Chapter 12

Celine had a difficult time keeping up with him, he towered over her although she wore heels, so she had to lightly jog to stay close to him. “D-Don’t get me wrong, I want to be free but I was thinking about something else.”

Jael slowed down so that the Omega could walk by his side, giving her an odd look. He had been the one to go through the background file that had been compiled about her, Alpha Asher hadn’t shown even an ounce of interest and that was just like him.

She was strange, almost suspicious, and it made him do a more in-depth research. Because no Omega came to Reef City from their small town and decided to sell themselves off. What he had found had been startling and he wanted nothing more than to tell his Alpha but he knew better than to bring it up again after he dismissed it the first time.

“What? Your old Pack?”

They were going down the stairs to the foyer now and Celine nearly tripped at the Beta’s words, doing a terrible job of trying to hide her slip-up. “N-No, I want to get my things back.” She said instead, irked.

The Beta spoke condescendingly, it reminded her of the members from her old Pack - *it wasn’t like she asked to be here.*

“What?”

Celine clamped her lips shut at that, she didn’t trust the Beta and he clearly felt the same towards her. There was no way that she was telling him about her things that were still in that dingy hotel, her last memories of her parents were there.

“Need company, Jael?” A tattooed Alpha walked over when they stepped out of the mansion.

The Beta whom Celine was just learning the name of hesitated for a moment, “Yeah, get a couple cars to tail me.”

Celine silently waited, wondering why they needed so many people with them when she was just going shopping. *Was that how dangerous it was? Then wasn’t it better for her to just go alone?*

Jael opened the door of the car that they would be taking for the Omega, his curiosity about her unsatisfied. He would still have to do more research but the little he had gotten in such a short span of time told him that she was the Luna of Moonstone Pack, now what was the Luna doing in the city and why was she lacking a mating mark?

The interest that Mafia King Nolan had shown in her made her more of an enigma, *what was her true plan?* The auction hosts admitted that she had been kidnapped to be sold when he grilled them but that seemed like too much of a coincidence.

She played the *innocent* and *naive* part a little too well too, there was no way she didn’t have an ulterior motive.

“Is there something on my face?” Celine said out of the blue when Jael spent several seconds just staring at her, her eyes wide with genuine curiosity.

Jael looked away with disinterest, starting to get irked by her innocent facade. “Don’t you get tired of pretending?”

Celine frowned, unsure of what the Beta was talking about. She didn’t like the implication that he knew more about her than he let on but she had no plans of giving him any hints, it could all be an act. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Jael chuckled dryly, swerving out the gates without another word.

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Celine tried hard not to be intimidated by the first store she was taken to and promptly failed although she fit in perfectly with the clothes she wore. The sales associate that attended to her did so with fear in her eyes and it made Celine feel bad although she was as much of a victim.

She would have liked to ask Jael how they were paying the store but a quick glance at the dangerous Beta leaned against a pillar with his guns on full display shut her up.

Regarding clothes, Celine had always wished she could wear elegant clothes but the Pack took that choice away from her. So when she was told to make her choice, she went for the clothes she always wanted to wear.

The leather she was currently wearing probably fit in better with being the property of a Mafia King but she had been given full autonomy and she was going to take advantage of that. So she asked the sales associate for brightly colored dresses, elegant dinner gowns in shades of pink and white, and delicate shoes that were nothing like the platform heels she currently wore.

She doubted that Jael paid attention to the fact that she was buying clothes fit for a rich preppy wife but if he did, he said nothing about it. She also favored pearls over the silver jewelry she wore, picking those out when asked to choose.

Celine picked out only a few outfits, relieved when Jael said nothing about the few shopping bags - *she must have made the right choice*. Her mood improved further when he paid for it with an actual credit card and not his gun, about to pick up the shopping bags when he stopped her and took them instead.

Sometimes he did things that surprised her, she couldn’t get a read on the Beta, and she didn’t try, she already had her hands full with Asher.

Celine didn’t expect to be driven to another store to repeat the same process over and over again until the cars trailing them also held shopping bags. She didn’t dare complain, not when it was to her benefit and Jael looked completely unbothered by the fact that he was spending so much money on her.

She was driven back to the mansion when they were done and she didn’t even have to lift a finger to move her new possessions to Asher’s bedroom, all she did was head to the dining room which was thankfully empty this time to eat lunch, and when she was done her new things had already been moved into the walk-in closet. A maid had given her a tour of it and Celine could properly see just how many clothes she had been bought.