Chapter 7

• Lilah's POV
• So I get dressed in my black pants matching my black suit with a white long sleeve shirt under. I got myself a pair of black heel shoes for this event, so I slid it on. Being that I've been wearing heel shoes for a long time, I'm comfortable walking with it.
• I'm now beginning to be happy with myself for acquiring makeup skills while in school. No matter how beautiful I am, which I know quite well, coupled with what so many people have told me, I know I still need makeup to look radiant and more matured with the babyface I have. I don't waste any time before I'm done giving myself the glowing style of makeup I ordained for myself. Now it's left for me to pick up my files containing my credentials and a photocopy of me as the overall best graduating student which the school sent to me. With my black bag being picked, I'm set to go but I take one final look at myself in the mirror. I'm very glad with myself for the sparkling way I look, and the high ponytail I styled my long black hair into.
• I arrived at the train station which is just close to my hotel on time. I'd booked my ticket right from my pack online, so there isn't any more protocol to follow than to get in. Five minutes later the train departs, I try composing myself and coaching myself to fit the palace style. There are a lot of royal etiquette which are obligatory for me to follow, although sadly I got no one to train me on them.
• As the train comes to a halt, I take a cab from here to the palace. My identity is asked for by the guards at the gate, upon declaring my documents, I'm let in. Upon setting my foot on the palace, a young man who has similar resemblance with the Korean pop stars and actors I've been admiring so much comes to welcome me. I see him walking towards me and immediately know that he's been sent to take me to meet King Carl, although most people call him Alpha Carl.
• "Good morning, ma'am." He says to me, I can't hold eyes with him for a long time, so I glance down, then realizing I was on an official engagement raise my face. I need to stop acting naive, like a girl who hasn't seen handsome guys before.
• "I'm Michael Jordan, the Royal Personal Assistant." I blink my eyes, glaring at him in thoughts as he mentioned one, so there would be more than thinking, if so, what position am I going into. This was the only thing I thought they would give me, the only reasonable job which would pay so well as compared to other job offers I might get if I'd waited till my graduation day.
• "Oh-oh, it's nice meeting you!" I stammer, remembering he has said something and his hand is stretched to have a handshake with me. I had lost myself in thoughts, I scolded my wolf for getting too submerged in thoughts, as to make me unconscious of my environment. I'm one of those who believe my wolf is in control of everything happening to my body and mind, unlike some people who believe that their wolf and real body is quite different, their mind is a separate entity.
• "I'm sure you know my name!" I say in a haste to cover up for the time I'd delay in responding. Michael just nods with a smile, he might have come across this attitude of mine. I'm sure I'm not the first lady to have come here and fallen for his beauty, this must be a common thing to him, which I guess from his grin.
• "Come with me, we have not much time left." He says to me, his smiling face in a flash changes to a serious one, so formal that I'm amazed and actually question myself if he's the one I was talking to. An annoying feeling overwhelms me as I force myself to drop thoughts of Michael and think about Alpha Carl whom I'd be meeting.
• I followed him through so many hallways and passages till we arrived at the main office, one place I'd be so enthusiastic and at the same time so tense to visit.
• The guards which the Lycan king called
• came inside the office . Tall and hefty dark men who looked so terrifying, since I was born, I've never come upon giants of guards like this. I stood up on my own from where I am without anyone asking me and ran to the farthest part of the office.
• "You can't escape from here, you could run to the farthest part of the earth but I promise you, I'll still catch up with you."
• "Michael, seize all the properties she brought here because she's gonna be spending her night in jail." Upon hearing Alpha Carl said this, I shivered in fear, then I stopped, I was not in my correct senses. These people will catch me, I said to myself. My end was near but what would happen to me, I didn't know.
• "We need to set up an investigation panel and decide on what's gonna happen between her." Alpha George, Carl's dad loomed with his deep, cracky voice. His face still had the pains of what might have happened to him a long time ago but I don't know any of what they are saying. If this is actually the truth, it must be my sister because this was her job, sleeping around with different men before she got married to her mate, even now, I can't say if she has stopped.
• At the panel which held at the semi-conference room of the palace, I was made to stand on dock, before the old Lycan king, his son who is the new Lycan king and eight of the royal family members, I'm not sure, they could be whoever they are but their faces are grave and not something to talk about.
• "What's your name, first of all?" Alpha Carl, who was instructed by his father to preside over the session, asked. I sniffed, even though I wasn't suffering from cold and catarrh.
• "I'm Lilah, I have a twin sister by name......."
• "Will you shut up!" The Alpha thundered while his dad laughed, he tapped me on the hand.
• "Leave her! She can shift the blame to anyone she wishes but in the end, the law will take its course." He gave a sinister chuckle which re-echoed inside of me, cold swept over me, the aura of fear and I felt the ground would pull me down and bury me. I would be the gladdest person on earth.
• "You said, you have what?" Alpha Carl revisited the question I was already about to give an answer to.
• My voice was off, I was stammering, his scolds had pushed a great fear in me that I forgot even my name. "I have a twin sister who was wayward in the past, she must have been the one who committed this crime." I stammered, with urine dripping from my bladder.
• "Okay, since she has claimed this, give her her phone to call the twin sister she's claiming to have."
• "Yayyy."
• The men seated with them cheered, wisdom shone in the old Alpha's opinion, but I couldn't congratulate him since it had to do with me. I was glad at the same time that I would be freed because the truth will most likely come to bare. My phone was handed over to me, I had to hold it with two hands to avoid falling to the ground. With shaky hands, I tapped on my phone, and dialed Carlen's number, the phone rang.
• She picked.
• "Hello Carlen."
• "Put that phone on loudspeaker, so we can hear what's going on!" Carl thundered. I tapped on the speaker, I was literally dumb with anxiety when silence took over the phone. Carlen wasn't saying anything, if at all she intended to respond, hearing this would most certainly tell her that I'm in trouble and I needed help. She might suspect I want to implicate her being that she has a dark past.
• "Please who is this?" I heard a smirk right after the question.
• "It's me, Carlen. It's me, your sister." My voice cracked, tears dropped from my eyes.
• "What-which Carlen, sorry, it's wrong number." I was thinking if someone was with her phone, but she had never given anyone her phone before, she only lived with her mate, who would she give her phone to. Still I couldn't take chances, I had to ask.
• "Please, can you give this phone to my sister?" Alpha Carl, his dad and his men were growing impatient, I could see the movement of their lips, their darkened eyes, they would soon seize the phone and I would no longer have the chance to defend myself.
• "Who are you, please?" She growled at me, snarling her teeth with what my wolf could detect.
• "Please get that phone from her!" George shouted. His son stood up, taking quick strides towards me.
• "You're a great liar!" A slap landed over my face and I fell, with my body bent over the dock in which I stood. "Why would you make a fool of us?" He pointed his fist at me, shaking just as his eyes. He was overwhelmed with fury.
• He returned with my phone back to where his father sat. "What should we do to her, dad?" He demanded.