Her eyes met with mine and she gave me a reassuring smile.
Behind those smiles, I could see the hidden pains. I could see the broken heart she was trying to mask with her smiles.
I blinked away the tears on my eyes and wiped them off with my shoulder as my hands were tied to the pole.
"We heard from Maya that you stole food from the kitchen, did you do that?" The Alpha's cruel voice rang out.
No need to deny anything because it makes no sense and would change nothing. They would still give me punishments whether I deny or accept and denying would make it worse so I just nodded my head in affirmation.
"You have no fear to go into my household kitchen and steal food from my pot, how dare you?" The Luna yelled as her hot palm collided with my face.
The pain stung me hard and I bite on my inner cheek to hold it in and prevent myself from crying.
"You better be fast with that, I want my hair looking breathtaking else you will be in big trouble," Madison said to me as I style her hair. I simply ignored her rants and continued with brushing her extension. The week had been a rollercoaster of emotion for me but thanks to the goddess, I came out alive after the hell of punishment been melted out to me. I had just finished working at the construction site and was finally given food after seven days of starvation and torture. I couldn't even count how many times I collapsed. I was on my way to our tiny room to rest and see how my mother had been doing when Madison called me to style her hair. I wanted to decline but I just couldn't, I had to follow her into her room. "Maddy guess what?" Anna yelled from outside coming into the room with a big smile plastered on her face.
~~~XANDER~~~ On getting down from the plane and looking around in search of the guards my mother sent to pick me up from the airport, I finally spotted them coming towards me in a haste. I sighed in frustration as they got to me and prostrated in greetings. This place sucks and this people too. I began walking to the car ignoring their greetings as they followed behind with my luggages. On getting to the Maybach packed few meters away from where I stood before, one of the guard opened the car door and I got into the back sit. The car reversed and drove out of the airport into the streets of my pack. Staring out of the windows, reminds me so much of the time I was here. Those times I enjoyed being here but now, mere looking at these Street makes me want to puke. I brought out my headse
The doctor took his gaze to the floor and nodded making me sprang up to my feet. "What nonsense are you talking about? That the lady I brought here myself has disappeared?" I asked turning to the nurse and trying to understand what she meant. "I'm afraid yes. I went to check on how she's doing and administer drugs to her but found the bed empty. I also went into the bathroom thinking she went to ease herself but it was also empty. I searched around the whole ward but couldn't find her" the nurse said and I chuckled, the whole thing sounding off to me. How possible could that be, if the said she was too weak from the abuse she went through, then how on earth would she be able to get up from the bed and leave the hospital on her own and does it mean nobody saw her leaving or what? "You both must really be kidding me because I do
My mother's health is in a critical condition and she must not die" I said trying to push my way out. "Well, your mother would not die because we would get her drugs. Come with me to the hospital" he said and started walking back into the hospital. I simply followed him in giving him some gap because I do not entirely trust him. He may be taking me back to the doctor because I ran out of the hospital. Well, my guess was totally right as well as wrong because he took me to the doctor who asked me what was wrong with my mother and prescribed drugs to her after I had explained to them that I won't be able to get her to the hospital because my pack alpha won't allow that. Mr. Xander as he said his name was took me back home. He stopped at the boundary on my request and I had to run through the woods and back into the packhouse successfully sneaking into our room without being noticed.
You should live by example not by going to school dressed like someone going for a runway show" my mother yelled, her eyes widened from shock. "Can you stop mother? I despise that uniform and I'm better off this way. It doesn't mean I'm irresponsible " I complained and she shook her head disagreeing with me. "No way son, your father would never consent to this. you know him, don't you? Please for my sake, put on the uniform please" she pleaded and I rolled my eye. "Mom I can- " please Xander it's just for a year and you would graduate alright? Just manage it" she muttered and landed multiple pecks on my cheeks which ended up making me smile. "You've just succeed in bribing me mother" I whined and she laughed pushing me back into the room and going straight to my wardrobe to get one of the many uniforms the maids brought to me. I sighed on se
Meters away from the table was a coffee maker and a little drawer beside it. The office was what I would call exquisite. Cool and welcoming. The scent was something I could pay heavily to inhale again. Too bad I had no money. The office does not in any way look like a school office, it looks more like a company CEO office. A man was sitting on the office chair, his eyes focused on the computer screen as his hands type away. Just as if he knew I was looking at him, he raised his head and I swallowed. "Good day sir" I greeted the chubby-looking bearded elderly man wearing a spectacle. "Miss Zendaya Roberto right?" He asked and I gave him a nod. "Have a seat" he said pointing at the armchair beside him. "Thank you, sir" I muttered and sat down properly keeping my backpac
The students yell out in awe as more of them trop in. Most of them brought out their phones and I could tell they were videoing me. "My mother is not a slut Maya and I fell. I didn't mean to fall into him," I said and glanced over at Mira hoping she would come to my rescue but she just stood there, her hands clamped over her mouth and her eyes held pity in them. I guess she has no power considering she was also a scholarship student and has no right to talk back at the rich kids. I took my eyes away from her and pinned them to the floor. "I would not want to embarrass you on your first day nor expose who you are, but you would leave me with no choice but to make your stay here a living hell if I ever see you an inch close to Xander. "Stay away from my business and focus on what brought you here. Do not touch my tails" Maya warned, pushed me harshly making me fall
We were given a 30 mins recess after the first 3 lectures and we would go for lunch break after taking more two lectures. We got to the bench and sat down, I explained everything that happened on that day I got into an accident, omitting the part of being maltreated and treated like a slave in my own father's pack. I wasn't allowed to say any of that in order not to bring my family's name to shame. "Wow, that was so nice of him" Mira muttered and I nodded in agreement. "Is he in our class?" I asked Mira referring to Xander. "Yeah, he's in our grade but does not study with us. He takes his lectures privately though he still comes to school but he barely spends three hours and he's gone". " As the alpha, he wasn't allowed to study with us or stay away from his pack's responsibility but I heard he left the c