Greater Punishment.

"Hey, do you know which room my daughter Avril is in?" Johnson Mills asked a female member of the sundown midnight pack he saw in the passageway of their pack house. 

The ceremony would begin in a few seconds and since his Luna wasn't alive to help their pup, Avril on the night of her mating ceremony.

He would take up the responsibility of both acting as an Alpha for his pack and also being a parent for his child. 

"She's in Carter's room getting dressed up, Alpha Mills" the female he asked responded diligently, bowing and then left. Alpha Mills walked a few steps round the passageway and found Carter's room at last.

He almost missed his ways because it has been a long time since he has been to the sundown midnight pack house. But thankfully to the little memory that he still had, stored in his brain. He found Carter's room.

"Wow, that's daddy's little princess!" Alpha Mills screamed happily, a big smile plastered on his face as he saw the way Avril was shimmering so brightly on the sheath white gown she wore. His favorite daughter, Avril, was getting mated fully tonight, and not the useless one.

Ariel.

Avril turned behind her, and saw her dad. "You both can leave, I can finish up the rest" She instructed the two females that were putting makeup on her face and they both left obediently.

"Yes Luna" the females found their way out of the room and bowed before leaving.

"Oh, they are calling you Luna already?" Johnson Mills smiled again before Avril ran to embrace him. He almost tripped and steadied himself immediately, caused by Avril attacking him with a bone-crushing hug.

"Woah, take it easy there pumpkin" Alpha Mills whispered, steadying himself. He didn't expect that hug from Avril and the way she tightened her arms around him during their little father and daughter hug scared him.

It was as if he was going somewhere far, and never returning, so she was embracing him for the last time before he left.

He was rubbing Avril's back softly when he heard sniffs, he thought at first that Avril was inhaling his sweet scent but with the way and the sound of the sniffling sounded, it seemed as if she was crying.

He broke the embrace instantly, checking out his pumpkin's pretty face and saw tears dropping down from her eyes to her cheeks, ruining the makeup she wore on her face.

His knuckles fisted and he gritted his teeth in anger, who had hurt his pumpkin on the day of her mating ceremony?. The day she was supposed to be the happiest person on earth, 

That person wasn't going to go free.

"Hey don't cry, you are going to ruin your pretty face" He pinched her face softly, wiping the tears off her face carefully without ruining her makeup.

"Tell me, what's wrong pumpkin?, Who dares to make daddy's little girl cry?" Johnson Mills asked Avril and was still wiping the tears off her face. 

Avril shook her head slowly, The corners of her mouth threatening to turn down as she tried speaking. Her father could see the hurt in her eyes and it was hurting him so much. In fact, he felt as if he was the one hurting.

It was better for him to hurt than for Avril to hurt, it hurts and kills himself inside.

"It's…it's..it's.." Avril stuttered, she wanted to say out Ariel's name, but her name didn't want to come out of her lips. It was as if Ariel cast a spell on her not to mention her name.

After laying her trust on Ariel and patching things up with her. Ariel still went behind and stabbed her in the back after they became friends. Ariel was a bitch!.

"Who is it Pumpkin?, who hurt you?" Johnson Mills pressed on with his questions, the smile leaving his face as his brows furrowed worriedly.

"It.it…"

"Ariel?" Johnson Mills helped complete her statement for her since she wasn't able to. He just guessed Ariel's name and with the way Avril cried the more at the mention of Ariel's name. He didn't need no one else to tell him it was Ariel.

"What did she do?" Johnson Mills asked through gritted teeth, his anger just maximized to a hundred percent. 

"She kissed Carter father, she kissed my mate" Avril said to him without stuttering, she had finally found her voice to speak. Johnson Mills bowed his head slightly and raised it as he paced up and down round the room.

He should have known it would be Ariel and no else.

Ariel again?, What has he ever done to that stupid child of his? She has always caused him nothing else than trouble and he should have known she would have caused trouble too, on the day of her sister's mating ceremony.

Only the heavens knows what he was going to do to Ariel, when he gets his hands on her.

"Are you sure about that pumpkin, I thought you guys patched things up?" He moved back to Avril who had stopped crying and crossed her arms between her chest.

Stomping the white back giant bow bridal stiletto high heel she wore, heavily on the hard black and white marble tiles of the room as the sound of it reverberated round the room.

He saw the both of them together recently, acting like sisters but he was surprised all of sudden by what Avril told him now. He thought that the both of them had become friends for real, but Ariel only made a fool out of Avril.

Ariel was always as sly as a fox, always.

"Yes, she kissed him. I left for the bathroom and told her I will be back in a minute and when I came back. Carter's scent was all over the room so I asked her if he came into the room" Avril paused for a second, steadying her breath because she was speaking too fast and then she continued.

"And she told me he only came to pick something up and left. But then, his scent was all over her and when I sniffed her lips, it..it.." Avril returned back to crying and her father rushed back to embrace her again.

"Easy there princess, easy" He brushed his hands up and down her long midnight hair. Only the heavens really knew what he was going to do to Ariel for hurting Avril.

"Where did Ariel go?" Johnson Mills asked, breaking the embrace and wiping the stubborn tears dropping down Avril's eyes as she sniffed continuously.

"I don't know, I wanted to go after her but I couldn't, because of my mating ceremony" 

"Alright, it's ok. I will go search for her" He turned to leave, but Avril held him back.

"Father, when you see her. Leave the punishment to me. I want to be the one to punish her for going behind my back and stabbing me, right after we made up" Avril said to him and smiled to show the man she wasn't hurting anymore.

"I will do just that, now go fix yourself up. The ceremony will begin soon, daddy will be back after he catches Ariel" he let out a big smile, but the rage fuming inside of him was still visible due to his fisted knuckles.

Seems like he has gone soft on Ariel and that must be the reason she had the intrepid audacity to try such nonsense. He was going to deal with her the hard way.

"Okay" Avril chuckled excitedly and went back to the seat of the dresser she was sitting on, putting on more makeup to cover the part of her face, the tears ruined.

"You are not going to go free this time Ariel" she murmured under breath and grinned. That wicked grin that was once lost, was back to its original place.

Ariel better run because a greater punishment awaits her.

If only, they knew the truth.