Cruel Alpha

Chapter 7

-Diane

"So you are awake!" She said and she pushed me back and I became scared.

Is this the hell of a step sister Sheila was talking about?

She doesn't look anything like a lady brought up with wealth. She is blond and it was rough at the moment, she was wearing a short gown with a long sleeve and her footwear was out of fashion already.

She looks like one of Maxwell's play things rather than his step sister and I could not stand from the floor but only watched as she stepped inside like an eagle looking for its prey.

"You worthless thing, did you think Maxwell would be interested in you? Stupid one!" She said and I moved back a little without replying to her

"I can't wait for Miss Jessica to appoint you as one of the maids, then you will realize that your life is nothing in this place!" She said and I was confused.

"Miss Jessica?" I asked and she looked at me with a strange expression like I was dumb or something. "You are nothing but a fool and I still wonder how the goddess thinks you are a match for alpha Maxwell and he was going to accept you.

You are way down below his standards! You don't even have the basic knowledge of who he is?" She said and I could tell she is not the step sister and she is just basically one of Maxwell's fans.

I won't bow my head low for her when she also means nothing. I gathered my courage and stood up and looked at her.

"Who is Miss Jessica?" I asked and she was surprised at my return. "She is the little mistress, she is Maxwell's step sister and her words are finally." The lady yelled and I chuckled.

"I am sure but permit me to ask, Do you or do you not also chicken out at the shout of the little mistress?" I asked and she was shocked by my question.

"I thought as much, you are nothing but an empty threat before me, the real threat is that young mistress you are scared to speak to. Shame on you, old woman!"

I said and it hit her harder than I thought, who on earth will want to be called an old woman?

I chuckled within myself as she was spitting fire before me.

"How dare you speak to me like that, you forsaken one!" She yelled and I laughed. "At least I am forsaken, what are you? You never even got a chance.

I guess that's why you are really but I would mind telling you about the experience of having him in between the legs!" I said and she was all red.

"Who said I never had him in-between my legs?" She yelled and I chuckled. "Ohh, the sneaky one that nobody must know? The one that they will judge you as an asshole or a p********e if they knew you did? Come on, be honest with yourself.

You are more worthless than I can ever be!" I said and she almost spat blood. She raised her hand to slap me but I held it.

"You won't want to make this kind of mistake, slapping your master's prey! Don't try it, you might end up in the hell that you prepared for me, old hag!" I said and she removed her hands from mine forcefully.

"I will make sure you pay for this!" She said and I chuckled. "You better do something by yourself with the little mistress, maybe I can take it as you are really making me pay, old hag!" I said and I saw the anger flash in her eyes like she should tear me apart at the moment.

She looked at me for a while before walking out of the house immediately.

"She is so annoying!" I murmured as I locked the doors again and went to lay on the bed. "That ugly old hag disturbed my beautiful memory! I hate her!" I said to myself as I kept turning in the bed.

I could think positively anymore!

I was a bit nervous to hear about Jessica, Maxwell's stepsister. She really does sound like a terrible person! At first it was Sheila and I thought she was capping or just adding her own extras but when I heard from the old hag, it made me scared.

Only bad news can people terrify or tease others about. She sure isn't a good person.

"All I wanted to do is get out of this place as soon as possible and get my life together but with the look of things.

I am married to hell!

Nothing is going to save me from what I have landed myself into.

I was still thinking when I heard a knock on the door. Not again. I stood up and this time I was ready for whatever was going to happen.

I slowly rolled down the bed and walked to the door and unlocked it.

The person on the other side opened and walked in and it was just Sheila.

"Why did it take you so long to open the door?" She asked and I said nothing. She placed the food flask in her hand on the table and locked the door.

"Did someone come here well I wasn't.?" She asked and I looked at her.

"Yes, a lady in a short gown came here and it didn't turn out well, she provoked me with a name , Jessica, I guess that's the little mistress, Maxwell's step sister.

We exchanged a few words and she left" I said and returned to the bed and sat down.

"Oh my God, this is bad!" She said and looked at me so scared. "What is bad?" I asked and she kept pacing around in the room. "You exchanged words with our housekeeper. Her name is Lady Han. She is as wicked as Miss Jessica herself.

I think she has an awkward relationship with the master, i mean alpha Maxwell and this has made her untouched and the leader of the house in alpha Maxwell absence.

She does fear the little mistress but sometimes they are close and insulting or exchanging words with her is really not the best for you now, Diane." She said and I wasn't really surprised.

"don't be scared, everything will be fine!" I said and she stopped immediately and looked at me. "I guess you have never experienced the life of a maid and to add to that, a maid in the hands of alpha Maxwell, little mistress Jessica and house keeper lady Han. That is why you have the confidence to say everything will be fine.

Have you heard the word hell before because you just landed yourself in one. Those two ladies are hell on earth. They will make your life miserable!" She said and I looked straight at her.

"Are you scared for me or yourself?" I asked and she was shocked. " Really, Diane, you think I am saying all this because I am scared of myself?

Maybe I really made the wrong choice by coming over here. Since you can deal with everything, I better leave" she said and turned to open the door since she w a s close to it already.

"Sheila, I didn't mean it like that, I was only trying to reassure you that everything will be fine!" I said and walked up to her. "I am sorry, Sheila, I really do appreciate you being here for me!" I said and held on to her shoulder.

She turned around and looked at me and I could see pain in her eyes. She really does have a lot to say and I wasn't listening. "I am sorry!" I said again and she looked down like she was hiding her tears.

"So you think you can win by being stubborn? Do you think you can make it alive out of here if you fight heads on against any of those two devil's. Let me give you a clear and clean answer." She said and walked to the closet and opened it.

"You can't win! Do you know how many ladies have been here before?" She asked and I was shocked. I wasn't the first one to encounter this hell on earth incident!

"You would never have the idea but here is the count. Six beautiful ladies, six pretty ones and guess what happened to them. Well, A few are alive while some are long gone.

Tracy, Stacy, Amelia, Sophie, Isabella!" She counted and stopped and I waited for the last name but she didn't say anything and I tried to link was she was saying.

"You have been here before, you were also mated with the alpha?" I asked and she looked up at me and rolled her eyes.

"Not everyone of us was the alpha's mate, some of us were brought here as a gift to the alpha. Only Tracy and Isabella were once the alpha's mate but after being used, they were dumped here. They both were very rude to the housekeeper, lady Han and guess where they landed afterwards.

The dungeon, they were fed to the beast, the rogue and there was nobody, not even the alpha, careful about their existence nor their disappearance.

So, choose wisely!" She said and walked to the food flask and unboked it, it was surprisingly two in one box and she took her part of the food and sat near the table while I took mine and walked to the bed and sat down.

"Do you mind?" I asked and she looked up at me. "what are you saying?" She asked and continued eating and I restored my courage and asked her the question.

"How did you end up here?" I asked and she chuckled. "I knew you were so curious but it doesn't matter. It's a short and long story.

My mother died at an early age when I was just fourteen years of age and this left me with my father. He was very supportive and promised not to marry another wife.

Things were fine and we were moving on but he went on a work trip on a rainy day and he didn't return. It was my uncle who came home and told me my dad died in a wind accident.

I was devastated as I knew my life will be collapsing afterward but what can I do? I had to survive. My uncle is a man of status and he needed to upgrade badly and the one way was to please Maxwell.

He thought far and wide on how to get that down and I guess I was the perfect option for that quest!" She said and I could not help but interrupt!

"Your uncle sold you or made you seduce the alpha?" I asked and she frowned at me.

"Let me narrate my own story. Don't be too forward Diane. This is my story!" She said and I quickly gave an apologetic face and listened quietly.

"He brought me to the alpha's quarter and gave it to the alpha. Who am I to seduce the alpha when he was sleeping with the housekeeper at the time we got there.

He didn't even think twice before standing off from her and leaving her completely naked before us and he looked at me and had this wicked grin he smirked and kissed my face as a form of acceptance.

I guess my uncle got what he wanted that very minute and I ended up being here. The housekeeper, lady Han, hated me the very minute, I can't say if it was because I saw them that day or she thinks of me as a rival which I am not.

I don't even want the man she is dying for. Poor her!

I tried as much as possible to stay out of trouble but the house keeper, lady Han didn't stop but reported me to little mistress Jessica when alpha Maxwell was not around and she supported the idea of making me a maid.

I became the worst one and things changed for me when other ladies showed up but they were all not patient, just like you and they ended up dead.

You all are not wise enough, avoiding war here doesn't mean you can't fight but here, hide you fire and power bow your heads and excape their well prepared hell for you." She said and continued her food.

It's really a sad story for her but she didn't hesitate to say it to me." Rha K you!" I said and she looked at me.

" I might have appreciated it if you were more obedient than this!" She said and I chuckled and continued my meal at once.

"What should I do now?" I asked and she chuckled. "Now she wants my help!" She said and I rolled my eyes at her.

"Well, once you are appointed as a maid here, stick to your duties, when they come at you, don't fight back, make them get tired of fighting you! That is the only way you can be safe here.

This is a war zone and trust me they own everything here and they are beast, they don't care about life and salvation. So don't let them mess with your own life.

I think I might take up the work of an advisor at the end of the day, this is probably my field." She said and I laughed.

"Just be careful!" She said and I nodded.

We then continued our meal in peace.

-Callum

I entered the hall only to see my one and only cousin sitting on my seat. I didn't give a facial expression as I walked straight to my space and he stood up at the very last minute and gave way for me to sir down.

He returned to one of the seats as he laughed. "Why is the tension so up, brother, I was just joking with you!" He said and I chuckled and looked around for a Guard and I found one and signaled to him to come.

He did and I sent over to Richards side and the guard went forth and slapped him hard on his cheeks as I have silently instructed and everyone seated were shocked

Nobody will expect me to come at my cousin like that! That is the motive. I don't care about him being family to me.

"Callum, how dare you send your guard to slap me!" He yelled as he jumped up from his seat and I gave him a straight face.

"Should I have done that myself when I have hands to use? I was about to tell you that maybe you admired the seat and sat in it but you made it known that it was Intentional.

You sat on a royal throne just to play around. It's not worth it and I asked him to slap you as a minimal punishment because half cast like you would know all the rules!" I replied and he was shocked.

He had nothing else to do but to swallow his anger and sat back on the chair quietly "So back to the reason why we are seated together today! Richard, the elder, reported to me that the road construction and water supply construction that you were assigned to three years ago has not been implemented.

Do you card to tell me why?" I asked and he was so shocked. He looked at the faces of the elders especially, Mai and Steve and they looked away instantly.

He could not believe he was betrayed like that.

"Callum!" He called out and I gave him the last warning.

"I remember making it known to you in business meetings like this, that you can't refer to me as Callum. I remain alpha to you." I said and he swallowed hard and gave a little bow.

"I am really sorry that it came to your notice that the road and water supply has been left unattended to but I will work on it immediately but I mean I need another payment!" He said and I was wondering if he was a fool or just acting like one.

" What on earth are you saying?" I asked and he stood up almost immediately. "When the job was given to me, I did my best and work on the iob and it was a job done perfectly and I was six for just a full moon and what I saw next when I was up was that the work I did were bitterly damaged by the people of parts I have just completed the work.

Was that my fault, I was mad and I left the work without reporting back because the report has been damaged and the elders are here to complain now.

Whose fault was it?"he said and I was pissed off.

What is really going on with all of them?

"Well, I don't want to know whose fault it was that the job was damaged or not done. You are all delayed in reporting back and you are all at fault for this.

You all will be seeing the project with your allowances. I won't be part of repairing what I have earlier commissioned. That is my final word and I want a result within weeks. Don't make me wait for reports again. And you, Richard, I want a daily report about the progress of the job as soon as the following week starts.

Lastly, I want to be glad that you all are sensible elders and you all know about the word spy. I will be using that and if I come across the word that you taxed the people in order to build the things you broke. Trust me. You will be far gone

I won't promise you punishment but I will promise you pain." I said and stood up.

"Alpha Callum!" Richard said as he stood up and looked at me.

"Will I be paid the balance of the jobs I did before? I didn't get to collect the balance them because of the report, I hope I can get them now!" He asked and I looked at him.

We sure don't look alike in any way. He is one cunny handsome bastard. He looks like a half done breed of Mexico and I slowly wondered how we are cousins because he is nothing to a nightmare to anyone.

"I don't do balances!" I said and walked out of the hall.

I could hear so yelling as soon as I stepped out

Well they all got what they deserved. It's time to visit the northern part of my land.

I walked straight to the dining room as I hadn't taken my breakfast and I looked up at my father's picture that was hung on the entrance wall; he was a fine young man.

I could not help but stand there and watch the picture while remembering the memories for a little while.

I do miss him!

"Alpha, your meal is served already! Cold meals are bad for your health!" The housekeeper said and I turned and smiled at him as I walked to my seat and sat down.

I was about to eat when the most annoying voice came again like a village bird.

"Is my favorite cousin eating without me?" Richard said and he walked in majestically.