could wear it. They concluded that the necklace had been lost in the forest when she was running, but now, seeing it around the neck of the girl who saved her, everything indicated what she had done.
“Alpha Callisto gave it to me,” Cassandra said, confused.
“In your dreams, b***h!” Marianna raised her hand to slap Cassandra again, but before she could do it, Cassandra held her hand.
Just because she was caught off guard the first time, didn't mean she would let Marianna bully her again.
Cassandra jerked Marianna’s hand away.
“I won't stay here until Alpha Callisto corrects this mess.”
Cassandra was a proud wolf, never allowing anyone to call her a thief.
She grabbed the so-called necklace around her neck and threw it on Dianna’s foot.
“Thanks for reminding me that goodwill shouldn't be shown to the wrong people,” Cassandra said with a wounded heart.
This was the same goodwill she showed to Harmony, and she stabbed her in the back by taking away her husband. Now, she almost risked her life with the rogues for this unknown girl, and it turned out she called her a thief.
Dianna's eyes fluttered at the words.
“Wait. Since you are here, why don't you stay until the alpha is back?” Dianna suggested.
Though her mind wanted to believe Marianna, her best friend, her heart wanted to believe this girl for once.
Seeing Dianna falling for the girl's fake self-righteous character, Marianna nodded at her friends.
“You! How dare you raise your hand at our friend?” One of the girls rushed to her, and Cassandra stepped back instinctively.
She countered the attack and pushed back the girl.
However, that was a mistake because the girl's head hit the table and she started bleeding.
Everyone looked at Cassandra like she was their enemy.
“Get her! She hurt one of us,” Marianna shouted.