Nine

The girl smiled lightly as she advanced into the room to drop the tray on a table. “I was assigned to you by Alpha Anton as your personal maid. I’m Cynthia.”

Kyra stared at the girl, Cynthia, in shock. She itched her ear as she thought that maybe she wasn’t hearing properly. It couldn’t be possible that she who was bought would be assigned a personal maid. It was odd.

"So, I will be waiting on you from henceforth. You can ask anything of me and send me on any errands.” Cynthia said, as she stood straight facing Kyra with her hands clasped together in front of her.

Kyra frowned. “Is it normal for someone like me to have a maid in your pack?”

Cynthia looked around uneasily. “I can’t really say anything about this matter. All your questions can only be answered by the alpha.” She smiled again and changed the topic, “Your bath is ready.”

Kyra staggered to her feet, ignoring everything as she made her way to the bathroom. She slid her robe down her body, and moved to the wooden bathtub that was already filled with warm water. She sighed in bliss as she slowly sank and the warm water covered her sore body.

Kyra slid all the way down until the water covered her face, and she stayed like that until she couldn’t breathe properly. She jerked up, spluttering and wiping water from her face.

She was not really dreaming. She was alive and had been sold by her mate to someone she knew nothing about. Now, she is far away from home and has to fend for herself. Wonderful.

It was now that the gravity of her situation hit her and Kyra could not stop the tears. She folded her knees to be body and cried her heart out until her eyes were red and swollen, and she had no more tears left.

When she remembered Anton coming into her room last night, she asked herself, “What was he thinking? What does he want with me?”

She sighed as she stayed like that for a while, finding it difficult to understand who the man was.

“Your food is getting cold, Miss Kyra,” Cynthia called out from the room, snapping Kyra back to the present.

Kyra made a little noise at the back of her throat as she slowly stood up, stepped out of the bathing tub, and picked a clean purple robe. She slowly turned around and noted that everything in the bathroom was a topnotch black marble design that would make people sell their souls.

"What are we going to do?’ Kyra asked her wolf.

Her wolf was silent, and it only made Kyra feel restless. She sighed as she stepped out of the room, and met Cynthia, who gave her that irritating and blinding smile of hers again.

'Did she really think it was a privilege to serve a slave?' Her wolf who refused to answer her earlier suddenly asked. Kyra could feel immediately that, just like her, her wolf did not like Cynthia.

Kyra shook her head. It was okay for her to not like Cynthia or not want the girl around her, but it was a bad sign if her wolf did not like someone. She would find a way to get rid of Cynthia, but for now, she would pretend to like the girl.

Kyra looked at Cynthia, who still had a smile on her face. She had not eaten yesterday, but she was not feeling hungry, “I don’t feel like eating now, but if you don’t mind, could you please take me downstairs? I need some air.”

More like she wanted to see everywhere. It was better to stay in her room and never go out to avoid trouble, but Kyra was sure of one thing now: trouble would come, no matter how much she tries to avoid it. She wanted to see the new place she would soon have to call her home.

“Eh? Do you want to take a walk this morning? I think it’s better to eat first, since you did not touch your food last night.”

“You are here to serve me and not question me, right?” Kyra asked as she met Cynthia’s eyes.

The smile on Cynthia’s face stiffened, and she stuttered, “Y…yes, that’s true.”

“Good. I would like to go for a walk now.” Kyra’s voice was firm.

“Of course,” Cynthia said at once, the smile returning to her face, but it still appeared stiff and there was a dark glint in her eyes now. “Let me help you with your clothes.” She pointed at the yellow gown she had set out on the bed for Kyra.

Kyra raised her eyebrows at the sight of the gown. It was fit for a princess and not a slave. Was she supposed to still be wearing such? Well, she has no complaints so she allowed Cynthia to put the gown on her and help with her hair before they left the room.

The palace was majestic and everything was in gold and blue colors. It was way bigger than her father’s palace. Because it was early morning, the palace was bustling with maids running up and down the corridors to do their chores.

All of them stopped when she stepped out and Kyra could not help but stop too. Her face turned red with awkwardness in the next minute because the maids began to whisper to one another.

As a werewolf, her hearing ability was highly enhanced so even when the maids were whispering, Kyra could hear their words clearly.

“Oh my goodness, she really is staying in the Luna’s quarters.”

“What was the alpha thinking when he bought such a cheap slut, who wanted to join hands with her father’s enemy and kill him, to our pack?”

“She is a bad omen”

“I pray that evil won’t befall our pack because of her.”

“She’s so disgusting. Just take a look at that brown hair of hers”.

“She’s already trying hard to be a princess here because why is she up and about this early morning, and why is she dressed like that? Duh!”

“Does she not feel ashamed? Pregnant and unmarried and even sold by her own father. She must have really brought bad luck to her pack. Save us, oh moon goddess.”

Kyra turned red with shame and her eyes clouded with tears at their biting remarks. She reached down to gather her gown in her hands as she raced down the long corridor with a little cry. Why did she even think of stepping out of her room today?

Kyra couldn’t concentrate on the beauty of the place as she continued to run blindly, not noticing that Cynthia was directly behind her.

Her steps faltered, and she came to a stop when she rounded a corner and heard a familiar voice.

At the far end of the hall, Alpha Anton stood with his back to her and was talking to a man in blue. She recognized him from the back because of his build and the power oozing out of him as an alpha.