Jasmine wakes up screaming as the nightmare haunts her. She looks around the room and rubs her eyes not knowing where she is. Getting up from the bed with Mr. Brown in tow, she opens the door to get out.

"Hello there!" she gets startle when she hears someone's voice.

Looking up at the man smiling at her she asks where she is. The man just smiles before pushing her lightly inside of the room and closes the door leaving Jasmine there even more confused.

After a while, the door to the room opens as a woman walks inside walking towards her.

"Hello" the woman smiles

"Hello" she replies with a smile as well

"Aren't you cute" the woman says before hugging Jasmine startling her

"Thank you" Jasmine giggles shyly

"Awe, okay let's go I have some really yummy food for you" holding Jasmine's hand the woman drags the girl behind her excitedly.

"Where are we going?" she asks shyly and a little confused as to what's going on, as the woman drags her to where she is taking Jasmine.

"We are going to eat some breakfast and then meet my husband"

As they reach a door, she knocks before entering, Jasmine looks around the room before her eyes lands on a man behind the desk, same man who saved her last night.

"Hello, little one!" he greets as he gets up with a warm smile

"Good morning!" she nods at him as a greeting

"Your mother taught you well huh?" he smiles in amusement.

Jasmine smiles before her smile fades as she remembers her mother. Seeing her sad face all of a sudden, Ad feels bad.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you!" he apologizes at once.

She nods giving him a small smile as she remembers to ask him where she is.

Picking her up he goes to put her on the couch to make her feel comfortable before their breakfast arrives or they start any conversation.

"First, I would like to introduce myself. I am the Alpha Adrian Martin and this beautiful woman is my mate, Scarlet Martin. That's my beta Warren Damon" he points at the guy standing near the door.

"It's nice to meet you all! I'm Jasmine Summers and I'm 6 years old daughter of Alpha Jasper and Jade Summers" she states proudly as she bows respectfully.

They all watch her in awe, as for some one who is so young she really knows how to act around people who is in higher status than she is. Not that Adrian cares about his status but it surely makes him and his wolf happy so see such display of respect nonetheless from a girl so young. Clearing his throat, he tries to compose himself.

"I must say, I'm impressed! But then again, you can never expect anything less from the daughter of Jade Summers, always a Lady!" he smiles at the girl in front of him, letting her know she did good.

Jasmine beams as she hears her mother name, she did not think he would know her mother.

"You know my mother?" she asks excitedly and he nods in return

"We were good friends before she was mated to your father and then we just somewhat lost contact both being busy with our own life and pack" he explains.

"Oh" Jasmine says quietly, a little disheartened.

"Jasmine, I know it's too early but it's better done now when your memory is fresh than later. Can you tell me what exactly happened last night?" Adrian asks getting serious

Nibbling on her lips, she looks around the room nervously before speaking.

"I was playing with Mr. Brown in my room when mommy came and told me we have to play hide and seek. I did not want to but she made me anyway, she said I need to run to the garden then to hide beside the rock and if I hear any wolf howl, I need to run to the ranch house and not come out until she came for me...

But Mommy didn't came it was getting dark then I saw this smoke so I ran to the pack house, that's when I heard wolf howl again so I and Mr. brown ran but one wolf got me. Mommy said not to get caught and hide" She finishes shivering not wanting to remember the night.

"Who's Mr. Brown?" Adrian asks confused as he had found her alone in the woods.

Jasmine smiles before pointing at her teddy for them all to realize she was talking about her toy.

"Sweetie did your mother tell you anything else or did you see any changes in your father when you were there?" Adrian asks softly as he sits next to Jasmine.

Jasmine once again looks at him nervously not knowing whether should she speak on these matters or trust them on it.

"Jasmine, I know we never met and we are total strangers to you...but all I can say is please trust us...

We want to help you as much as we can and telling us about your pack will help. Not just you but us too, so we can catch the real culprit, whatever happened yesterday didn't just affect you but all of us...

So, please don't hesitate or be scared of us and try to remember anything you can which will help us to bring justice to your pack" Adrian holds her hands and looks straight in her eyes to let her know she can trust him and she does as she nods.

Even if the man sitting next to her is a total stranger to Jasmine for some strange reason she wants to trust him, he not only saved her last night but also gave her a place to stay.

She had never felt this comfortable even with her own father, well not for quiet some times. Moreover, as the man stares at her with so warm eyes she cannot help but want to take a chance and trust him.

"Daddy was shouting at mommy and then he slapped her. He was so angry for last few weeks. He did not even play with me...

Mommy said not to go in front of daddy until he asks for me. But he never called me so I went to surprise him in his study when I heard them shout" she says with a little sadness in her voice as she tries to concentrate on remembering what they were fighting about.

While she does that all of others in room looks at her silently giving her time to explain what she can, knowing too well that it must be hard for her. However, she amazed them at how strong she is being and Adrian is afraid whether the bravery is due the trauma or if she is good at hiding her emotions just like her mother was.

One can never know what was going on with Jade Summers and seems like her daughter inherited that quality from her mother or may be she just really is strong.

"Yes, he said she blew his plans and how she ruined everything. Mommy was screaming at him too and then he hit her. I was so scared I ran from there" she says as she wipes her tears away remembering that terrible night she saw them fight.

"Hey, ssh it's okay baby...I'm sure it wasn't that bad" Scar walks up to the girl and takes her in her arms.

Adrian nods at his mate thanking her for the support and care she is giving the little girl who lost everything in just a few hours.

"Jasmine, I can't imagine how hard this must be for you but I promise you that one day we will find who did this to your family...

And until then I would be honored if you stayed here and let us take care of you" Adrian asks the girl nods as she does not know who and where she can turn to for support.

"Thank you, now let's get something to eat" Scar states then also asks her mate and Warren to join them.

"Jasmine, if you remember anything, can you tell me, Warren or Scar about it?" Ad adds before they start their breakfast.

After their quiet breakfast, Scar takes the girl with her to clean her up and show her around the house.

*******

"It doesn't make sense, if she doesn't know then how are we going to find out what happened?" Warren asks his Alpha as soon as the girl is out of the room with Scar.

"I don't know. When Jade called me to come to their pack as an emergency, I never knew I would be seeing that kind of chaos...

She knew something was going to happen so she had to hide her child. What I do not understand is why Jasper would kill Jade and then his whole pack. This is so fucked up" Ad says getting frustrated with the whole situation.

"But how can we be so sure that Jasper was the one who killed them all, we have no proof except some hunches and guesses"

"I know it is a big accusation, but all of the things we know just points back to Jasper. We all heard about his unstable nature for the past few months and then we have all of the pack member's body except his...

Even jasmine admitted that he abused jade not only that her own mother warned her to not go near Jasper until and unless he called. Still, I hope it's not him who killed the pack and if not him then who did it?"

Before they could further discuss on the topic there occurs an interruption when there is a knock at the door.

"Alpha, there's a bad news" his beta Albert informs.

Adrian gets up alert before asking what the news was.

"The man he killed himself!"

Adrian groans as he hears it, knowing too well whom. They all sit silently when Warren speaks

"I guess now that the girl's uncle is out of picture, we really are fucked up!"

"This just keeps getting better and better. Now it will be harder to collect any evidence. Jasmine doesn't remember anything and now her uncle killed himself, what the fuck actually happened in that pack that night?" Adrian groans frustrated, their only way to know what happened was Jasmine's uncle and now even he is gone.

"Get Dante on the line, we need to have an emergency council meeting this instant, may be having everyone in here will give us some solution" Adrian orders.

He can feel some long nights, endless meetings as well a very pissed off council to report to coming in near future, it can be such a pain in the ass sometimes to be an Alpha!

Scar helps to clean up Jasmine before she takes her to show her around the house so the girl does not get lost. After settling Jasmine back in her room, Scar goes in search of her mate as she has been feeling some distress through their bond.

Scar walks into the office he has locked himself in, rubbing his back soothingly she tries to show her support as well tries to make him talk to her.

"What is it?"

"I just got news; Jasmine's uncle is no longer with us. I just finished talking with Dante about it; he has called a meeting this evening with everyone...

But before that I want to talk with the pack about Jasmine, it would be better if I deal with it sooner rather than later" Ad informs her as he has made his mind.

"Is Ariel coming back home anytime soon?" Scar asks trying to get his mind of off the things going on

"Sometimes I feel it's Dante who is keeping her hostage in his house rather than she wanting to be there" Ad groans when he feels Scar massaging his shoulders to relief some of his tension

"When will you let go of the fact that he has no other reasons to keep Ariel in his house"

"Oh come on honey; please don't tell me you believe his talks. We both know he wants our Ariel to mate with his son desperately" Ad complains to his mate but she isn't the one to hear anything about it

"Uh-huh, but we all also know that Devilin and Ariel are nothing more that friends. He loves her but he is not in love with her. If they were mates than I think it would have been way too obvious" she defends those two

"Still, I don't like that guy he isn't good for our princess" Ad argues to her

"No one is good for our princess in your opinion" Scar argues back to him

"True but still, I know Dante and I also know that Devilin will one day surpass his own father" Ad admits the fact challenging his mate to go against him

"And that has to do anything with our daughter, how as well as why?" Scar raises her brow not knowing why he cannot leave the topic alone.

"Ariel is too attached with him; she can't even function properly without him most of the times and that scares me" finally he confesses

"But it's better than loosing her isn't it?" Scar sighs holding him from behind

"I should have been more careful..." Ad starts only to stop when Scar shakes her head

"Ssh, don't think about that night please" Scar begs him

Adrian stays quiet for a while before nodding while Scar hugs him tightly. The only reason she was talking about their daughter was to distract him but guess it was a bad idea as they ended up going back to that dreadful night they had yeas ago.

"Papa...save us" a shout is all the warning they get as their twin son's come barging inside of the room and jump behind Adrian's table hiding under it.

Before they ask what was going on they get their answer as their elder son comes fuming inside the room with red paint all over him.

"Get out" Advin grits out clenching his fist

"Ad what happened?" Scar worries as she steps out of her mate's arms

"Mom, please stay out of this, today those two are dead"

"What did they do again?" Ad asks before pushing his chair bit back and looking under his table

"They messed up the training ground and no one could practice because of their stupidity...

They used permanent glue on all the weapons we use for training and now half of the pack is trying to get it off their hands...

Not only that they found it funny to hit every member present in there with shot guns filled with red paint and that hurts like hell especially when half of us are not wearing any shirts!" Advin shouts in rage making the boys giggle

"Boys, please get out of there" Scar calls them out, as she cannot believe what they just did

"We aren't here mommy" one of them giggles before Ad pulls them out and holds them in his lap

"Oh look, we ended up in Papa's office...we should totally stop sleep walking..."

"No, no may be it's our magic powers growing that is transporting us to places"

"Hmm" Both of the boys try to make excuses before ending up in giggles.

"Sirus and Siran, how many times have I told you not to mess with your big brother?"

"I don't remember mommy" Sirus answers making Scar glare at him strictly

"I'm so not counting, I'm too young to be getting tortured with math and it's not even 10 in the morning" Siran shakes his head

"And mommy we just did say we sleep walked or may be teleported ourselves like uncle Dante does in here...

We don't know what you all are talking about" Sirus pretends to yawn and stretches his arms

"Oh really, then what about your hands how come they are red"

"Oh no, we are having periods" both the both gasps in horror making Ad raise his brow at his mate as if to say told you.

He knew it was a bad idea from the moment Dante said yes to babysit the boys on the few occasions, as well leaving them under his control.

"Did you see that? Dad just ask them to stay away from my stuff and for gods sake do something about them" Advin shouts again irritated that his father is doing nothing but grinning looking at the twins.

"Okay calm down Advin and honey, please help him to clean up, as I have few words with the boys?" Ad smiles

Before Scar could reply, Advin just storms out of the room protesting about how he is the one that is always get treatment as a child and no one hears a thing he says.

"Now you made him even more mad" Scar sighs while shaking her head, before warning the boys to stay away from their big brother before she follows Advin to help him calm down.

"Alright my boys did you or did you not do everything that Advin said right now?" Ad asks both his son in amusement

"Are we getting punished?" Sirus asked

"Depends"

"Okay then we didn't and as we said we don't even know how we ended up in here"

"Sirus, I have noticed your lies are piling more and more these days. Son, I am not just your dad but your Alpha as well...

Just because I love you both that doesn't mean I will overlook all of your faults, now who is going to confess to me?" Ad asks with a stern in his voice making both the boys pout

"You shouldn't take his side Papa"

"Yes you shouldn't, after all we are the one who shares your trait"

"Yap he is a red hair while we are black so you should totally be on our side"

Ad cannot help but laugh as his sons tries to blackmail him emotionally, they aren't eve 5 yet. They are the most troublesome kids in his whole pack.

Each day he gets tons of complaints from his pack members about their incidents, which even if it is a serious matter, it is always funny to hear the tale.

He can't even believe how these two can come up with such ideas like putting itching powder in his beta's boots and pants or sending some poor pack members out of town saying he or Scar ordered them.

"Sons, it doesn't matter if you all have different than hair me and your mother we love you equally...

And do not try to act cute this is your first and last warning if I find any more complaints about you two cheeky monsters than you will be sent to the boot camp we have, earlier then you should be going, clear?" Ad states firmly, while trying to hold the amusement he feels back.

"No, that's so not fair. Look at mommy she always takes Ad's side Papa. You need to be on our side else, what is the use of you being an Alpha...

We are so young you should be protecting us from this harsh world and cherish us Papa" Sirus holds both Adrian's cheeks and explains to him faking teary eyes

"Yes Papa, everyone is just against us so you should be on our side. Papa, everyone is plotting against the more good looking sons of yours so don't punish us, please" Siran adds as soon as his brother is done hugging Adrian tightly

"Boys, I know what you are doing. You people may be just around five but that will not work with me...

Listen and listen carefully no more of your trouble in this pack and behave, and god more good looking? Really Siran" Ad asks full with amusement

"It's true look at these chiseled face bone Papa you can just imagine how many girl's will be ready for giving of services if you know what I mean" Sirus wiggles his brows making Adrian curse

"Do you even know half the things you are talking about?" Ad asks raising his brow at his son who nods with a smirk too familiar with someone

"No actually, Uncle Dante didn't get to explain it because Aunt Jean and then Devilin were scolding him, Papa are we in trouble?" Siran asks wide eyed scared as he is the more emotional one among the twin

"No, but Uncle Dante sure is. Can you guys not listen to his talks from now on for me?" Ad asks the boys, wanting to be sure that bloody Dante will not affect their innocent minds.

"No problem Papa, we don't even know what he talks about half the time. Papa, can you take us to the training grounds to play...

Advin never takes us their and he also told everyone to make sure we won't be around there" the twins pout at once for special effect

"You know if your brother doesn't want you near the grounds it means he wants you back here in the house safe, you both are too young to be around weapons"

"Papa you are no fun"

"How about I let you two spare with me here in the gym after you two clean up?"

"Yes! Now that's what we are talking about!"

"But Papa you are going to loose to us right?" Siran asks wishfully making Ad kiss both his son's forehead lovingly

"Yes, yes I will loose to both of you"

"We love you Papa, you are the best" the twin kiss his cheek back before jumping off his lap

"Love you too and don't crash in to something on the way" Ad shouts back as they rush out of the room,

"Why are their hands red?" Warren asks as he enters the room to find two little buggers running

"You will know once you reach the training grounds"

"Oh god, not again, you spoil them too much Ad" Warren groans dreading the thought of even going near the training grounds

"What can I do, one day they will grow up and go their own way so I will have to make the best of it while they are young and still shout they love me more" Ad chuckles

"People would think they would be mama's boys but nope they had to be Papa's boys eh?"

"Shut up, Warren" they both laugh at the joke before getting on some serous business.

*******

Adrian walks into his pack's hall along with Scar, Warren and Jasmine in tow. He had informed his pack members to gather in the hall so he could make an announcement and through his pack bond, he can feel all of their curiosity as well some confusion.

A soon as he enters the room the noise shuts down and a total silence is formed as his pack sense his presence, they all bow to him in respect.

He looks around the room and watch over his pack, few years ago before he was married to Scar this was an all male pack. However, after she stepped into his life everything changed.

Now most of his warrior's are mated or some who lost their mate have taken a wife like him and he cannot be more proud to see all of them so happy with their life.

Clearing his throat he tries to gain their attention not that they have not been staring at him in wonder as to what he has to say.

"I know all of you are curious about our visit to the summers pack and I'm sorry to tell you all that when we reached the pack the damage was already done, we couldn't save the pack...

But we were able to save just two people and today one of them was found dead in his room while the other one whom I bought back with us is the daughter of the Alpha, Jasmine Summers"

As he said that all eyes turned to look at Jasmine, she looked at them curiously and waves with a friendly smile. Adrian smiles as he sees that she did not shy out and tried to reach out to his pack. She was a brave girl indeed.

"I hope you all will welcome her as the new member of our pack" he informs them and as expected everyone starts to talk at once protesting while Adrian waits for them to calm down.

"This is absurd, My Alpha! How can we keep a murderer's child in our pack?"

"May be this is a trap for him to come and attack us"

"We cannot accept her"

"She should die too!" one by one everyone shouts making Adrian curse at their behavior

"That's enough!" Adrian roars at his pack when no one tries to back down or remain silent.

They all shut up at once scared of his wrath; while he looks straight at each of their eyes before speaking.

"I'm really disappointed in all of you! She is mere a child and you want to throw her out to die?" they all keep quiet bowing their heads some in shame and some in anger.

"Everyone here knows how it feels to loose your loved ones and look at this child, she lost every single one of her loved ones in a blink of an eye and you want to throw her out? Don't you have any humanity left, think about your mates and children, would you like it if someone else treats them like this, if they have no where to go?" he shouts as he asks them remembering the time of his life were they were attacked and a lot damage was done.

"But that doesn't mean we have to shelter her" someone tries protest and Adrian looks him straight in the eyes as his wolf tries to claw out.

"Are you challenging my decision?" he asks and the man bows his head in submission, knowing he can never win against their Alpha

"Thought so, now if anyone of you has any doubts about my decisions regarding Jasmine you may freely come challenge me if not then keep your mouth shut!" he orders before looking at them once more.

When no one speaks, he nods at Jasmine giving the scared little girl a reassuring smile. Before moving out of the room Adrian looks around once again to see if his son was there before asking to Scar.

"Where's Advin?"

"Oh he went back for to practice. The twins jeopardized his training, I swear that boy is too hard on himself more than us" she informs him with a smile while he nods back.

"One day he will have to take the position of the Alpha, that's why he should be this hard on himself...

It is a good thing he realizes it before I have to drill it into his brain. Our kids sure are smart" grinning he pulls his mate in his arms who pushes his away pointing at the little girl watching them.

*******

Days drag on and Jasmine settles into the pack house. She follows Scar everywhere and tries to learn about the pack. Seeing her following Scar everywhere, Adrian suggests letting her join the school where she can make new friends and open up a bit. They both agree to it and put her into a school nearby.

Jasmine dresses up in her pink flowery dress and smiles happily waving at Scar as she enters the school gates.

She happily follows the teacher and gets in her class to introduce herself. The teacher asks her to take a seat and she does that.

The first day of school goes on without any disturbances, as she makes new friends in the class and comes home happily telling about her day to Scar.

Nevertheless, the rumor about her father and pack winds up in the school and the kids that treated her warmly on the first day start being mean.

They start bullying her and everyday she comes home with bruises and her hair messed up or torn dresses.

Worried about the treatment she got as well as for her safety Adrian asks his son Advin to look after her in the school so no one can bully her.

Even if he had repeatedly warned the pack about the bullying she receives in the school it has not stopped.

Even if he wants to punish all those kids, he cannot, as he knows no one will understand him when it comes to Jasmine. So, the only solution to stop disputes in his pack as well the bullying he asked his son's help knowing too well that Advin is capable of looking out for the girl.

"You need to watch out for her, I don't want her to come home with more bruises than she already has got it?" Scar like Adrian tells her son for the hundredth time.

Advin glares at the girl who looks at him shyly from under her lashes before he pulls her out from behind his mother and drags her with him. He ignores the current that flows in his body as he touches her.

He cannot even protest that he will not look after the girl because he knows if he says anything then his father will be at his back asking why...

Then there is his mother who just knows that a little bit of pouting and tears in her eyes to soften her son so he has no choice left but to do as asked.

*******

Jasmine takes a seat in the corner of the canteen nibbling on her food slowly, when a guy grabs her hair and pushes her down, she looks up at him wide eyes as he throws her sandwich and growls

"You murderer, how dare you eat in the same place as we are!" he yells in anger making her whimper in fear from the big boy.

She shouts in pain as he pulls her hair again and this time she cannot hold back her cries of pain and tries to get away but he is too strong for her.

Everyone gathers around and starts throwing their food at her as she backs down into the wall trying to save her from all the hits. She whimpers as they laugh and throw their food on her.

"Murderer's daughter" chants everyone and teases her all the while as she cries

Jasmine cries as she hears it and tries to shrink in just as Advin comes to the rescue picking her up and shielding from the attack. He glares at the kids that bullied her and growls at them to stop it.

As soon as they find out it is Advin, they all scramble away seeing an angry Advin and not wanting to be on his bad side as he is their future Alpha.

Advin along with his best friend Lex take her out of the room. He tries to smooth her dress as Lex tries to clean up her hair that has food tangled in.

"Those bastards, I'll kill them!" Advin curses as he grabs her face and wipes her tears soothingly

"Don't cry Jasmine, you are safe now. They won't hurt you" Lex says as he smiles at her and she smiles back to thank them.

After that both Advin and Lex makes sure that she reaches all of her classes safely, and is not bullied on the way, as the school finishes for the day they all walk back home only for Scar to shriek seeing the condition Jasmine is in.

"Advin what on earth have you done to her?" she asks as she looks at Jasmine who is wearing her son's shirt which looks ridiculous on her. Her hair, which is in some kind of twist up bun as well covered in what seems like food.

Adrian and Warren come out hearing her shriek and they both end up laughing seeing Jasmine's dress.

"Nice style Jasmine!" Warren chuckles and she smiles at him happily.

"Why on earth is she covered in food and wearing your shirt?" Adrian asks his son. However, before he could answer Jasmine speaks up excitedly.

"It's nothing Alpha Adrian, I was playing food fight with everyone and I got to wear his clothes for a day and look Lex even made my hair" she spins around showing them what she got.

They all look at her bewildered before smiling at their little angel. She sure is something else. When no one says anything, Jasmine makes her way to her room to clean up so she does not smell leaving all of them all stunned.

"Well that was interesting!" Lex whistles watching the girl

"She is something else isn't she?" Adrian adds proudly.

Advin walks to his room still shocked at his little mate who took all of this so differently, she sure is something else he smiles. He stops as he hears his mate's voice and stands in the hallway as he listens to her talk.

"Hello Mr. Brown, how was your day? I had so much fun we played food fight then Lex made my hair and I get to wear a new dress too but its dirty now. Even though, I did not have fun when they called daddy a murderer, do you think he is? Do you think the future Alpha thinks so too?" she asks innocently.

Advin takes a step towards her door when he hears it but something stops him as he keeps hearing her talk to her teddy, then he turns around leaving the hallway to go into his room. The more he stayed away the better he cannot get involved or too attached with her!