Chapter 40: CHAPTER FORTY

Earl had given him a task to do and he was going to totally obey till the very end. He hated that Sam had lied about the locket but he still couldn’t figure out why. His initial plan was to search his room for more valuable items but on second thought someone might actually see and think he stole something from his room.

As Gasher sat on his bed, his hands were on his jaw trying to think of a better plan to catch Sam, since his job was simple. There was no need to be in the palace for too long, he wanted to catch him in the act, he finally decided he was going to track Sam down whenever he went out. He was supposed to be attentive to every single move same made that included the sound of his door too. In the morning, he had followed him till he got to his destination but he wasn’t meeting anyone at that time. 

Gasher caught sight of Sam through the window at night hurriedly, he jumped out of his room down the stairs, and trailed him. As Sam started the ignition of his car, Gasher waited for him to proceed before following him. As Sam zoomed off into the road, Gasher started the engine of the truck too and zoomed into the road too. The truck was slow but tried to meet up with the pace of Sam’s car.  The night was cold and calm, just perfect for the execution of his plan. 

As he moved closer into the road, Sam’s car stopped at the edge of the road. The street light was well lit at their spot so getting there was difficult so he had to stay at the spot that was not illuminated by the street light. I wasn’t going to jeopardize the plan for a street light. 

As Sam’s car stopped, another car at the other end stopped too, Sam turned off his ignition and someone came out of the second car, a lady of about five feet came down too, she was so beautiful, her hair bounced as she stepped out of the car and took long strides towards Sam’s car, Gasher tried to understand something; So he was truly seeing someone. As he looked closely, he saw a clear resemblance between the lady on the locket and the lady walking towards the car. She was the one who had made him kneel for close to an hour. 

He was here for a job, he just found something. He wondered how he was going to make Earl know about the truth. As he watched her walk towards the car, an idea came to him, he was going to make a picture or rather a video. He pulled out his cellphone from his inner pocket, opened the camera and started making a video. The light at their end illuminated the video making it bright and clear. She opened the passenger seat and was no longer in view. 

He waited for close to thirty minutes but it appeared that they were not ready to leave. He waited for something else to happen, as he sat still in his truck, he wondered the look on Earls face if he showed him the video. Earl would be disappointed. 

Suddenly, he noticed movement from Sam’s car. He straightened himself awaiting a move from them till he saw Sam get out of the car together with her. He knew this was the perfect opportunity to capture them in the act, so he straightened his phone to their direction and filmed them walking hand in hand. Sam was obviously getting her back into her car because he held her tight. 

As Sam got to Alisha's car, they spoke for some time before he kissed her passionately then drew the embrace apart. He held her door open for her while she got in, he walked towards his car oblivious of his surroundings.

He knew he shouldn’t be seen out but he wanted to tell Alisha that they should lay low for some time since the elopement couldn’t be done in a haste. He had called her to inform her about the locket and the uproar it was causing in the house so they agreed to meet and reach a conclusion. Alisha was from the enemy pack, so, it didn’t stop from loving her, he thought. 

Gasher watched eagerly as he spied on Sam, hoping he would do something else but Sam got into his car and drive off, he accompanied him behind staying a bit far from him so he wouldn’t get noticed because they were the only ones on the road, as they drew near to the house, he wanted to wait for Sam to get into the house before he could go in without any suspicion. He switched off his truck some kilometers away from home, waited till Sam got into the house. As he waited, he checked his cellphone to ensure the video was saved to his device because this was his proof of innocence. 

Finally, he started the engine of the car, got to the compound, switched off the ignition, looked around to ensure he wasn’t being followed, used the other entrance into the house and hopped quietly so he wouldn’t attract attention.

Afterwards, he considered going back to his room, but he thought otherwise, the others were not aware of his undercover work so he was going to get back into the cell room. Quietly, he took the path down the dark hallway, down to the cell room, opened it and got in. His job was done and by tomorrow he would be free again, he thought glad that the job was easy to complete. 

Earl couldn’t wait for cock crow before he got to Gasher for a confirmation, as he approached the cell room, he found Gasher awake;

“Any news yet?” Earl asked him, sounding desperate.

“Yes,” Gasher said in anticipation 

“What do you have? What were you able to discover?” Earl asked, wanting every single detail of Gasher’s findings.

“I have a video, sir.” Earl was in shock, if there was a video that meant there was truth in the rumors, he thought. 

“A video? Let me have it?” he replied.

Gasher opened his phone, opened the video and showed it to Earl. Earl was disappointed the minute his eyes met the lady, his eyes had turned darker in rage. Sam not only lied to him to his face, Sam lied to the entire pack and it was a punishable offense. He wasn’t just angry that Sam was having an affair but he did that with the daughter of the enemy pack, Alisha. He knew Alisha. The video of them didn’t just look like a normal video, it looked like they visited and went out often, and Earl didn’t raise his son in this manner.

Sam was not always like this, he thought as he remembered the struggle to get Sam to understand the dealings of the pack but it appeared that he was stubborn to the rules, there was no way he wouldn’t take any action on him, he had too for the sake of other pack members whose children would be a victim of this too, it would give them the opportunity to warn their children against affairs that wasn’t in the pack, he knew that Sam could get any other girl in the pack if he wanted but he just wanted to play smart and stupid.

Gester had done a very nice job in capturing the moment of the video and he was glad Gester did such a beautiful work.

He collected the phone from Gasher and stormed out of the hallway leaving the clacks of his shoes behind. As he got into his chambers, he yelled in rage and Sabina rushed out in confusion.

“What is it?” she asked innocently. 

Earl didn’t say a word, he passed the phone to her, she wondered what was in the phone that made him yell so hard, as she opened the phone, her eyes widened, used her hands to cover the curse she was about mutter, she didn’t know when a tear dropped from her eyes. She was totally unhappy and disappointed with Sam, she wanted him to be happy with someone he loved but not a member of the enemy pack, and to make matters worse, it was their daughter, Alisha. She couldn’t remember her features properly because the last time she saw her she was still juvenile. 

As she watched her husband from the corners of her eyes, she knew Sam was going to be punished terribly, with the way he paced aggressively, he might even shift into his wolf self and pounce on Sam not caring about blood relations. The more Earl thought about the secret, the more bitter he became to totally get Sam punished by his law. 

Sabina was crying at the other end of the chamber, her soft sobs just couldn’t make him concentrate. She was muttering something like “Please” he acted oblivious to her cries and acted distant. 

For all the beautiful ladies in the clan, Sam chose to date a lady from the enemy pack, he thought. Did he do it to get him upset on purpose because there was no other way to explain what Sam had done? 

Sabina knew when Earl’s temper gets to its apex there was no coming down, no one would advise him because she would play deaf ears to their pleas. At least, his punishment shouldn’t be grave, he didn’t kill anyone, she thought knowing her system was totally null. 

He asked the guards to summon Sam wherever he was, and within minutes, Sam was summoned to face his father. Again, standing before his father was dangerous, what he noticed was how dead his eyes looked, he could see total anger that had no limit whatsoever.

“Hello, father,” he greeted knowing his father would totally ignore his greeting. 

There was nothing glad about the atmosphere of the chambers, he had seen the tears in his mother’s eyes but he couldn’t understand. Did someone die?

“Sam, you have disappointed this family, I remembered calling you to ask you if you know anything about the locket but you denied saying you had no idea where it was from. I asked you countless times but you refused to give in...”

“But I know nothing about the locket," he cut in shakily.

“Then how can you explain this video?” Earl barked at him in rage before throwing the phone at him to see for himself. Sam wanted the ground to swallow him, he didn’t understate the video, and it was then that it occurred to him that he was being watched. He hasn’t played his games well, he thought. He had been caught and there was no way back. He knew he should have come out clean the day of the incident but he wasn’t ready for the punishment.

Now, the look on his father’s face proved otherwise, he wanted to apologize for lying to him, for having an affair, for dining with the enemy hug nothing came out of his mouth, he just stared at the phone looking bewildered that the person who made the video must have waited a long time to get a hold of the kiss he shared with Alisha. It was too late to beg now, father would hear none of it, 

“You lied to me, you lied to this pack, and you lied to everything you hold true to you, Sam. How could you? After all these years, you stand there without words, what can you say now? There is a video this time, son,” Earl yelled, totally displeased at how infuriated Sam made him feel. 

“For how long has this been going on?” Earl wanted to know how far they had gone in the relationship to know how long he had been lied to. Little wonder, he puts up excuses to leave and come back late with another excuse till excuses ran out of him that he started with his capture. 

Sam could not utter a word, still trying to process how his big secret was found out the same day he asked Alisha to stay low for some time. 

“For how long have you been having an affair with a lady from the enemy pack, Sam? Answer me?” Earl yelled at him pointing his fingers at Sam. 

There was no way he would tell his father how long they had been dating, he would annoy him the most. His father’s wrath was dangerous. The last time he made his father so upset, his father had threatened to pounce on him if the act was repeated, and he knew how bad his temper was.

“Father, we...we have not been in this thing for long, I don’t love her. I am just using her to spy on the Colven pack. Nothing more, she forgot her locket with me some weeks back. She is a lady who knows little or nothing about love, I have just been manipulating her to get information about their pack. There’s nothing more to us.” He spoke shakily, unable to hear himself speak. There was no way his father would find out she had elopement plans he would definitely behead him in broad daylight. 

Elope with an enemy pack? That was a taboo. 

Earl wasn’t going to be fooled by Sam’s speech about spying on the Colven pack, so who asked him to perform such an act?

“Why didn’t you tell me? Who asked you to spy on the Colven pack?” Earl spoke eyeing Sam intensely, 

“I hoped to tell you but I wanted to gather all my solid information together. I wanted to know when their next line of action would take off seeing that we were taken off guard the last time, I didn’t want a repeat of that” 

“So what have you gathered, tell me?” Earl questioned his brows hanging in an unable to believe position. 

“While she was drunk some weeks back, she spoke about the chaos in choosing a mate for Adam. According to her Adam’s interest is a girl named Sarah, Sarah is a vampire who is despised by everyone. Alisha’s mother wants Adam to marry Xana one of the wolf of the succeeding pack” 

“She also added that Sarah lives in the mansion with them through Adam’s strong will."

Sam finished speaking, hoping and thankful he was going to calm his father a bit with the information he had just told him. The more he thought about the inability to prevent his father’s wrath, he prepared his heart for any decree commanded by his father. 

“It’s a good thing you did all of that without my consent but it doesn’t stop my wrath. You went against my rules and you must be punished by the law. Guards, take him and seize him for some days,” Earl commanded in a loud voice. 

“Please, father. I assure you, I won’t have anything to do with her anymore.”

“There is nothing else, I am telling the truth,” he said as the guards dragged him off to the cell room.