CHAPTER 6

VICTORIA

When I woke up the following day alpha Jackson was not in the room. in fact, no one was in the room. it was clean though. I wondered how it was that I didn’t hear anything while they were cleaning. I looked towards the window and that was when I saw the sun was shining outside.

“Shit!” I quickly got up but winced at the pain I felt between my legs. The events of the night before came rushing back like the curse they were. Reminding of how Jackson claimed my body like it was his. How he didn’t miss every nook and curve.

The man did despicable things to me I never thought were supposed to be done to a human. My body betrayed me and responded to his every touch, kiss, and everything he did to me. “You are fucking weak, Victoria. How can you let him do those things to you.”

I was disgusted with myself and angry that I enjoyed it all. He did keep his promise though, he was gentle but that didn’t help much, the man was huge, and it felt like he was tearing me apart. We only did it twice, but it felt like the whole night.

I got down from the bed looking for my worn-out dress, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. But I noticed another dress on the bed. A new one at that, I had not gotten new clothes in the past three years. The ones I owned were either big, on me since I had lost so much weight or warn out.

I slowly walked to the bathroom wanting to at least shower before going out to attend to my duties. Goddess, mama Joyce was going to kill me for waking up that late. I hurried to the bathroom, when I walked in the tub was filled with water and it smelled nice.

There was a note stuck on the tub. “Have a bath, I will be back at noon.” My heart sank, did that mean he was going to want more? A cold shiver ran down my spine. I had not recovered from last night and yet he wanted it again at noon. What time was it anyway?

I got into the tub and the water felt amazing on my body. It had bath salts added to it; I knew those salts very well. They were the ones I used before when I was still a member of the back, the alpha family. I had not used them in years.

A tear fell from my eyes. Why did things change so much. Why couldn’t our kind have children and why was the Moon Goddess not answering prayers? Rituals had been performed to appease her but nothing.

Our kind could not smell their mates anymore, hence the concubines and chosen mates. I then remembered that it was late, I got out of the tub and dried myself then went and wore the dress that was on the bed then made the bed.

Just as I was heading to the door, it opened. I froze in place, my heart picked up pace. I was worried sick that it was him again. But two omegas walked in with food. They glared at me when they saw me.

They hate me too like everyone else in the pack. “Enjoy it while it lasts Victoria, soon the alpha will be tired of you and kick you out. I mean, how can our alpha lay with filth like you.” they laughed placing the food on the small table.

My stomach growled, I couldn’t remember when I last ate. “Did you really think the alpha was going to choose you as his concubine when he had she wolves like Elisa and Megan?” those were the most beautiful she wolves in the pack.

One was the sister of the gamma and another the daughter of the head warrior. They were, indeed, goddesses, they would be perfect if they weren’t so evil. They laughed walking out.

I walked out right behind them and rushed to the kitchen. Mama Joyce, my tormentor was there. My heart started beating fast and loud as if it were going to jump right out of my chest. She said nothing but glared at me.

“You should have at least showered instead of showing up here smelling like him.” she said, but I did bath, why did I still smell like him? “The bitch wants to rub it in that we were chased out of the alpha’s chambers while she stayed.”

Oh, dear Goddess, why did I have to wake up late and run into them. “Elisa, it’s not like that, I didn’t know the alpha was…” she slapped me hard across the face making my head turn to the side. I blinked a couple of times trying clear my vision that seemed to blur from that slap.’

“I thought you were good but that was just an act, you wanted him for yourself all along. How did you bewitch him?” I just stood there with my cheek feeling numb. “Answer me!” he yelled yanking my hair making me look at her.

“I didn’t do anything…” she slapped me again, so hard that I could hear ringing in my ears. “Why are you going easy on her?” that was Megan, another witch in the pack. “I couldn’t sleep a wink last night because of her.” I could hear her voice coming closer.

“Isn’t it enough that you cursed the pack and made every woman barren? What more do you want, huh?” Oh, dear Goddess, how long are you going to be silent for? is this your way of punishing us for something?

“What irritates me the most about you is the fact that you keep quiet when we are talking to you as if we are fools.” She drew a punch and closed my eyes waiting for impact, but it never came, instead, I heard a voice, his voice.

“Enough now!” I opened one eye to look, he was holding Megan’s arm stopping the punch that would have broken another one of my ribs or given me a blue eye. I was grateful for that.

“You, I thought I told you to not let her leave the room today, why is she here.” Mama Joyce bowed her head. “I sent food to the room alpha and told the omegas to relay the message, but she showed up here and I was about to send her back. forgive me, alpha.”

Lies, those omegas said nothing about staying in the room or that the food was mine. Even if they had, I wasn’t going to stay in his room. “Let’s go.”