What's Going On?

“What's going on?” He muttered slowly. 

“Beta Giovanni, there's a thief here, we caught her red-handed” The person who was holding me explained. 

Oh…so his name was Giovanni? He has a commanding aura but not enough for what I just felt. The aura felt just like last night. 

He can't be the person that came last night or was I mistaken? The voice, although it was filled with authority yet it wasn't like the man of last night. 

I sighed… sadly. 

I had thought he was the only one until someone else walked in. He stepped into the light, and my eyes dilated in shock. 

Was he even a human? My eyes roamed around his perfectly sculpted face, disbelievingly someone could look this ethereal.

Those emerald green eyes roamed around my sorry self and I had to look away. In shame, embarrassment and… fear! 

There was something in his eyes that made me nervous—his eyes were so fucking cold. I could freeze that very moment! And he carried that particular aura!

Could he be the one? But he looked damn scary. Last night, the person was warm and friendly to me even if he was like a demon to the others. 

“Oh, she's a doll” Giovanni smiled plainly, looking at me. 

I was shaking, my eyes on the ground, I wouldn't dare look up as the realization dawned on me. 

This was a pack. If I guess right it must be the pack of one of the cruelest alpha. The name Giovanni was definitely the beta of the most fearsome pack. 

If Giovanni was the beta, then …the demigod might be…Alpha Starr! 

“What the hell did she steal? She doesn't seem like a thief. Is she a maid?” Giovanni asked, stroking his chin. 

“Chicken, beta. And she is among the new slaves. The ones from last night” 

“Chicken?” Giovanni sounded surprised.  

“Hey, look up,” he said, and I looked up in fear. 

But the moment I saw Starr, I looked down again—his eyes were scaring the hell out of me. 

“We brought her here because thieves are meant to be punished” one of the guys said. 

“She's probably hungry” Giovanni turned to Starr who hadn't said a word.  

“What should they do to her, Alpha Starr?” one of the boys asked, cunningly. 

I looked up as if waiting for his judgment. Starr also looked at me, his dark eyes filled with evil and hatred, and he dropped the bomb. 

“Beat her to death” He said coldly and went in without waiting. 

W…w...w…. what!!!!? But why do I find that voice familiar… Was he? No, that's impossible! He couldn't have changed overnight. 

I wanted to scream but got slapped heavily. Giovanni spared me a glance before he went in with Starr. 

How can this be happening to me? I didn't kill, I was just hungry. 

I guess my thoughts didn't matter as a whip was brought. My eyes were fixed on the whip that was brought in. I had never been beaten in my life with a whip and I had ever had to endure these maltreatments before too.

I thought about my dead parents and wished I had died with them. But it wasn't possible, was it? 

I became quiet after awaiting the punishment; it became hard to scream out. I had become too weak for that. 

Not only that, I just allowed the tears to flow down my cheeks freely. The type of pain I was feeling in my heart was incomparable. I was sure I would die sooner than later!  

I was losing hope, maybe this was really going to be the end for me. But still, even though the pain would be too much to bear, I wanted to live. 

I don't want to give up so soon. 

‘Someone......help.....please’ I cried inwardly as I awaited the punishment.  

Just as the guard was about to wipe my back, the door was suddenly pushed open and another guard entered. 

“Stop! It's an order from the Alpha!” He said out loud, and the boys who were about to whip me, dropped their hands at once before facing him. 

“What order?” One of them asked. 

“No beating” 

I didn't know, possibly to smile or cry but seriously there was nothing to smile about. Still, I was hoping the pain that I would be having in future wouldn't eventually kill me.  

That's because it was becoming unbearable. I can heal myself, but it will take perhaps even a month to get those scars from my body and my mind.

But will I be allowed to heal? 

My eyes began to get drowsy as the pains of last night began to engulf me amidst the hunger I was feeling. I could feel myself getting weaker. 

“Thank you, Alpha” I said inwardly before I started to lose consciousness. 

The boys rushed to me immediately. 

“Is she dead?” 

“No, she's breathing. What should we do to her now?” 

“The Alpha said she should be taken to madam Kana. He also ordered that she shouldn't be taken to the doctor, you should hurry” The guard said.

That was all I could take in before I went blank. 

********

I opened my eyes again, slowly, wondering where I was. I could see I was in a room and on a bed, but how?

“You are awake” I heard the voice and turned to the direction. 

A middle-aged woman whom I assumed to be important in the pack came towards me. 

“How are you feeling? I treated your wounds” She said softly and for the first time since I came here I finally heard someone speaking softly to me. 

“I am in pain” I muttered sincerely. 

“I know, it will take days to heal up. You might fall sick too, your temperature was quite high earlier,” the woman said. 

“Who are you?” I had to ask.  

“Why don't you go into the bathroom and take your bath first? Then you eat, and we talk better” she said, ignoring the question. 

I nodded and managed to get down from the bed. I felt sticky and lightheaded. I thought I would fall any moment. 

“That's the bathroom” the lady pointed. 

I went in and after using almost an hour in the bathroom trying to take a proper and thorough wash, I came out. 

The kind old lady handed a maid's uniform to me; a short skirt and a blouse. I didn't argue. I had seen some girls wearing the same thing and nobody had to tell me before I knew I was becoming one. 

As I put it on, the skirt was hardly covering up my thighs and it was quite tight too. But who am I to complain?? 

“You can eat now” She said moving the stool closer to me.

I sat down on a stool and started eating. 

“You can call me Madam Kana, I am in charge of the kitchen.” She introduced herself. 

“I am… Arianna” I muttered while eating the food hungrily. 

The way I was munching on the chicken was a bit wild. Yet Madam Kana didn't bother telling me to slow down. 

I was still eating when we heard a knock and Madam Kana stood up. She went to open the door and a guard came in.

He whispered something to Madam Kana before leaving.

"You will live here with me till you get better before going to the slave quarter," she said, her eyes seeming confused.

I was confused too. Was the order from the alpha? But all the same, it will give me time to heal.