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Alpha's Servant

Danielle Jaggan

Chapter 3

SKYLER

I held my breath till he read the name out loud.

The alpha’s mistress for the night would be Primrose.

I sighed a sigh of relief.

Some servants congratulated Primrose as we filed out, others expressed their concern in thinly veiled comments.

“Goodnight,” Primrose said to Scarlette and I as we parted ways.

“Good luck.” Scarlette hugged her tight.

I tried to give her a reassuring smile, but could not hide my worry.

I rushed to bed, worried that the headmaster might change his mind.

I was safe, but only for now…

***

I was having a dreamless sleep when I felt a presence barge into my quarters then felt rough callous hands dragging me out of sleep. It was so sudden and unexpected that instantly a headache started to form.

The headmaster’s big cold hands clamped down on my tiny wrists, threatening to crush the bones in that area. A feeling of dread swelled inside of me as I thought of the many things that would happen to me.

I must have slept in. My body had been running on no sleep for the past two days.

I wondered if he had come here to punish me. How could I even think of sleeping in for one hour? Nothing goes unnoticed by these werewolves.

Many thoughts ran through my mind. Would I be humiliated in front of everyone, beaten, or even worse, burnt?

I certainly didn’t know why he was basically pulling me through each corridor and down every staircase. But my words stayed dormant in my throat; I was too afraid to ask a question and be punished further.

After rounding many corners and going down about two staircases without falling down after constantly being pulled, I finally saw a large gathering of servants in the hall room.

Relief washed over me when I realized that he was having a meeting. He then came to an abrupt stop after which I was roughly pulled but had to dig my heels into the floor to prevent myself from colliding with his frame. Then he sneered down at me.

“I don’t care if you’re on the verge of death, once you have breath in your measly lungs you will continue to work, especially while the alpha is residing here. Do I make myself clear?”

I quickly nodded my head and broke free from his wet-ass palm. Eww. What the headmaster said didn’t scare me, but what did scare me was his stinky breath.

God, I didn’t know a person’s breath could step in shit. I had to hold my breath the whole time he was breathing his words in my face. I scurried over to the gathering just in time to overhear a few things a group to my right was gossiping about.

“I can’t believe she’s dead—”

“Her death is truly tragic—”

“May her soul rest in heaven—”

I was curious as to who they were talking about and my heart leaped when Scarlette’s face popped in my mind.

Thinking about it I hadn’t seen her since arriving here and that just made my heart drop. As I was about to walk over to the group of servants who were gossiping, I had to stop because of a booming voice.

“Silence!” he barked out. And in less than a second everyone’s undivided attention was on the headmaster. There was a pause until he began to speak once more.

“Today…I must attend to a matter that took place yesterday. Our alpha, who will be staying here for a week and a half, told me to let you all know that he is truly sorry for what happened to your fellow member…”

As he was speaking, my heart was flipping in my chest with anticipation. Why couldn’t he just say what happened already? And where the hell was Scarlette?

And just the thought of the Alpha had the hairs on my skin rising. So he was finally here. And that too for a dreadful week.

I could already see myself working nonstop and constantly looking over my shoulder for any signs of him. The fear of what he looked like, the things he could do was just tickling my spine.

“And he just wants you to know that his sympathies are with you all… Now go back to work!” he commanded.

The headmaster turned to walk off but stopped and shouted when he saw some servants were still lingering in the hall. They all looked so gloomy.

And I didn’t even hear what happened because I zoned out for like a second and missed everything that was said.

“All of you!” he barked while looking straight at me, and that was enough for me to turn on my feet and scurry away with the others.

Turning a corner, I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Scarlette walking toward me. And I don’t know what got into me, but I ran up to her and just gave her a hug, which caught her off guard, but she hugged me back nonetheless.

She pulled away then looked around to see if anyone was watching then pulled me into a nearby room.

“Did you hear?” she asked. I figured it was the same thing the headmaster was talking about this morning that she was going to tell me.

“I didn’t hear all of what he said, but I know someone is dead,” I answered truthfully. But she just stood there silent while looking at nothing in particular.

“What happened? Who’s dead?” I started to ask again when I saw that she was making no attempt to talk. And I was just dying for her to speak up.

“Primrose… It’s Primrose,” she sighed out with a look of defeat.

But I, on the other hand, wasn’t taking the news too well. My heart clenched. I just saw her yesterday and now she was dead? And then my eyes widened.

“Is it my fault?” I asked, terrified.

“Oh God, no!” Scarlette interjected.

“Then how is she dead, then? She looked just fine yesterday!” I said, almost shouting as my breaths were becoming ragged. I could feel my legs giving out under me and I plopped down on a nearby bench.

“Lower your voice…” she whisper-yelled then opened the door and peeked outside. But I didn’t even say anything more. After some moments of silence, I heard her walk over to me and stooped down in front of me and began to explain.

“She died of semen.”

I furrowed my eyebrows in a questioning look, and almost laughed out loud.

“She what?” I asked incredulously.

“Yesterday, while her and the alpha were having intercourse…he ejaculated inside of her and it completely burnt out all of her insides.”

And I gulped. Hard.

So he was just here for less than twenty-four hours and he’s killing people already. How ruthless can he get, just killing off innocent people like that. God, he’s such a monster.

And that thing this morning about sympathy. He has none. If he really cared he would have drawn his dead ass and addressed us than to do God knows what.

My anger was probably higher than the Eiffel Tower by now. She was just a little older than me by two or three years. She didn’t deserve this. I bet they forced her to do it.

Oh God, I could only imagine how scared she was. I felt something wet drip on my leg then realized that I was crying. My heart ached at the cause of her death.

That monster!

“What the hell are you sitting here doing nothing for!”

I didn’t even hear him come in. Both Scarlette and I stood quickly. And I wiped my tears.

“We were just—”

“Shut up!” he silenced.

“Why hasn’t the alpha gotten his breakfast yet?” he directed his question to me, and my heart palpitated. He couldn’t possibly be asking what I was thinking.

“We are not in charge of breakfast duties,” I said timidly.

“I. Don’t. Care. Now go and give the alpha his breakfast,” he ordered.

Oh my God.

“I’ll carry it to the alpha,” Scarlette offered and turned to take up the tray of food but was stopped on the spot by the headmaster.

“Not you… her.” He pointed to me.

“But I can carry it—” Scarlette quickly stated.

“No… I want her to do it,” he said, glaring at me.

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