ELARA"What the hell are you doing here? Is there nothing available to do or are you just being lazy? Need I remind you that you are here now and you cannot stay idle?" The alpha said in his usual harsh voice and I immediately tilted my head around to look at him, lowering my head but not for long."I am sorry, alpha. But there is nothing more to do. I did everything that I was supposed to do and that is why I came here to rest." I said in a low tone but he didn't let me land properly before he interrupted me and I was jolted. Fear gripped me and I became shaky while he talked."Who said that you can rest in this pack? Who gave you the liberty to rest at your will?" He said and I knew better not to say anything to annoy him more than he already was. "What was I supposed to do at this point?" I asked myself but nothing was coming to my head."Are you trying to disrespect me?" He suddenly asked and I raised my head immediately to look at the expression on his face. I gave him a puzzled
ALLANI walked back to my room with different thoughts rushing through my mind. "Was I the one that just said that?" I asked myself as I walked in the direction of my room. Not long after, I was standing in front of my room and then I inhaled deeply before tilting the doorknob to open the door. As soon as I tried to walk in, I noticed an approaching footstep and I waited to see who it was and then my gaze fell on Sonia as she walked towards me. "What was she doing here again? I told her what she wanted to hear already. What is it this time again?" I asked myself as I waited for her to catch up before I walked into the room."Why did you just leave? You didn't even wait to hear what I wanted to say. You just left the room just like that and didn't let me finish talking. That's not how this is supposed to be. We were both supposed to sit and talk about this. You and I, together." I watched her as she gestured every part of her words. I tried to gather as many thoughts in my head as I co
SONIA I scoffed at him and took my gaze away from him for a moment as I tried to reason what he had just said. "Why did he keep mentioning that to me?" I asked myself and then took a deep breath as I tilted my head back to look at him. Just as I opened my mouth to talk, a knock came on the door forcing my attention away from him to the door as I immediately turned to look at the door. He waited for the person to knock again before he answered the knock and the door opened slightly with a guard peeking through."Good day, young alpha. Good day, lady Sonia! I hope I didn't interrupt anything?" He asked in a low tone as he remained there at the door. Levi nodded his head slightly as he beckoned for him to come into the room. He walked straight to the center of the tool where we stood and bowed to greet us before he cleared his throat slightly to talk. I only looked away as I tried not to pay attention to whatever he was about to say but I just could not keep my mind out. I didn't know w
ELARAI hurried to the visitor's room and shut the door behind me. I tried to take my mind off the fact that Alpha Theo was coming over to the pack. My heart raced faster as I stood there at the back of the door before I wiped my face with my palm. "This is the worst time for him to pay us a visit. I don't even know what to or how to stay away from him for the number of days he was going to stay at the pack." I asked myself as I slowly walked around the whole place, with heavy breaths.I sat on the dusty bed and buried my face in my palm for a moment as I tried to think of a way to go about this. "Perhaps I should just offend the alpha so that he will lock me up at least for the period of time, that they are going to stay and then I will get released." I thought for a moment and then I started to shake my head as other ideas came into my head. "What if he doesn't punish me like that? And he chooses to do something else either?" I asked myself and then took a deep breath as I looked aw
ALLAN I walked straight to the alpha's room and not long after, I was standing in front of his door. I knocked on the door and his voice came immediately. Not wasting time, I opened the door and walked in to meet him seated on the table going through some documents. “What are all these documents?” I asked myself and then heaved a sigh before I bowed to greet him.“Good day alpha, you sent for me!” I said in a low tone, and he raised his head slightly to look at me, clearing his throat before he talked. “I needed your help with this. I hope you weren't busy when I called for you?” He asked and I shook my head instantly. I had the urge to tell him what I was doing before I came here, but he didn't even let me decide in my head before he beckoned on me to come and sit beside him.I looked carefully into the papers he slid to my front and I just raised my head slightly to look at him as I expected him to explain what it was about. He inhaled deeply after a moment of silence before he ti
ELARAAs I went around my usual kitchen chores, my mind was all over the place. I couldn't stop thinking about the words the Alpha had said to me, the threats. What if things actually did go south? What if he actually gifted me to Alpha Dale like he said he would? What if Alpha Dale actually accepts and goes along with what the Alpha had said? I know life here at the pack isn't really the best and I can't wait to leave and escape from it all but life at Alpha Dale's pack, as a maid and his personal bed warmer? That's like another kinda hell. The fact that Alpha Dale would be arriving here soon wasn't really helping. How do I act around him now when I know any little mistake on my part and I'd be gifted off to him? I feel so scared and frustrated right now and I can't seem to shake it off. The sound of cars fast approaching jolted me back to reality and my heart skipped a bit. Alpha Theo must have arrived. I was still fretting about how to react to that when I heard footsteps approach
ELARAI rushed back to the room, panting as if I had just run a hundred meters without stopping for once. "Why did he have to give me that look? What was he trying to say to me with that look? On his face? Is he even aware that it was against my will to be assigned to that pretentious alpha in the first place?" My whole emotions were all over the place as I couldn't seem to bring myself to peace. I didn't know what to do and for the fact that this had to go on for three days, it was already beginning to get tiring and frustrating. After a moment of pacing around the room, I finally caught my breath and walked straight to the bed to sit at the edge. Many thoughts rushed through my mind and then I heaved a sigh as I tried not to think too much about it. "But what in the goddess's name was he doing here? I am not aware of any feast or gathering that is going to happen so what brought him here?" I asked myself and then not long after, a thought crossed my mind, forcing me to stand up fro
SONIA"Congratulations to you. I am so happy to hear this and above all, I am so happy for you. I can't believe that you finally got to change his mind to marry you. I can tell you this for sure that it was a really hard-fought battle and thanks to the moon goddess, you came out victorious at the very end." I only watched her while she said all of that. I didn't utter a single word to interrupt her or let her have the slightest idea that I was not happy with the fact that he had changed his mind to marry me. I didn't know how to go about it to her at this point so I just kept mute. Not long after, she noticed that I was not giving her the same energy that she was giving me, then she paused for a moment, tilting her head to look at me before she started to talk again."What is going on? You don't seem happy about the news at all. What is it? Did he give you a baseless condition to meet up with? Did he talk about anything that you were supposed to do before he proceeded with the marriag
ELARAThe door opened and light flashed into the room. For a moment, my heart raced faster than normal. I wanted to peep to see who walked in but as soon as I moved my head towards the opening, the light flashed into the room again and I quickly had to retract my head. Forcing me to make a thudding sound as I hit against the wall slightly. "What the hell just happened?" I asked myself. I just hope they don't come to check what happened here and find me here. I closed my eyes as my heart raced faster. I could hear the sound of my heart beating like it was about to jump out of my chest."What was that?" Surprisingly, I heard the voice of the head maid. I didn't know when I suddenly opened my eyes. I was extremely shocked to have heard her voice. "How did she have access to this room?" I asked myself and then I recalled that perhaps she wanted to come and pack the cups that were used to drink coffee last night. But something was not right about how she came into the room. She laughed for
ELARAI involuntarily slapped myself, forcing me to open my eyes immediately to see what was going on. I realized that an insect was crawling on my face. It was then I came to know that I slept in Alpha Gunther's private office. "How did I even sleep? How did I sleep here?" I asked myself in a low tone as I stood up on my feet immediately. I looked around and from the way things were in the room, it looked like the sun was already up and shining. I was sure that they would all be looking for me in the pack right now. "What do I do?" I asked myself as I walked around the whole room.My gaze fell on the cup that sat there on the table where they had their discussion. As I saw the cups, my mind wandered back to the discussion that they had last night. "What could it be that they wanted to achieve? Who is Alpha Larry? Where has he been? Could I have seen him before?" I asked myself all these questions and soon, my thoughts were occupied again with the fact that I was stuck in the private
SONIA"That was when I started to have a rethink about the whole thing and that was why I asked you to meet my father and talk to him about the fact that you don't want this. That you never wanted it in the first place but you are too much of a coward. Right now, I am not scared of what might happen. I am ready to go and tell them that I am no longer interested in the arranged marriage and I will also tell them that you are not interested in the marriage." I explained slowly like I was counting my words as I spoke them. He only stood there and watched me as I talked. "I am so enjoying this whole drama and the way it is going. The only thing that I don't like about this is the fact that he keeps quiet most of the time. Where is the proactive Allan that I used to know? Talk to me like the man that you are Allan? Don't be such a coward." I thought in my head before I heaved a sigh and the only thing on my mind at that moment was that since we were no longer interested in the whole marri
SONIA"Wait!" I said to myself but my body was not responding at all. I shook my head slightly before I continued to talk to myself. "What if he doesn't want this at all? What if he pushed me away from in after all that has transpired between us since the beginning of the morning?" I asked myself as even if I had all these thoughts in my head, I could still feel myself moving towards him. "Oh Moon goddess, how can I stop myself from all this?" I asked myself but nothing was coming to my head. As I stood there, a thought suddenly crossed my mind. "He mentioned my name in his sleep during the middle of the night," I recalled immediately but didn't show a sign that I cared about the fact that he mentioned my name. "It doesn't mean a thing." I tried to convince myself as I stood there before him. "Could he have been dreaming about me? Why did I just remember that he called my name in his sleep? Was the moon goddess trying to prove us a point here?" I asked myself but not long after thos
SONIAHe looked at me as if he were thinking of what to say and then the silence was really getting me uncomfortable. "What does he think he is trying to do? Why was he keeping mute like this?" I asked myself as I heaved a sigh. My mind momentarily wandered back to the times that I was staying in his pack. The whole ill treatment from him.I recalled the day that Helen almost killed his mother. The day he showed me that he was ready to go with her over me. I felt rejected at that moment. I felt like I was trying to fit in where I was not welcomed. I felt my rage increasing rapidly within me but I tried to keep myself at bay as I looked away from him slightly but brought my gaze to look at him. A thought crossed my mind to remind him about that night but another part of me wanted to completely let go of the thoughts and just go on with what was going on. I didn't want to waste any more time before I started to talk."What more do you want me to tell you? If all these are not enough fo
SONIA"What more sign does he want? Should I spell out to him that I am tired of this entire sham called an arranged marriage? Can't he see that I am no longer interested in being with him?" I asked myself as I slowly lowered my head. If I had wanted to say what was on my mind, I would sound very rude to him. I didn't want to make our last days together a tragedy so I shook my head slightly as I shook off the thoughts in my head.I tilted my head slightly as I looked back at him in the eyes. He looked like he was being held accountable or he wanted to be pitied. If all he didn't say anything again, I was just going to walk out of the room and head straight to my father's room to tell him the latest developments. I didn't know what else to do to make him talk so I just kept mute and waited for him to think about what was making him look at me that way but nothing was coming to my mind. I took out time before I looked away from him, all because I wanted him to talk to me. I did waste ti
SONIAHe also looked as if he was lost and didn't know what to do. That made me have the time to think of my next action. It was at this moment that I decided to let go of my initial decision so that I would know exactly what he had in mind to do."What do you think you are doing? I hope it's not what I think it is. Please let me go." I really should have kept mute because I didn't like the way I sounded at all. My voice suddenly started to break and he looked away from me. "He probably is thinking that I am not serious right now. I should have just remained quiet." I said to myself and placed a hand on my forehead. For a moment, I lowered my head and tried to convince myself that it was normal for me to act in such a way and when I was cool with it, I tilted my head to look at him and noticed that he was not looking at me. I wondered why he could not bring himself to look at me in the eyes but he still held on to my hands even while I tried to free herself from his grip. I wanted to
SONIAI didn't let anything bother my mind while I stood there in front of him. "Whatever the case might be, I was prepared to let him know exactly how I was feeling. I couldn't wait any more to tell him what I had in mind. I can't do this anymore. "Not anymore!" I yelled inside my head and just then his voice began to echo, forcing my attention back to him as I didn't know what to do.As I turned to look at him, he was still quiet and then I had the idea that perhaps my brain was playing a trick on me. We stood there in silence and I could not help but wander in thoughts as many of them ran through my mind. For once in my entire existence I felt like I didn't care about anything that happened at all. I was ready to let everything go just like that and focus on myself. I didn't know if it was the right thing to do but I wanted to just stay on my own and not do anything with anybody. I just hoped that he agreed with me or had the same idea and wanted to be free from all of this.He con
PETEI sat there in the middle of the bed, going through the letter that was just sent to me. I was caught in awe at the content of the letter. "Who could this bet that knew this much about me?" I asked myself and just when I became cautious of my environment, a knock came in on the door and before I could tilt my head to respond, the doorknob tilted and then the frightened image of Allan appeared before me. For a moment, I tried to decipher why he was looking like that but nothing was coming to my mind at that moment. "I am worried... So worried about us right now. What if..." I did not let him finish what he had to say before I quickly interrupted him, forcing him to keep mute for a while to listen to me."You keep acting like a lady. I am not surprised that Ariana, your sister was ready to throw us under the bus at the funeral of my step sister. You keep bringing me down every opportunity you get. We are in this together. You weren't only the one who had been having this dream and