Cathania had returned to her pack, scared that she would be found out. Her father had asked her how Alpha Sylvester was and the plans they were making about their marriage and she had given him vague answers and asked to be alone. Her father who had spoiled her silly, left the room so she could have her privacy.
When she did not hear anything connecting her to the condition of Millicent, and her informant in the Moon Ville Pack gave her news that gratified her her heart, she felt easier.
'It is not possible that Millicent will survive, the doctor said so himself', the informant told her. ' He's sure she is on her death bed. He is just treating her to save his own skin from the wrath of both Alphas and make them happy'.
After the news she just heard, she rested assured that Millicent would take the knowledge of her murderer to her grave. But when she did not hear from Alpha Sylvester, she decided to come visit.
'Alpha, you are a marvel. You have not been in contact with the woman you are supposedly engaged with!' she said without preamble when she saw Alpha Sylvester.
Alpha Sylvester just kept looking at her and she became scared. Why was Sylvester so quiet?
'Did I invite you?' Alpha Sylvester asked.
'Do I need any invitation before I can visit you?' Cathania asked, getting furious. 'I have spent my years loving you, waiting for the day I'll be your Luna, and you ask me why I have visited you without being invited?'
'Cathania, why did you do it?' he asked, as though she had not spoken, looking piercingly into her eyes. His eyes were so fierce that Cathania was scared. She had never seen him that way before. Okay, she had seen him look that way but she had never been at the receiving end of his fierce looks and anger.
'Do what?' she asked, thinking that it was not possible that Alpha Sylvester was suspecting her of Millicent's poisoning. And just in case he was, she planned to bluff her way out of it. 'You mean visit without invitation? Do I really need an invitation to visit my fiance?
'Don't play dumb with me, Cathania. We already know you poisoned Millicent with wolfsbane', Alpha Sylvester said in a very deceptively quiet voice.
So he knew then, Cathania thought in panic but felt their long standing relationship would save her. 'If others suspect me, Sylvester, of such a thing, would you not stand by me, knowing that I couldn't do that?' she asked looking pained. 'Where is Millicent anyway?'
'Cathania, we are alone here and I want to hear it from your mouth so that I can help you the best way I can', Sylvester said, still looking at Cathania in a disquieting manner. 'but if you insist on lying about it, you know there are ways of finding out the truth and making you confess to your crime, and by that time, I will not be able to help you!'
Cathania was furious with Millicent. The way Alpha Sylvester was acting showed her that Millicent was still very much alive and she felt her frustration boiling down on her. She was still alive after everything. How had she survived the wolfsbane? Cathania thought in frustrated anger. She was the reason Sylvester was talking and looking at me like a despised stranger. I will never forgive that maid! Little wonder she had not heard of Millicent's death. She had hoped Millicent would die and leave Sylvester to her. Sylvester was hers first, before that maid came, for goodness sake!
'Sylvester, I did it! Cathania said furiously. 'Do you blame me? I have loved you all my life and you choose to side with a maid whose father murdered your parents, over me? What have I ever done to wrong you? Even now, I was doing it for you. I was doing your work. Something you should have done long ago', she was becoming hysterical. 'I do not know why you did not kill her when you murdered her parents! When she was supposed to be serving you, you kept ignoring her rebellious attitude and even when you exiled her, you could not bear to be away from her but went and got her back, hiding behind what the council of elders said.
'Cathania, you were saying, you did it for me. What - exactly, did you do for me?'
'I tried to kill Millicent with wolfsbane, for you, for us, so we could finally be together like we were meant to be', Cathania said. 'But the girl must be a cat with nine lives or a witch and she has refused to die'.
'When did you turn so vengeful and bitter?' Alpha Sylvester asked, shaking his head sadly.
'Since you started ignoring me for your new pet!' she said, laughing hysterically. 'And look who's talking about being vengeful. Were you not vengeful when you murmured her parents and destroyed her pack? Were you not vengeful when you maltreated her when she was a maid here? Are you being hypocritical on me now?'
'I regret all I did against her', Alpha Sylvester said. 'but it's no concern of yours'. Then in a harder tone of voice, his Alpha voice, used in sentencing and giving punishments, he said, 'For the crime of trying to kill the future Luna of the Moon Ville Pack, you shall be kept in custody and I shall decide what punishment will be best to give you. Or better still, Millicent will decide how she would want you to be punished!'
Alpha Sylvester clapped and some warriors came to take her away.
'Take her away and put her in custody, no one is allowed to visit her until she is made to serve the punishment I shall name!'
'You can't be serious, Sylvester!' Cathania shouted, struggling against the hands dragging her away, the scene reminding Alpha Sylvester of how one innocent girl whose parents had just been murdered and her pack destroyed, had struggled to get away from her captors.
'I am the daughter of an Alpha too! You can't treat me like a nobody!'
Millicent was also the daughter of an Alpha when I treated her the way I did and you had no complains about it! Alpha Sylvester thought, sadly.
As she was being dragged away, Cathania happened to look into the adjourning room and saw that there were alot of people gathered there,including the thorn - in - neck- Millicent. And from the disgusted looks on their faces as they looked at her, she knew they had all overheard her confession.
She looked back at Alpha Sylvester with shock, he had set this up. She could not believe that he could do this to her.
'You are starting a war, Sylvester', Cathania said. 'My father will not take kindly to the fact that you are detaining me here!' she said.
'He might change his mind when he hears what your crimes are', Alpha Christopher retorted.'How could you do that to another? You have no Luna qualities in you at all'.
'It is going to be your word against mine! You cannot prove anything!' she said.
'You have just confessed to your crimes. Your confession was recorded and has been sent to your father. He already knows you are paying for the crimes you committed', Samantha said. She could not believe that anyone could be as dubious and heartless as Cathania.
'Even if your father wants war after seeing what you have been up to, then we shall be happy to oblige him and I promise you, the state he will find his pack would be a joke!' Sylvester said, threateningly, before the door shut behind her.
