Chapter 3

"What?" Jenny exclaimed later that night as I gave her a detailed account of everything. "You're crazy, I tell you, you're fucking crazy!" She shouted again, her eyes wide with the shock I had expected.

"Chill," I said with a broad smile. "You don't know how thrilled I am, Jenny, I found my mate!" I hugged my arms around myself as I pictured being in Alpha Derrick's powerful arms.

"That was a folly thing to do, Layla. You're fucked." Jenny said, her voice was laced with genuine concern and it got me wondering if there was actually a cause for alarm.

Then I suddenly became annoyed as I figured out what it was, "You're jealous of me, aren't you, Jenny?" I asked accusingly.

She scoffed, "Are you kidding me? Jealous of you being mated to an Alpha king that's as good as a freaking mafia? No way, honey, I don't do your absurd fantasies." She replied indifferently and I got fed up with her unfeeling attitude.

We got into a huge verbal fight that night and we ended up sleeping with our backs to each other. The next morning, she was nowhere to be found when I left for the Greenhills pack. I was disappointed and saddened by her absence, but I gritted my mind as I left. Whatever void Jenny had left, the joy of finding my mate, Alpha Derrick would fill it up.

I got to the Greenhills pack, escorted by a guard in a beaten-up Chevy, I stood admiring the beauty of the surroundings of Derrick's pack when I felt a nudge at my back.

"Common, move it. You're the new royal maid, aren't ya?" The deep voice of the huge guard behind me asked.

I nodded timidly and he nudged me forward again. "Well come on then, I'll lead you to the royal maid house, that's where you'll be staying from now on. Alpha Derrick's orders specifically." He said as we kept walking.

The sun was out now and its fervor made sweat pour out of my skin. We walked for about twenty minutes then I stopped and asked him, "How much longer do we have to walk to get to the maid house, mister?"

My throat was as dry as a desert, I was in dire need of water and I got discouraged as our walk seemed to go on and on.

He looked at me as if I was a spider that had just dropped into his bathtub, "About ten minutes more. You'll get used to it because you have to walk this road every morning to get to the Royal Pack house. It's the first and biggest house after the guard house." He said and kept walking, not bothering to check if I was dragging myself behind him or not.

My heart sunk completely as I thought about walking thirty minutes every single, fucking morning. At the maid house, I was briefed by the chief maid on how to go about my duties. What to do and what not to do, areas to steer clear of and people I should try my possible best to avoid at the Royal pack house.

There was one particular name she rang in my ears, "No matter what you do, Layla, do everything within your power to avoid Miss Freya if she doesn't call for you, okay?" The chief maid warned and I nodded obediently.

I knew I had heard that name somewhere but I couldn't remember where, even before I slept, I tried to remember but it seemed like it had eluded me completely. I only remembered the name during my long, feet-blistering walk to the pack house,

"Freya won't like this." I remembered what one of Alpha Zion's friends said.

When I got to the Pack house, it was something I had never seen before, it was the most beautiful and gigantic building I had ever seen. Alpha Derrick called me later in the day and said,

"You're to serve no one else but me, everyone else has this information. Do I make myself clear?" He asked, his face hard and expressionless.

"Yes, Alpha Derrick." I said with a smile.

"Do not fucking smile here, you're just a maid and that's all you are. You don't mean anything else to me, let that sink into your poor skull. Now get out." He said curtly.

I was rooted to the spot, I felt my heart cracking as his words pierced through it.

"I said get out!" He snapped and I jolted and walked away.

It was like torture each day, I saw him everywhere and my feelings for him grew uncontrollably. Each time I saw him, I was engulfed by a cloak of sadness, that was because each single time, he was with a woman. She had long black hair, snow white skin and large, ludicrous green eyes, she was an acme of beauty and I felt belittled every time I saw her.

That was the woman named Freya, Alpha Derrick's girlfriend.

Each time she saw me attending to Alpha Derrick's needs, her eyes blazed with fury, but I averted mine all the time. On a certain night, I ran to the back of the royal maid house and crouched in a dark corner, slowly the tears started dropping from my eyes as I recalled what I had seen earlier.

It was evening, the time for Derrick's daily medication, it was a special drug he took each day and it was my duty to serve it to him. At the door, as I was about to knock, I heard a shrill cry, it was followed by loud, uncontrollable moans. I was rooted to the spot, I pushed the door slightly and it opened just enough for me to see what was going on.

Alpha Derrick and Freya were on the bed, completely naked, she sat on him while his hands cupped both of her breasts. They moved in one fluid motion and the look of pleasure on Freya's face made me tempestuous with anger, jealousy and sadness. They moved like one body, up and down, until she finally slid off him, I almost gaped as I saw the full length of his hardness. He held her in his arms, kissing her neck as his hands fondled her breasts, then he gently laid her on the bed and stood magnificently above her.

I knew what was coming and I couldn't take it anymore, I left without giving him the drugs.

"Riley," He said when I walked into his study the next day. "Why didn't you give me my fucking drugs?" His face was red and there were dark circles and goosebumps all over his skin.

"I'm sorry, you were busy at the time." Out of sheer curiosity and concern, I asked, "What happened to you?"

His face twisted with anger, "This is what fucking happens when I don't take my drugs, you idiot!" He bellowed. "Get out and get me my damn drugs!"

I closed the door behind me and the tears I had been holding back fell freely from my eyes. I wiped them off and when I started to walk away, I stopped abruptly, standing in front of me was Freya.