In the Hands of the Perverse Prince

Chapter 2.

ANNA:

-Where do you think you're going? Mary says to me as she puts her long nails into my arm. ANNA: -Do you want to ignore us? -You're a stupid Omega, skinny and simple.

Catherine stares at me and gives me her fierce look of repudiation. The only thing I can do is to lower my head as a sign of submission and obedience, to face them or run away would be worse, most likely they would tell my grandmother and I would be punished for my disrespect.

This omega is a good-for-nothing, she thinks that because she has grandmother Nadia as her protector then she will reach the top and our handsome Armet will choose her to be the mother of his offspring.

They all laugh while Catherine grabs my hair and pulls it, I have no way to defend myself, Ema, her other friend grabs my arms and puts them behind my back, so it is impossible to defend myself, besides why would she do that? They throw me to the ground and in the middle of insults and blows they try to make me cry or to make me defend myself and then they become the victims.

-Do you really think that being next to a powerful woman like your grandmother is going to free you from your sad fate? You will always be an Omega, you are already marked and this is how you will end your days, alone and serving one of our houses.

I hear footsteps on the stairs, surely some other guest or my grandmother's trusted maid, Catherine and her lackeys fix their clothes and run down the corridor at the other end, in search of the service stairs, I stay a few seconds thinking about the frightening way they treated me, unbelievable that a woman and her friends can treat another like that, it is fine that I am disadvantaged and socially less than them, but no one deserves to be insulted and beaten like that.

Catherine has always been eager to have the ultimate power within our herd, she considers that she deserves it for being beautiful and attractive, that's why her desire is to conquer Armet and replace her mother, the great queen. Does she feel jealous of me? It is possible, but... that means that my Armet is interested in me and Catherine is jealous, maybe she sees what I refuse to believe.

-What are you doing lying there on the floor Anna? -You look like a wreck, look at you, what's wrong with you?

-It's nothing Grettel, I lost my balance and fell, it's these shoes, I can't walk well in such high heels.

I go back to the dressing table to fix my hair, smooth my dress and put some blush on my cheeks.

I stay in the place for quite a while. I don't want to go out and have to face the women again who will surely be laughing at me, knowing Catherine the way I know her, I'm sure she already told all of them about the mishap of a moment ago.

Unfortunately I can't stay locked up in this room for the rest of the night, grandma will ask for me and she will be upset not to see me walking around the living room, looking like her beloved granddaughter and protégée, I promised her I would be there until the end of the evening.

It occurs to me to go down to the table where the gifts were left, and with Grettel's help, put them in the cart, so when this eternal torture is over we can go home as soon as possible. While I'm busy doing that, I see Grandma and Ivor enter the library room, then they are joined by the master of the house, my dear Amir.

As despicable and underpowered as Omega is, my hearing is finely tuned, just passing by the door landing I hear their conversation. The talk gradually rises in tone, it seems very serious what Ivor demands, the grandmother contradicts him and Amir gives some explanations.

-I understand your position dear Nadia, but you must understand that you cannot get attached to this girl the way you do, it is not convenient for you, neither for the interests of the herd, it is crazy just to think about it. Ivor commented.

-It's true Nadia. Said Amir. -I have made all my effort and I have applied all my knowledge to revert the situation, but so far and as far as I know, there is nothing more to do, things are as they are and I don't think they are going to change.

Then, I hear my grandmother's voice, it sounds like a lament or a moan:

-A woman so beautiful, her golden hair, the greenness of her eyes framed by those bushy eyebrows, her thick and provocative lips for any man, her slender and sensual body plus her candor and sweetness... she is perfect, don't you see? How do you tell Inov that your beloved son is not interested in her?

Interested? Who is my Armet interested in? I feel confused, who are they talking about, the description my grandmother gives. I guess she is talking about me, but I am not understanding them well.

-Stop this nonsense Nadia, I ask you to send her to another herd, send her back to the place where she belongs, there she will surely find a better life and avoid headaches for us, especially for me.

-It will be done as you say Ivor, in spite of my pain. -Just give me a few days to prepare Anna, it will be a very hard blow for her.

It is not possible, now they want to get rid of me, it is not enough for them to have hurt my parents so much and now they will do it to me, but of course, as I am an Omega, my noble feelings matter little, but... and Armert?

I have never liked Inov, I have always seen him as a selfish and unscrupulous leader, he allowed his brother, my father, to unite with my human mother and make her his Moon, grandmother tells me that Inov was also eager to make my mother his but he already had his Mate and therefore, he had to be totally faithful to her. When I was born my mother died, my father was killed in a war between wolves from another pack, the Black Hoops captured him, tortured him and as Inov did not agree to their requests they returned him skinned, a week later he died.

My grandmother Nadia Kuznetsov O'Sullivan raised me, she is the mother of Inov and my father Akil, the wife of a strong Alpha, comes from Russia. She was an important and strong queen.