Luna took the gift inside, and she opened the bag filled with clothes and jewelry.
"I thought it was just a present, not knowing that they had gotten the whole market for me." She said as she kept staring at the gift. She drew the next bag closer to herself, and when she opened it, she found fruit of different kinds in it. Luna picked from among them and ate to her satisfaction.
"They are actually caring; they might be right with their promise of giving me a better life." She spoke to herself.
After a little while the bell rang, a time for the mateless to walk free around the premises. And to be visited by friends as well, a three-hour stroll around
She heard a knock at the door.
"Who will it be this time around?" She asked herself, while Lina and Lara traced Ashford and his brothers, unknown to them, to the Luna apartment.
"Ashford and brothers." Ashford answered.
"Couldn't you allow me to rest for some hours? I need a space." She said to them:
"Who else has visited you earlier than now if not I and my brothers? I thought you should have observed your rest." Ashford spoke, standing at her door.
"Luna, we are here to see you. Can we have some words with you?" He added.
"No one was here; I have been left alone, and I still want to be left alone." She answered.
"Not really Luna, we want to have some words with you, "they insisted on staying, awaiting her coming out.
"What do you want?" She asked from her room.
"Have you considered choosing who to mate with?" Ashford asked being curious.
"Is that what you have come to inquire about?" I am yet to make my choice. Which is more reason you have to give me breathing space for now." She requested.
"Luna, we love you; we can't wait to see you spend the contract with us. Do not look at Blackwood's offers or their fame; rather, look at the benefit we might grant you at the end." Oscar spoke romantically. "Be our Luna for now."
"You asked for a moment, not forever." She answered him.
"You are having a contract, just a one-year contract; it is then left for you to renew it once the year is done." Oscar replied.
"I am sorry to disappoint you all. I am not coming outside; I will remain here until the conversation is over."
"But can we see your beautiful face again? Behold it while we leave." They requested the more.
"You are indirectly mocking me. I don't like it. Please leave." She instructed them.
They saw how mean she was with her refusal to see them, and both left her with the word. "We await your response."
"Soon." She answered them.
"Ha! She exclamed after they have gone.
Ashford, along with his brothers,'s stopped by Lara and Lina while heading to the car.
"You both seem not to have interest in us; you took the love you should have given to us to your grave". Lara said, looking at them face-to-face with boldness.
"What do you mean by that?" Sherman asked with a surprise face.
"Haven't you heard that she is cursed? She has lost her mates at a andtheur are nothing to lay hands as a prove to their deaths." She explained.
"Yes, that's because she is not the one responsible for their deaths, and when you speak of us not showing interest in you or Lina, it is because we have no feelings for you. Our hearts beat for Luna; she is the one we want to contract with. I hope I have cleared your curiosity." Oscar asked her, pointing at her.
"We don't mind spoiling you tonight if you permit; we can take you out and have you spend the night with us. Beside we have our ways here." They present such to Lina.
"This is an opportunity; I might get to have them as my mate at last." She said it to herself. "But what is my benefit in return? Is that an assurance that I will be contracted to you?" She asked.
"We can't promise you that." Sherman quickly answered her, "Whatever you do, you did it volunteering, and don't try exposing us before Luna. Else you will end your life with your head in your laps." Sherman scared her.
"Can we talk? Lara draws her attention aside.
"I think this is an opportunity; once this is done, you can as well use it against them. You present it to Luna, and with it, she will get to know the manner of men they are."
"She thinks she is smart; let go." The Ashford sensed their plans; they left without Lina with them.
"Did they overhear us?" She asked.
"I don't think so. Nevertheless, I said earlier that Luna might have gotten them diabolically." Lina added, they turned to leave but had feelings to confront Luna.
"You witch, you won't have peace here with us. I will make sure that the whole mateless wolf here gets to know about your plans and hidden life, you are not just a murderer but also I disappointment." Lina shouted.
"Lina and Lara, don't you have something reasonable to do with your time? Why monitoring me? Why the heavy? We are all here to be contracted by any of them. If you are the best they should have chosen you, why not inform them, advertise yourself, and give them a reason why they should hold a contract with you? "She dominated."You are getting me tired with this, Lina; I didn't pick this opportunity to be with you. Which is more reason you have to mind your business." Luna added.
"You should be ashamed of yourself, Luna; we all have roommates aside from you, who is left alone in here simply because you are cursed. "Lara took advantage of her mutation to speak to her.
"Lara, I am not complaining." Luna answered.
"Of course we know that you are not complaining; at the same time, it is clear to us that you are lonely." They mocked her more.
"Excuse me." Luna told them and moved to her room.
"Luna, we are not yet done with you. We will keep on remembering you about your last, as well as the mystery that surrounded you. Until you have got to quit from this." Lina shouted to Lunaa.
"Let go; we have given her as much as she deserves." Lara told Lina, she then held Lina at hands as the they left Luna's premises.
"They are bone on my neck; I don't know what to do." Luna becam more worried after they left.
"Should I take this to Koen table?" She asked herself and replied. "Isn't this part of what I have to face for accepting the offer in the first place? More are to come, but I pray to overcome them." She encourages herself.
"She can't be the one holding our happiness; something has to be done about this. Else Lara, we will end up losing them to her, I repeat." Lina discussed it with Lara.
However, Charmaine and the guard got their way back home, on the way, the guard began to blame her for be rude to Luna.
"You would have put us in trouble with your mannerless words. Everyone knows she is cursed; it reads all over her, but you shouldn't be the one to remind her of that. If I didn't intervene, we might end up losing our lives today." The guard spoke, blaming Charmaine.
"Don't try putting blame on me; what I did was to save my life, likewise yours." She replied to him.
"Safety what, when you almost get me into trouble?" He answered her.
"Enough of this; we have delivered the gift; there is no need to argue, isn't it?" She asked, smiling, knowing what she had done and the problem she
would have landed both on herself and the guard.