Prologue
Infertile Alpha Billionaire
Prologue
“SELENE! What an ignorant maid you really are?!”
Ravenna rants as the woman walks inside the mansion, located at the Veil of Selene, the perfect name made for a perfect daughter, Selene.
But since her parents died, there was no more room left for her in this mansion her family once owned.
Selene instantly paused and looked back. She couldn’t see the face of the woman who owned that voice, yet the voice thundered in each and every corner of the mansion.
From being a princess down to a maid of her own relatives, that's where she stands now.
Selene instantly stood up and immediately left what she was doing, wiping the glass windows to make it free from dust and dirt. Her Aunt Rosella doesn't want even a tiny stain of dust on the windows.
She almost ran to reach the door and meet Ravenna, who was fuming mad again. When doesn't this woman fume, especially at her? Her cousin is always mad at her just because she was a disgrace to the family. Was it the reason alone? No. Ravenna really hated her since they were still kids. When her father bought a new trolley bag for her, Ravenna would ask for the same bag from her father.
She could say that her cousin was so envious of her, always asking for the things she had. Perhaps that was also the reason why everything they once had belonged to Ravenna’s family now.
This mansion was transferred to Selene’s uncle Thomas because of her father’s hospitalization. She is just staying to pay the additional debt they owed Thomas.
“Ravenna,” Selene softly said in her most humble tone, bowing to her cousin who is a model—a trying hard one, but her face looks disgusted.
It is very usual anyway.
“The nerve! There was a stone on the pavement, and I tripped! Didn’t I tell you to always brush anything unusual off my way?”
“Ahm—” she winced when Ravenna immediately grabbed a handful of her long black hair, tugging it none too gently.
She winced and gulped, “R-Ravenna…”
“Including your face, disgrace!” Ravenna yelled at her face.
All that she could do was to clutch her fists. Since her white wolf died, she became so weak and unable to defend herself. She didn't know how her wolf died. All that she remembered was that she was full of wounds when some bandits chased her in the woods while she was looking for firewood for the fireplace. Astra protected her, and when she woke up, Astra was already dead. She was healed in a few days, but the wound in her heart never disappeared.
“Y-You called me, so I ran here.”
“I called you to slap you and pull your hair like this until I get you bald!” Ravenna yelled once more, “You are so foolish not to do the things I ordered you to do! You're really trash and must be thrown into the dungeon!”
“Ravenna, let me go, please,” she pleaded, almost bursting into tears because Ravenna was hardly gripping her hair. She could feel the pain in her scalp.
“Ravenna,” Thomas voice saved her from behind.
Ravenna released her at once but pushed her. She fell on the pavement.
“You're hurting her again,” Thomas stated the obvious.
Selene checked her elbows, and she had some scratches and also on her knees.
“I just made her feel how to be tripped because of her stupidity, Dad. I just arrived from London, and yet I nearly lost the beauty of my face when I tripped on a stone. I told her so many times before that she must clear my way. Let's not talk about that disgrace. Where is Mom?”
Thomas did nothing but just stare at her blankly before walking away with his only daughter.
Her heart was filled with pain once again. She was once a strong young girl when she still had her family and Astra.
The only reason she’s still trying her best to survive today is her precious little Draven—her five-year-old son, whom she decided to leave in the Moon Temple with the priestesses.