Alpha Sylvester informed us, a couple of days later, that he had it on good authority that Cathania was coming to visit and that he was going to get the confession from her if she was indeed responsible for poisoning me. We were to stay in another room. A bug and a camera were planted in the room where Alpha Sylvester would be with her and we would hear everything she said, and see all her reaction.
She breezed in, in her normal Lady - of - the - manor, manner and we gathered in the large room we had prepared for this occasion. Alpha Christopher was there with us as well.
'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.
'Did I invite you?' Alpha Sylvester asked.
'Do I need any invitation before I can visit you?' Cathania asked, sounding furious. 'I have spent my years loving you, waiting for the day you'll make me your Luna, and you ask me why I have visited you without being invited?'
'Cathania, why did you do it?' he asked, looking piercingly into her eyes, as though she had not spoken.
'Do what?' she asked, and I sensed fear in her voice though I could not be sure. 'You mean visit you 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.
'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 quiet for a while and we all though she was not going to respond to it, you know, take the bait.
'Sylvester, I did it! Cathania said furiously and we all exhaled. 'Do you blame me?', she continued. ' 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!'. Christopher caught my hands in his, squeezing and his warmth gave me strength.
'When she was supposed to be serving you, you kept ignoring her rebellious attitude', she added. 'and even when you exiled her, you could not bear to be away from her, so, you went and got her back, hiding behind your discussion with the council of elders.
'Cathania, you were saying, you did it for me? What - exactly, did you do for me?' Sylvester asked
'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!'
At Alpha Sylvester clap, 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 that came into my mind unbidden was how I must have looked as I was being dragged away from the corpse of my father.
'I am the daughter of an Alpha too! You can't treat me like a nobody!'
As the guards dragged her away, Cathania looked into the room where we were and saw us all looking at her.
She looked back at Alpha Sylvester with shock. She must have realised that there was no escaping the punishment for her crimes.
'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, the look in her eyes, incredulous.
'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 Cathania and I believed him. Look at the state he left my pack of origin. That reminded me I wanted to ask around and find out what became of my birth pack.
