Six: Inviting her for dinner

CORA

I remained rooted in that same spot after he left, too tired and drained to even do a thing. I could only lay my frail body on the body, willing unconsciousness to take over my body.

I could already feel myself drifting off when I heard the clanking of the door keys but I did not even have the energy to turn to look at who it was and I wasn't even interested in knowing who it was.

If it was Kai, he could go to hell for all I fucking care.

But it wasn't even him, the scent I picked up wasn't even half as strong as his, and the aura didn't feel anything like his.

I felt multiple footsteps approaching me and that piqued my interest a little, causing me to jerk my head to the sides to see three maids right upon and before I could blink, they already grabbed my hands and they roughly pulled me to a standing position.

"Who the hell are you guys?" I yelled, surprised that my voice could even be as loud as it was despite being malnourished and drained and I tried to push them off me, "And what gives you lowly miserable beings the audacity to dare to touch me?"

I screamed at their faces, attempting to break free of their holds but it was futile, they were gripping my hands too tightly with their fingers already digging into my skin and they were having none of my theatrics.

"Behave yourself," one of them yelled at me in a condescending tone that shocked me and made me jerk my head to her. How dare she, an ordinary maid talk to me, a whole Princess of a pack like that? Was she mad?

"You must have a death wish for talking to me that way, you insolent..." The words died in my throat as a slap landed on my cheek, jerking my face to the side as tears pooled in my eyes at the intensity of her slap.

A lowly maid just slapped me? I've never felt more insulted, more degraded in my entire life. A maid just slapped me?

"You know," the maid continued, sneering at me, "I don't give a fuck who you were before but right now..." she got in my face so her words could sink in, "you're worthless in the place, even a housefly is worth more than what you are and we have orders to do whatever we want to do with you so my advice to you?-

Behave yourself if you don't want to get beaten up to within an inch of your life. Now, move!" She ordered as the other two maids started to forcefully drag me out of the cell and I complied dutifully, while mapping out her death in my head because I knew there was no way I'd allow her to stay alive and I knew there was nothing I could do now, I couldn't even attack her and her cohorts because I had no strength in me and they'd only beat me to stupor.

"And you reek," the maid mocked as they dragged me along corridors and stairs while I barely had the energy to keep up with them, "do Princesses reek like this where you come from?"

I'd start with her tongue, I thought to myself, I'd cave out her tongue first so she'd never have a means of talking ever again and after that, I'll slowly torture her till she begs for death and even after then, I won't grant her the death she so badly craves; I'll teach her a very big and profound lesson not and never to talk to me that.

"Strip!" Her harsh voice irritated my being and it jolted me out of my reverie. That was when I realized that we were already in a bathroom and we were standing in front of a tub filled with water.

I instantly knew they were going to bathe me.

"You can leave, I'd love to have my bath by myself."

Another slap landed on my cheek and as pain ricocheted through my entire body, I saw red, intense red that me want to lunge at her but I knew that'd be a fucking useless move on my part, the only thing I could do right now was to bid my time and get back at her in the grandest way possible.

So I blinked back my tears, swallowed the words that I was dying to say and I stepped out of my white now black gown.

They pushed me into the tub immediately and I felt violated as their hands roamed over my body, scratching it in the name of cleaning it, and after like an hour of intense scrubbing, I was finally clean.

They dragged me out of the bathroom to the bedroom, dried my body roughly and they began to roughly work on my body.

It took me longer to realize what they were doing.

They were dressing me up, pulling a pretty blue gown over my head, styling my hair, and applying light makeup to my face.

"Where am I going?" I demanded but they ignored me until they were done.

"Now, you'll follow us to the dining room because the Alpha has requested your presence at the dinner.

Ohh, that was it? A bitter chuckle bubbled up my throat and escaped from my mouth as it all dawned on me. So after threatening to make my life a living hell, he ordered his maids to dress me up because he wants me to serve as an eye candy at dinner, he'd have another think coming.

"Since you guys have been using force to drag me around since morning, I suggest you use that same force to drag me to the dining because I'm not going to move an inch away from this place by myself."

"Listen," that particular maid that has been bothering my life started, "I suggest you get up now because trust me, you don't want to incur the Alpha's wrath by disobeying him."

"I've already incurred his wrath countless times, I literally don't care about that again."

"Well, maybe you should because if you don't, you're going to put us all in trouble," she said, digging her fingers into my wrist before holding me too tightly and even though I could feel my bones getting crushed, I refused to give her the satisfaction of knowing that I was in pain.

And of course, he must have threatened them that their failure to bring me to the dining would result in them losing their heads and they mustn't mess my gown and make-up up because that seems to be the only reason why she wasn't resorting to force.

And I already know that for people like Alpha Kai, having a beautiful girl as an eye candy was some sort of power play for him but if he thinks his idea of breaking me would be to force me to become docile for him, then he was sourly mistaken because I'll stick a knife into his eyes before that happens.

"Nothing you say will ever change my mind so just get lost, I'm not going to the dining with him."

"Girl, you're really digging your own grave with the way..."

Her words died in her throat immediately we all felt it, that powerful aura full of strength and domineering energy that could only belong to a very powerful Alpha and I instantly knew that Kai was approaching.

Immediately the door to the room flung open with so much force that it took a miracle for it not to come unhinged and fall.

Kai stormed in, all-powerful and dark and sinister with intense rage brimming in his eyes and they seems to darken even more when his eyes landed on me.

"Get out!" He yelled and even though he didn't specify, we all knew he was talking to the maids who instantly scurried out of the room and they literally have to merge their bodies with the wall because they didn't want to brush bodies with Kai while shaking so hard as if they were staring face to face with death.

The minute they were out, Kai started storming over to me, unmistakable feral anger in his eyes.