Chapter 39After the lunch I hat to take our plates back to the kitchen. The food was delicious and when my stubborness wore out, I allowed myself to enjoy it to the fullest. I just wish I would be able to boast of such cooking skills one day. The Alpha must have forgotten about his ban on knives for me so I could resume my cooking lessons with Stella.Speaking of Stella, she stared at the plates in my hands with a frowm but said nothing. She had to have known I ate the first lunch she prepared for the Alpha. Was she angry? If anything, she looked worried and I wondered why. Until I left the kitchen. It was like the entire staff of the palace had come to watch a spectacle. The spectacle I learned in just a couple seconds that was me. Everyone was staring a me. Everyone was pointing fingers and whispering. Although I had half expected it, it didn’t make it any easy to face. They were saying all manner of things. Some information they had no business knowing, they were spewing from the
Chapter 40We walked in a silence that soon bored me, but not Alpha Jason, it seemed because his forehead was wrinkled and his lips were in a tiny, nearly noticeable pout that I doubt he even knew he was making. He was thinking about something, something worrying. My gaze continued to follow him, tracing the outline of his face, the sharpness of his jaw and perfection in his cheekbones. I noted the way he walked and how he absentmindedly cracked each finger with his thumb. He did it frequently even when there was no more pop sound and I realized it was a mannerism.He was shirtless and no, I wasn’t just noticing it. He had been shirtless since he brought me out of the water and that fact had almost succeeded in distracting me, like it always did. My eyes had flickered to his chest once or twice just as they were doing now when I had been yelling at him. I could only be grateful that the slight distraction hadn’t thrown me off.I thought about the words we had thrown at each other, sp
Chapter 41AmberI woke up slowly, my senses waking before my body. I felt the soft sheets around me and hummed; it felt like I was sleeping on clouds. I moved around on the cloud, extending my arms as I stretched feeling my joints protest in pain that wasn’t usually there. My mouth fell open on its own accord and let out a yawn big enough to swallow the entire room.Room. Where was I? Because this didn’t feel like the rusty, crusty old room I had become accustomed to but yet it felt familiar, I thought as I began to open my eyes. My first attempt had me shutting them back immediately as a reflex response to the blinding light coming from the windows. Opening them again, more slowly this time, I recognized where I was and last night slowly came back to me.Falling into the water, Alpha Jason saving me, getting into an argument with Alpha Jason, walking beside him back to the palace and allowing myself to think him handsome and of course, falling asleep in his bathrobe after being com
Chapter 42When I woke up, I was feeling refreshed and much better than before. The headache had tamped down considerably and it no longer felt like I was in an igloo. Alpha Jason was not in the room and I decided that he had left to carry out his duties of the day. I had typed out his schedule after all and I knew firsthand how much work he did in his position.Deciding that I was being too feeling about the stress he goes through, I shook my head and pushed my self out of bed, a contented smile making it’s way onto my face when my feet were immediately met with the fluffiest of slippers.But as I shuffled towards the bathroom, the gigantic bubble around my head burst as I remembered my place in this palace. I was not permitted to use this bathroom at will. Yesterday, the Alpha allowed me probably because of the terrible state I was in and with his mood swings, who knows if finding me in his bathtub would enrage him. Plus, I would have to give the softest piece of clothing I have eve
Chapter 43We ended up having rice with some amazing sauce whose recipe I would kill to have. For someone who had a nonexistent appetite, my appetite right in that moment was baffling to say the least and I told myself it was only because the food was good. Thankfully it was Hannah that brought it in and not any of the other servants that knew me. I don't know what would have been said of my appetite if it was the latter.I haven't been in the palace eye ever since my stunt...how many days ago? And because of that I had no idea what the gossip mill was churning right now. I know they say not to bother what people think about you and I may actually put up a facade with that notion but in truth, I was a bit bothered. If this people hated me so much, they could easily do away with me. I wasn't of their pack and they had no reason to feel guilty about my life.I shivered.And Erica. What happens when she finds out about everything. About what people are saying and well, I spent the night
Chapter 44Hannah walked behind me as I walked behind Erica’s maid. She obviously did not know what I was about to walk into and I didn’t even have the strength to tell her her. Lucas didn’t let me go easily. He kept telling me that she might not be nice and that I should reconsider and even though I knew he was right, something inside me kept telling me that I deserved it even if she decided to behead me right there.I gave Lucas a telling off, so fierce that he nodded and went away but with the determination I saw in his steps as he walked away, I could tell that he hadn’t given up. It was with a heavy sigh that I left the spot he had just walked away from and followed Erica’s maid.I was quiet and somehow, all my thoughts were silent as I followed behind like a remote-controlled robot. It was only when we turned into the hallway and I knew Her highness, Erica’s room was only two doors way, did I start to shiver.Hannah of course somehow noticed immediately that something was wrong
Chapter 45I woke up before the break of dawn. In fact, the anticipation was too much for me to even sleep through the night. I kept waking up at odd hours wondering if it was morning yet. Thank the goddess I was able to somehow escape sleeping in the Alpha’s room yesterday or any room he had prepared for me. The amount of guards at the door would have made it impossible to escape.I didn’t bother to shower for fear of waking anybody up and just slipped on the uniform I had managed to acquire as quick as possible. It wasn’t even my former uniform; that would just make it easier for me to be recognized if I ended up getting caught. I wore the lower level maid uniform instead, who would have thought I would be able to wear the same clothes as Hannah. How much weight I have lost…I felt like a child who was finally going home for the holidays after being away from her family for months or weeks. It was kind of the same except the only family I was going to this time around was my little
Chapter 46AmberWe drove in that heavy silence for about an hour before I begun to get concerned about the distance we were going. “Um, are we almost there?” I decided to ask finally. Putting it off since for fear of the coldness of these guys.“We have a long way, princess. Sit tight.”I raised a brow and shifted in my seat, something in his voice putting me off. Was it the way he called me princess? Was it ‘sit tight’? Was it the fact that we still had a long way after driving for hours or just the entire mood? I sat tight and brought out an apple that I quietly munched on, trying my best to expel any negative thought.We drove for a few more minutes before the car suddenly came to a stop. I looked at the two guys in confusion and one of them got out of the car and went to open the bonnet. After a few minutes of looking through and tinkering at whatever a car’s engine was made of, he came back and said that we were out of gas.“What do you mean we’re out of gas?”I asked and he just