Chapter 4: I will Burn it down!

~Scarlett's POV~

It's been three days since I had lost the last hold I ever had on anything.

Since that beast had taken me, Kidnapped me, and since my own body had betrayed me in the worst possible way.

I had been in this room since. His cologne, so lovely as it was clung to the silk sheet and my skin, which reminded me that I was his. I wanted to rip it off. Strip it from my body. Destroy all traces of him.

But I couldn't.

I glared at myself in the glare of the mirror, my eyes piercing the mate mark, it was Something that I didn't want to believe. Something that made me sick. Something that, to everybody else, had been lovely but to me, I felt disgusted!

I felt a roiling anger in my stomach, dense and choking. “Why did I like it? Why had my body responded to the murderer of my people, the slayer of my family, the destroyer of my home?” This was the question I kept asking myself.

I clenched my fist and it pierced my palms, “ I betrayed them.” I muttered hatefully. Then I heard the sound of knocking but the person didn’t come in, I only heard the sound of plates being dropped.

I had eaten barely for the past three days though they kept dropping my meals there. I won’t deny that I had wished I could die. I wanted to be with my people and family but then I woke up from a nightmare this morning. I saw my Omegas, the ones who hadn't died on the battlefield. They were about to be sold, Bound at the wrists with empty eyes.

I had woken up with fear but then I realized something—They were still here.

The Omegas. They were suffering, and I had done nothing.

I clenched my teeth and felt my energy coming back, I can’t continue like this! I am their last hope!

I ate the cold, congealed food off the tray, choking me to get it down. The food didn't taste like anything, not even something that tasted bad, but it was unpleasant and I didn't care. I had to stay strong. I was not going to die in this room and make my people suffer.

I went to take my bath after eating, then came out to look for clothes to wear. I dug into the closet and pulled out a simple, black dress. Loose, flowing, somber. I had no jewelry. Nothing, just plain.

Why should I dress up when I was still grieving, besides, I am not the princess of my pack anymore but a prisoner and also the hope for my people!

I exited the room, the floor softly luminescent beneath my bare feet.

These palace bedrooms were not usual, but I didn't care where I was going. I strode purposefully, though I had no destination. Then I saw an Omega maid with a tea tray.

I narrowed my eyes as I focused on her and the moment she glanced at me, she froze like a statue, trembling with terror, as she quickly bowed her head. I could see she was terrified of me.

Good.

I took a step towards her, my voice hardening. "Where is your Alpha?!”

She stepped back, with her frantic eyes scanning for an escape.

I furrowed my brows and pressed my lips together. "I said something."

She looked startled at my voice then She hesitated, her white-knuckled grip on the tray. "I don't—"

I moved closer to her, and she tensed as if holding her breath.

I interrupted, "Where? Is. He?" I snarled cold and hard.

Panic flickered in her eyes. Then shivering and whispering, she spoke, "The… the grand hall. The Alpha is in the grand hall."

I glared at her for what felt like forever. And then I commanded, "Go there."

She turned pale but she pushed on ahead.

I followed behind her, my body coiled to strike, my expression stern. But deep within, in my heart, I was filled with nervousness.

The Main Hall—

The room was large, ceremonial, gold and velvet-shattered. Wood smoke and good wine hung in the air.

Draco sat at the head of a black wooden table, three men were seated before him and their heads together as they whispered.

Ignored the omega who had stopped walking and badged in. The room was heavy with silence immediately I walked in. Draco's eyes clashed with mine and his dark eyes flashed.

His face looked Cold and Emotionless As if he had already forgotten what he had done to me three nights ago.

The Alphas standing around him widened their eyes together, gasping as one. I knew they were thinking I was a concubine, A war prize and I should not be here but I didn't care.

I didn't even glance at their faces. I didn't even glance at anything but him.

Then Draco's head was slanted to one side, the curves of his mouth twisted into a half-smile. "You look." His black eyes surveyed my dull black dress, my face, my cold-hard face. And then he smirks. "Plain."

I glared at him, I bunched up my fists. Oh how much I hate him..,

He waved his hand, and his men stood up, and they quietly left after that so the two of us were alone.

As soon as the door closed behind them, I was on his face.

"You did whatever you pleased," I spat at him with bitter anger. "You killed my people, My family. You destroyed me and shamed me. So now, you owe me." I said with a straight face.

His brow leaped up in shock, his mouth corner twisted into a sneer. "Do I?”

I moved closer, teeth clenched. "You are not selling my Omegas." Venom dripped from my voice. "You will keep them where I can keep an eye on them," I said with a cold voice.

He paused for a moment. Then—

Laughter.

A dark, sneering one that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

I pulsed my lips as Blind rage seethed inside me. My aura fell and I felt bitter and angry.

Draco's expression became calm, The sneer was gone from his mouth and his face was contorted into something ugly. He stood up from his chair, his lean tall frame looming over me.

His eyes were cold as he said, "Did you remember that you are my woman? You are just a concubine. One of my females and I can do anything to you," he sneered.

I was stunned for a moment, and then I suddenly let out a weird laugh, "Then I will bury people." My voice was dropping, danger-close. "I'll poison your Omegas. I'll destabilize your pack. And when I'm done." I hesitated for a heartbeat. "I'll kill myself."

Silence.

That was what was left in the room. We both glared at each other and even when I felt so nervous, I didn’t back down, and then we heard a voice—

"Ah! Is the Alpha's new maid here? Why are you not on the ground, on your knees?"