Madam Lafayette took me by the hand and together we went into the palace. She first took me to the maid quarters. “Who amongst you asked her to do laundry?” she asked. Her eyes were blazing. Her voice, sharp like a knife. There was silence. Before I could put in my next line of thoughts, the head of that head maid was dangling from on the floor. Shaking vigorously as if trying to connect to the detached body. Her body fell with a thud and blood splattered in my face. I shut my eyes immediately. What the heck just happened? My heart pounded in my chest and my hands trembled. Was it that easy to take a life? What was this life as a mate and vessel and its gory details? Blood sipped out of the bodies and it rushed to my feet. I squeezed my toes in utmost disgust and fear. “Who asked her to wash those clothes? Who made her leave the alpha's Chambers” Madam Lafayette said again. I glanced at her and my blood ran cold. There was no proof of emotion on her face. She was like a r
What? What was happening? How could this be? Who could have been hurt? I looked him over as I tried to ascertain wherever he may be hurt. “Your highness what happened. Come—” “ Did you for a moment think that I was crying?” He smirked.I froze. Those weren't tears? Oh this cocky bastard. Knox released my hands and wiped his eyes clean. I watched his long fingers swipe at all. Parts of his face. When he looked at me again, my heart raced. He stared into my eyes and moved closer, thereby closing the gap between us. What was he doing? My heart pounded. Knox went ahead to put on the light behind and I flinched as soon as the light came on. “There's your sunlight,” he muttered . “ Don't open the curtains” I quickly nodded. “ Congratulations on getting into my room but not my life …mate” Knox said emphasis on the last word. He stared at me and I evaded his gaze. Looking everywhere but at his face. “You are nervous,” Knox leaned in. I fought keeping my focus on something. Anyth
I looked into his eyes as my neck hurt. His eyes were clouded with need. I could feel his erection on my skin. My chest rising and fall. What does this mean? Was he going to bed me? I thought he found me disgusting. But then I couldn't and shouldn't resist. Gently, he led me to the bed. I prepared myself mentally for a forceful push to the bed. The forceful sex known of Alpha's. I shut my eyes waiting. But it never came. As if finding me irresistible, he began undressing me, one slow and seductive movement after another, his dark eyes boring into mine as he did so. It was a challenge, but not nearly as daunting as my fear of what would happen when this evening came to an end. My hands trembled as they touched him. His taut muscles. His smooth skin. His hands on me were so warm and reassuring. I couldn’t help it. His mouth brushed over my neck and my whole body shivered with delight. I didn't believe Alpha Knox could make me quake and feel shy just from kissing me. If the
The steam from the hot bowl rolls out like a dancing lady, twisting her hips from side to side. I hissed as the cloth made contact with my skin. It was very hot. “I’m sorry your highness,” Amelia said. I slowly nodded. She dabbed the cloth around my neck quickly. When I looked at the water, I sighed. It’s all bloody. Not as thick as blood but clearly red. My eyes scanned the room. My nightgown is lying on the floor. My panties are thrown on the bed. There’s also blood on the bed. A proof of my innocence. Finally, the deed had been done. As a breeder, I stayed up nights filled with horror. Nights my master would talk of defiling me, but they never did. Lilith was quite the opposite. She fantasized about how beautiful that night would be. She said she knew it would be a sweet and memorable day. I often laughed at her. A breeder never dreamt of beautiful sweet nights with her master. Because half of the time, it was filled with brute force and cries. While mine was a sort of bitt
I sat still staring at the letter and the snowball. My head was in chaos. I really wanted to see the snow. It’s been awhile since I went out. Life in this room feels like it was squeezing my air flow. It was tempting and I wanted to see for myself. That night my eyes were as wide as that of an owl. I was awake when Alpha Knox came in. Deep in thought I didn’t hear him stand in front of where I lay on the floor. “Hey” he said. “Hey” he said again. My heart skipped.I immediately shut my eyes. He sighed. I know you are awake, you can’t fool me” he said and walked to the bed. “You can sleep on the bed, the night is cold.” I still went. On the bed? He might want some sex and then he would bite me. Nah I’ll pass. I was still going through my thoughts when he suddenly walked out of the room. When I could hear nothing but my thundering heartbeat, I knew I was alone. I quietly stood up and went to the door. I listened and could hear nothing. He was really gone. A big smile formed on my
“Let me go! Put me down!” I kicked and pushed. The men shoved me out of the car and we began to walk. It was a short walk before we got to the house. Panic rose in my throat. I couldn’t believe it. I had been kidnapped from my father’s house. My father was not just anybody. He was the Alpha. The Alpha of the blood sea Pack. “Let me go or else Heads would roll, my father would make sure of that!” I said in clenched teeth. That did not move them one bit. They got to a room and opened it. The carefulness they took in putting me on the bed, made me raise an eyebrow. It meant only one thing. I needed to be alive. They closed the door and immediately I sprang up like one that had been bitten by an ant. “Let me out! Somebody help” I Banged on the door like a mentally deranged woman but it was of no use. No one came to the door because when I stopped all I could hear was radio silence. I kept trying the door but it wouldn’t budge. Then I turned around and my breath caught in my throat. It
I walked the length of the garden inched over my thoughts. The wind blue with mild gentleness thereby making the leaves move around in circles. It was a windy, cold , quiet morning but there was nothing quiet about it. My mind was in turmoil. Countless messengers and witches I have sent to my son either came back in corpses or were buried alive. With the emergence of his mate, I thought I had hit the jackpot. I swallowed my pride and sought the help of an old friend who always mocked me. Priscilla was an old witch of the high order. They were strong and invisible. Unlike the new witches; Vain, flashy and loyal. Loyal to my son. To get a locating spell for my son and his mate, I had to starve for days. It wasn't funny because every day she appeared with a pack of blood. It took everything in me not to reap her apart and feed. Priscilla used the remaining Bond I had with my son to locate him. “Found him” she smiled as she moved the stone around making some incantation. I rushe
“Don’t touch her until you are sure she left the palace” Madam Lafayette's words rang a bell in my head as I sat in my office. How dare she leave? But then watching her kneel in my room made me sort of sad. I wanted to tell her stand but I changed my mind. What was this slave doing to me? Making me all soft. Even when I recalled the night we were intimate, I always caught myself smiling. I didn’t want to sleep with her yet but witches said it was important to merge us. With a drop my blood they were able to track who was trying to get Nina. They told me they had killed. It was an old witch of a high order. When I asked who had sent her, they said they were working on it. I gave the guards warning not to let Nina leave the palace or else heads would roll. If not for this business meeting, I would have stayed back. “Vok!” I growled. “Your highness” he came running into my office. “Any news on the Alpha Damian’s deal” He nodded. “your highness, he changed his mind last
I froze. Poison? How could that be? I mean I was okay but. I still collapsed or something. "I went out that day. Maybe the person gave me something to eat knowing—" I gasped. That meant someone else knew that the alpha was an active pool vampire. "I don't think so but that is a probability" Sean said. "I—" suddenly the door swung up and I didn't get to say what I wanted. "Sir, elder Abram is doing a routine check in the prison,we have to return Miss Nina back" the female warden said. My heart flew. Vok cursed. "That elder Abram is getting on my nerves" "Quick you have to leave" Sean said. He grabbed my hands and we began to run. A lot was happening so fast. I had no time to assimilate anything. And just like that I was now in my cell. I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to Vok but something told me that we would be seeing again. With the way he was taking. I knew we had a lot to discuss. I thought the gamma that had helped me escape. I had never seen him. Where ha
Looking at the gifts in my hands, I didn't k on what to think. I was confused. Why would Amelia just run of like that? Was anything chasing her? I shrugged and took the gifts back to my cell and then I began to unwrap. There was little food and done heart warming letters. I read them and tears wouldn't stop streaming down my eyes. I looked around me and the tears wouldn't stop rushing. I had no cell mate. No one was around me either. I was kept in a special cell. Like the ones for people who would be soon killed. Do you know what it feels like? Like any moment now you could be breathing your last. The guards can just come in and carry you off to the silver house or to be hung. What hurt me the most was not that I was dying but because I was dying for something I was about important. If I wanted to kill Knox, I could have tried long ago but I couldn't and didn't. A lot had changed since I stayed with him. He's changed and I have no reason to kill him. I have cried enough th
Today I was happy but angered. For the whole day, I was not going to do any chore but, I was going to somewhere I didn't want to be. Prison. The maids gathered round and donated things like food and snacks and blankets. I would have to present them to someone who I have grown an immense hatred for. Nia. It felt like I was living in her shadow All through the that week, the maids wouldn't stop yapping about how kind the alpha's mate was. It irked me bad. I always caught myself most eye rolling. Amidst all these faux love, there was someone who kept mf uncomfortable. Shelly. She became closer. Like we did almost everything together. At first I thought she was trying to come closer to me but the more she got closer, the more it became obvious she wanted something. Like know my secrets. So I stopped her. I went as far as pissing her off. She got angry and backed off. "Amelia please give this to her majesty" one of the maids said. "She's not yet Luna so you can't address her as
"Amelia are you coming?" I looked up from my food and then shook my head. I had lost all my appetite as I kept waiting for some news. "You guys can head out" I said. Shelly nodded and left with the other maids. The cook walked past me." Hi Felicia" She smiled at me. She began giving me the extra respect when she realized I was the alpha's mate maid. She looked into my plate." You didn't eat anything" I nodded with a small smile. " I'm not feeling good" "Have you tried going to the infirmary" I shook my head. " Oh it's no big deal, it's going to pass" She stared at me longer. " Is it your period?" "Errrmm... Yes" She frowned. " Is that why you are being secretive?" And I chuckled.fonslly she left me when she didn't know what else to say. Thank goodness she left. The cook was a chatter box. As I stood up and dropped my plate, I worried about my plans. I haven't heard anything from Nina or the alpha. Did it work? That old healer promised it would. I sighed. Maybe it didn't.
Alot had change since I let Knox feed from my neck willingly. He had grown sort of kind. Leaving fruits and vegetables beside the bed. Especially ones rich in iron. I tried to see how changed he was but on another thought, Knox might be caring to me because he wanted to. Maybe it was because he wanted to keep his food source flowing. You know, more iron more blood. Well that didn't matter. As long as he was changed, I'm cool. He asked that I stay on the bed too. And when I protested, he told me it was an order. These days he tells me where he was. What he went out to do. It was pretty awkward hearing things about the alpha. I was so used to his silence that I find it hard to come to terms with his words. I helped him quite a number of times. For past few days, he had been feeding consistently from my neck. And yesterday,he said I was free to go to the garden during the day. That was unlike him. Of course I wore a turtle necked gown to cover up my bite marks. And when it came t
I slowly shut my eyes as I waited for him go sink his teeth down my neck. A minute turned to two and then five. All I could hear or feel was Knox's harsh breath on my neck. I blinked. What must be the problem? I tried to disengage from the hug but he held me still. "What is ha—" "Ssshhh" he whispered harshly. " I can feel it. Someone's here" "What?" And so went the silence. I tried to imagine Knox looking around. He was good at sniffing out things. He was smart. That's why I have given up on escaping him or even going against his will. All I wanted now was nothing but peace. For rest of the evening, I heard nothing but crickets. I sighed. I could feel my eyelids grow heavy. I blinked countlessly as I struggled to stay awake. I need to know how this ends. I need to know if this is just one of his plots or what. Slowly I struggled with sleep. Finally it won. It sold me away and went after much struggle. **************************************************************** I jerked
I didn't need to be told, I knew the alpha had killed someone. Or many people. Judging from the weeping I heard down the maid quarters, I know doom has come. Most of the maids were daughters to elders. I still found it hard to believe they people will knowingly put your child through hardship just for an opportunity to the throne. Yes the maids had an opportunity. Their status can quickly change from maid to Luna in waiting if the alpha happen to sleep with them and it could be better if they bare him a child. An heir to the throne. Werewolves can be elitist. Half of the time they don't like to marry or mate with people of a lower class. They abuse the weak amongst themselves. That is why the alpha and Omega system is what is used in picking a mate. But then alpha Knox is not one to wander around with maids. If he was to do something outrageous like that, it would be two things. 1. He was drunk two 2. He has something up his sleeve. So I heard from Amelia. It was during the be
Taking one last look at myself in the mirror, I smiled, liking what I saw in the mirror. Today was another manual labor and I couldn’t wait to see Lilith. Since the last time we saw each other, I hadn’t stopped thinking about our kiss. Oh the things I planned to do to her. I heard a knock on the gate and I instantly looked up, with a smile but that was quickly wiped off. “Sean?” he smiled. “What are you doing here?” he went to open the gate. “I thought you had left with Alpha Amandla” he shook his head. “Not yet” he smiled. “I had to do this before I leave” “Huh?” “Come on we have to leave before it was too late” he pulled me along and we briskly out of the prison amidst all the shouts from the people. When we walked past the chief executioner’s office, I knew it had nothing to do with the alpha. Then we passed the visitation, I knew he didn’t bring Lucas to come visit. I dragged him and he stopped. “Come in bro, we have passed the visitation area, where then
The ugly rumor about Vok made me so angry that I wanted to fight the people talking. One day I was ranting to Lake under the tree, we usually take rest when her face went blank. “… I don’t get why people are so fixated on him, he has a kid and so what? If he leaves who would take care of that child” I scowled. I wrinkled my eyebrow. That was weird. Lake had not said a word to me. She kept staring at me with wide eyes. “What? Are you okay? Is anything wrong with your eyes?” She kept doing it and I almost got angry. “Tell me what it is then? Come on” Someone cleared his voice behind me. I turned around and froze. Then I turned around again to Lake. “Was that why?” She nodded. She swallowed. “Lili I think I need to leave” “Hey—“ “Ssshh” she smiled and ran away. I shut my eyes. Oh no. “Lilith” came that deep voice. “That’s me” Look at me” he said I slowly turned around and there I was met the beauty. Damn! He was way better up front. “How long have you been here?” H