child for the lycan king

chapter two

SERENA'S POV

I woke up to find myself on a bed, in a room with white walls and I immediately knew I was not in my bed. I heard two people talking and turned to see who they were but my head felt like it was on fire and I hissed immediately at the pain.

A woman on a white robe immediately came towards me

“You're awake, that's nice you've been out for a whole day which is totally weird seeing as you just fell and hit your head, you should have woken up earlier”

I looked up at her and realised I was in the pack clinic, memories of the last thing that happened before I went black flooded into my head.

Someone hit me with something, I didn't just slip and fall, but I couldn't tell her that now there was no need, she might not believe me.

No one around here ever did.

“You had to just do something stupid didn't you?” I looked up to see madam Caro's face scowling down at me.

“She's good to go now,” the doctor said and left the room.

“Let's go” Madam Caro said to me and started leaving, I stood up immediately to follow her but sat down immediately to get myself as I started feeling dizzy because of the force I used in standing up.

We went to the hall where she normally addressed all the maids she was in charge of, many of them started giving me snide looks and smiling among themselves.

But I ignored them and stood alone giving them a reasonable distance, I still didn't know who hit me on my head and I don't think I'll ever figure it out.

It could be anyone, no one here liked me and they didn't hesitate to prove it to me.

“The Alpha is hosting a programme here this weekend, and we have to prepare for that because there are going to be a lot of important people” madame Caro started, she paused for a while to look at our faces but stared at me for too long before she continued.

“As we all know, most of the visitors has already started arriving. Alpha Luke is not someone you'll want to cross so you guys should try to be on your best behaviour and treat the visitors well.”

She shared us into groups and told us which duty we'll be doing today. I was to work with caramel, Sophie and Bertha. I've never really had any problem with Sophie even though she tries her best to ignore me but I can't say the same for caramel.

She goes out of her way with Stella to make sure my life here is a living hell.

I walked into the wing we were assigned to clean with others following behind me, laughing and gisting among themselves.

“Well you know what to do Serena, don't you? You'd better hurry, I wouldn't want us to be the last to finish, I have a date this evening” she said with a fake smile on her face.

“You wouldn't know anything about going on dates though, I don't think any guy would want anything to do with you”

“I don't think we should leave everything for her to do, this place is too busy g for one person to clean” Sophie said while looking around.

“We'll help but she'll have to do the bulk of the duty, after all that's what she's good at” Bertha said.

I ignored all of them and picked a bucket, while trying so hard not to think about what caramel said concerning her date. I knew I'll find my mate one day and he'll love and cherish me.

All I had to do was endure and wait till he found me.

“See? She's not complaining” Bertha said to caramel and they burst out laughing.

I was still feeling a little pain in my head so I just tried my best to ignore all of them. I started sweeping everywhere first and when I was done I started dusting.

I didn't bother asking them to help as they kept on talking and laughing among themselves.

“Bertha and caramel, I don't think I'll like to spend the whole day here” Sophie said with anger written all over her face.

“You either come and help or I'm matching down to madame Caro, and I'll just ask her to put me in another group”

They rolled their eyes at her and picked up brooms and started sweeping while mumbling words to each other.

When we were done with cleaning, I left for the kitchen, this time around I was on time, and quietly ate my food alone before leaving.

“I can see you've learnt your lesson” Stella said to me blocking the door as I was about to leave.

“What I did to you was just the tip of the iceberg, try me again and it'll be worst”

I finally realised what she was talking about, I absentmindedly lifted my hand and placed it on the part of my head where I was still feeling the pain.

I looked at her filled with so much hatred and walked out, I promised myself to get back at her, I didn't know how I was going to do it but one way or the other I will.

As the day for the king's party drew near everywhere started becoming more rowdy as more people started coming into the pack house.

“You're a maid right?” I heard as I was leaving the pack house one day.

I turned to see a lady standing in front of me, she was talking with brown hair that fell to get back, and had her lips painted with a shade of red that could blind me if I looked for too long.

She didn't wait for me to answer before she threw a cloth on me, I'm wearing that gown this night for the event, make sure you iron it and bring it to my room on time before the event starts”

She turned to walk away, “I don't know your room” I shouted behind her. She ignored me and kept on Walking.

“Her name is Maliya, that's all I can help you with,” one of the guards said to me and left.

I quickly ran back to the kitchen to give them the Ingredients they sent me to buy. Then I ran to the laundry to find a way and iron her clothes.

I was on serving duty today and I had only ten minutes to meet madam Caro for my uniform, if not I'll have to face severe punishment.

I quickly ironed the clothes and ran back to the pack house to find her. I kept on asking people if they knew any maliya and most of them simply ignored me.

I was almost close to tears before I found her standing with a group of women discussing and laughing.

“I'm done with your clothes ma” I walked up to her and handed her clothes to her.

She turned and looked at me like I was the dirt under her shoes.

“Go drop it it my room, the guard over there will lead you”

She said pointing at the guard standing a few feet a way.

“Make sure she doesn't steal anything” she said to the guard and my cheeks tinted in embarrassment.

Madame Caro shoved a tray into my hands and I tried my best to balance it, “table 13” she screamed at me and turned to continue with other things

I walked into the hall where the event had fully started and looked around for table thirteen.

I walked straight to the table trying to concentrate on where I was going and not miss my steps. I reached the table and started dropping the food.

I felt a tingle in my body, though I didn't know the reason for the tingle but my wolf started feeling all excited, but I tried to ignore it, I raised my head to leave when I was done.

And my eyes clashed with someone, mate… mate… my wolf screamed excitedly in my head.