Chapter 21

Zoey's pov

Clara!!

The devil's younger sister.

This girl enjoyed torturing rogues in her father's pack.

Clara was a lazy and saucy bitch!

She was very rude, even to her own mother. The only person she could ot succeed being arrogant to, was her beloved father.

They were like yin and yang. They were inseperable. Clara knew her father like the back of her hand and vise versa. 

Clara's father would never let her live in the pack of a man she was not married to. Seeing her here kind of puzzled me. 

The list of Clara's wickedness was too much to mention. If I wanted to list it on a tablet of stone, it would take a thousand years to finish.

I saw Clara with a big, rounded baby bump. She was giving orders and yelling as usual at the maids. 

Was Clara the lady that Nicholas and Charlotte were arguing about?

Was she the one that made Charlotte to cry the night she came to me for comfort?

It seemed she had something in connection to Nicholas.

But…but Charlotte had a boyfriend. She had a mate and it seemed everything was going perfectly well last I checked. 

If I needed to survive in this pack, I needed a friend. I had to be close to somebody. Somebody that would give me information and tell me about the pack dynamics.

I could not continue blindly.

But there was a downside, I was a rogue.

Rogues were already seen as threats. Who would love a rogue enough to open up around them or tell them secrets.

“You can't say if you don't try,” Rizz replied me.

It seemed Rizz had been reading my mind. 

“You're right, Rizz. I need to look for a friend.”

I bowed my head down and prepared to walk past Charlotte. I did not want her to recognise me. 

Well, I had added some weight and I looked cleaner so I did not think she would know me.

“I doubt the chick would recognise who you are. She's already a dumb person. Remember she couldn't even make it through highschool. What makes you think she has a clear memory with faces?” Rizz was condemning Clara. She also convinced me to walk past Clara's room. That was the surest way to get outside, and I had to take Rizz for her word.

I took the first step, my heart beating in my chest. 

“Hey you!” Clara yelled. I continued to move. I did not think she was speaking to me.

“Stop there! Am I not talking to you?” Clara screeched angrily.

“Hey!” Another maid came out of the room to touch me. “Madam Clara is calling you.”

Shit! It's me!

“Oh no. Bye!” Rizz left me alone to face Clara.   

“Me?” I turned to look at the maid face to face. 

“Yes, you. Are you new here?” The maid asked me.

“Yes.” I lied. I had to lie. If I said I were a rogue, who knows, Clara had the power to ask Nicholas to throw me out. And he would do so because she was pregnant for him. 

I met Clara's wicked brown eyes when I walked into the room. 

Slap!

“Are you deaf?!”

“Were you not aware that I was calling you? Why did you keep walking away?” Clara asked angrily.

“Fool!” Rizz was agitated. She began to claw at me. She wanted me to let her out to pounce on Clara. 

I couldn't do that. I was not stupid. 

Charlotte was not by my side. Her husband and everyone hated me. 

Fighting Clara could have serious consequences…and I knew that.

“I'm sorry ma'am. I did not know you were speaking to me.” I did not look at Clara for fear of being recognized but I held the part of my cheek that she slapped.

“Oh. Mmm..she's new here. She doesn't know how things are done. She just got employed.” The maid that Clara asked to call me came to my rescue.  

“You better! Take these old wooden picture frames and toss them in the backyard. When you're done, light them on fire. Lily will assist you.” Clara had assigned me some work to do.

Praise the moon goddess.

The slap and the embarrassment was not that bad afterall. I would have the freedom to let my wolf run in the backyard and I was given the opportunity to make a friend?…

Sign me up!

I turned away from her without saying a word and gathered the wooden frames. 

“Come on. Let's go,” I followed behind Lily. She seemed like a nice girl. She had a low squeaky voice and she was soft spoken.

She was smallish in nature or would I say, petite. She was a blonde with blue eyes and also very charming. 

We left the room with the wooden frames. Lily chose to carry some on her head because the load was too much for her.

So far, the room Clara was furnishing was going well. It was coming in together with pink as the primary color. 

I overheard her talking about calling her dad and anticipating his visit as I was walking away.

Now I was truly fried. 

Her dad would definitely recognise me. He haunted my family down even when we tried to run and knew us by our names before he killed them one by one.

I was the only one that managed to escape. 

After a silent short journey, we reached the backyard and Lily went back to the pack's kitchen to bring a lighter and some matches. 

She piled up the wood without asking for help and poured some kerosene on it. 

“Don't you need some help?” I tried asking her. 

She shook her head. 

After she was done, she lit the firewood up and sat close to me on a rock, watching the flames burn.

She then brought out a flat bread and cut it into two, giving me one piece.

“It's not much, but we can share.” The bread look measly and sick compared to the good food I had been eating…even as a rogue.

“No thank you. I'm good.”

“Alright,”she ate her bread in silence.

“Say something to her. Go on. Talk to her.” Rizz wanted us to be friends. “I like her. She seems humble.”

“”Hi. I'm Zoey.” I introduced myself to the girl.

“I’m Lily,” she said as she took a sip of water. After the water had gone down her throat, she spoke again.

“I'm sorry for being so quiet. I was just tired and hungry.” 

“How come I did not see you when they introduced the new maids to us older maids. And you don't seem to stay in the maid's quarters. Are you a day maid?” Lily was bombarding me with so many questions.

I obviously would not tell her I was a rogue. I needed to say something real quick. 

Where was Rizz when I needed her? 

“Rizz. Are you good? Say something to me. What do I tell Lily?” I kept 

“I'm a contract maid. Luna Charlotte employed me.” 

Lily shook her head in uncertainty. “I see.”

“Can I ask you something Lily?” 

Lily nodded. “Sure.”

“Can we be friends? I just came in here and would love to know the pack's dynamics.”

“I think you're a nice person.”

Lily agreed to be friends with me. We talked all through the morning and once noon was approaching, she had to go back for her second duties.

I told her my room number and what time to come. 

I was alone in the backyard, peeping through the fence when I heard a particular welcome sound.

Someone had arrived in the pack…

It was Alpha Carl, Clara's father.