JaneI stood there, ready for her to fight back, but she didn’t. Instead, she stormed off, her face red with fury and embarrassment.“Wow, Jane,” June whispered admiringly. “You’re so brave. I wish I could be like you.”After breakfast, Priscilla gathered all the maids to assign the daily chores. When she got to me, she handed me a list that was three times longer than anyone else’s.“What?!” I cried out in disbelief. “You’re giving all of this work to just me?”“There’s no room for lazy maids in my system,” she said with a mocking smile. “You eat my food and sleep under my roof for free. Stop whining and get to work.”She walked away with a satisfied smirk, leaving me staring at the impossible list of tasks.One of the other maids came over to me with a sympathetic look.“She’s clearly trying to bully you into quitting,” she said quietly.“Jane, this is way too much work for one person!” June added angrily. “No wonder our chores today are so light, that witch dumped everything on you
Jane“What?” I said, feeling insulted. “Do you honestly think I would do something so pathetic? For him? After what he did to me?”“Then why are you here?” she asked again, her voice full of confusion. “Why are you living in his pack?”“Because he forced me!” I shouted, all my anger and pain pouring out. “He rejected me when I was weak and defenseless. But then he changed his mind after he discovered how powerful my wolf really is. When I refused to take him back, he threw me in a prison cell. Then he had me tortured. Then he dragged me here and forced me to be his personal maid!”“Oh, Jane...” June whispered, her eyes filling with tears.“I didn’t choose any of this!” I continued, my voice breaking. “I don’t want to be here. I don’t even want to look at his face ever again!”All the emotions I’d been holding inside came flooding out. June listened silently, taking in every painful word I said.When I finished, she pulled me into a tight hug.“You’ve been through absolute hell,” she s
JaneThe hallway fell completely silent. Every servant, every guard, everyone stopped what they were doing to stare at us. No one had ever dared speak to the Alpha King like that.His eyes flashed with dangerous anger. “What did you just say to me?”“You heard me perfectly,” Amber replied through my voice, completely unafraid. “I don’t belong to you or your pack. I owe you nothing.”June stepped forward carefully. “Alpha King, please forgive her. Jane hasn’t been feeling well. She didn’t mean—”“Stay out of this, omega,” Richard cut her off harshly. Then he turned back to me, his eyes burning with fury.“You may not be part of my pack officially,” he stated in a low, dangerous voice, “but you live in my territory. You eat my food. You sleep under my roof. That makes you subject to my rules.”“Your food?” Amber laughed bitterly. “You mean the scraps you throw at us once a day? Your roof? You mean the tiny room with no windows and a leaking ceiling? You call that generosity?”The other
JaneBeing a maid was the worst thing that had ever happened to me. No one would choose this life willingly. The Alpha King had destroyed everything—first by rejecting me as his mate, then by making me his slave.Kira, the head maid, made my life miserable every single day. She joined the other servants in bullying me, always finding new ways to make me suffer.June was my only friend in this terrible place. She helped me with my work even when she was exhausted from her own tasks.June was tall and beautiful, with beautiful hair. Even though she was just an omega—the lowest rank in our world—she had a warm heart that made everything feel a little less hopeless.One evening, as we sat on our small beds in our shared room, June looked at me with curious eyes.“Jane, I need to ask you something,” she said softly. “Why are you really here? Your scent... it’s not like an omega’s. It’s much stronger. Why would you choose to be a maid?”I almost laughed at her question. Who would ever choos
Jane“How dare you bite me when I only wanted to taste you?” he roared, his voice echoing off the stone walls. “How dare you fight me, Jane?”I had no fear. Fear had died in me long ago, killed by his daily injections of wolfsbane and endless torture. Now he wanted something worse from me.“What gives you the right to touch me?” I snarled back, my voice hoarse but steady. “You’re nothing but a monster.”His eyes flashed with anger. “Have you forgotten who I am, little mate?” He stepped closer, and I could smell the cruelty on him. “I’m your mate. That gives me every right to touch what belongs to me. You are mine, and soon you’ll be moaning beneath me. I’ll take you in every way I want. I don’t care whether you accept me or not.”The words made my stomach turn. This man—this Alpha King—believed he owned everything and everyone. He thought people were just toys for his pleasure.“I will never let you touch me,” I spat. “I’d rather die than let you force yourself on me, you bastard.”“Y
JaneTwo guards entered my cell and dragged me out. I was too weak from the wolfsbane to put up much of a fight. They hauled me down the corridor to a room I hadn’t seen before.The punishment room was exactly what it sounded like - a stone chamber filled with instruments designed to cause pain. In the center was a wooden post with iron shackles attached to it.“Chain her up,” one of the guards ordered.They fastened the shackles around my wrists, forcing me to stand with my arms stretched above my head. Then, without warning, someone threw a bucket of ice-cold water over me.“What are you doing?” I gasped, shivering from the cold.“Time for your punishment,” the guard said with a cruel grin. “I’m in charge of teaching you respect.”“What crime did I commit?” I asked.“Crime?” he laughed. “Your crime is disobeying the Alpha King. Your crime is thinking you’re better than you are.”The first lash of the whip across my back made me scream. The second made my knees buckle. By the fifth,