Life And Death Situation.

Few minutes before the mating ceremony began.

Ariel left Carter's room, thanking the moon goddess for the two females who came into the room the moment Avril found out she and Carter shared a kiss. Those two females were life savers.

The murderous glint that shone in Avril's eyes when Avril sniffed her made her realized, Avril had found out about the kiss.

So she ran as fast as her legs could carry her down the stairs leading to the passageway, this was a life and death situation. Ariel ran past many rooms and stopped when she reached the end of the passageway. She stopped and turned around looking for any backdoors to make her escape.

There were too many entrance doors in the house, the house was a large mansion. She should have expected it to turn out that way.

The front doors were too risky for her to go through, there were too many people over there. She could smell them. The backdoors were her only hope of escape since there won't be too many people staying at the backdoors.

Ariel walked around the house, looking for the safest backdoors she could go through without being seen, her eyes were still looking up the stairs, looking out for when her father might leave the room. 

She saw him walk into the room, not too long ago, after she left. He may decide to use the stairs instead of going through the same entrance he came in with.

Ariel thanked her stars no one was inside the house except her, if not they would have looked at her as someone going crazy, caused by the way she was walking around the whole place.

She finally found a particular backdoor with no one guarding it, she chuckled excitedly and reached for the doorknob. 

Holding onto it, Ariel paused, her head leaning against the door and drowned herself with thoughts. Wouldn't it be better for her to go back and tell Avril the truth than to escape?, Avril may listen or may not.

Ariel knew Avril was mad at her but she may still listen to her if she told Avril the truth, that Carter was the one who forced his lips on hers without her being unaware that, that was the real reason for him coming into the room.

She still remembered clearly the murderous sore look Avril had on her face, and though Avril was mad. Avril may still listen to her, all she had to do was to get Avril to calm down first, and by that way, if she was lucky enough, Avril would listen.

Ariel finally made up her mind, she was going to tell Avril the truth before the mating ceremony begins. Carter was the one who kissed her and not her.

Letting go of the doorknob, she turned and started finding her way to Carter's room. But the moment she was climbing the stairs leading straight to Carter's room. She saw her father coming out of the room.

And without wasting time, Ariel held her lips tightly and turned back swiftly before she screamed and he saw her. She bent  and started climbing down the stairs again carefully without making a sound and making sure she couldn't be seen. She raised her head a little and then saw him go back into the room.

"Oh, that was so close" she heaved a deep sigh of relief and continued climbing down the stairs, her hand was on her chest trying to calm it down as it heaved up and down heavily. Has Avril reported to him already? 

Or did he just come into the room to see Avril before her mating ceremony began?.

So many thoughts raced through her unsettled mind, if Avril had opened up to him already. Then she was going to be dead meat before she even tried explaining anything. 

What was she doing to do now?Should she go into the room now he was in there,                  so the three little family members could have a serious chit-chat.

Ariel absolutely has no idea on what to do. Even if Avril managed to believe her, her father who she knew too well was going to find a way to make sure she would be the one to be blamed for Carter kissing her.

Ariel was sure he was going to put the blame on her, saying she was the one who seduced Carter and that was the reason for him kissing her, but Ariel doesn't mind, he should say what he was going to say, she still had to try.

She took few steps climbing up the stairs again her heart racing too fast and then someone tapped her on the shoulder from behind, Ariel swore to the moon goddess she would have performed real kung Fu on that person if she didn't looked well and saw it was Cole and stopped the short stiletto heel on her feet from reaching his face.

"Woah, take it easy. You almost caused damage to my pretty face" Cole cautioned, his hands covering his pretty face, and preventing it from Ariel who almost damaged it with her Kung Fu skills.

Ariel exhaled softly, and brought her feet down. She almost hit Cole mistakenly due to the way, he scared the f**king wits out of her, by tapping her on the shoulder from behind. 

She thought it was her father, who was still in Carter's room so that was totally impossible.

"What's wrong with you?You look like you are being chased by a ghost" Cole questioned Ariel and could clearly see the nervousness warming up in her eyes. There were visible beads of sweat formed on the top of her forehead.

She pulled Carter by the arm and dragged him down the stairs before her father came out from the room again and saw her for real this time.

"Woah, take it easy. We are not being chased by a ghost!" Cole yelled, climbing down the stairs alongside Ariel dragging him by the arm forcefully and not minding whether he was going to trip or not.

Within a few seconds, they were now in the living room they considered the general hall due to the place being mostly used for meeting during important matters.

Ariel didn't say a thing and just clutched her heavily heaving chest, her other hand on her knee supporting her weight. Cole did scare the life out of her. But she managed to get a hold of herself and asked.

"Cole, can you lend me some of your clothes?" Cole's brows lifted questionly at Ariel. Why was she trying to borrow some of his clothes and what was she going to do with it?Does she intend on wearing it to her sister's mating ceremony?.

"I promise to return it after I'm done with them" Cole moved back a little to examine Ariel very well. What was going on with her?. She wasn't acting like the Ariel he knew.

He didn't say or ask her anything and only nodded his head, as he took her to his room.

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"I will take this one" Ariel pointed to a black baggy sweatshirt and pants hung on a hanger inside Cole's closet. Cole nodded his head and brought out the cloth she chose and handed it over to her.

Ariel took it from him and smiled, Cole returned the smile with a smile too. He knew something was going on with her but he didn't ask her anything.

She took the sweatshirt off the hanger and threw the rest on Cole's bed. And just as she was about to take her clothes off. She remembered Cole was still in the room.

So she asked him, "are you going to leave or are you going to watch me undress?".

Cole scratched the back of his head  nervously without saying a word and left the room immediately. Ariel watched him left and chuckled. Cole was such a funny guy.

"You can come in now, Cole?" Ariel said out loud enough for Cole, who was waiting outside of the room for her to hear. And he did come into the room.

Once inside the room, he looked at Ariel who wore his clothes and swallowed hard, his clothes fitted her perfectly though it was a little bit baggy. 

Her curvy shape were showcased well. If he wasn't mated to his girlfriend becky already, he was going to make sure Ariel was his mate. 

If he was ever given the opportunity to date someone like Ariel with such alluring shape, he was never going to let her go, whether she was his mate or not. 

Carter was a fool for cheating on such a beautiful lady like Ariel, but he was still one lucky guy to have tasted the inside of her. His insensate thoughts got roused the moment Ariel said to him.

"Thanks a lot for your help Cole, I will be leaving now" She took two steps and stopped when Cole held her back by the arm.

"Wait Ariel" She still tried leaving but finally stopped when Cole said to her. "I have something to say to you".

Ariel turned to face him. The happy expression he once had on his face earlier was gone. A distorted look was on his face and she wasn't able to read it.

"It's about Carter".

"Ooh, f**k him".