I was still processing everything Azalea told me hours after she left. I came back to earth when I heard a soft knock at the door. I knew that I wasn't Azalea as she just left and wouldn't knock if she was the one, nor was it Lothar, he wouldn't have knocked either.“Come in”. I called out and kept my eyes on the door as it was pushed open. Rosaline, my maid and another girl who was also wearing a maid's uniform like that of Rosaline's stepped in. The second girl was carrying a tray of food as I could perceive the delicious scent of meat from where I was sitting on the bed. My stomach grumbled loudly, and I grabbed it with my hands. My face blushed beet red in embarrassment when Rosaline gave me a kind smile as if she understood that I was really hungry and was not taking what happened to heart.The both of them bowed low before the second girl moved to drop the tray on the table in the room.“This is Isabella, your second maid.” Rosaline introduced the girl to me.My eyes went to her
My anxiety increased the next day, and it went a notch higher with each passing day until a week later. I had spent my days in boredom. Wake up, bath, eat, sit by the window and stare out. It was like this until Rosaline decided that I needed a bit of fresh air and showed me the palace garden, which I quickly fell in love with.The few maids I encountered on my way to the garden every day kept throwing me envious or nasty looks, but none of them dared to come close to me.I had had my breakfast alone in the morning before asking Rosaline to show me to the garden in the palace. I had a nice time there just walking around and inhaling the scent of the flowers. I spent the morning thinking about what to do with my life. I had no important thing I was doing in the palace since Alpha Lothar announced that I was his mate. I haven't seen him after that day we shared our first kiss, and I doubt I would. I kept telling myself that he was occupied with other things, and he would come, but it h
I thought we would maintain a trot, but soon, Lothar jerked the reins and Manny took off. I shrieked in shock. I was not scared, just surprised. I grabbed his forearms because he did not give me any heads-up. He had the audacity to laugh. My face twisted into a dark scowl.“You should have warned me” I snapped before I could stop myself, and I regretted it immediately. I wasn't just talking to my mate, but I was also speaking to the alpha king, but he responded with a laugh.“And then I wouldn't have heard you scream, or you wouldn't have grabbed my arms. That would have spoiled the whole fun”I blushed and quickly took my hands off his arms before holding on to the reins with him.“Where are we going?” I asked as the scenery began to change. Before we were running in a forest, but after passing through the forest edge, we were in a beautiful meadow. I could hear the sound of running water.“Just ahead” he responded as he made the course slow down to a trotI couldn't hear the guards
“Tell me more about yourself, little white?” I froze, I could tell him a dozen things about myself, but which of myself? Mary Lee or Angela? As I racked my brain for what to say, my eyes met his curious and expectant eyes, and I found myself talking about Angela and not Mary lee. It was Angela he knew, so Angela will I tell him about.“I grew up in Shadow moon pack as an Omega maid. I never got to meet my father, I only knew my mother, who died while serving the alpha king and his family, who were an evil bunch. She died as a taster. Someone wanted to poison the alpha king, and unfortunately, she was the one who tasted the food that day. She died immediately. From age ten, I was asked to serve the Alpha's daughter, who was the same age as me. I thought that because she was young she would not be as cruel as her parents, so I was ecstatic to be selected as her personal maid, but I was wrong. She was exactly like her parents. I guess it runs in their blood. “I did not know any moment
His eyes narrowed into slits, “you don't look surprised about being my second chance mate” Uh oh, I murmured, but there was no way I could possibly hide the fact that I already knew his story. It was a surprise to me that I haven't heard it from old maids, but I also haven't heard the fact that I was Lothar's mate when I went to the market. Guess the way Lothar ran his pack was different from the others. Anything that happens in the palace, stays in the palace. “Azalea told me” Lothar groaned as he squeezed his eyes shut, “she had no right to do that”I moved close to him, “I guess she doesn't want you to get hurt again nor does she want me to get hurt when I find out from someone else. I'm sure she doubted that you would tell me yourself” I wasn't so sure he would tell me if I asked too. I'm surprised that he did.“It doesn't matter. She would stop acting like my mom. I'm older than she is”“ She loves you and cares so much about you. She doesn't want me to hurt you like Bonnie di
I whirled around and spread my arms just in time for Amber to throw herself on to me. I stumbled back and would have fallen but the guard assigned to me broke my fall with a hand to my back."Careful" he glared down at Amber as he reached out to pull her away from meAmber shrink back in fear as she took two steps away from me, "I'm sorry" she apologized"Hey, what are you doing?" I turned to glare at the guard, " she is my friend. Stop glaring at her" " She was going to make you fall," he argued as he folded his hand across his chest."But I didn't fall" I snapped at him though he was the reason both I and Amber were still standing and not on the hard floor, "she is my friend so don't scare her off" I reached out to grab Amber and hug her as I heard the guard muttering something unintelligible under his breath"Your safety is more important than your friend. I'm not about to get beheaded because of any friend"" I heard what happened with Piper and how she accused you of stealing th
I walked up to the bed and sat down beside her, patiently waiting for her to gather herself together and speak up.When Amber was done talking, my chest felt too tight for me to breathe and my palms were cold and clammy with sweat. While I was here enjoying my nice room, the good food and also thinking about my revenge and new-found second chance mate, Amber for suffering because of me.“Hey Angela” she nudged me with her elbow," don't think too much about it. I'm fine. I'm still alive, see?” She spread her arms wide and tried to smile but winced instead and clutched her ribs with a pained expression.“Are you okay? No, scratch that, you aren't” before she could know what I was going to do, I was grabbing her to her feet and pulling off her gown.“Hey, what are you doing?” She spluttered in shock as she tried to grab her gown and cover herself.I was faster. I had her maid gown off her in record time. My mouth dropped open and my eyes nearly popped open in shock at the dark, pale and
I kept amber with me. No way was I going to allow her to return back to being a maid or even allow her to spend another second living with the other maids, not to talk of working in the kitchen. All I had to do after the doctor I sent the guard to find me, came to treat her was to go in search of Azalea.She has been super busy with different Luna duties I had no idea about and some I knew of. I have not seen her nor has she come to visit me since that day she told me about Lothar's first mate, his uncle, and his childhood.And right now, she was exchanging blows with the pack's Gemma while I was standing by the side and waiting for her to be done, so I could discuss taking Amber under my wings. I might be Lothar's mate, but I didn't have any power to stop Amber from going back to working in the kitchen. I needed Azalea's help with it.“Hey Angela, how have you been?” Azalea asked me with a smile as she bounded over to my side once she was done with her fight. She'd fought with Gemma