An Affair With The Alpha

Chapter four

LARISSA’s POV..

It’d been a week since the event that happened between the alpha and I. It still felt like a dream, but each time I felt that tingling feeling in my stomach, I needed no one to tell me that it was anything but a dream.

A small smile curled on my lips as I tried to suppress the excitement that surged over me each time I tried to think of the s*x of that day.

I wasn’t opportune to go back to clean the alpha’s quarters, but deep down, I wished I were. My heart itched to catch sight of him, even for a minute.

"Larissa!" I heard the voice of the head servant booming towards my direction, and abruptly, I jerked to my feet and briskly walked over to the door.

I opened up the door, and just as I had expected, a slap flew across my face. With every ounce of strength I could find, I withheld myself from falling to the ground.

"What have I done wrong, ma?" I asked with a quivering voice as I blinked off the tears that welled up in my eyes.Rather than giving me a response, she pulled me by my shirt and started leading me into the kitchen, as though I were a thief who had stolen something precious.

My thoughts weren’t far from reality because right there in the kitchen, an amount of money had gone missing, and I was pointed to as the thief.

"What is going on?" I asked as I looked around in a frenzy. Beads of sweat had formed on my head already, but I tried so hard to appear bold and aplomb.

"You are a thief! Amanda saw you picking up the money I left on the countertop yesterday", the head servant said, and I couldn’t help but groan silently.

As a servant in the pack, this was part of what usually happened. You easily get accused of doing something of which you are totally innocent.

"I didn’t do it! I swear", I pleaded as the tears I held in my eyes finally started trickling down my face.

The head servant scoffed and wore a wicked grin that made my stomach sink in dismay. I knew the look she wore on her face, and it simply signified that I must be punished.

"Inform the head guard about this crime. She knows what her punishment entails," the head servant said to one of the ladies, who dashed out to do as she had ordered.I swallowed hard again as I watched how every single person was against me. Not even one person could speak up for me and plead for my justice.

I cried and tried to explain what I felt was necessary, but just as I had thought, no one listened to me.

They took me to the front yard, where I was to be punished. For a crime like that, the culprit must stay under the scorching sun for some hours. And right after that, the whip would be used on their bare skin.

My heart skipped at intervals, with tears dropping out of my eyes. My throat was dried up already, and I could barely utter a single word. There was no use doing that too because no one was willing to believe my claim.

"You must not stand from here!" The head servant declared, after which she walked out of the scene.There wasn’t much to say, other than to keep silent and watch how everything would eventually turn out to be.

"I can swear that I didn’t do it!" I said again, hoping that the head servant would look towards my direction.For as long as I could remember, I’ve been a subject of hate and envy in the pack. Most times, people said that I was beautiful and proud…that caused them to treat me as though I weren’t worth having a life.

I knew that it was only because I was a servant. If I were the Luna or in any high position in the pack, they would never insult me for being beautiful.

Most times, when I allowed my hair to flow, that always came off as exuding the greatest level of hatred from them. The dead stares from other servants were always enough to make me scared for my life.

But then, I wasn’t willing to stop doing what I wanted to.At the end of the day, it was my life, and I was going to make the best use of it. I panted slightly when I felt the heat of the sun on my face. My body was already burning, and I just wished someone would help me out.

"You’ve been there for three hours!" A guard said with a coarse voice as he took slow but frightening strides towards me.

"It’s time for this," he said, with a whip in his eyes and a dark look looming in his eyes.

My heart skipped a beat as I stared at the whip. This was going to be the worst day I’ve had in a long time. The effect of the whip, combined with the heat that my body had been exposed to, would certainly be enough to make me pass out.

"Please… I didn’t do it", I muttered again as more tears poured off my eyes.He stretched out the whip and made to hit it on me, but a voice from the background stopped him.

"Stop!" The head servant said as she walked over to us, with a not so pleasant look on her face.

"The alpha would punish her…by himself", she declared and immediately, my heart dropped.

"The alpha?" I asked silently as she dragged me to my feet and started leading me over to his quarters.

I tried to struggle, but I decided to focus on the information she had just relayed to me instead.

"Why would the alpha decide to punish me? What was going on?" These were the questions that crawled into my heart just as we went over to his room.

"His punishment would be more than you ever imagined", she whispered into my ears and wore a wicked grin.