Jessica's POV
The rest of the girls were gone. I didn't know where they were and I certainly did not want to know. they had left me alone and I was happy. I could take a shower and then head out and try to ask some of the guards for the routines. Cecilia's words were still running in my mind. and as much as I did not want to believe it slowly by slowly it seems like the only thing that made sense. My mum has always been resentful about our nature. She didn't like that we were werewolves and she didn't hide it. all those years of taking drugs to suppress my werewolf side and I never dared to ask a question. I can't help but wonder why we would have been banished from where we lived. What kind of mistake did we make? Were we innocent? My mother has always been sad. and it has shown greatly in her choice of man and how she has chosen to live a life with so much loneliness and resentment.
As I stepped out of the shower I realized that I barely had anything to wear. I decided to check the closet in my room and surprisingly there were a lot of dresses. beautiful dresses that looked like gowns. however I realized that none of the girls were wearing anything like this. They were all wearing plain white dresses that looked more like sleeping gowns. I suppose one was allowed to wear whatever they wanted. and so I just picked out one of the dresses and put them on. they felt rather fancy. I didn't like feeling fancy or the attention that it brought. Especially not when I am a slave here.
I hum my mother's song as I put on my dress. I don't go around in my room trying to find beautiful happy memories of her so that I wouldn't be so sad. everything that happened to me was caused to break down and screen. but my mother had taught me to be tough. She had told me that kindness was a virtue not everyone could have. I couldn't help but feel as if all these girls needed kindness in their own way. They are locked here. treated as property by a horrible man and somehow they had made peace with that.
But I wouldn't. I didn't want to be a slave and I wouldn't allow myself to accept that. I prayed that the moon goddess would rescue me. She was the werewolf God and she looked after all of us. she created as. She blessed us.
I open the door and let myself out. and like last night there were no guards standing outside the door. there was no one. Then the compound was silent. it was a signal one was there to begin with. I looked around and I could barely see the end of the compounds from where I stood. Everything was so big. I remember the crowd of people I had seen last night coming in here with rage. I remembered how they walked and how some of the guards addressed them.
I remember being dragged into that castle when the king summoned me. I remember how it felt. and how all I wanted to do was for the ground to open up and swallow me.
I walked across the tallgrass. The air was fresh and cold. a big difference to the atmosphere in New York. but I didn't know where I was. for crying out loud I could be halfway across the state by now. or I could still be in New York. It was another Smart Move when they decided to put her in the trunk. but I hated it. And how they treated us was cruel and wrong.
While I am walking across the grass , I feel a sudden presence behind me and when I turn my bump into a body causing me to fall on the ground as if I weighed Nothing.
" What the hell are you doing here?'' a man probably in his late 30s asked me as he looked down at me with so much judgment.
" I'm sorry. I'm trying to find the other girls and I don't know what to do.''
" I want your post to be having breakfast right now? if the time hasn't passed already?''' He raises a brow as he stares at me.And I barely know what I'm supposed to be doing and where I am. that would explain it. I hadn't eaten since I got here. somehow it was the least of my concerns right now.
" Where do I go? I'm afraid I don't know anything about what I'm supposed to do or what..''
" Spare me the sob story, and the kitty eyes, no one cares. Just go straight into the castle and take your next right down the hallway and you'll find the Slave's eating area. it's written across the door in big bold letters you're not going to miss it.''
His tone is condescending and judgy. it's almost as if he enjoys this. and I hardly see anything to enjoy here. But I am not in my head taking the chance to be away from him. I head towards the Castle. clutching my stomach and realizing that I had been hungry all this while.
The compound was still really big and the walk from those quarters to the castle was significant. When I got there none of the guards even paid attention to me. It was as if I suddenly didn't exist or matter. I realized that even though I asked him for directions I will probably be talking to myself.
I walked down the dark hallway and at the far left of it were the large open doors with bold writings at the top that read the slaves' eating area.
I walked in and there was no one there anymore. Maybe they'd already eaten. On the large big tables against the wall of the room was a large buffet. filled with all sorts of foods and fruits. There was juice on the next table and so much beef on this one. Some of it wasn't cooked on half the table and the other seemed well cooked. He didn't make sense that they would put food that wasn't cooked there so when I let myself in I grabbed that letter and picked up something for myself. I was so hungry that I figured I would try to find the rest of the girls after I ate.
I poured myself a small glass of juice and sat down with my food. but right before I put anything in my mouth there was a loud popping noise in the room as I turned.
" What the hell do you think you're doing?'' The mean looking guard, Carlos, from last night was as good as he looked at me. I looked down at the food in front of me with confusion and then back up again.
" Breakfast.'' I said in a low pool light two on. I couldn't understand why it was suddenly so submissive. Everyone in this place scared me.
" Breakfast?'' he repeated in a Mocking tone. " do you know what time it is?''
I shook my head no barely even understanding what the relevance to that was.
" Get up.'' he said suddenly and my hesitation didn't help at all. He was walking towards me with so much speed and anger that I thought he was going to hit me. but instead he grabbed my arm and pulled me up with him so quickly that it almost dislocated my shoulder. I looked at him with so much confusion. I didn't know what I had done wrong. or why he was so angry.
" It doesn't help that we have to eat from your own quarters but now you also want to eat at your own time? What is wrong with you Lot?'' he says with a slight accent sticking to his voice as he walks me out of the room quickly.
Instead of taking me towards the whole way she brings me towards the stairs and sudden panic and Shock registers inside me. He was..he was taking me to the king.
" No. please no.'' I begged on the verge of tears. From the corner of my eyes, I catch Cecilia standing across one of the doors. He looks at me with a sadistic smile on her face.