THE SIX FATED ALPHAS ARE IN LOVE ME

CHAPTER EIGHT

LAURA MOURNS HER GRANDMA

LAURA POV.

The winter fell into my hand like a broken glass the cold had freezed my grandma for those days,I had been unconscious at the Alexander Court ,those days must have been silent for her.

I crawled through the door, which was Heavily frozen, that smell from the hut was frosty and still.

My grandma laid on the cold mattress wrapped in her faded wrapper.her face was grey, peaceful.dead.

My throat tore through the mountain.

bird scattered from the snow heavy pines.

I dropped to my kneels, shivering in fear, shaking off my grandma's shoulder as crystal fell from the old 's woman hair.

"grandma Wake up? I whispered." you promised you'd stay with me and not leave you promised." I screamed as tears spilled down my face.

but Grandma's skin was hard as the permafrost outside.

I cried as my tears kept getting frozen on my cheek.

I did only thing left , I scooped her around my arms, clutched my grandma's thin body and carried her inch by inch, through the doorway, across the frozen yard.

" we have to get deep into the woods." I said. I sobbed so hard on my grandma's corpse.

We arrived deep in the woods.

I began to till the ground with both of my Hands planning to dig a grave.

hours passed, of digging with my bare hands.

I laid grandma's lifeless body gently on the floor of the grave .

I watched gently for the last time as thought ran through my mind .

" why do I still need to live ,if am already dead inside.my world has just crumbled into pieces." I whispered as my cracked tears spilling down my face.

I swung out of the grave and began to use my bare hands to cover the grave. After I was done, I dropped on my knees lifeless beside my grandma's grave.

ZINNIA POV.

It been six days since Laura knelt besides her grandma's grave.with No food,water, not even trying to change her posture , She kept staring down at her grave, lifeless but still alive.

Then my footsteps crunch gently into the snow.

"Laura" My voice was loud and firm. I stepped towards Laura, my heels dug into the ice

I held a basket in my elbow,and inside was a hot steaming porridge.

Laura turns back her face pale and unbothered.

I know she thought It wasn't the first time I came here .

My eyes locked on her with pity that start dripping from them.

I grabbed her by the shoulder.

Laura you have been out here for six days,staring lifeless at her grave. you will kill yourself, if you don't leave here. you have to stay alive laura."

Before I could finish my sentence, Laura collapsed face_ first on the snow beside her grandma's grave.

The only sound left was the howling wind.

The snow crunched under my boot as I scooped Laura's limp body into my arms. she was not light but I still managed.

Laura's head lolled back on my hands, het black hair trailing in snow .

I carries her towards her old grandma's hut,laid her on the mattress sat down quietly, waiting for her to wake up.

LAURA POV.

My eyelids fluttered, cracked tears froze instantly on my cheeks

"she is gone" I whispered my voice already dead.

"grandma is gone , there is nothing left for me.

Zinna hauled me upright and shook me hard this time.

"you listen to me , you think dying ends the pain ? it doesn't."

I went limp from zinna grip.

"let me go zinna, grandma is all I have, I don't have her anymore, so what's left"

"You think this is what she wanted?" zinna voice broke out.

"She waited for you in the cold,she fought to stay alive,hoping you'd come and now you want to quit."

I collapsed I broke sob into a sob.

"I can't........... I can't............

Zinna held my hands.

"Laura as long as you breathe ,There is you, you don't have to give up now, you have to fight. she didn't raise a coward, she raised a strong woman.You will stay alive, you will eat ,you will fight. Even it to spite death itself."

Realization sparked "grandma wouldn't want me to dead, I have to stay alive to get my revenge on all the Lord's dutch household, one day, Maybe one day, am going to tear that household into pieces. I will keep working there to survive.but first I have to stay alive."

"I have to stay alive " My voice cracked as I whispered.

zinna pulls me in for a hug.

As the wind hauled.two girls and a promise to stay stronger than death.

LORD DUTCH HOUSEHOLD.

I held a bucket of water filled with soap which was sloshing out I pondered why I didn't see madam Evelyn standing this morning.

But I walked into the Lord's wife Court.

My feet kept stumping silently on the marble floor of the hallway. I took a halt at the front of the Lord wife huge oak door and knocked.

A voice came in , soft, but a bit raging.

"who is it".

"it's me Laura." I answered my voice broke out.

"come in." The lord's wife shouted in fury.

I opened the door my eyes caught on

Lord wife and tuna smiling at me.

"laura." the Lord's wife said with a disgusted face. she turned to tuna and they both laughed.

I placed my bucket on the marble floor Knelt down scrubbing, unbothered with the two.

A hour passed, I was done and was about to leave.

"Stop! where do you think you are going, have I your master given you permission to leave." A voice sent shivers to my bone.

My head switched backward my gaze locked on her.

LORD'S WIFE POV.

I lifted a huge jug inside was a thick, black liquid. it sloashed as I raised it.

A port wine mixed with pitch tar.

Her stomach dropped,she knows that smell, other maids would have told her. I used this to punish maids who didn't listen to me.

I called it "The devils ink" one drop could stain the floor for years.

"You know what that is, don't you, Little filthy bitch." my voice was loud and clear as my lips parted into a wicked smile.

Then I tipped the jug.The black liquid hit the white marble floor.it spread like wound. It smoked. It stink of hell and grapes.

"opps" I said softly.

Her gazes locked on, that I knew if she was given a chance, she would hit me up.

The stain was eating into the stone.

It would take six days of scrubbing,six days on her knees.

"clean it" I said as I stepped towards her.

dropped to the crouch, grabbed her hair and yanked it.

She fell but those deadly eyes were still locked on me.

I twisted her hair tighter, my nails dug in her scalp.

"you filthy, lowly maid,how dare you think you can climb up the ladder." My voice was snake hisses. "Then you will scrub my floor with your pretty little hands until they bleed" I spat out

I shoved her face forward to the stain, the fames burned her face.

"you Will be on your knees for six days, no food no water,no sleep, just you and my stain."

I leaned down my lips on right ear.

"And if you stop scrubbing even for a second,I will pour the the next jug on your head."

Her lips smashed into an evil smirk

Tuna eyes caught it, she stepped forward and in a minute a slap landed across her face.

"You stinky maid ,you dare smirk."

I let go of her hair.

She collapsed her palms slapping into the burning sludge.

We stepped on her body and spat on it.

",Welcome to my court, Laura suffer well."

LAURA POV

On the dawn of the sixth day, My hands were raw meat. Blood mixed with the black _red stain of devil ink.

I've been scrubbing for six days.no food.no water.no sleep.just the Lord's wife laughter echoing in the empty Hall.

my rag slapped from my fingers.

"I can't......,I can't...... my body gare.

I collapsed face-first onto the cold stained marble.My cheek lost on the wet wine pitch.

silence.

Then I heard footsteps, slowly deliberate.

"Getting tired, lowly bitch."

I didn't move, I couldn't, my vision blurred.

Lords wife crouched.grabbed my stained hair yanked it on the marble floor.

A scream tore from my throat, it came out as a broken whisper.

"I said clean." the Lord wife slammed my forehead again into the marble.

twice.

"you think you can sleep on my floor? in my court."

I choked. "just kill me, you bitch."

The Lord's wife leaned down.a soft smile curled from her lips.

Her breathe reeked of port wine

"Death is too easy,I want you to suffer, now get out!"

But my eyes were closed, my body went limp.

for the first time in six days,the scrubbing stopped.

Few hours passed, I stood up faintly, My feet crouched on the marble floor. The door cracked open. I stepped out .

A maid was sprinting towards me

'have been looking all over for you ,where have you been, The Lord Alexander asked to see you right now."