Xianna’s POV
Here was I standing before four identical young men who would make any girl fall on their knees. Slowly, my eyes scanned them, Ray with hate. Damien, the one who came making fun, with an amused glare watching him smile still. Carlos, the third on the row, my love interest, got my eyes lowered. I was just too shy to look at him coupled with the heavy heating of my heart. Him, being set apart as a celibate and a priest even got me desiring him more, I yearned for the taste of such forbidden love. He was set apart but I didn't just want to accept.
“Perhaps it's a joke. He's not a priest. How can he be a priest?” I shook my head, kicking off the thought.
My eyes passed to the last among them, his face was elsewhere, he wasn't even looking. Indifferent. It rang like a bell in my mind. While I watched, Damien, who was still sparkling with a brilliant smile that could light up a cold, dead soul, shook his elbow.
“Come on, Karl. Isn't this something to be excited over?”
“What?” He turned with furrowed brows. “Excited about?”
My jaw slightly dropped.
Our attention shifted when the door of the magnificent building overlooking where we stood opened before us. An older man with their faces walked majestically out, face steady and stern. Everyone stood at attention, paused what they were doing, the maids and servants knelt, bowing. It was obvious how Ruiz is powerful by the way everywhere just got solemn.
“Good evening Alpha Ruiz.” Both servants and maids with their supervisors chorused.
“Will you kneel!” Ray’s hands came on me, forcefully pressing my shoulders such that I found my knees cracking before finally falling to the ground.
“Who brought this insolent Omega here?” He raised his voice, attracting the attention of the old Alpha, his dad. Terror. Shame. Electric shock. All came rushing into me. I shut my eyes in terror, shivering. My heart pounded a zillion times.
“Why is he so heartless?” I asked myself, hate and fear both overwhelming me. I got to the verge of tears. While Damien giggled, Karl hissed, looking away. The only one who stared with pity was Carlos, the werepriest. He was giving me more reason to want him more, I could only fear it was non sensual but this, I didn’t want to dwell on but something more.
Sudden footsteps approached me, even with my eyes closed, I could tell it was the Alpha. My wolf vanished. She went into still motion, something she rarely did. I could only imagine what was meant for me by fate.
“Look at me!” The voice thundered. I opened my eyes quickly to catch up with a pair of glowing, brown eyes, they pierced like fire was running in them. Every bit of me died that moment. I urinated in my panties.
“Eric, come here!” He growled at the man who bought me and the rest of the girls. He rushed over, bowing to him. “Is she one of them?” Alpha Ruiz pointed to the rest of the girls who were all on their knees with their faces lowered.
“Yes Alpha.” Eric’s tone shook. Ruiz dashed him a slap across his cheeks making me stumble backward in fear. “Didn’t I ask you to bring submissive girls here?”
Submissive?
My sisters were submissive, why didn't he take them instead since this is what he was mandated to do. I wondered but couldn't get a response for myself. Then it hit hard. My dad never wanted me.
I shook my head unconsciously, sighing in sorrows.
“How dare you make a sigh before the Alpha, a slave as you?” Ray was at it again, hand struck in the air to strike me but another grabbed him. I lifted my eyes to see it was Carlos.
“Enough!” His voice thundered with such an aura I never thought of. “She isn't your punching bag and mind you, she's not a slave.”
Ruiz looked with puzzled eyes. His lips parted to say something but nothing came out suddenly.
“Carlos, you haven't acted this way to anyone before? Why this girl?” Alpha Ruiz asked him.
“Dad, I said it! He's in love.” Damien interrupted.
“I guess you came out dad to meet the new maids, I would request you to take good care of them. They are people’s daughters and sisters. I honestly feel for them and wished they didn't have to leave their families.” Carlos said, seeming not to refer to the girls but me as his eyes got fixed on me.
My senses snapped into high alert and my wolf which had gone dead in terror woke up again, giggling with excitement. I flinched away, unable to bear those pair of charming eyes on me. Before I turned, he was already walking away.
It felt like one part of me was gone. I wanted to call out but yet I couldn't. All eyes were now on me. I wished the ground would open up and swallow me.
“Everyone rise!” Alpha Ruiz commanded. Ray moved over to stand by his side while Damien and Karl remained on their spot. They all rose as commanded. My knees cracked as I rose, but I managed to stand.
“Listen up everyone!” Alpha Ruiz said. “I have nothing much to say, other than—” he paused, eyes redirected towards me. I stiffened. Ray pushed me.
“Go over there!”
I stumbled, nearly falling.
“Where are you pushing her to? She doesn't belong to me, I need a non submissive girl. All here would be checked, screened and confirmed eligible before they join my harem.”
“Perhaps some girls with the same attitude of my deceased wife, may the moon goddess deal with those rogues.”
“So you take her, tame her and do with her as you like!”
These words sent an electrifying shock through my entire body. Turning over to see Ray with that cold, evil smirk on his lips made my stomach clench. I wanted to throw up.
“How I wish it was Carlos I was given to!” I repeated this several times without realizing. Unknown to me my lips were moving, I realised the moment I looked up and Ray was gazing directly at me with Damien and Karl.
“What’s she mumbling?” Karl who has never been concerned about anything hissed. “Is she planning something against us which we do not know?”
“What will she plan?” Ray raised his hand clipping my lips. “Relax, Carlos will never come to rescue you. He's often at the Chapel. He's set apart for religion. He has nothing to do with love or getting a mate. You're ours to do as we please!”
His voice signaled lust and hatred, mixed as one. I shook my head furiously, refuting his claim.
“I can never be yours!”
But wait!
“I’m just a maid, even under death I’ll never do anything outside of my job as a maid.” I vowed right inside of me.
Grabbing my arms, he forcefully took me away. “We aren't here to joke with you. We will tame you till you are as obedient as a dove,” he breathed against my ear, igniting more hatred for him. Damien and Karl followed behind, I could feel their eyes watching me from behind.
Where are they leading me to? I didn't just know but deep within me in the midst of my anxiety, I prayed to meet Carlos. They said he's a priest. Out of reach, forbidden to love but he was the one I wanted most. Perhaps he would cure the trauma which is tormenting me, I wasn’t ready to live with it all my life. A turmoil no one might be able to deal with.
With my trauma, being sold by a man to another man into the hands of yet another man who tortured me upon arriving here, I'm not meant to love a man. My wolf isn't meant to fall for anyone of this gender.
But here, two forbiddens were finally meeting.
It meant something. It must be a rare signal from the moon goddess.