Chapter 6

I was wrong. Being a maid in this hellhole was as bad as I originally thought. Imagine being a worker for a party dedicated to the destruction of your life!

That was exactly what was going on right now. After working as a maid in the pack house of the Blood Moon pack for three days, I had gotten used to being ordered around and slaving myself away.

How irritated and surprised I was when I was told that Alpha Lucian wanted to see me. Of course I had originally wanted to ignore him and pretend as though I didn’t get the message, but as though Lucian knew that I was going to do that, he had ordered the messenger to escort me to his office directly without any form of delay.

So, here I was, in the playground of the Dark devil. 

“Pardon me, but could you repeat your words once again? I fear I might have misheard you.” I said, shamelessly.

The smug smile on Lucian’s face didn’t falter one bit as he said, “I want you to oversee the decorations in the grand hall for the party that will take place in two days to celebrate the conquering of the Blue Sky pack.”

Without thinking, I lunged for him and held the collars of his shirt tightly.

“How dare you do this to me, you bastard!? It wasn’t enough that you destroyed my pack and made me slave away for you, now you want me to join in the celebration of it!? Just why are you so cruel!?” I demanded aggressively.

Lucian slowly pried my fingers off his collars as he spoke languidly. “I never asked you to join in the celebration. I only want you to oversee the decorations in the hall. Probably join the kitchen to make delicious treats. And maybe even give a word or two of how working in the Blood Moon pack has been more enriching for your well-being than you thought.”

My brain almost blew a fuse after listening to his words but I decided to hold back. Coming after this man physically would be detrimental to my safety. Even though he was the devil’s incarnate, he was still the only person with enough power to protect me from Jonathan.

No matter how much I hated him, I still had to have him on my side.

And so, no more complaining and losing your mind at his actions, Ruby, I told myself.

With a tight-lipped smile on my lips, I said, “Alright then. I’ll do as you say.”

My behaviour must’ve been a surprising turn of events for Lucian as his smug expression faltered for a bit before he fixed it back up.

“Good, I can’t wait to see what you do.”

I tilted my head to one side innocently. “I can’t wait to see what I do as well.”

* * *

Balloons. 

Right now, balloons were my greatest enemies. Contrary to my belief that I would be the one to oversee the decorations of the hall, I was the one actually decorating the hall.

And if that wasn’t surprising enough, I was tasked with filling up 500 balloons in a day and hanging them up — all by myself and without a pump. Apparently, the only pump in the pack house was out of service and so I had to pump the balloons with my own breath. 

How convenient it was for them to increase my workload and make me look like a fool at the same time.

And like doing this sort of frustrating work wasn’t enough, every minute or so, different workers would pass by and sneer brazenly at me. And some even happened to be captives from the Blue Sky pack who swore allegiance to the Blood Moon pack and have been living comfortably ever since.

Bunch of shameless traitors.

“Hmph, after all that talk about being the smartest most impressive Omega yet, who is now the one pumping balloons like a slave?”

“Shh, not so loud. What if she hears you?”

“And so what if she hears me? It’s not like she can do anything to me. She’s on the same level as us now. No, her level is even lower than ours now. Haha.”

“Heh. That’s true.”

Just then, the balloon I was filling up burst with a sharp sound, scaring everyone close enough. 

“Seems like she’s mad, let’s make a run for it.”

The people who had been not-so-discreetly gossiping about me scurried away. Every other person in the hall who had been paying attention to me turned back to their world and began minding their business.

Ugh. How frustrating.

Fed up of everything, I decided to take a break. I left my work station and began strolling around the pack house. Doing this much wouldn’t get me reprimanded, would it?

After some minutes of sightseeing at my prison, I decided to get back to work, but something caught my attention. An open door that I hadn’t noticed the first time I walked into the hallway. I walked inside to see that it was a huge library.

Woah, it was much larger in comparison to the indoor library back at the Blue Sky pack house. I put off work to explore this book heaven. As I roamed about, sniffing and touching the spines of books, I heard someone grumbling.

“Why is this so hard?” The person said.

It sounded like the voice of a child. I decided to poke my head into the child’s business and saw that they were studying maths problems. Ah… the joy.

“You’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to cross multiply before subtracting.” I said.

The child slowly turned around to look at me. Oh, fuck! This was not any common child. It was Timothy! The child my useless brother kidnapped! 

He recognized me as soon as I recognized him. Wary of my presence, he sat up from his chair and distanced himself from me. Though still small, it was clear that this boy was going to grow up to become someone powerful. And he resented me. 

Just great.

“What are you doing here?!”

Like mother, like son. 

“I uh… sightseeing.” I foolishly said.

“If you don’t leave this place right now, I’ll summon guards to throw you out.” The kid threatened.

I frowned. “Throw me out? It’s not like I’m doing something wrong by being here.”

“Oh, aren’t you?” A new voice piped up.

Shit.