Alpha Conrad’s Little Pet

Two

“Hey,” I called out, “Calm down. She’s not worth the energy,”

Marie was already shaking her head before I could complete my sentence.

“Don’t do that. Don’t calm down for any of them. You are not just a princess but a princess of this kingdom. You are to be respected. If you give them the opportunity, they’ll walk all over you,”

I nodded in agreement because I understood what she was saying. Lucy must see me as a pushover because where else would she get the boldness to speak to me in that manner. Maybe it was because I kept to myself and because everyone thought that I was just a girl who was picked from the bush. Even if I was of royal blood, many of them still think that I was not a real princess and I was not to be bowed to.

That was their own business. Not mine.

“They are doing this because they feel like you just came out of nowhere and claimed the position of a princess. They seem to have forgotten that you were robbed of it. They keep talking about it. You need to put them in their place to this will continue,”

“You should talk to your sister about it. Princess Eva needs to warn her friends because this is wrong in so many ways. She was even saying that you and your sister are not on good terms. This is bad for the both of you.” Marie continued and I just stood there and watched her, my mind was running a mile per second.

****

After Eva invited me to have lunch with her, she vanished and that was why I did not meet her in the cafeteria the next day we were supposed to eat together.

It wasn’t until I returned home that I was told she traveled with Liam. They went on a mini vacation. Even if our parents did not want her to, they did not want to separate her from her mate so they let her go with him.

I could not believe that she did not tell me. I was the last person to know but what can I say? We were not as close as we used to be when I first got here. Everybody was not busy. She had her group of friends and I have Marie so I guess we will all be fine

***

“Princess Sophia!” Marie snapped her fingers in front of my face, drawing me back to reality.

I blinked, “What?” Even if we were really close now, she refused to call me Sophia and would always address me with my title. At this point, I’m already tired of trying to get her to lose the title so I just let her call me whatever she wanted.

“I was just telling you about how distracted you are these days and then you proceeded to get lost again. What are you thinking about?”

I c****d my head to the side and kept my eyes on her. Should I ask her?

After that night I thought I saw Marie at the Black village, I’ve not gathered up the courage to ask her if she'd ever been there. What if she’d never gone there before and she ends up asking me why I wanted to know? If my friend was going to that place every night, we could always go together and also have fun. Apart from the time we spent together in school, we’ve never met outside again.

I’ve never invited her to the palace the way Eva invited her friends, and she’s never invited me to her house either.

My mind flashed back to Seven who was able to tell that I was wearing a wig over my singer colored hair and even indirectly called me a prostitute. The bastard. Thinking back, I wish I had the courage to hit him where it hurts. I wonder why I kept netting him so since that night, I’ve not returned to the Black village.

Will I stop? Hell no. I was just taking a little break and I hope that when I get back there tonight, I won’t bump into him.

***

“I’m sorry,”

I came to a stop as the familiar sound of Seven’s voice got to my ear. Why did I have to meet him again and that too in the middle of the woods where I was tying my horse to a tree? I did not see him there, nor did I notice when he walked to stand behind me. Had he been waiting for me? How long has he been here?

Shit! If he was an enemy, I would be dead right now. I needed to be vigilant and pay close attention to my environment. I need to stop getting lost in my thoughts, especially when I was around this place. I might not have encountered any evil but this once was not called evil for nothing. I might not get lucky next time if it was someone dangerous.

I whipped around to face him. I could not see his face clearly and he was putting on his usual black attire save for the cloak today. His hair band was also absent and his hair was parted in the middle and falling by the side to frame his face.

I could feel his eyes on me and I shook my head to stop staring too much.

“You are sorry? For what?” I could not understand why he was apologizing even if I had an inkling of the reason.

He did not strike me as the type of man that will feel sorry for saying something hurtful to someone else or even admit that he was wrong. I wanted to see if he would admit to feeling sorry because he indirectly called me a w***e or if he would brush it aside since he already said sorry.

“For making you angry the last time we met. I should never have called you a whore.”

Wow. I chewed my bottom lips as we stood there in the dark of the night in silence. I did not know what to say in response because I was shocked.

“You should be sorry. Don’t judge everybody and put them in the same category. It is wrong. Everybody is not the same.” when I could finally speak, this was what I said to him.

He nodded. “I understand,”

Okay, he was behaving so strangely. He was unlike the cocky man I’ve been bumping into. He was way different from the man who asked me to not fall in love with him, or the one that tore into his opponents in the fighting arena like they were toys.

I could not find anything to say to him so I walked past him in the direction of the Black village’s gate. I kept my ears open as I moved so I could hear him if he came after me and until I entered the gate, I heard nothing. When I looked behind me, he was nowhere to be found.