ROSHIDA
I woke up as soon as he did. Maybe it's because my brain already knew that he was leaving or because I was laying on him and I knew when he moved to get off the bed.I stayed awake while he moved around the room trying to get ready.“Borge said to meet him at the gate.”To be honest, I didn't want him to leave. He was one of the only people that made being here less terrible..I guess Sophia was right when she said that he was a good person. She was a good judge of character.Before I married Felix, she'd told me that there was something off about him.I thought it was just because she didn't know him, I mean, I didn't know him either so of course something would be off about him. But everything had been wrong with him.I wanted to walk him to the gate so I could say goodbye to him but I didn't want to be out yet. I might bump into the Matron.“Would you be fine without me?”“ROSHIDAIf I’d known earlier that my mate would come back with a woman, I would have gone on my knees and begged my mother to make another choice. A little introduction before we get into it. My name is Roshida, the late Alpha's daughter and I'm wolfless. My mother arranged for me to marry a Beta three months ago. I'd married him without a second thought because she wanted me to. It was her dying wish and how could I say no to my mother? I have always trusted her choice. I couldn't exactly say I'd married him because he didn't even attend the ceremony. He'd been called to fight some war and I had to stand there like a fool at the altar, saying my vows into thin air. I didn't know what was more pathetic between that and having to act like I was happy with everything. Now he came back from the battlefield not only with a promotion to be Alpha, but a woman he claimed to be his fated mate. What a joke. It was a hot sunny afternoon in the middle of June when he casually strolle
ROSHIDAAs I sat in my room that night, I felt like a fool. It was now my room because Felix had come in and said that he was now going to be sleeping with Kelly. Of course, I should have seen that coming. After everything that I'd done for this family, all because I felt that I had a new family. Felix didn't have a lot of money before. He was a Beta with little to nothing going for him so of course, when I married him, it meant that I had to do something for him and his family. I'd started by taking over his mother's medical bills. When he left, she was in dire need to help and I didn't think twice before paying for everything. Now, she's come back to see her in better shape and he didn't even say anything to me. The only thing he could do was bring another woman home with him. I should have seen it coming right from the start. The way he agreed to marry me without knowing anything about me. I didn't want to blame my mother for my present predicament. She had only done what s
ROSHIDASophia had been with me for so many years. Back home, she'd been my personal maid and she'd proven herself to be my friend and the sister I never had. She was there for me when my father, brothers and mother died, helping me get through the grief I thought would envelope me. That's why I knew I could trust her with everything. “Luna, do you realize what you're saying? Please, don't make harsh decisions in the heat of the moment. They will come back to bite you.” At this point, I didn't care. Felix and his family had gone insane and my parents didn't raise a fool that would sit back and watch as everything was being taken away from her while she did nothing. “Sophia, does this look lIke the face of a woman who cares? What do I have to lose? What? My title? Not exactly. Someone else already has it.”At this point, I didn't care about anything. I didn't care about being married to Felix anymore. The marriage never meant anything to him anyways so why should I be the one figh
ROSHIDAThe room was dead silent like the time when she first walked in. I'd gotten her tongue tied and I was enjoying it. Her mouth was open but sounds were not coming out. What a hypocritical bitch. “On a lighter note, Felix was promoted to Alpha for his efforts in the war. You know that if you work alongside her and become her co-wife, things could work out.”I felt myself get dumber just listening to her. In what sick world did she think that this could work out? Even if I did agree to this, we would have each other for the rest of our lives and be sworn enemies. I didn't have time for all that and certainly not with a woman who was cheap enough to take someone else's husband.I mean, think about it. He's the Alpha now, and he did say that he met her at war. You could stay back and handle things at the pack while he goes out with her to fight wars. I'm sure you're too soft and tush for all that so no one expects that from you.”This woman clearly didn't know how I was brought u
FELIXIt was dinner time and there was no one at the table which was weird because usually, my mother would have been there. I went upstairs to look for her. I was sure that she had fallen asleep reading a book or something. “What are you saying? Return everything to you? Do you really think you did this family a favor?”Who was Fiona speaking to in Roshida's room? The door was slightly open so I just stood there and listened in. “I’m very sure you weren't deaf when I said it. Everything that I've given to you and your mother will be returned to me. It is mine, after all.”What was Roshida saying? I opened the door and walked in. “What’s going on?”My mother clutched my arm. “Son, you should hear what your wife is saying. She's saying that she wants to leave you and that she wants everything to be returned to her. Talk some sense into her. Tell her it's not possible.” I looked at her, waiting for her to say that it was a lie. But she didn't. “Is she telling the truth? You wan
ROSHIDA “Won’t he get mad when he finds out?” I looked at her, confused at what she was talking about. “Who is that you speak of? Last I checked, I didn't owe anyone my whereabouts. So who cares if he finds out?” I wanted to leave the pack back to mine today. It has been a while since I'd been away from my family and I wanted to go see them again. At least to let them know I was doing fine. “I don't think you want to wear that.” She looked down at her dress. “What? I like this dress. Why don't you want me to wear it?” “It’s not me. We have places to be today. Just trust me. Wear something else.” Today was going to determine a lot. That was why I needed to go see my parents first. I needed their good luck to go with me. As I came down the stairs, I met Grace and Fiona in the living room. Not paying any attention to them, I walked past them. “Where are you going dressed like that? You think you can just stand up and leave this house when you please?” I turned around t
ROSHIDA“Do you realise what you are asking, young lady? You want to leave your husband? A highly decorated Alpha? Firstly, do you realise the implications that carry?” Screw the implications. “My King, I've thought about it and I'm ready to bear it all. Nothing is too much to bear as long as I get to leave that house. I've suffered more than enough and I deserve better. I'm ready to face it all”. I just needed him to be convinced. If I can plead my case to him and he accepts it, then I'm fine. “Roshida, that's your name right? The reason your father sent you to military school, if I remember clearly, was because you were born without a wolf. He didn't want you to be trampled upon. I don't want that either for you.” I was wolfless but I wasnt useless. I felt more at ease, like I was talking to my father or uncle. “Your majesty, I understand your concerns and I appreciate them but then, the skills I have acquired won't be entirely useless. I can take care of myself. I will
ROSHIDAWith the king's promise at heart, I returned back to that place knowing that I had nothing to worry about. I had officially gone to plead my case and now, he knew about it. All I had to wait was for the letter of approval to be delivered. Then, I would pack every last thing that belonged to me in this house and leave without looking back. Speaking of the things that belonged to me, Sophia and I decided that it wàs a good idea to take an inventory of what I had so I'd know if those people had played any games recently. We spent at least two days doing that because it was not easy walking around the house and pack, looking at things without being seen or noticed. When we were eventually done, I still had a significant amount of property and it warmed my heart that I would return to my father's house with something to my name. “Did the King say when you'd hear from him?”I wanted to ask but I didn't want to seem too forward. He had already done a lot for me by letting me ge
ROSHIDA I woke up as soon as he did. Maybe it's because my brain already knew that he was leaving or because I was laying on him and I knew when he moved to get off the bed. I stayed awake while he moved around the room trying to get ready. “Borge said to meet him at the gate.” To be honest, I didn't want him to leave. He was one of the only people that made being here less terrible.. I guess Sophia was right when she said that he was a good person. She was a good judge of character. Before I married Felix, she'd told me that there was something off about him. I thought it was just because she didn't know him, I mean, I didn't know him either so of course something would be off about him. But everything had been wrong with him. I wanted to walk him to the gate so I could say goodbye to him but I didn't want to be out yet. I might bump into the Matron. “Would you be fine without me?” “
VALFRED “Did something happen?” She shook her head. “Everything is fine. Why do you ask?” I knew there was something wrong. Her attitude had changed. “Are you mad at me because I forced you to eat?” She turned to me.“What? No, you were just trying to help. I just-” She took a deep breath obviously thinking about whether she should say something or not. “Coast came in her today, saying things about you and it got me mad.” I don't know what that bastards issue was. I knew that he had eyes for Roshida but I didn't know it had gotten to the point where he would come in when I was away just to see her. “You don't have to let him bother you. He's a bastard. He won't disturb you again.” I'll deal with him when I get the chance to. Maybe now was my chance. “Give me a moment. I'll be back.” I left the room and went out into the main tent. If he had an i
ROSHIDA“What are you trying to say, my prince?”“Gosh, not again. Don't tell me we're back to that. I thought we were past that.”I thought we were past it too but clearly….“Ro, listen. I'm not trying to accuse you of anything. I'm just trying to help you out..you haven't eaten anything in days and you expect me not to do anything about it?”I wasn't in the mood to talk about this.“I don't know what you want me to say. There are other people who haven't eaten too. Why don't you bug them?”“Because they are not my wife! You are. I thought I told you that it'll be fine. Why aren't you eating? I'm not trying to fight with you or blame you when you're the victim. I take full responsibility for what happened that day and if I could take the pain too, I would.”I wanted to say something but the words failed me. I thought he wouldn't notice. He was always very busy with work and I thought it would be an oversight for him..“Sonia told you, didn't she?”He didn't even try to deny it.“She
VALFRED“Tomorrow, before the sun comes up, meet me here. If you fail to show up, we can still leave without you.”As much as I didn't want to leave Roshida, I had to.The night before, I returned back to the tent and she was sitting on the bed.“What are you doing?”“You’re back early. Why?”I didn't want to talk about that right now. I sat down beside her and gave her the food I had brought for her.“Thank you. Sonia was here earlier to look for you.”Hearing her voice and seeing her face were like power pills for me. It made me so refreshed and everytime I felt down, I always knew that her voice was enough to make me strong.Maybe it was the fact that she was well rested but she looked prettier today.“Do you know what she wanted?”She shook her head.“I’ll go look for her then. In the mean time, I'm leaving tomorrow before the sun comes up.”I tried to read her expression, I couldn't. There was no smile, there was no frown, there was no squeezing of any muscle.Did she even care a
ROSHIDA“You have to be joking, right?”I looked at him and didn't blink so he'd know that there was no atom of humor in what I said.“Do you want her to come drag me here by my hair again? I'm trying to avoid trouble so just let me go. I'll be very careful.”Sonia entered the room.“Valerie, why're you on your feet? Why're you out of bed? Where are you going?”Great, another person to yell at me.Valfred turned to her.“Its good you're here, maybe you can talk some sense into her. She wants to go to work. In this condition, work!”Sonia turned back to me.“Val, what is this? Why are you talking about work when you're not fully healed? Your wounds haven't even begun to scar. Stop joking around and just stay home.”Someone called her name outside so she left.“Even after what she did to you, you still want to go out there and act like nothing happened. This may all be a plan, but what she did to you was not a plan. Your injuries are real, Ro. Stop trying to ignore it. And until you're
ROSHIDA“Where did you find a bed? I thought we couldn't have any of those?”He gave me the drugs to take.“And where did you get these?”There was no answer from him.“Valfr-”“Just let it go. It doesn't matter, does it? You're already on the bed and you've already taken the drugs so just let it go.”That was the first time he had ever raised his voice at me and I didn't even know what I did.I didn't say anything after that because there was nothing to say.I knew I couldn't sleep so I turned my head away from him and faced the wall.Did I do something wrong?Was he mad at me for getting to trouble?If I'd known that the matron had a thing against us eating, I would have hidden the food when I saw her coming.Maybe it was my fault, really.Maybe he got into trouble and that's why he's mad at me..“I’m sorry.” We said at the same time.“Ro, no. You did nothing wrong and you have nothing to be sorry for. Infact, I should be the one apologizing. I should have been careful and warned yo
ROSHIDAIt was my fault. I should have hidden the food just like Sonia did when we saw her walking towards us. But I didn't think we were doing anything wrong.I didn't think that eating was now a punishable crime so that is why I wasn't bothered.I could barely keep my head up. I could barely speak when Sonia came to my side and told me not to worry. I was going to tell her that I wasn't worried but how would I speak?My back felt like there were a thousand little pins in them, all pricking me at the same time.My body was too weak, too wounded and I felt so happy when she walked away complaining of being tired. It was only a matter of time before I started crying and begging for mercy and I didn't want to give her that satisfaction.Despite being in and out of consciousness, I could still hear some people laughing. Well, I guess it's good to know that some people were happy with what happened.I could hear Regina's voice but I couldn't make out what she was saying and I didn't get
VALFREDWe'd spent almost a week here and this is what I've gathered so far..Being at the gate meant that I got to be in front.and see a lot that was going on..it also meant that I got to see people from the pack and interact with them a bit.I'd make a couple of “friends” who made my life somewhat easy by making sure that I wasn't bullied and making sure that I was fed and had all the information that I needed.They were also the ones I was asking for information and even if they didn't give me a lot, they gave me what they knew..Officially, there was no head or leader but there was a man who they all reported to.Borge was the second in command to Cleave.I guess Cleave was the man we had seen earlier.As for the numerous invasion of packs, that was because there was a plan.No one knew what it was yet but it was against the Lycans and it was pretty serious because they were gathering a lot of slaves and it didn't seem like they just needed them for house work.I had just a week h
ROSHIDAWe got up even earlier the next day for some damn reason.And even then, Valfeed wasn't by my side. Even after I finished getting ready, I didn't see him so I figured that he had been called out at some point.Which meant he didn't get enough sleep.We were already scrubbing floors and toilet bowls before the sun was up. Hopefully today, we'll get to cover more ground than before.“I'm going to try to avoid that woman today. I don't know what her beef against me is but whatever it is, I'm trying to keep away from it.”It was very obvious that this was Borge's room because of the disgusting smell that was coming from it and also the fact that he was lying in a pile of his own vomit.“Can I not do this? I don't want to clean this. What to switch?”Sonia entered the room to see why I wanted to switch and she laughed..“Hell no. He seems to like you so, he's your special case.”As I stood there looking at him, I didn't know what to do. Waking him up meant waking trouble up. I was