HAERA
MATE!!!Maybe I had heard it wrong and Dezra was pulling pranks on me or I was imagining it, whatever the case may be that caused me to back away from the crowd before my mate could see me, I didn't stop running until I was far away from the place where the Alpha Duel took place.Until I was far away for the noise and loud cheering till it sounded like it came from a farther distance than it was really coming from. Until I was able to find a corner to hide in somewhere that's enclosed and away from the prying eyes of anyone. I didn't even know where I was,I didn't bother to check since I knew nowhere in the Imperial Pack but one thing I knew was that I wanted to be alone to be able to process my thoughts because...what the hell just happened?!I was still trying so hard to convince myself that I was dreaming. That I didn't just have the sudden urge to tear through the crowd and claim that man on the stage as mine because that's what he is.Mine. Unbelievably mine! I can't believe that I just found my mate. I can't even bring myself to believe that found him on my birthday and I definitely can't believe that the moon goddess chose to bestow me with someone who isn't just any mate-an Alpha prince of the most powerful pack in the woodlands. I can't believe my luck. Luck.Cause that's what it is to me.I've never been lucky all my life and I will myself to believe that it all started from the day I was "supposedly" found by Gennora, the head maid. I was considered lucky but it didn't seem to me like one for me when it feels like a misfortune for me to be born on the same day as the Alpha princess...maybe a few hours apart from her.That has never been luck to me...to me, it's nothing but torture when I have to bow and respect the woman who saved my life no matter what she does to me. I owed my life to her. It's torture when I have to act like my birthday is not the most important day in my life because I share it with the princess. So I've never considered myself a lucky type.But all of a sudden, that changed and I can't believe the change would be one so huge and overwhelming like this. I found my mate on my 18th birthday!Considering my wacky luck, I had expected to be one of the late boomers. Some people don't find their mate until very late in life. Meaning not everyone is Lucky to find their mate at eighteen but I did...I got lucky. And that's not all...My freaking mate is an Alpha prince! The prince of the Powerful Imperial Pack!I, Haera Mycroft, a nobody and a palace maid with wild dreams of owning restaurant, am the mate to a powerful prince!I felt my heart thundering in my chest as I thought of it. The excitement threatened to tear through me. I pinched myself a few times until it hurt real bad and I was sure that I wasn't dreaming. It was real and I really picked up that scent.It all happened so fast. One moment I was cheering the Alpha prince on and the next, I felt myself getting drawn to him like magnet. The shock me had me rooted in place as I saw him look frantically around. I knew instantly that the scent hit him too and it was only a matter of seconds before those silver eyes find me. And then I panicked and...."You ran!!!" Dezra hasn't stopped growling even if it's been hours since the discovery. After clearing my head in my little space that I bolted to upon realizing that I just found my mate in the most unexpected place ever. Now I was already back in the kitchen with the other maids as we cleaned the kitchen of leftovers after the Duel. I missed the rest of the duel but I had thought the Alpha prince who was my mate lost because the last thing I saw was him hitting the ground and I knew I was the cause of the distraction. I didn't need anyone to tell me that it was the same Alpha prince I was rooting for that turned out to be my mate. How lucky of me...While coming back and slipping unnoticed back to my post in the kitchen, I overheard the maids and other place workers saying the fight ended as a tie and I couldn't be more relieved. But Dezra wasn't though. Her anger was validated but I wished she could understand me as well. There was no way I could have allowed my mate to see me...this way. He's not an ordinary mate but an Alpha prince. I on the other hand am nothing but an ordinary maid. A very ugly one with large pimples bulging out of my face. Always dressed in hideous uniforms that do nothing to reduce the impact my face already had on my personality. I couldn't let my mate see me that way and u already admitted long before I came back to the kitchen- that I was scared. Scared of outright rejection from my mate because of how I look. I bolted because I didn't feel worthy of being the mate to such a powerful and strong person. As excited as I felt to be that lucky to be mated to him-it was just that, excitement. One that I couldn't act upon and so for as long as I can, I'm going to remain here.Far away from the Alpha.Till I'm able to figure out what to do next about the situation. Dezra on the other hand wasn't having it and I almost looked like I was crazy to the other maids cleaning the kitchen with me with the way I was seething at her."You freaking ran!!!" And that's all she's being saying for hours to my hearing. Growling and prowling around with the intent of driving me crazy. "That's it Dezra! I've had enough of your restlessness in my head. Let it be!" I said to her but I should have known better because it only infuriated her the more and made her growl angrily at me. "You're pathetic... why the hell would you run away from your mate...our mate! We found our mate and all you were capable of doing was running?"My hold on the sponge I was holding to a plate, tightened hard that I felt I would break the plate if I wasn't careful. I was sick of hearing her lectures in my head right from the moment I bolted to that secluded place. I didn't want to hear anymore from her than I already have but knowing Dezra, she won't back down that easily. "You're crazy Haera, just crazy." I slapped the sponge into the soapy water in front of me with a loud splash that drew everyone's attention to me. I turned to the other maid beside to see that I already splashed the soapy mixture all over her body and the look on her eyes was that of annoyance at my behavior. I mouthed a sorry to her but I knew that won't cut it, considering my outburst distracted the entire kitchen.I slowly returned to washing the dishes while giving a subtle warning to Dezra to stop messing with me. It's in times like this that we never agree with each other and it sickens me that she fails to understand me sometimes as well as the decisions I make."You can't tell me to shut up when you're being a coward Haera, face it!" "I'm not being a coward...I'm being reasonable and saving both of us the fucking pain and embarrassment." "No! I think you're being selfish Haera...you're deciding all of this on your own without actually meeting him. What makes you think he's going to reject you?"I've heard stories of rejections for me to know that anyone can be rejected for the most unfounded reasons to ever exist. But mine didn't seem like it was going to be unfounded because the Alpha prince has every reason to reject being mated to a maid. I can imagine the number of women who flock around him day in day out. Beautiful women with good backgrounds. And not me...a simple maid with an ugly face. I was really done having this argument with Dezra. There's no way I'm showing my face to the Alpha prince and that's it. "I'm not having this talk with you Dezra... I've made my decision. We leave for our own pack in two days time and until then, I’m staying away from the Alpha." "Haera! What if he doesn't plan on rejecting you? Huh...what if you're the one thinking that way." I already thought of it before Dezra did. But I waved it off. It's been hours. I haven't seen him of caught whiff of that scent again. He wasn't anywhere around. He wasn't willing to look for me. Maybe he saw me running away in that uniform and he was already disgusted before even seeing my face."Then he would have come looking for me." I simply replied Dezra and that shut her up for seconds longer than I expected.In fact, it shut her up for minutes as I rounded up at the kitchen with the other maids after cleaning the entire place till it was sparkling. I was just about to untie my apron and lay it somewhere when one of the maids stopped in front of me. She was tall and intimidating. Her black and white uniform had a crest in front of her chest that instantly told me who she was as well as the fact that I must have seen her around a few times at the pack. She's one of the older maids that we are made to respect for their age and rank.I bowed slightly to her. "You...where were you during the Alpha Duel?" The look in her eyes and the way everyone else in the room looked at us told me that there was no use lying. She must have noticed my absence. And here I was thinking I was invincible to everyone at the pack.I knew I could be in big trouble but I had no lie to tell either. "I'm sorry." I simply said. Hoping she'll leave it at that. There was a brief pause before she handed me a well packed meal wrapped in a satin material of clothing. I looked at it and back at her, in confusion. She tilted her head to the side as she gave me her reply. "Since you love being around the Alphas so much for you to leave your post to watch them, then you might as well take their dinner up to their towers."I felt all of the blood drain away from my face. There was an ominous silence in the room as if everyone knew what this meant. Because they knew. "Whose-- meal is this?"I stammered. "Alpha Zachary's."HAERA"His tower is the one on the left side and his room is at the last floor of the tower, the highest point. All you have to do is to find his guards or the beta. They will lead you to his room. The Alpha prince has a dining hall but he would rather stay and eat in his room. "You have to stay till he's done eating before you leave. Understood?" I understand all right. I understand that I've just been sent on an errand that feels like it would be the last one I would go on in my entire life. I understand that the other maids pushed me into being the one to deliver the Alpha Prince's dinner to him under the guise of punishment for running off to watch the Alpha's duel. They were all afraid of him. And I would have wondered why if I had not overheard a few of them talking not so quietly in the room assigned to us as I prepared to go to the Alpha's Tower to deliver his food. Their whispers of gossip didn't seem like much of a whisper to me. They intended for me to hear the horr
HAERA When Alan, the Alpha prince’s supposed beta, turned the door knob to open the door and light flooded into the room, I expected it to reveal a dark ominous room–possibly with crimson walls and shady paintings as well as a fun eerie lightning of a few candles by a big king-sized bed with a dark and big shadow seated atop the bed. It’s crazy, I know. My imagination has been running wild since I was ordered to go up to the tower to serve the Alpha prince his dinner. But the entirety of my imagination came to a halt and proofed out of my brain just as it settled in it before. I didn’t know I was barely breathing–that my lungs had totally thinned and void of enough air to help me breath well–until I saw what was in the room before me was nothing but a pantry and not the Alpha prince Zachary’s room and I released a loud breath of air that suddenly gushed out. As much as I tried to hide it from the tall and intimidating second in command to the Alpha prince, it was clear that I was sca
HAERAI got it all wrong. Typical me. I assumed things in my head by using the only thing I considered logical but it came right back to bite me in the butt. It was too late because I didn’t need anyone to tell me what just happened. I fell right into a trap no one set but that I didn’t see coming. Alpha prince Zachary is my mate. The cool and collected one who fought his brother who seemed like he carried all the rage in the world upon his shoulders and who I also assumed was the supposed crazy Alpha. The one who was rumored to be crazy. The unmarked child my heart went out for before I even saw him. The one I ran from because I was scared of rejection. And the one I thought I would never see again until I return to my pack. That was the plan. To stay far away from him or anything related to him and return to my pack like it never happened. But of course, nothing ever goes the way I plan or want. The only thing I wasn’t wrong about is the room. A different person than I thought might
Alpha prince Zachary was already standing up an arm lunged for me before I could take another step away from him and dragged me on my arm with it toward the bed almost making me lose my balance and dumping the tray of food to the floor. I clenched my eyes shut and muffled a scream. The hand already held me down to the soft bed The only thing holding body away from mine was the tray I gripped tightly in front of me. Don’t breathe too loud. But I was already breathing so fucking loud enough for my own ears to pick up. But I wasn’t the only one breathing that hard. The only thing that made it different was that other breath was hot on my face. Really hot. He wasn’t breathing. He was fuming. This cannot be good. The room was silent which obviously made it easy for me to be able to hear the harsh breathing of both myself and him as he held me back up against the wall. The close proximity was messing with my senses and it wasn’t even in a good way. Stay two feet away from him. But I was too
I don’t know what stopped me–it was hard to tell, but my bets are on the terrified look in her big brown eyes as she stared at me… somewhat pleadingly. The fear in her eyes was as clear as crystal. I hated it. And how it made me feel. And so I pulled back from tugging on the sash that I knew she purposefully used to hide her face from me. Why she did that didn’t matter at the moment. All that mattered was that my mate was seated right in front of me. Scaring her was the last thing I wanted and considering the way she’s acted towards me the moment she stepped into my room, I knew she must have heard the rumors. I didn’t want to go about, confirming those fears of hers and so I released her from my hold. She backed away immediately. I didn’t make any move to stop her. Rushing to her feet and going back to stand on the stupid red line that separates me from anyone who comes into my room. Her reaction would have hurt if I wasn’t still drowning in my thoughts of whether this was real or no
ZACHARYNormally, I don’t spend more than two minutes eating whatever food is brought to me–breakfast, Lunch, dinner–I just always want to end it as fast as I can so that the smell of a maid’s fear in my room could evaporate and I can be left alone again in the solace of my room. I never even finish eating no matter how tasty the food is. I get disgusted after the second spoon but still push a few more spoons into my mouth and then that’s it. Today, I didn’t know when I finished the entirety of my dinner served to me by mate. I never finish eating the hottest meals yet I shoved the cold one down my throat like it was the most delicious thing ever. I didn’t enjoy the food. No need to lie about that. It was already sour. Cheese and…is definitely not the kind of food you eat cold. What I truly enjoyed was the presence of my mate who was still kneeling dutifully in front of me. Her presence was what made me eat finish the entire sour food. It was the best excuse to have her stay longer be
ZACHARYLuna Hegna has never really being the smiling type. She wears a scowl wherever she goes and it only deepens when she’s looking at something she doesn’t like. Something that makes her blood boil so much that you can see the strained veins of her muscles on the exposed parts of her body. Like the way she has me pinned with a death glare as she stood by the opened door with her hands crossed. Her emerald eyes peeled over the room before landing on me. I was used to that kind of open scrutiny from her eyes. She’d look around my room as if looking out for deadly weapons that could kill her once she takes a step into my room. Sometimes she’d whisper incoherent words that sounds like a chant to ward off curses present in my room. She’s made it obvious a thousand more times that I wasn’t wanted here. And it’s been like that since the very first day I was brought to the Imperial pack by my father. The story is no longer one I need to recount again or even want to think about at all but
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