THE STUPIDEST THING IN MY LIFE

CHAPTER 009

ALICIA’S POV

Pain and the cold, stench smell of blood, those two things were the first thing I felt as my eyes opened. I hissed out as I tried to seat up, my entire arm coursing with pain at every angle I tried to use it for.

My eyes found the chair at which I had been tortured, and I started boiling immediately. After the helmet that they put on my head, blocking my vision, the guard had started from tugging down on the chairs used to hold my hands, pulling it as another person whipped me badly.

My heart sank in fear as I heard the sound of the door, looking up at it immediately. My fear intensified as the sound continued, more of someone unlocking it. I managed to stand up on my feet and rush back, ignoring all the pain I was feeling for that moment and trying to find somewhere to hide.

Although I was angry, I still did not want to go through the same thing twice. I managed to hide behind a wall locker, my heart racing steadily in my chest.

“Alicia,” I heard someone call out, a feminine voice to be precise.

“Come out, it’s me, Mia. The lady who talked to you while working.”

Phase two, the chair. Was she here to tell me about a new phase I had no idea about? I gulped down, trying better to hide myself. My ears picked up on her getting close to where I was hiding, “come out, I’m not going to hurt you.”

My mind was whirling with various questions. How did she get in here? Was she not just a maid? Why was she here? Was she here to hurt me?

My heart started pounding more and more as I felt her closer, trying to think on what to do. No one could be trusted, not in this fucked up place. Not even their fucking gardener. I peeped out from the place I was hiding, watching her as she turned her back on me and in that moment, I ignored all the pain I was going through and rushed towards her, wrapping my arms around her throat.

She let out a scream, immediately scratching my hand which made me almost want to lose my balance. I quickly got a hold of her again, this time, pulling her with me as my back hit the wall harshly.

A pain shot up through my spine, adding to my numerous body pains and I shut my eyes at the impact.

“Who are you! Why are you here! What do you want from me!”

“It’s me Alicia, it’s Mia. I was the one who told you Ab…

“I know, but why are you here? Are you here to warn me about a fucking phase three again! Or what!”

“No…no…no…” she quickly let out, “I was sent here by the alpha to check on you and bring you out. He asked me to come and check on you because you’re hurt…

“Are you working for the alpha? Have you been asked to spy on me? Why did he pick you and not the head maid?”

“I…I…a…do…I don’t know!” She stuttered out.

I clenched my jaw hard as the realization hit me. I tightened my wrap on her throat, making it now harder for her to both breathe and talk. I should have fucking known when she was spouting everything she was saying. I was a Luna once, ordinary maids do not know anything about the alpha, not even the littlest.

“Tell me everything or I swear I’ll kill you and submit your head to him.”

Deep lines edged my forehead at the sound of her whimpering, and my empathetic self kicked in immediately. I would not really cut her head off, it was just a threat but I need to know. Suddenly, I felt a wet liquid drop on my hand, and the splatter of some on my leg.

I looked down only for my eyes to widen and my grip instantly loosening from her throat, “what the duck, Mia!” I yelled out.

“I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.” She said with her crooked voice, more tears still rolling down her cheeks.

She instantly went on her knees as I looked up to her again, clasping both of her hands together and her gaze lowered to the floor, “I have an elderly mother, and a sick young sister. This job is all I have, if the alpha finds out that I failed, he might kill me, or even punish me. Please!”

I let out a deep sigh, falling to the ground slowly and weakly. Why was this life cruel to the good ones? Why did we have to face so much trouble and yet the bad ones have to walk unscathed?

She was a victim, a good person, and I was too. And yet the hardest cruelty of life had to fall on both of us. Why? Why was the moon goddess always playing tricks on us? Making us suffer for what we had no idea on!

“He only asked me to spy on you and ask some questions to know if it’s the try…

“It’s the truth! I know nothing about any of this Mia! I don’t know how the mark got there or anything! For the past few days of my life, I’ve been suffering! I’ve lost my child, I’ve lost my home and yet something I have no idea on is being pinned to me!”

Anger rose in me, shutting out my entire pain as I stood up again and faced Mia, “take me to him.”

“What?” Her eyes widened as she hurriedly got off her feet, “you can…

“I said take me to him!” I yelled in her face.

She nodded quickly and started walking, dragging myself at her back and following her. The entire hallway was devoid of people. For the past years and days of my life, I have suffered, taken everything that’s being said to me, both the good and bad.

Not anymore. Not again. I would stand up for myself now and put whoever the bloody people tried me. We got to the front of a door and Mia stopped, looking up at me,

“This is his study, but I can’t follow…

I cut her off and opened the door, both heads in the room snapping towards me. I only stared at him as I walked towards him. He was out of his chair immediately, walking out of the table to meet me. We stopped right in front of each other with our eyes boring into one another.

And I did the most stupid thing I could say I’ve ever done in my life.

I slapped him, then muttered the word, “coward.”