I blinked rapidly a couple of times to check whether my eyes were playing tricks on me. However, no matter how much I blinked or stared, the two women still looked so much alike. Were they twins? “This is Madame Alexandra. She is very well known in the palace as Madame Sand and she is the head of the Sacred Chambers and in charge of managing and taking care of all honorable maidens,” Madame Cassandra explained formally. “I am also her older sister. Many people believe that we are twins, but we are not. I am two years older than Cassandra,” Madame Sand said as if she could hear my unasked question.She grinned at me, and I knew right away that I must have had such a questioning look on my face. I bowed to her to show my respect. “It is an honor to meet you. My name is Mila…” I introduced myself in short. “I already know who you are. You are an honorable maiden now, from now on, you will pay attention to who you bow your head to. Only show respect where it is due. Bow only to member
I have to prove him wrong? “Think it over, Mila. There is nothing that you can achieve without commitment and determination. Set your mind up right and you can complete any task,” she said sternly.“Yes, Madame…” I replied. “I will have someone take you to your room. Get dressed and return here at once. Your lesson will start immediately…” she said with a firm nod of her head.“Yes, Madame…” I replied once again. …My new room at in the Sacred Chamber turned out to be a set of rooms. It was so large that it felt sinful for me to be living there all alone. The rooms could have made up a small house had it been a standalone building. There was a large living room with a set of sofas and a dining area. Two bathrooms. A large bedroom with a king-sized bed, a large closet that lined the walls, a very large mirror, and a vanity table set. Then there were a few smaller rooms that were not furnished. A mini kitchen that didn’t seem like it was intended for any advance cooking. The feature
I should have known that something like this or something very similar to this was the case; however, it just didn’t seem possible. Humans cannot be wolves. As far as I was aware, the king, Prince Darius, Prince Leonard, and Prince Florian, all of them are human. Being told so seriously and so suddenly that they were wolves was just insane. “It can’t be…” I replied with the only conclusion that my mind could bring itself to believe.There is no way that members of the royal family are wolves. Despite all the strange things that I’ve seen and experienced with them, it still cannot be. There’s got to be some kind of explanation for this although I had no idea what it was. “Well, I guess I can’t really blame you for having that kind of reaction. Perhaps, after hearing the history of this kingdom you will come to understand more…” she said before trailing off. My eyes shifted to focus on the large projector screen that had morphed into an illustration of a wolf sitting on a throne wit
“What did he ask for?” I asked as a knot formed in my lower abdomen. “After spending some time with her while he tried to understand the life she had been living, he asked for her to return with him to the capital city. The man could not understand how a young woman like her could live among the lot of barbaric beasts in the wild. He insisted that she return with him when his army left. The girl did not know how to negotiate with him and decided to leave her pack to travel back to the capital city with him,” the madame continued with her story. When the two of them arrived at the capital city, the general immediately brought her along to meet the king and queen to report the progress that he had made in successfully ending the conflict in town. The king was surprised to see that the general had brought back a young woman with him, and he became even more surprised when the general requested to have the woman as his wife when the king asked him what he wanted for his reward. “And sh
“An Ultimate Alpha is an inferior man with beast-like tendencies because he has a rotten beast inside of him that is hard to control,” the man said with clear distaste. “Prince Leonard…” I murmured as my eyes widened in shock. Why is the prince here? Prince Leonard strode into the room dressed in a dark blue suit that brought out the color of his hair and highlighted the color of his intense blue eyes. Madame Sand was as stunned as I was at the sudden and unexpected appearance of the prince. “Prince Leonard…” she said as she bowed politely. I quickly did the same and bowed to show my respect. The sound of the prince’s footsteps echoed softly against the floor until I could see his shoes in my field of vision and feel his gaze staring down at me. “Enough bowing…” he muttered emotionlessly.I stood up straight again and found out that I was right about him staring at me. Although I knew that Prince Leonard could enter and roam around the Sacred Chambers freely, I didn’t expect him
“I see. Prince Leonard, you’re an Ultimate Alpha, right?” I asked to make sure that I understood correctly.“The king, and the three princes of this kingdom are all Ultimate Alphas,” he replied matter-of-factly.“What exactly is an Ultimate Alpha?” I inquired.“An Ultimate Alpha is a man who possesses a very strong wolf. Madame Sand probably told you the legend already. Even I have no idea if that legend was even true but what seems to be true is that my kind has been around for a very long time and just like other species that roam this earth, this specie has evolved to survive. To many people’s disappointment, the werewolf didn’t evolve to become more wolf but more human instead,” he explained.“More human?” I repeated curiously.“That’s right. As time went by, werewolves lost both their number and also most of their wolf-like abilities. They were hunted because they were feared by humans and that greatly reduced their numbers. On top of that, nature thought that it would be better
“I guess Madame Sand has not explained that to you either…” the prince said.Well, that was because you came in when she was just about to explain it.“That’s right. She was just about to explain it to me after I had just asked her about it,” I replied while trying not to make it sound like it was the prince’s fault.“Sorry for disturbing your precious little lesson…” he said coldly.“Not at all, Your Highness…” I quickly replied as I waved my hands in front of my chest in denial.The prince sounded extremely sarcastic just now and I began to wonder why he had to be so hard to deal with. Plus, he still hasn’t answered my question. I pressed my lips into a tight smile as I waited patiently for him to provide an answer to my question.“The term honorable maiden is completely inaccurate. So let me explain it to you using another term,” he said.“Ok…” I mumbled as I stared wide-eyed at his face.“To us princes, we call honorable maidens by another term. We call them ‘Satisfiers’,” he said
The prince smiled at me before he leaned even closer to me. Our nose touched softly while my body still felt as frozen as before. I could feel his warm breath on my face, and I could smell the faint smell of roses that emanated from his body. My heart raced so fast and hard in my chest that it started to hurt. Please…don’t come any closer…“If you really don’t want to do this, you need to push me away…” he whispered softly. The warmth breath that accompanied his words brushed softly against my lips. Although he wasn’t touching me, it felt like there were countless invisible hands holding my body down and stopping me from moving. His lips moved closer to mine slowly as if everything was happening in slow motion. He’s going to kiss me. I have to resist him…and I have to do it right now…If he kisses me, I don’t think I’ll be able to stop him…or myself…As if wrestling with an invisible force, I dragged my arms up from my side and pushed as hard as I could against the prince’s chest.