Omg! He's so handsome! A tiny voice whispers in my mind the moment Beta's door opens and a man comes out from it.
"Hi… can I help you?" He asks, smiling down at me but I don't reply. Instead, I'm wondering to myself… Who is he to Beta?I'd never seen him before in my two years of working as a maid at the pack house. His smile and the way the flecks of brown and gold in his gray eyes twinkle cheerfully fascinate me so much that I couldn't stop myself from staringHe arches a brow then in amusement and I feel my face heat up in embarrassment when I realize I've just been staring, I haven't responded to his question. Damn, Ash! Get a grip! I snapped inwardly at myself, wishing I could dig into the ground and bury my head inside.It's natural for shifters my age to have needs and urges for the opposite sex but not me. I have never been attracted to anyone from the opposite sex or the same sex for that matter. I don't know why I've never looked at anyone in that manner. This is the first time my interest has ever peaked toward a man and I wonder if it's because I just got my wolf.I clear my throat. "Uhmm... Hi, I'm sorry for... I mean, I'm here to get the laundry." I stutter in embarrassment. No one has ever left me short of words and I wish right there that my eyes will find somewhere else to fixate on than his face."You're here for the laundry?..." He repeats my statement with surprise."My mom said the maid might come around. Do you work here? Are you by any chance the maid?" He enquired with a slight frown on his face."Well, isn't it obvious enough?" I snappishly reply to him while indicating the vacuum cleaner and laundry basket I have beside me.Easy, Ash. You don't have to bite his head off for asking a question. I cautioned myselfI've been a maid for two years and I've sort of developed a thick skin to shifters calling me all sorts of degrading names. But the thought of this guy that I hardly know seeing me as a maid and addressing me as such embarrasses and rubs me up the wrong way. I didn't use to give a damn about what shifters think or say about me before so why does what he thinks of me matter now?"Oh!... I just... I mean I wasn't trying to…" He stops talking and a faint blush appears on his cheeks then. For a moment he closes his eyes. When he opens them, he says…"Uhmm, would you like to come in though while I inform her you're here?..." From the look on his face, I can tell he's embarrassed and surprised to hear I'm a maid.I'm also surprised to get the first invitation ever to enter Beta's apartment from him"No, no, no!... I will just wait out here, thanks." I politely decline.I refused his invitation because I have never before been invited in by any member of his family that I know. Not the Beta. Not Mrs. Beta that usually comes to the door whenever I come for the laundry and certainly not a girl about my age that I nicknamed miss snotty nose because of how she always looked down her nose at me"If you insist then. Please wait a moment, I'll be right back." He says with a smile before retreating into the room and pulling the door shut being himWhat's taking so long!? I thought impatiently after minutes had gone by. I wish I had the luxury of waiting around but I don't. I still have to clean nine apartments before starting on their laundry. I'm about to knock on the door again when it finally opens.I smile back at him and collect the plastic bag he's carrying. I rummage inside the large pocket on my apron till I find a tag that has Beta already printed on it. I attach the tag to the laundry bag before dropping it in the big basket."Bye..." I say softly when I'm done without looking at his face this time, pushing the laundry basket and vacuum cleaner towards the opposite side."Hey, do you need any help with that? It looks heavy." His voice stops me in my tracks and my heart misses a beat."Huh?..." I say unbelievably as I turn back to him. Did he just offer to help me?"Your cart looks heavy. Do you need help with it?" He asks again and my eyes widen some more. I wasn't hearing things. He indeed offered to help. The first time that someone apart from Martha will offer to help me with something"No, I don't! Don't worry about it. It just looks heavy but It's not. Thank you though." I reply with a half smile.What is the matter with you, Ash? Are you crazy!? The first man that ever spoke to you politely in this pack and you're turning him down!? I thought to myself.I can tell he didn't look convinced when I said my cart wasn't heavy."It's just a basket. An almost empty basket and it's on wheels so I can easily be able to move it around, see..." I say and demonstrate to him how easy it is to move the basket by pushing it to the front and back."Thank you for offering to help though. Bye," I bid him the second time and continued on my way.Although his offer looked innocent and he didn't look like he had ulterior motives towards me, experience had taught me that good-looking guys don't talk to and offer to help Omegas like me. Especially not in this pack."Hey... I didn't quite catch your name?" He calls after me again and I turn to look back to him."Yeah... You didn't quite catch it because I didn't quite throw it!" I reply and he burst out in laughter that causes his eyes to twinkle some more."You're funny, you know that right?" He says and walks the few steps that separate us to where I'm standing. Stretching out his hand to me for a shake."I'm Ethan, the Beta's son."I look at his outstretched hand and instead of also offering mine, I ball it into a fist beside me in embarrassment. How can I allow him to feel my chapped and calloused palm?"I'm Ash, and I'm a maid." I deliberately emphasized the word maid to remind him again of who I am."Uhm, okay. I know that already. So?…" He says with a shrug, letting his hand drop back to his side."So, people from your status don't talk to, and certainly never offer to help bottom feeders like me," I tell him and his eyes widen."I should really get going, duty calls you know," I say after some awkward seconds of silence had passed between us.I turn around and start pushing my cart again toward the Gamma chief's apartment."I'll see you around," He calls loudly behind me and I wave my hand without turning around. He's a very handsome shifter, the Beta's son for that matter and I'm an Omega. An orphaned Omega freak with a strange wolf. No, People like him don't talk to people like me.As I stop in front of the door I always dread to knock. I realize Ethan somehow made me forget for some minutes, the monster that I knew would be lying in wait for me behind that door.Like always, whenever I'm about to clean the Gammas chief's apartment I wish I'm very far away from the place but I know I don't have a choice since resignation from my job is never an option until when I turn eighteen.I take in a deep breath and let it out slowly to calm my frayed nerves before knocking on the door. Let's see what Gamma chief is up to this time since he's always up to no good with me.When I hear the Gamma chief's voice answer to my knock from inside his apartment, my heart skip before it steadily began to do a loud dum dum inside my chest. Right there and then, I begin to regret not accepting Ethan's help. I look over my shoulder, hoping he will still be hanging around but he isn't, he has gone back inside their apartment.I take a deep breath and swallow around the lump that I feel blocking my throat, willing myself to calm down before I slowly push the door in. When I enter, I see him sitting in front of a table by the window. hunch over, and fixing something inside a laptop that has its panel open before him."Gamma Chief..." I greet with apprehension as I step further inside. I wait patiently not far from his table for him to give me the go-ahead or point me in the direction he needs me to work on first. After some minutes of waiting while he continues to work on his laptop. I call his attention again... "Gamma Chief, I'm waiting for your...""What!?" He g
I start to panic the moment I open my eyes. Even though I can't see much through my swollen-shut eyes, I see enough to realize I'm in a strange room, not a hospital bed.'Where is this place and how did I get here?' I ask myself as my eyes wander around the room as much as my badly swollen eyelids would allow me. The room is dimly lit and the curtains are drawn so I can't see much of anything other than the door that is directly opposite my bed.I try as much as possible to remember how I got there but nothing comes to mind. My head feels heavy like my brain is stuffed with wads of cotton wool. The last thing I remember before I blacked out was watching the Gamma chief fly across the room when I pushed him off me. What I don't understand is how I manage to push one of the biggest shifters I have ever seen off me. Where did the strength come from? I wonder until the scene becomes clearer... "Oh, shit!..."I swear through swollen lips when I realize the Gamma chief now knows I have a m
The next floor after the Beta and Gamma chief's floor is occupied by the Sentinels. There are usually four Sentinels in a pack. They are two mated pairs that the Alpha and Beta chose and train to take their places if anything bad should happen to them in futureBy this time of the day, every shifter would have gone to their various workplaces or duties. Since I have the key cards to all their apartments, I open the first Sentinel apartment and enter their living room.Even though I bring Ethan along just to accompany me, I'm glad a nd relieved when he offers to help with the vacuuming while I clean every other place in the apartment. Division of labor is exactly what I need right now. The bathroom is always the last place I clean in every apartment. When I enter the Sentinel's bathroom, I'm in awe and couldn't believe my eyes when I see myself in the mirror above the sink."This is amazing! When did this happen?" I ask the face staring back at me in the mirror. I didn't get to see w
"What!? I ask, staring back at him in confusion. Is there something on my face? Why are you looking at me as if I've suddenly grown a pair of horns on my head" I say as I rub my hand all over my face and head to check if there's something unusual anywhere that I'm not aware of"Yes!..." He replies in all seriousness and then shakes his head "I mean no! There's nothing on your head but something is definitely wrong with your face!""My face!..." I ask in alarm, feeling myself blanch out of fear. The shocked expression on Ethan's face, making me assume the worse already "What is wrong with my face!?" I ask again but he just kept staring dumbfounded at me, making me wonder...'Am I shifting? Is my wolf going out of control?' I continue to rub my hands all over my face but feel nothing unusual still. "What do you see on my face Ethan because I can't feel anything with my hand," I frustratingly snapped at him, afraid of the answer he would give me."You were badly beaten before but now..
Martha is shocked to see my wolf's eyes or is that fear in her eyes? Do I seem like a monster to her? Is she scared of me now? I think to myself before directing my gaze toward Ethan. His eyes are narrowed in concentration like he's trying to figure out something about me.I look away from them, closing my eyes for some seconds to calm my wolf down and get my breathing under control. When I open them again, I see through the casserole dish that they were back to their normal amber color. I look over at Ethan again and I catch him looking at me strangely. I couldn't look at Martha's face again. I'm scared of what I would see in her eyes. Fear? Hate? Will she start avoiding me from now on? I ask myself these questions but don't wish to find out what the answer will be. I just walk out of the kitchen, through the back doorI can't remember the last time I cry for anything. Maybe two years ago when Celine announced it was time I dropped out of school and work to help out with the family e
Turns out I was upset over nothing. Martha was not shocked to see my wolf's eyes, she was just very surprised. She thought I got my wolf out of the blue, right there in the kitchen. As a human, she didn't know there was a process that a shifter shifting for the first time goes through."No, I did not just get my wolf," I tell them the truth. Of course, Ethan knew the process doesn't just happen out of the blues but Martha's eyes widened with surprise when she heard what I said"When did it happen then?" She asks with interest"I shifted for the first time around 1 am this morning when I was going home from work. I would have told you immediately I arrived but didn't because we're always busy in the morning and today being laundry day, I just figured I should wait. It was what I intended to talk to you about when I said we would talk when we get home..." I pause and she nods in understanding."I didn't want to talk in front of Ethan before since I don't know him that well, you underst
Ethan is already waiting for us in his car when Martha and I come out of her house arm in arm. We arrive at where he's parked and Martha opens the back door while I sit beside Ethan in the front seat."Hi..." She simply says to Ethan with a smile before she comfortably rests her back, exhales, and closes her eyes. We'd been working all day and I know she's tired. I feel guilty for keeping her out of her bed. I can't wait for me to turn eighteen so she can finally retire."Hi. Thank you for doing this" I say to Ethan with a smile and he also smiles, nodding back in return.The drive to the station is a short one, about ten minutes, and done in silence since we don't want to wake Martha who appears to have drifted into dreamland alreadyAs soon as we alight from the car, Martha excuses herself and goes straight to get our tickets which Ethan insisted on paying for. He also gets some stuff that he says we might need for the road. The ticket Martha got is for a suite cabin that contains
Thor's POVFor the first time in fifteen years, I don't have a nightmare. Instead, I had a beautiful dream. Well, the dream wasn't entirely beautiful since it ended badly, but it was from the beginning. I dreamt about the sun, setting on a golden wheat field that swayed gently in the calm evening wind. Right at the center of the field stood a goddess. The loveliest of all women with golden tresses that cascaded down her back and over her shoulders, and beautifully tanned skin that glowed as the evening sunlight shone and cast its shadow on her.Even though I hate the fact that she was scantily clad in a long, golden chiffon dress that leaves little to the imagination. I love the perfect curvy body that I could see through her thin, threadbare dress. I'm especially attracted to her round and high breasts with dark prominent nipples and darker areola At the mere sight of her, my wolf was already jumping crazily within me, clawing to rise to the surface and meet with his mate."Mate!"