MAX'S POV

I knew my actions would definitely have consequences but these are too heavy of a burden for me to bear, how then am I to continue this whole thing?.

I'm stuck between choosing my mate and going for my birthright and alpha.

No matter how much I think of the odds. The risks are just too high, I can't let Sammie go, the fault is all on me and if she ends up somewhere as a slave to someone else it would all be on me.

I can't bear to see her in despair or suffer in the hands of another,I'll blame myself till I drop dead.

I storm out of the storage room down into the main building, raging and furious, he clashes into Shayna who seems Disturbed.

For the first time since she had gotten to the pack she doesn't bother him I stead she passes him by placing him in oblivion.

For some reason I think she has something to do with Sammie's disappearance, she did nothing the first time and here she is again repeating the very same odds.

As much as I'd love to pressure her on what to do and ask her about Sammie's disappearance I had more pressing affairs at hand.

"Father?" I call out, pushing the door slowly as I'm still confused on how to explain the whole thing to him.

I'm also bothered as to how I'll settle the whole matter itself and bring it over to him, he had trusted me the whole time and I had lied straight up to his face.

"Come on in son, you are he man I had hoped to see, funny enough I was just about to put a call through to you" father responds, the wide smile on his face making it easy for me to tell that he definitely has something rolled up beneath his sleeves and it's no good for me.

"I'm here to see you about something important, father" I respond, trying not to piss him off but in this whole scenario, I do not see a way he would take this right and fair.

"Whatever it is, I guess it's really important?" Father asks, his grin and smile still plastered to his face in a manner that worries me.

"Yes father" I avert my gaze away from him not knowing how to begin.

"Go ahead then" he days before walking over to the farther end of the room towards his wine shelf.

He seems to be in too great of a wood and I'm surely about to ruin it all for him.

"I need your help father, it's important and I'm Afraid you won't like what for" I repond.to him taking slow strides away from him towards the center of the room.

"What's that about? Young man I do not have all day to process words and play word puzzles with you, for all I know I have lots of things to deal with and so do you, I'd you feel whatever you have to say I not of importance than key me have my word with you" he lashes out, his tone and anger ruining thing before I even get to ay a word.

"It's Sammie, she's gone" I blurted out all at once knowing the minute the truth had finally come.

"She's gone and so what? How is that news? She had been fine for a long time so why bring her up again?" Father asks, completely oblivious to what I mean.

It shows I had done a perfect job in hiding her and he might not have found out if I had not Said anything.

"Sammie is the slave I brought in the slave I had kept in the storage room. The lady I told you I bought a few weeks ago, it was all Sammie and no one else" I explain,letting it all off my chest as I wait for him to yell, explain or lash out at me.

I wait for an emotion, anger, pain, regret and then I wait for his attacks, screams, kicks, yells or fists thrown. At my face, but nothing comes on.

Nothing at all, he stands with a wine in his hand which he pours slowly and elegantly into a cup.

"Father, say something anything at all it's important I need to get her back" I plead to him,I felt coming to him would make things better and that I would finally get to voice out and stand on my ground but here I am doing the direct opposite, pleading with him to make things work out for me.

Nothing hurts more than the nonchalant attitude which he's showing, it's killing me right on the spot but I wait for his response.

"You sure are becoming a man of your own max, you dare being that filthy girl right into my pack house, you lied to my face and here you are doing the very same thing once again.

You even had the guts to smiggle her out of the pack house to a secure area all thanks to my help, you lied all through about everything to me, sneaking in and out to meet with her!,

My position as the alpha in the pack meant nothing to you, letting my make.be fragged in the middle by associating yourself with a person like her.

I would not let you their all that I had worked for over the years down the drain, I won't let you act out and take that stupid step you will forever regret"

"Father I love her" I cut into his words, never have I for once felt I would have the courage to say such things right into my father's face.

"Ilover her, she is my mate and I don't think I can keep ignoring my feelings . It's hard trying to resist my mate when the mate bind has not been severed, I could not bring myself to reject her and she would not reject me as well.

She left all of a sudden, I could not find her in the storage room and I am afraid she would end up in the hands of slave traders, she is weak and can't survive, let's say she's still able to make it away from the clasps of slave traders how then would she survive?.

Sammie is weak and wolf less, Sha has no own neither does she know what' to do, a her life had been spent in this pack"

Explaining the whole thing seems not to bother him, he stands ,facing me unfazed by my words, for some odd reason why do I get a feeling my father has something to do with all of this.

He isn't acting surprised like I felt he would, neither is he throwing tantrums like he ought to.

"She left you on her own accord, she was not forced so why do you think she'll come along with you once again?"

I had not expected him to throw such a question at me, I stared at him with my mind totally blank.

I have no answer to it,he had always remained The very one who knew me, he knew what would cripple me if he spoke but this time all he's dung is ask a plain simple question which I have no answer to

"You see she would not come along with you, she hates you max and I think it's time for you to accept that,

Do you believe I would not have any idea about her being here? You lied to me and smuggled her in, do you think there's anything that goes on in this pack that I do not know about?"

Hearing my father speak makes me realize how huge of a mistake I had made, he knows about it. I felt it was too good to be true that he would have no idea about the whole thing but I felt for once I could finally outsmart him.

" I let you have your fun son and your time as well. I didn't force her to leave ,as long as you curbed the issue really well. I believe I have no reason to lash out at her, she's doing fine and you were handling things well.

You didn't visit her for days so I felt you are finally getting over her but when you left I saw her sneak out, trying to escape and I knew it was just the perfect timing to make my move.

She would always be a stumbling block to me, I needed to get rid of her but I could not kill her, she is your mate after all and i would not like to be that type of father so instead I sent men after her to take her to the slave organization where she would be forever branded and sold as a slave.

She had been branded as a slave and sold as well, she is not ever returning to this pack and I want to hear no words from you, tomorrow you'll be getting married to Shayna."