" Get rid of this dress and wear it!"
A grim-faced maid offered Everett a dress, her eyes glaring down at her wedding gown jealously. She hated to see that a slave lower than her status was wearing a more expensive dress than her whole wardrobe. Everett looked down at the gown that she was offered. It was a simple leather maiden, appearing shabby and cheap. She never wore any fancy clothes in her own castle but this gown was worse than those she wore in her castle.
Everett took the gown hesitantly, wanting to say something but the maid cut her off in a piercing voice,
" Also take this gown off and give it to me. Mistresses aren't allowed to wear such expensive dresses."
Everett narrowed her eyes at the maid's words. She was no fool to see the greed in the maid's eyes. She replied, clutching the other gown in her grip,
" Why should I give it to you? I will change this but it is my wedding gown. I would like to keep it for myself."
The maid was so angered by her answer that her face turned pale in anger. She glared at Everett before saying,
" You..how dare you talk back to me? Do you know my position? I am the head of the maids. In this castle, everyone follows my order no matter what I say. Give this dress to me!"
Everett was still refusing. It wasn't like she was fond of her dress or she wanted to keep a memory of her wedding day. The dress was the last bit of memory of her family. Although no one considered her family in her castle, Ophelia, her father and Sitama were close to her. She wanted to keep the dress as their memory.
Everett was never a woman of arguing. However the maid's ridiculous request made her stubborn. She held onto her dress as she spat firmly,
" I am keeping the dress. You can tell the king."
Her response shocked the maid so much that her hand raised in no time. Without thinking back, a hard slap landed on Everett's cheeks, causing her to fall on the ground. The maid then stood on Everett's toes to smash on her bones, gritting her teeth between her words,
" Showing your attitude on your very first day huh! You are wrong honey. You are no queen to command me. Now give me the fucking dress before I break your bones."
Everett wailed in pain as she curled on the ground, her painful legs getting more painful again. Eventually she had to give up. She was mentally or emotionally too weak. Letting out a squeak, she promised her tears, sobbing and whining in pain,
" I will.. give you..let me go.."
The evil maid finally let go of her legs with a smirk. Bouncing her hair behind, she left with a snort,
" I am going out. I will give you ten minutes to change and pass the dress to me."
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The rain started pouring hard on the lands of lycans. A gigantic Lycan stood in the middle of an open place, standing in front of a few tombstones. As the land was full of lycans, it was no ordinary cemetery like humans. Lycans didn't get the honor to be remembered like humans.
Fredrick stood in front of his parents' tombstone. His emotional struggle was so hard that his lycan came out unexpectedly. His lycan was fierce and dangerous. Sometimes he also faced difficulties in controlling his lycan. Everyone feared his lycan in this territory. They all were scared to face his lycan. If human Fredrick was bad, his lycan was worse.
The rain calmed his hot brain for a while. Just when he turned to walk back to the castle, two men yelled out from the dark, pointing their arrows at him,
" It's the beast! A beast! Kill him before he reports to the others! NOW!"
Fredrick's lycan was surprised to meet two humans. No human was allowed in this kingdom without his permission. Those who entered, they would need his permission. He hated humans the most after the death of his family. His lycan let out a ferocious growl at the two men. They were so scared that they dropped their arrows and flew in different directions.
Fredrick would have chased them back if the sharp eyes of his lycan didn't catch the attention of their dropped their arrows. His lycan walked through the rain and stopped to give a better look at the arrows. The sign on their arrows left him stunned. Each kingdom had their own special symbol. From the symbol on it, he could certainly tell that it belonged to the seventh kingdom. Something flashes across his dark eyes. The people of the seventh kingdom could enter his territory so easily had one meaning only. Someone from his own people was giving them access but who could it be?
The string of doubt grew long as his lycan form turned into a human one, carrying a dangerous aura. For those who didn't know Fredrick Silvester, he hated betrayal the most. He saw how betrayal destroyed his beautiful family. Clutching the arrows in his grip, he started walking back to his pack castle, wearing a stiff face and wet body.
Meanwhile, Everrett had already changed to her new clothes. She didn't look like a princess anymore. Even though her pale carried the symptom of a slave, her expensive gown was gone. She held back her tears when she looked at herself in the mirror, appearing like a doll who was getting ready to be devoured by the beasts. Another maid had already taken her wedding gown away, leaving not before giving her the final warning. She told her to behave if she didn't want to get beaten by the head of the maids.
The door burst open for the second time, revealing a dark faced maid who ordered her coldly,
" Come out! It's time to serve the boys!"