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Camila was woken up by a cold wind sweeping through her body. Still in her drowsy state, she slapped her hand around her, complaining about where her blankets had gone. Something cold and wet was splashed on her body, and she gasped, pulling herself to sit. "What is going on here?" She asked the elders she saw standing in front of her with anger written on their faces. Thinking that they were angry because of her manners, she pulled herself up to stand and greeted them. All the elders present in there looked at her legs and then averaged their gazes somewhere else.

A cold wind passed by, brushing the spot between her legs, and she shot her gaze downward to see what was going on. She gasped the moment she did so. She squated back to the ground, a cry escaping her mouth. "What have you all done to me?" She asked them with tears brimming out of her eyes. She tried to cover her nakedness, trying to search her clothes with her eyes, but she saw them torn into pieces in a corner. "Just what the hell did you all do? At this age, you still did something like this to me, even though I am your granddaughter's age." She wailed even louder, not believing that they had tainted her dignity. "There must be a reason why you did all this, right? Then go ahead and drag me to court once again and accuse me of this; you can even go ahead and punish me. What have I really done to deserve all this? Was refusing to be a slave not enough? Are the whips I get here each day not enough? Are the hunger, poor shelter, and lack of water I am exposed to not enough?" She asked them, choking on her tears.

"Enough!" Aplha Killan's voice rose: "How dare you accuse these innocent elders?" You are such a shameless bitch, and instead of accepting your mistakes, you are trying to accuse these elders. Did you think the video you shot the whole night with those two guards failed to reach us? How dare you? Disgusting!" He spat, and her brain snapped.

"Video's? What videos?" She asked, trying to think if she had done anything the previous night. All she remembers is a guard bringing left-overs for her and Alina snatching her glass of water away. She slept and left her standing on her own.

"These are the videos we are talking about." Alpha Killan said as he grabbed her phone and threw it under her face, which was miraculously put on standby before her, and the camera was on. It showed vividly that she had logged into a porn account the other night and involved herself in intimate activities. "I swear I didn't do this. You can ask those two guards," she told them after she recalled something she said, "or Alina, call her here and ask her; she brought a glass of water for me yesterday, and I remember falling asleep while she was still in here." She said she was scanning her eyes around, looking for her.

A hot slap resounding on the left side of her cheek, and a hateful voice rose: "How dare you involve Alina in this as well and have the audacity to call her by her name? I won't stand here and watch you drag the love of my life into this sh*t." Alpha Killan growled, grabbing her by the neck.

"I can't breathe," she stammered, tears stinging in her eyes, but he ignored her.

"You dare ruin my reputation, you little piece of sh*t!" He snapped, letting go of her, and she fell to the hard ground. She stayed still, listening to the ringing in her ears that had resulted from her head hitting the ground. She chocked, spitting out blood, and laid there, witnessing the world revolving around her.

"I didn't do it, I swear," she cried, trying to make the elders believe her.

"If you didn't do it, who did it then?" One of the elders, who had been watching things closely from the start, asked her a question.

"I don't know Elder Peter's. I swear on my life," she said, putting her hands on her head. "I didn't do any of this, and I am still trying to figure out what is going on. You can call those two guards and question them," she suggested.

The elder looked at her for a while, took out his suit jacket, which would be like a dress to her, and asked her to cover herself with it. He looked at her with pity, and with a heavy sigh escaping his lips, he said, "I am sorry, my child, but those two guards are nowhere to be found."

"Wh..what ? How do you know that, Elder Peters? They must be around, I swear." She pleaded with him. At least that was the only one of the hundreds who was willing to listen to her.

"Luna Camila saw them escaping from the pack early this morning when she was out for her morning run, and almost at the same moment, the clip that was supposedly recorded by you was sent to everyone's phone given that they all had smartphones. That was when she went to tell Alpha Killan, who called us. We all can come in here to ask you, but we walked into this," he said, pointing at her torn pants, bra, and clothes scattered all over the place.

"Alina?" She asked, wondering why it was that everything she did was discovered by Alina and not anyone else. "What have I really done to her to deserve all this?" She mumbled to herself, chuckling. When the guard brought the food to him, he had grinned in such a way that she suspected he must have done something with the food but ignored the thought, and right after she was done and asked for a glass of water, Alina appeared from nowhere just to torment her, and even after she ignored her, she still remained there. She once told her that almost everyone at the pack was her people, especially the workers, so it was easy to ask them to spike the food she was given, and that was why she wasn't aware of what was going on. She must have had sleeping pills mixed with the food.

"Cat got your tongue, huh? Why did you mention Alina? Do you want to blame her? Do you want to tell us that it's her in the video but not you?" Alpha Killan laughed sarcastically. "I wonder why it is that I didn't see through you right from the start. I really feel disgusted for ever falling in love with someone like you," he spat, looking at her as if she were some sought-after sh*t.

Chuckling, Camila sniffed and told him, "Yet again, you are judging me even before investigating this? What I am expecting anyway. If I had truly done this, what makes you think I could still be here getting questioned by all of you? Why is it that I am not on the run with those two guards? You have connections everywhere, right? Why don't you release their images all over the media so that whoever spots them should bring them to you for questioning? I mean, if we had done it, it could have meant one thing. Something was growing between us, right?" She asked him, tilting her head sideways.

"How dare you question me? Are you staying to say that you are clean here? And why should I investigate this? This video is proof, and don't forget that you made yourself look so innocent when you released the pack secrets to your evil father. I feel stupid for going through the footage and ending up getting nothing." He said.

"Well, I guess once again all of you, my elders, have agreed with him that I did this. Since you are so sure, punish me because I am ready." With that, she walked back to the clean spots where she sleeps and sat down, waiting for whatever hell would be pushed over her head once again.

Back in Alpha Killan's room, Alina watched what was going on with the cameras she had secretly planted the day Camilla was thrown in there. She wanted to watch all her moves, see if she was trying to defeat her, and see all kinds of people coming in to serve her. "Just banish her already," she chanted, waiting to hear those words from Alpha Killan. Her plan was to get her banished, and the guards she had secretly taken out of the pack would kill her the moment she crossed the border. Only Camila was aware of her evil schemes, and although she didn't have any evidence to support herself, she knew what she was like. She will never give up, and the moment she gets a chance, she will use it to expose her, and the better she gets rid of her, the better.

Her phone rang, and she clicked loudly, responding rudely to the person on the other end. It was one of the guards asking for his payment. "I haven't seen my payment yet, Luna Alina," he told her as a reminder in case she had forgotten. "Your work is not done yet. I told you I'd pay you the day you bring Camila's dead body to me!" She snarled.

"That was not the deal, Luna Alina. We were to take pictures with her while she was naked, weave them into videos by adding some sounds, and then you were to pay us." The guard panicked. He had left his job and promised his girlfriend a car and a modern house. "

I said I'd give you guys your payment after you both fulfill your mission." With that, she hung up, cursing loudly. At the last moment, she thought having one guard wouldn't be enough, which is when she asked the other one if he was ready to join them in her plan. Because he was really in need of money as his daughter was diagnosed with cancer and needed an immediate operation, she used his weakness to pull him into her evil scheme.

What neither of them was aware of was that she had no such money in her back account because she had spent almost all of it trying to cover her plans. She was hoping to get the two million dollars she had promised from Alpha Killan, but she didn't know how to get the money from him. "How about Alpha Cameroon? Yeah, he should help me pay these two men, or else they would blow me up," she thought, dialing the first number on her favorite list.

The phone rang once, and then it went into voicemail. "I called him earlier, telling him about this new plan I have pulled; how come I can't reach him now?" She asked herself, pacing around the room while trying to make another call, which, like the first one, went into voice mail. The guard's call came once again, and she turned her phone into airplane mode while thinking if she should pay him a visit. A message notification came in after she blocked the guards, and her heart trembled.

One of the guards, who had turned out to be clever, unlike she thought, had recorded their conversation, and he threatened to release it using the same method they had released Camila's fake porn video and expose her true colors to the Alpha if she didn't send the money to them in two hours. Panicking, she woke from the bed, walked to the walk-in closet to put on a dress, and hurriedly walked out of the room, bumping into Alpha Killan, who was fuming with anger.

"What's wrong, honey? Are you okay?" He asked, pulling her into her arms. With her drama mode activated, she lied, "I am just tensed. You know that Camila despises me, and despite helping her lots of times, she still thinks that I mean nothing but harm. So, I am just worried that she will once again accuse me of being part of her viral porn video," she said, while trembling.

Alpha Killan, who thought that she was trembling out of fear that Camila would accuse her once again, pulled her into his embrace and pulled her back to their room. Alina, who was trembling due to the fear that she might get exposed, cursed her stars, wondering why Alpha Killan would appear at that time when she was in a rush. She was only given two hours, and the clock was not waiting for her. "I'll have to think of a way to get out of here," she thought to herself.

"Don't worry, babe, because as for Camila, she'll dare not accuse you or drag you into her messes ever again," he smirked.