Unbelievably Mine

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."