HAERA I never knew my parents. Didn't even think I had one. But I have being reminded constantly in my life that I could have died in the cold as a baby outside of the Alpha palace if Gennora hadn't found me. I was just a few hours old when I was brought by her into the Alpha palace and raised me as her own-a maid...not her daughter. "HEAR ALL! HEAR NOW! THE PRINCESS BIRTHDAY IS TODAY. ALL ASSEMBLE, THE PRINCESS TURNS 18 TODAY!" The call doesn't only serve as my wake up call, but also a reminder of how miserable this very day has always been for me. Both none of those actually give me the hot like my third wake-up call that is probably just a few seconds away from–"Haera!!!" There it is. The call might always be for me but it isn't just me who panics and scurry around the room. Since I share the bunker room with nine other maids, you can only imagine the commotion the entire room descended into. Everyone was struggling to get into their clothes, pack their hair and clean the
The shock and the familiarity that the voice sent coursing through me made me turn around swiftly in horror.When my eyes caught who was standing at the kitchen door, I couldn't help the sharp exhale of breathe that left my lips. "Goodness, you scared me." I groused, relieved that it wasn't Gennora or a maid who hates my guts or just anyone who would do anything to earn points from Gennora at my own detriment. Ulric merely shrugged my relieved words off as he walked fully into the kitchen, dressed properly in his khakis–a uniform I'd pick ten times over this eyesore I was wearing if only maids were allowed to wear the uniforms meant for the Omega guards. Ulric was the Head of the Omega guards who served as a protective force for the Alpha king and his family–outside and inside of these walls. In contrast to his big and domineering frame, his personality has to be the best after Balfour's. He's scary to all of the other maids but to me, he's just that softball who is all mushy ins
ZACHARYThe serenity of the room I was in was just what my befuddled mind needed as I stared into nothing but open space. Technically I wasn't staring at nothing. I was staring at my reflection in the big standing mirror while the maids surrounding me wordlessly dressed me in the traditional royal attire for the Alpha prince. I watched how they clipped on my red cloak that has the large seal of a crown surrounded by wolves on it–the symbol of our pack. I watched how they pushed my feet into the golden shoes and buckled them tightly around me.My eyes followed the combing of my black mass of hair with so much gentleness and care to make it fit perfectly on top of my head.My eyes didn't miss the specks of fine powder dusted on my face to bring out the glow of my silver eyes.Everything. I watched it all.Yet I still felt like I was staring at nothing.Of course, I was nothing. "Smile Zach. You shouldn't have that gloomy look on your face when today is going to be the day for you t
ZACHARY"Hello brother." The first time I heard those words, I was ten. My father had just brought me from outside of the woodlands after the death of my mother–and to his palace.That day, I didn't need anyone to tell me I wasn't wanted there. I hid behind the safety of my father's back when he introduced me to the Luna–his true mate, and his son, Tybalt who was just about my age and of course my half brother. A fully marked child who deserved his father's throne.The look of disdain and hatred in the Luna's eyes spoke volumes and as little as I was then, I knew what the look meant. It still gives me the shivers till this dayThat day, I wanted to snatch myself away from my father and run far far away. But I couldn't. I had to resign to my awful fate. I thought I saw a glimmer of hope when Tybalt extended an arm of friendship. He had also waved at me from where he was standing behind his mother, when he said those words. "Hello brother."I was young and naive and lonely. I need
HAERAJust a peep. That's what I told myself when I slyly slipped away from the entourage of the Alpha king sent to pay our tribute respect to their selection of a new Alpha through the Duel. My reason for slipping away was simple. I wanted to see the Duel. I'd blame Balfour for telling me more than I should know about the duel that peaked my interest right from when we set foot in the palace of the Alpha of the Imperial Pack but my own curiosity was what got the better of me. All through the ride to the Imperial pack-that's only a few miles from my pack-my mind went back and forth from the thought of the two sons who will be fighting for the Alpha position of their pack. My heart immediately went out to the unmarked child without even having an idea of who he was. But I could imagine what kind of pain he is or has been all his life. As much as I tried, I couldn't shrug the thought off my mind. If it was pity I felt, I wasn't sure. But whatever it was, stepping foot into the
HAERAMATE!!!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 b
HAERA"His tower is the one on the left side and his room is at the last floor of the tower, the highest point. All you have to do is to find his guards or the beta. They will lead you to his room. The Alpha prince has a dining hall but he would rather stay and eat in his room. "You have to stay till he's done eating before you leave. Understood?" I understand all right. I understand that I've just been sent on an errand that feels like it would be the last one I would go on in my entire life. I understand that the other maids pushed me into being the one to deliver the Alpha Prince's dinner to him under the guise of punishment for running off to watch the Alpha's duel. They were all afraid of him. And I would have wondered why if I had not overheard a few of them talking not so quietly in the room assigned to us as I prepared to go to the Alpha's Tower to deliver his food. Their whispers of gossip didn't seem like much of a whisper to me. They intended for me to hear the horr
HAERA When Alan, the Alpha prince’s supposed beta, turned the door knob to open the door and light flooded into the room, I expected it to reveal a dark ominous room–possibly with crimson walls and shady paintings as well as a fun eerie lightning of a few candles by a big king-sized bed with a dark and big shadow seated atop the bed. It’s crazy, I know. My imagination has been running wild since I was ordered to go up to the tower to serve the Alpha prince his dinner. But the entirety of my imagination came to a halt and proofed out of my brain just as it settled in it before. I didn’t know I was barely breathing–that my lungs had totally thinned and void of enough air to help me breath well–until I saw what was in the room before me was nothing but a pantry and not the Alpha prince Zachary’s room and I released a loud breath of air that suddenly gushed out. As much as I tried to hide it from the tall and intimidating second in command to the Alpha prince, it was clear that I was sca