Chapter 1

Kelsey POV:

“Kelsey, you come here.” A bitter voice resounded as I was bent over weeding.

I looked up to see a fat woman slowly moving closer to me. Suddenly, my back stiffened. Although it's been a long time since I've seen her again, her impression of her is still etched in my memory, it was a horror when I was a child. I was brought here as an enslaved person when I was five years old. Kaisa is the ruler of this land; her orders here are absolute, make her unhappy, and I will be beaten and starved.

"Yes." I didn't dare to delay, so I put down the grass in my hand and rushed to Kaisa.

She looked at me, a displeased expression on her face. "Stand a little away from me; don't you know how dirty you are?" As she said that, she sprayed perfume everywhere like she was extremely discriminating against me.

I immediately backed away as programmed, then wiped the dirt on my hands on the shirt hidden behind my back and forced a smile.

Kaisa impatiently looked at me, full of anger. "Listen! Stop working here tomorrow and come serve Alpha's son."

'What?' Oraile, my wolf, howled in agony.

My body also trembled; I stammered, looking at Kaisa, and my mouth muscles stiffened. "Dear madam..."

Kaisa, who had only come to inform me, had no intention of stopping to talk, so she had already walked a bit by now. When I called her, she turned around, annoyed. “What?”

"I have to go to Sir Richard's mansion tomorrow?" I bit my lip, praying it wasn't.

Richard is the most brutal man I know. If angering Kaisa only gets hit, you will lose your life when angering Richard. I spent two years as a servant in the garden of his mansion. Luckily I didn't see Richard too much because he rarely came home. But the number of dead people pulled from the estate is uncountable. I had two friends when I was there, but Richard was strangled to death on the spot because of a small mistake.

'It's a nightmare, Kelsey; I don't want to die yet. He'll kill us if we go back there.' Oralie kept screaming in my head.

'Don't say it, Oralie; I'm scared too.' I couldn't help but shiver.

Kaisa looked at me with disdain. “Don't show that stupid look. But lucky for you, the person you need to serve is Brian, Richard's younger brother. I want to warn you about one thing; they are brothers."

After saying that, Kaisa left.

I helplessly watched her fade away; at noon, it was sunny, but I still felt a chill on my back.

When I was young, when my parents were still warriors and were not punished, I had the honor of going to Alpha Arnold's birthday party. There I once met Brian, and even though it was only a fleeting moment, the impression was profound.

And it is terrible.

He and Richard had a fight at the party, at which point my father stopped them in time, but his white suit was covered in blood. As he passed me, he glanced sideways, a look colder than hell.

After all, their two brothers were people who should not be approached.

But the irony of fate, I got rid of Richard once, and now it's Brian.

...

The next day Kaisa came very early; she stood outside urging. “Hurry up, this turtle. Do you want me to grab your neck and drag you away?”

"Yes, I'll be right out." I quickly grabbed my bag of clothes and ran out; although I tried as fast as I could, it wasn't enough to please Kaisa.

She raised her hand and was about to slap my face as usual, I gritted my teeth to wait, but it didn't come in the end.

"I forgive you today, hurry! Don't keep Sir Brian waiting." Kaisa retracted his hand and stepped forward.

I breathed a sigh of relief; today didn't look too bad. For others, they have many needs in life, but for me, if I can't get beaten up for a day and can eat enough, that's good enough.

Kaisa rarely uses her car, so it had a bit of a problem during starting, which broke her excellent mood; she pointed at me and growled. “Unlucky bastard!”

Instinctively, I stepped back a little to avoid her tantrum. But luckily, the car finally started up.

After thinking for a while, I finally reached the mansion of Brian, the second son of the noble Alpha.

Kaisa threw me down like a commodity and said coldly. “Hey, serve well; I must return now.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she turned the car around and disappeared, leaving only a faint layer of dust; she seemed terrified of this place.

Cold air immediately surrounded me, and I looked at the ancient castle before me. I heard it's almost a hundred years old, dating back to before Alpha built the pack in this place. It was once magnificent, once very glorious, a place everyone's dream was to set foot in once to admire. But now that it's dilapidated and the grass outside is growing taller than my head, is this place inhabited?

I nervously took every step, pushing away the tall grass. I saw the main door of the house. I raised my hand to touch the sharp pattern above; a strange feeling suddenly arose as if I had been in this place. I tried pushing on one, but the door didn't lock; it creaked a few times, and then a dark space appeared before my eyes.

'Are all the curtains let down?' I clung to the wall to move forward.

'Hey, is there anyone here?' Oralie trembled, her body shrinking into a pile hiding in the corner.

My situation was not much better; I was so worried that my hands were sweaty.

"Is anyone inside?" I asked small.

There was no reply.

I licked the corner of my lips, trying again. "Excuse me, is anyone here?"

Like last time, still very quiet; there is no fly beside me here.

“Is Kaisa wrong? It seems there is no one here.” I whispered to myself and looked up to the second floor; my heart suddenly jumped and almost rushed out.

Above was a lighted room; although the lamp was weak, it was glowing.

'Could it be that Brian is up there?' I asked Oralie half-cryingly.

She shook her head, trembling slightly. 'Try going up there.'

Gathering my courage, I squeezed my hand into the luggage bag and walked up the stairs. Arriving at the door, I hesitated for a long time but still did not dare to knock. Ever since he failed that time four years ago, there have been many rumors regarding Brian after returning to an increasingly bizarre and cruel personality.

He locked himself in this castle and ordered everyone not to come near; sometimes, only a few servants came to clean and prepare rice for him. What's more terrifying is that all those servants, after returning, are in a very chaotic state; some are even obsessed with something mysterious.

If I step inside, will he immediately choke me and throw me down the stairs?

I was scared by this very thought of mine; even my tongue was drawn in.

“Who?” A cold voice suddenly came from inside the room.

I jumped, my body shaking uncontrollably, and almost my heart stopped beating. Suddenly, someone was talking scary in this quiet space, and a cold voice like pungent.

 'Say! If we don't talk, we'll die a little faster!' Oralie urged me.

'You're only good at hiding in there; if you out, you'll feel how terrible it is out here.' I snapped.

'Okay, I'm sorry, but I don't dare; I won't say anything from now on.' Oralie lowered her voice. 'Come on, let's talk.'

I licked the corner of my lips, trying to calm down; I whispered. “My name is Kelsey; I was sent here to serve you in the future.”

It was quiet inside again, like the voice was my imagination now. Come to think of it, goosebumps pop up all over my body.

'Could it be a ghost?' I froze with fear.

Oralie let out a low growl. 'This is not the time to joke around.'

While she and I were arguing, there was a sudden noise inside. I pressed my ear to the door nervously, listening carefully.

"Come in!" That ice-cold voice resounded again.

'Pray for us to get out,' I whispered.

I was dumbfounded as I pushed open the door. The main room in front is pitch black, all decorations are cold tones, and only the yellow light emitted from the night lamp is a little warm.

Entering here, I began to panic about the concept of time. It was bright outside, but no single ray of sunlight could penetrate this room.

I rolled my eyes and stopped on the man sitting on the chair, I couldn't see his face, only his back, but maybe he was Brian.

A blast of cold air made me shiver without being mean. The murderous aura in this room was too heavy, like a pair of hands were flowing in and squeezing my heart.

"Slave?" Brian raised his voice emotionless.

I nodded vigorously, then afraid he wouldn't see, I said. “Yes.”

“Okay, I don't care what you do in this house. I only have two rules, don't disturb me while I sleep and make noise." Brian suddenly turned around, and his sunshade also flew up, letting in enough sunlight to help me see Brian's face.

I froze, my heart pounded, and my face heated up. Our eyes met when he turned his head, and my soul was linked to the hidden place in his heart.

'Mate...' I muttered like a lost soul.

Oralie shouted excitedly. 'Kelsey, he's our mate!'

I still can't believe it, I was overjoyed to hear this, but when I looked into Brian's deep eyes again, I felt scared. His pupils didn't even waver when he looked at me; maybe he didn't have any feelings for me.

"Be obedient, or I don't want to break your bones," Brian warned me with his cold eyes; at that moment, I decided to bury my thoughts with him.

Maybe he and I can never have a happy ending, a slave and a prince; that's absurd.