Chapter Seven

Emily's POV 

“What are you doing?” he said.

“Just because I'm taking my time to make a decision doesn't mean I won't consider you.” I said with a soft smile. “I just want to preserve my womanly honour you know…”

As Alan leaned upwards, I snatched the gate pass from his side and let it fall under the bed. He didn't seem to notice. I got back up on my feet and watched Alan stare at me.

“Okay, fine. I'll let you have your moment.” 

With that, he walked out of my room and slammed the door shut behind him.

As soon as he left, I laid on the floor to pick the gate pass that I saw. I waited a few minutes to pass and then the door opened, revealing a maid with a tray containing food.

“Thank goodness you're here.” 

I instantly had an idea in my mind that seemed fruitful.

“Hey, what's your name?” I asked the maid.

“It's Mae.” She said which made me nod.

“Good. Now could you please swap clothes with me?”

“What do you mean?” The maid asked.

“As your future queen, you don't get to question me.” I said firmly which led to Mae bowing her head down.

She placed the tray of food on the side table and started to remove her piece of clothing. As soon as she was done, I switched clothes with her.

When I was done dressing up in her maid outfit, I commanded her. “Stay still on the bed and don't let anyone find out that it's not me.”

The maid seemed scared but she ultimately bowed her head.

I put the gate pass in my pocket and walked out the room. Then I stared down while walking down the hallway. I ended up going to Aiden’s room. I knocked on the door, and heard his voice.

“Come in.”

I opened the door and walked in. The moment Aiden saw me, he seemed scared that it was me.

“What are you doing, Emily!” He whisper-yelled.

I brought my hand into my pocket and showed Aiden. “I got the gate pass. I don't know how long I'm going to get away with this untill Alan finds me out.”

Aiden sighed. “Now I have no choice but to get you out today.”

I looked at Aiden and tried to calm down as I possibly could but seeing him with that fearful expression on his face made me worry. Have I put myself in trouble that I am unable to get out of?

“Quick, come with me.” Aiden put the files on his table aside quickly and led me outside of his room, we passed through the hallway and I kept my head down until we arrived at a corner. 

Aiden pushed aside a stone by the wall and a secret hallway appeared.

“Oh,” I said with my hand covering my mouth.

Aiden grabbed me and we both entered the secret hallway and it shut as soon as we got in. 

“Are we safe?” I asked.

“For now.” Aiden responded.

The secret hallway was littered with little flames on candles.

I grabbed one by the wall straps to illuminate the secret hallway.

As soon as we got to the other side of the secret hallway, I was surprised when I saw Alan. He was holding a heart in his hand which made me jump back and hide behind Aiden.

“Brother,” Aiden said, his gaze fixated on Alan.

“Would have never thought that you'd betray me brother.” Alan said angrily.

“And you,” Alan turned to me, his eyes filled with rage and anger. “I’m not letting you go. I need to kill you to survive.”

Tears rolled down my cheeks. “Now you're not even hiding it?”

Alan scoffed, looking at Aiden. “Well, I guess you told her everything.”

“Whose heart is in your hands, brother?”

“The maid she got to swap clothes with her.”

“Mae,” I whispered sadly. “You killed Mae?”

Aiden grabbed Alan by the head and slammed his head against the wall.

“You are too bitter, brother. How could you kill your own?”

“You know for a long time that I did and you didn't have any problems with that. Why are you now complaining?” Alan said, his voice full with passion.

“I was disgusted with you brother, and I still am. I hoped that you would change but now I see that you will never! Killing your own pack member, do you think it makes you cool? Make you masculine?”

Alan dropped the heart onto the floor and held Aiden by the neck with his bloody hands.

“And you think you're cool, saving Emily from my hands. Tell the truth, brother. You're into her, aren't you? That's the only reason that you are trying to save her.”

“It doesn't matter if I'm into her or not. What matters is that I'm not going to let her be killed by you for no reason at all, just like you killed her maid. You're a terror to yourself and those that surround you, Alan. Take a deep look at yourself and you'll know exactly what I mean. But I doubt you'd get it, you have no emotional intelligence for it at all.”

Aiden banged Alan’s head onto the wall and he fell onto the ground, limp and frozen.

Aiden turned to me. “He passed out, this is an opportunity for us to get you out of here.”

“What about Mae?” I said while attempting to shake the thought out of my mind. The thought of how Mae would have felt while Alan dugged out her heart from her chest. How her last breath would have sounded like.

“Emily, look at me, it doesn't matter now.” Aiden said calmly.

“What do you mean?” I asked him.

“Whoever Mae is, she's dead now. Nothing you do will change or distort that fact. The only thing that's left for you to do is go ahead. You have to leave before my brother wakes up.”

“I don't know how to leave,” I said loudly. “The guards outside would find me and ask questions and—”

“—I’ll go with you.” Aiden interrupted.