The Alpha's Triple Lunas novel Chapter 9

Chapter Ten – A marriage for Lydia.

The hunters were surprised to see the girls coming out from the forest like they owned the place. They looked healthy and strong except they had gloom faces.

Before any hunter could speak Lydia dragged his net that had little squirrels. The fearful squirrels ran away for their life the moment they were free.

“Isn’t this forest forbidden? Why are you catching animals from it?” Margaret pointed at the men.

Lydia spared them no dialogue as she targeted their catch and dragged it away, setting the animals free.

Some hunters tried fighting for their catch but one look at Lydia’s face made them realize she was meaning business.

Evelyn just watched in silence. She was careful not to make an outburst as it would be rude to the hunters.

They were just acting on their natural instincts, doing their jobs. It was rather their own fault for running to the forest. She now understood that the forest was forbidden for a reason.

The girls stood in front of their uncle with scowls on their faces. They watched him pay the hunters with silver coins they never knew he had.

He had always made them suffer in the farm with the claim that there wasn’t enough money for meals for the later days.

Did he get a breakthrough during the few days they were gone? Where they such a bad luck?

“Thank you, Sylvester. I hope you girls don’t go missing again” the head of the hunting team warned.

It sounded to Evelyn like he wanted them to go missing again so he’ll get such an impressive reward. She didn’t blame him.

Sylvester pulled a stern face from the cheerful one he had when the hunters were around.

“You are going to scold us, right?” Margaret rolled her eyes.

“Shouldn’t I? You girls kept me worried. I barely could eat knowing you were out there at the forbidden forest. Do you know where Timothy is now? We were all worried” Anger mixed with worry was in his tone.

Evelyn looked at their Uncle in disbelief. He, worried about them? It couldn’t be true.

He had always reminded them that they were the worst thing that had ever happened to him. Weren’t they doing him a favor by leaving?

“Don’t play your tricks cos I left to drop my bag in my room and saw the kitchen sink filled with your plates, dirty and I bet you are waiting for us to clean your mess up” Lydia pointed disrespectfully.

Margaret sighed, “We are here. I know you hate us. Act like we don’t exist and we’d do the same. We’d be making new laws around here. Your enslavement is enough”.

Lydia nodded in agreement. The both girls walked away from their uncle and bounced into their rooms.

Sylvester licked his lips. Those rascals were just hard to convince. He reminded himself that Evelyn was still I front if him so he stopped himself from cursing at them.

“Where had you guys stayed that was as comfortable as the bed you had at home?” he questioned.

“It wasn’t as comfortable as the bed we had at home. But it was more peaceful than the home we had here” she answered in a heartbeat.