cent'

d proceeded to separate them into the dif

who the caller was, I hadn't known that someone else was behind

ooked no disobedience. Before I even saw his

I ans

he asked, his voice thunderous. 'Add Alpha

id, not really sho

maltreatment of me because I know you do not deserve that title. Y

not being afraid of what he might do to me. I wanted him to end my torture so that I could be with my family wherever they were in the afterlife but as time went on, I grew wiser, feeli

throne room for an important instruction', he sa

he throne room for instructions!' I mimicked him,

f it was only in secret. I took my time with the laundry but

ith the scene before me. I stared fixedly at the wall, wondering if he had called me here for the express reason to make me watch how he made out with his girlfriend. I could not endure the

ng her dress. Sylvester had had his hands deep inside her, and her mo

busy to hear', I retorted, my di

you speak to me',

d me to see you', I sai

ed furiously, looking from the indifferent expression on my fa

ed less. I was tired and not ready to care if my attitude annoye

ture', he said in a deadly voice. 'If I do, then, that will be

illicent! I a

o antagonize you', I said meekly. 'You sent f

ek', he said. 'I have told your Omega Lilian about it. She will inti

hania gave me. Did she think I was jealous of her engagement to Sylvester? Or w

k advantage of my fragile look and bullied me. I had accepted that before now because I had nobody in the world and did not feel like c

group of Omegas and waited at a respectable distance, waiting for her to finish addres

he bully omegas asked eyeing me. 'Were you not taught by yo

parents. I had just come from the throne room where Cathania

annon angrily,

ust the maid of the Alpha but recently, you have started behaving as though you are his mate. He

trol the anger I had been repressing, and leapt from where I was standing, onto her, pushing her t

aken me for granted, bullying me into doing their chores and I had not complained and they had thought it was out of my fear of them.

ellowed but I was past caring and continued hitting and clawing Shannon till

cheek, it wa

ws to fight without cause in this q

to watch the entertainment. Some of the men had were smiling at me with a kind of grudging admiration as we're some of the women, while others were lookin

plied. 'She's had it com

t only punish you severely, but Alpha Sylvester will he

so I could be told what my duties were to be on that day, when she started picking on me. As if that wasn't enough, she had to mention my parents as well. You teach us respect

me. 'Shannon, you did wrong, disrespecting her parents', she told her. 'I do not wa

e both said s

ued as though we had not spoken.. 'Even now, I shall give you som

threatened, and I merely wrinkled my nose at her, already walking away with Lilian as I received instructions on what