HAERAI had two thought out plans when I realized that the Alpha prince Zachary was my mate and that I was backed up into a corner. One, run far away from the tower–from him, as fast as I can once I am able to survive being in the same room with him. Two, kill his Beta when next I see him! I failed to follow through with either of them. The second one being because I was too scared to my wits to even care about looking around for the Alpha Prince’s Beta who missed out on a rule and almost got me punished. I did run out of the tower like my pants were on fire but it wasn’t even because of the reasons I had proposed would make me run like that. It was because of the tall scary looking woman who suddenly showed up by the door and gave me a disdainful look before sending me out of the room. The gold amulet on her neck that blinged past my eyes when I rushed out was enough to tell me who she was and I can swear on my life that Gennora, my head maid has gotten nothing on this woman. The amu
HAERA.Nothing ever really happens without Gennora knowing about it. Especially when it's about me. It's like she has eyes everywhere and ears at every corners. Most of her eyes and ears are actually other maids in the maid quarters who would rather have the favor of Gennora rather than being the center of attraction to her. They are planted amongst us by her and no one ever really knows who they are and so we all try to be careful around each other. I had no friends or anyone who really liked me and so you would think it would be easy for me go escape the eager eyes of Gennora and her enthusiastic ears. I never really escape them. Bonus points for the fact that most of the maids hate my guts and bully me every chance they get. I never really know why I get bullied other than the fact that the other maids are just sickos, looking for someone else to take out their anger and stress on. Their excuse is always that my face adds to their stress and they'd rather beat me up than take a res
ZACHARY "You seem...different today." I was standing in front of the mirror and looking myself over from the reflection the mirror showed me. "Must be the Cloak...am I wearing it wrong?" I whipped my head around to look at Alan who was standing a few feet from me,with a undecipherable look in his eyes. Undecipherable to maybe anyone else but to me, Alan was an open book I could read more than the history books of the Werewolf folks. It's that look he gives me when he's trying to see if I'm okay or not. "The fact that you're wearing it is the problem." "What? The red Cloak? Don't be dramatic Alan, I wear it everytime." "Yourself? When have you ever worn anything yourself?" I shrugged and returned my gaze back to the mirror. "Should I have chosen the black one instead?" I asked absent-mindedly patting down a hair that strayed out of the perfectly jelled mass on my head. I heard Alan sigh. I ignored it and just focused on making the red cloak hang properly around me, making sure my legs
HAERAThe preparation for the rematch today was more hectic than the one for the first one. Or maybe the first Duel was equally as hectic as this and I wasn't around yet to be part of it. Whatever the case may be, everyone was on edge about the entire thing. There was something that made today different. And I could tell it was the uncertainty of who would finally become the Alpha of the pack. I'm sure us maids have it worse. Even worse than the two Princes who will be having their final fight today. Orders were being barked around and I'm shocked Gennora isn't the only one who makes maids shake in fear when she speaks. Dina, the Head maid of the Imperial place was equally as cold as Gennora. She was older but looked like she has served the royal family all her life. Her eyes flamed whenever someone is doing something wrong or just not doing it the way she liked. Her high-pitched voice claimed the air and almost drowned the sound of punching doughs, clattering plates, boiling waters a
HAERA. Blood was the first thing I saw after a punch landed on Alpha Prince Zachary's face. The blood spluttered in the air and he staggered trying to keep himself from falling but his opponent delivered another blow right in his guts that made him collapse to the floor. And that was the first round. I kept a palm on my mouth to keep me from squealing out in horror when the blow landed on his face. Everyone else cheered, drums rolled and the dignitaries all clapped and shared views as if they were watching a game. I was the closest to the signatures on the single line I and the other maids formed and so I was able to see the other pack heads nod at Luna Hegna while she smiled proudly and grinned from ear to ear like a Chesire cat. Of course. Her son delivered the first blow in just a few seconds into the duel. Everyone else was enjoying this but I wasn't. The thought of it never sat well with me even before I knew that the prince is my mate. No one deserves to be treated like a curse
HAERAIt took the scream of one person in the crowd to jerk all of us awake from what seemed like a daydream and a slumber. Luna Hegna. It took her frantic run through the crowd to get to her son who was thrown somewhere off amongst the crowd for everyone of us to actually realize what just happened. Everything happened so fast it was almost impossible. I was in a daze long before I saw my mate throw his opponent off the podium. Prince Tybalt shifting into his wolf was the first thing that put my heart in my mouth because it scared the shit out of me to see how big he was. He could sink his large teeth into anyone and they could get badly hurt before they're able to heal up. It was that fear that gripped me when I saw him. But the way prince Zachary effortlessly threw the wolf off of him was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. While everyone is trying to get out of their dazed state, he was standing on the podium, under the scorching sun. Breathing so hard I feared his chest would
HAERA The room seemed like it was closing in on me. I felt my stomach drop into a bottomless pit and I felt myself getting suffocated by the room I was in. It was a spacious dining hall. Enough to contain way more than the twenty diginatries sitting around the table. The biggest I've ever seen yet it suddenly feels so small for me. So cramped for me. The hall suddenly turned silent. Silent and grim like a graveyard but I was the only one who knew that because it was in my head. My head was the one that drew a blank line the moment the Alpha made the ground breaking announcement. My mind was the one basking in silence unlike the hall that was now bustling with shocked murmurs, excited whispers and surprised but hushed voices. My entire being is in total disarray even as my brain tried to pinpoint exactly what was going on. Trying to understand why my mate just announced someone else as his mate. Trying to understand why he's staring at her from his own end of the table with a gentle l
HAERA. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me because I didn't have the heart to stop. As I ran, my tears poured down in torrents down my face and I kept bringing my hand over my face to wipe them off. The tears blinded me, so much that I kept tripping on things as I ran and barely saved myself from falling from each trip on something. I had just one place in mind. The only place that has been my solace ever since I was old enough to serve as a maid in the pack. I've always looked cooking and so the kitchen was like a second home to me asides the cramped up room that sleep and wake up in everyday. Balfour would tease me and say my mother probably gave birth to me while she was cooking in the kitchen. Each time Gennora had her eyes on me because of something I did or mostly because the very day was my birthday, I would run to the kitchen and help Balfour with things around the kitchen. I was assigned to the kitchen at age thirteen on his demands. He told the head maid as the Alpha of