*Abi POV*It’s Thursday morning when I wake up to find Omario smiling at me. That smile literally takes my breath away. “Morning sleepy head.”I look suspiciously at him. He is definitely up to something. but I can’t quite figure out what. With Terrence gone, I don’t have anyone to search what he is up to. I can’t even ask Teresa because he won’t let me return to the servants quarters. Apparently he does not trust any other servant around me besides Terrence. Since the dog incident, he has become very protective of me and I don’t know what to make of it. “Stop overthinking things. I have something for you,” he says and pushes a bag towards me. I sit up and open it and my heart sinks. I hate turning him down when he is just being kind. “I really appreciate your help but I told you that I am not…”“It’s the castle’s new servant’s uniform,”he interjects. I shake my head and take out four cotton dresses, tekkies and tracksuits. They look simple and very comfortable. The Lilly town k
*Omario POV*I arrive at the castle before dad and his folks return. The idiots are probably still chasing the rogue scent Terrence sent out. I am not worried about Terrence. With his speed, I am pretty sure that he is back in Palmland by now. “Still waiting?” I ask Rufus, whom I find waiting in the courtyard. He probably waited for the hunting party to return until he came out here to investigate. “Thank you, Your Majesty,” he says and bows respectfully in front of me. His response take me by surprise but I keep a straight face. “For what exactly?”He smiles at me and I suddenly feel bare. “Now I won’t be involved in persecuting an innocent girl. I will forever be grateful to you.”I look at him with mixed feelings. He knows too much. All this information make me vulnerable and his a liability. “You have earned my trust and loyalty. Anything I know, I will take to my grave. You have my word, Your Majesty,” he vows, reading through me. At least he is not in my head like my Gamma
*Omario POV*Two weeks later, my parents and I having breakfast. It feels like we are a family for once in my entire life. “This is nice. You two like this,”I say with a huge grin. I am twenty-two years old, I have seen too much of dad’s cruelty to be naive but I would still love yearn for a good, normal and loving family. “You mean me not getting any?”dad sneers. I guess he does not feel the same. “Get over it and no one is stopping you from getting a divorce!” mom snaps while glaring at him. He complains about not sleeping around like it’s his basic human right and mom does not take his crap these days. “You have mom,” I suggest. Surely this can’t be too bad considering they both spent half the morning in bed together. “The sex is great but your mom is too weak! Her goodness and sympathy is too suffocating. Can you believe that she is on my case about handing Brenda to Blake? How weak can you get?” he sneers with a disgust written all over his face. “Brenda is horrible and y
*Omario POV*Four months later….“Missing the sunlight?” Terrence asks when he finds me staring at the sunset. He returned from Palmland three months ago and him and I have gotten even closer. “What?”“Thin as a skeleton but a million dollar smile that lights up the castle,” he teases. He is still convinced that Abi is my mate and I have stopped arguing with him on it. “I hope that she is okay,”I confess. He is the only person I can talk to about her. I could try to find out how she is but that would be too risky. With Pious always lingering around, I am pretty sure that one of his missions is to find her. “She is a fighter. Of course she is okay.” I don’t know if Terrence is trying to convince me or himself, but I hope he is right. “Are you okay?” The concern on his voice is unmistakable. He is almost a brother I never had, but an irritating one at times. I shrug my shoulders. I just feel down a lot lately. With Brenda back in the castle, dad is completely under her spell and m
*Abi POV*It’s been just over four months since I was here but it feels like years. So much has changed about me in that short period. I have discovered the good and bad about me and I have embraced it. I now know exactly who I am. Still, I am not ready to face my enemy. I shouldn’t be back here, not yet, but I couldn’t wait. I take a deep breath, with my head high and step so ever sure, I walk into the courtyard. They all turn to look at me and my bestie flashes me a big smile. I bet the rest have no idea who I am. I don’t blame them, all they know is a battered malnourished slave. Well, not anymore. Even I was surprised when those hollow bones got filled by muscle and fat. My human agent says I’m angelic, whatever that means. Mint, honey and cinnamon…mmmh. I don’t know if that’s even a flavour but that’s what’s been calling me all the way from my hiding. “Ooh la lah!” my sworn enemy exclaims and licks his lustrous lips when I stroll past him. Yuck! That’s an image I will need t
*Abi POV*I clench my fists and watch Alpha Theo getting closer while my heart beats like a drum. I am well aware of Terrence and Omario shifting next to me but my focus is on my sworn enemy and his friends who almost have us cornered at the aisle. You can tell from the grins on their faces that they are excited about this. This is another stupid hunting adventure to them. Terrence and I are obviously outnumbered, it must be clear to everyone here whom the victors will be, but one thing for sure, we will not go down without a fight. I can’t help but be reminded that my father once fought against these idiots, and killed a lot of them too. He would have come victorious had it not been for Alpha Theo’s invincibility. I hope I inherited some of his heroics. Terrence’s wolf tries to charge forward, but I pull him with his neck and push him right behind me. He growls, clearly not impressed with my actions. He’s always tried to shield me from harm, even took some punishments for me, it’s
*Abi POV*I don’t how I shifted back to myself but I wish I hadn’t. Seeing through Nina’s blazing eyes is completely different from mine. Everything that was in the courtyard is now ashes. What was once the most cruel ruler and his friends also mixed there, not even a bone is visible. My eyes turn to the two people I am now terrified to face. Their expressions are enough to tell me that they are now scared of me. Omario stands in the same corner he was in when Nina bit him. His hand is pressing the bite mark which should be bleeding considering the location, but I don’t see any blood there. I am really relieved that he is alive, I could have never been able to forgive myself if I killed him. “Do you two have to be so dramatic? I mean you could mark each other like normal people do.”I turn to look at Terrence in disbelief. “The bite is on his neck. I did not mark him.”I am clueless about a lot of this but I know where mates mark each other. “Who said that’s the only location one c
*Omario POV*I sit on the bed in my chambers in a daze, trying to make sense of what happened. The elders and prophets have sworn me in placed as the interim Alpha before the formal ceremony, but I did not hear a word that was said. My door opens and I don’t even turn to check who it is. Only one person does not bother knocking. “Say it.”I know that he always has an opinion too. “Say what?”“Say what’s on your mind.”I know he has something to say, it’s better if we talk and get over with it. “You are an asshole.”There it is! My Gamma never disappoints. An empty laugh escape my lips. I’m not even shocked anymore. I was the second powerful person after my dad, now I’m the Alpha but none of that ever stopped Terrence from speaking his mind. “I have no doubt that you will be good for the people but I can’t be your Gamma.”“You are taking side and choosing Abi over me?”I don’t even know why I ask because it’s obvious. I am hurt by his decision because he has not even asked me my