Chapter 7

Lyra's POV

I could feel everything that was going on in the building. The way the maids looked at me, the guards were no different.

No one treated me with kindness, they looked at me like something was wrong with me. Like I had made the biggest mistake of my life by coming to this place.

I understand that they are hurt that my pack killed their people and they must have lost a family member, but this marriage was done so the killings does not continue.

" Can you help me out with the water?" I asked one of the maids.

My bath water was always set for me by my assistant, I never had to do it, but since I got here, I've had to handle that and I was not comfortable with it.

" Why should I? You have been doing it, I guess you can continue" she said coldly to me.

I stood there, looking at her, there was nothing I could do and there was no one I could report to as well.

Keal was never going to look at me twice, he was disgusted by my sight the last time I was in his room. He said I reminded him of so much pain and he was not happy seeing me around him.

" You can leave," I said to her.

I was so hurt, there was no one to report their cruelty to. I rushed out of my room when I began to feel a certain way.

I rushed to the hallway and met the guards there. They all bowed their heads when they saw me, but their facial expressions said otherwise.

I knew they were doing it out of duty, and not because they truly respected me.

My heart was burning, I left the house to catch some fresh air and got it. I stayed outside for a little while before going in, but as soon as I got into the house, it began again.

It must be from someone inside the house, there's something going on and I was reacting to it.

I followed it, calculating which angle held the stronger pull. The more I got close to Alpha Kael's door, the harder the pain.

I eventually opened his door with my hands on my chest, gasping for air.

I could not see his face because I was already on the ground.

I felt his hands on my skin as he tried to lift me up from the ground. He assisted me in getting up and I found myself on his bed.

I raised my head up and saw that there was blood coming out of his nose.

" Why do you bleed?" I asked him.

He was the reason my heart felt like it was burning up.

He was the person I was reacting to, and I had no idea why that was so.

" I told you not to bother about it, it is none of your business" he said as he found tissues to wipe out the blood.

I watched him as he did that and it made me feel a certain kind of anger.

" Why can't you tell me what it is that is going on with you? What the hell is this? You are putting me up for all kinds of pain. I do not know why this is happening to me, but I react badly whenever you are in some sort of pain, and you are telling me not to be bothered about it?" I raised my voice at him and it was the first time I was doing that.

There were tears in my eyes and that's because I was exhausted already, I was in pain and tired of every arrangement that has been.

" You better watch the way you speak to me, I am never going to accept that from you" he said.

I thought he was going to tell me what was going on but I was wrong about it. He was not ready to speak about anything with me.

" Do you realize that you are causing me pain?" I asked him.

" I do not care about you or whatever you are going through. You have no idea what I am going through as well, there is no comparison to it" he said.

I noticed that we were just going to continue screaming at each other without anyone being sorry for the other.

I sat there and stayed quiet, my heart was beating so fast but I was glad that the burning in my chest was now zero, I could no longer feel it, and the blood that was coming out of his nose was now wiped out.

" I need to know what I have gotten myself into, the maids are not being kind to me, the guards are not speaking to me as well. I see the way they look at me, like I am some enemy" I said.

He scoffed.

" You are an enemy and that is what you will remain. This marriage is to stop the war, and it has successfully achieved that. But you will forever remain an enemy to us here" he said.

" Even to you?" I asked him.

I was not asking him to love me, all I wanted him to do was to treat me with a little kindness and treat me nicely.

" You remain an enemy, you have no idea what these people did to me, something that I will never forget for the rest of my life. The pain still hunts me till forever and I get to live with it, and you know what's painful? I get reminded of it whenever I see you" he spat.

I felt no pity for him.

" I guess we both share the same pain, your people took my mother away from me, and you remind me of that very day" I said to him.

We were even right now, sharing the same pain and that made me feel better, even though it was for a short time before another pain struck me deep.