Chapter 7

Alessia's POV

Hearing him talk about meeting the Alpha and Luna gets me anxious, I begin to wonder why he wants to have a meeting with me. It can because of me. There is nothing that will make him want to meet people he got angry with and left when the meeting was still on hold outside of me.

My thoughts would be verified if he invited Alpha Phoenix and his girlfriend as well but he might just see them as lower, he is too superior to talk with them, either way it must be about me.

I stand on one corner of the room thinking about my fate, then what Phoenix did to me, the rejection and public harassment replays in my head, tears starts to stream down my eyes to my cheeks.

"Have you forgotten you are before your prince?" I hear a commanding voice sound before me, I shift in horror. My eyes clears to reveal him standing before me. He moves closer to me, from where I decide to take a step backward. I need my own personal space.

"What's making you cry?" By his tone and facial expression, he is disgusted seeing my tears. "Do you know how much I hate self-pity and low esteem?"

Being that I've never heard him speak to me this way for the short time we have been together, my heart begins to pound. I move backward in fear that he is going to hit me. I'm unsure of his next action with the way he is looking at me. I begin to breath heavily. My self-esteem just as he referred to drops drastically prior to what he just said, I now feel like a bit of trash. I want to cry the more but I'm too scared to do that. I would only make him angrier and each time he is angry at someone, it's always a deadly match. I want to avoid this.

"Give me an answer now or face my wrath!" He snarls. "Don't think because I respect the rights and privileges of women, I can't punish them."

"This is getting serious," I say to my wolf, calling for help. This situation which I've found myself is tensed than I can handle. I don't know if I should tell him that Phoenix is my mate, and that I was crying because he publicly humiliated me. He hates things like this, whet if he picks it up against Phoenix and Gracelynn, I might be hurt in the absence of Adrian. Yes, I know they would be afraid if him but what if they go through an indirect way to hurt me? I ask myself these questions.

On a second thought, if Adrian isn't aware about the mate bond that existed between me and Alpha Phoenix, what basically is he going to talk about at the meeting. I heave a heavy sigh, I think my thoughts are getting me too far, I need to calm down a bit.

There are lots of things the lycan prince can talk of with the Alpha and Luna of the pack he is visiting, what could make me so nervous that it's gonna be about me, my worst fears were that he might have changed his mind and asked me to be returned.

"Your ideas look so insensible!" I hear a voice thunder from outside of me and I shiver, it's Adrian. How does he keeps knowing what I have in mind? If this is so, that means I'm not safe thinking at all, or thinking any close to him because he would surely hear.

"Why do you always listen to my thoughts, your Highness?" I'm forced to ask, I feel it an intrusion of personal privacy.

He shoots a deadly glare towards my direction. "Girl, who gives you the right to question me?"

"I'm sorry, Your Highness." Seeing that he is angry, I quickly reply to quench his anger before it escalates into something worse. My eyes shake repeatedly, I wish I never said what I just said.

"Go make me something to eat before I descend on you. As I've brought you here, know your boundaries in communicating with me, there are certain things you shouldn't ask me to avoid getting me pissed." I nod obediently, bowing before exiting the living room to do as he has asked. I'm glad I learnt how to cook really well, if not this would be another point of conflict which wouldn't end well.

"I think you should consider the presence of the Alpha and Luna in whatever you are preparing." He shouts at me from the living room where he is sitting to watch the television. After I'm done, I garnish his food and set out to drop it before him, glad finally I would take some rest and spend some time all alone. He may not need me after this till evening time the meeting will begin.

As I'm about going back after coming the second time to drop dessert, he grabs me by the hand, pulling me back until I fall on top of his laps. I gasp, my eyes widened up to the point of falling off their sockets.

"What's going on!" I ask myself, not necessarily as a question because I already know what's amidst. I've never sat on a guy's leg before, talk less of the lycan prince whom everyone sees as a demi-god.

"Where are you going to?" At this point, I decide to speak up and stand for my ideals, I shouldn't let his position fill my entire being that I can no longer have a life.

"I need some rest, your Highness. I've been going through a lot of stress since morning, from the pack house."

"Sit here!" He orders, pressing me harder against his thighs. "I have a lot of questions to ask you and you are gonna answer all of them!" He growls.

"Yes, your highness." Who am I to decline his request. I sit calmly, not quite comfortable the way I'm sitting but I dare not complain nor say anything.

"Can I know your background in that house you lived and in this pack, before arriving here, I heard, the only thing I heard that you are a student of the college where the Alpha attends." I wonder who talked of me in the midst of the information he derived, I'm not important in this, I'm just an Omega, to be realistic.

"I'm just an ordinary maid, nothing more, your highness." I reply with ease, my eyes catching up with the food he is eating, I pray he doesn't calls me to eat with me. It looks awkward eating with the lycan prince, one of the things I never hope to try.

"You can go now. It seems to me your background is not of any importance," he mutters. This hurts my feelings but I'm happy to hear him here this which is an indirect dismissal. Immediately he release me, I slide into my slippers and hasten away before he gets to change his mind. Arriving at my room, I fall onto the bed, not wishing to rise up for the next four hours, I'd be enjoying a very sweet sleep, I don't care if Adrian would need me or not, he should know that I'm a human.

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Just as I had scheduled, I wake up the next four hours as my spirit informs me before looking at the clock on the wall. I realize it's not the average quality in my room, the expensive diamond clock on the wall prompts me to turn around and take a better view of the room I'm in. I let out a scream, which causes Adrian to walk in.

"What am I doing here in your room, your highness?" I ask with deep anger, you could do anything you wish to me but don't touch me without my knowledge. He sees from my face that I'm angered, and approaches in a calm way, seeking to plead with me.

"You don't need to shout, I did you no harm and wouldn't do you any harm. I just wanted you in my room."

"Why?"

"Because I was lonely and needed someone to cuddle." At this point, the madness in me melts, I recall how alone I became after Phoenix rejected me, the guy that became part of my life but because of another girl who isn't his fated mate, he decided to leave me to suffer but I promise to make him jealous, sad and anxious, only if Adrian would communicate to me like a normal person and not a superior.

I begin to feel serenity with him, upon having a second look at the prince. He is the most handsome man I've ever met, how come does he engages himself in undercover business. Almost everyone has heard their own part of the story about Adrian, which is part of the reason I dreaded coming with him to his apartment, but right now my wolf is beginning to settle with him.

"I need you as a friend, would you love to be my friend?" I squeak in ecstasy. Who would dare decline such a request. The stare he has towards me makes things tingle in my stomach, the butterflies flies and my eyes burns with a deep desire, I wish God will bring us both together.

A third steady gaze is conducted by Adrian, where he assesses me still on his legs. I lower my eyes lost in his scent which is that of olives, almonds and raspberries all combined together.

"Wait! I have something important to say to you before I say to your Alpha and Luna." My heart wants to stop at the moment of hearing this, his eyes is already partially communicating a message. I compose myself, promising that I'll not cry or become extremely dramatic no matter what he says.

"I like you, I don't think you would decline being my mate? My chosen mate?" I turn around to look at him, for fifteen minutes my hands and legs refuses to go into motion, neither do my eyes. They remain transfixed to the the spot making me look like a motionless robot.

"I can't get what you actually want from me?" After he finishes, I want to know if he says this out of foolishness like he might be drunk or really means it. 

"I think you should consider yourself a deaf person for not hearing what I said." He adds a tone of sarcasm to it. I swallow the saliva in my throat. My eyes brighten, as the clock ticks further, giving me more assurance of what is being asked.

"Will you?" He repeats.