I cleared my ears with my hand to be sure I was hearing the right thing.
Everybody joined their hands together to clap.
"Whoa, Odetta, Odetta, Odetta" People started shouting and clapping.
They started praising her, At that moment I had gone crazy, everything seemed to happen like a dream.
Tears flooded my cheeks but just then, I cleaned it and walked to the middle, where he was staying.
"You, Lucas, you dared do this to me, you betrayed me, I thought we loved each other, but you did this to me"
Lucas smiled and replied; "So you think I would get married to you?"
"What? We talked about this before we left home, you said you would announce me as your mate"
"I reject you as my mate, Lilliana, what have you got to offer me? Well, Sex, you can be my sex slave, but I choose Odetta your stepsister as my mate, to rule over the blackwood pack"
I didn't believe this was coming from him, I was embarrassed, people started laughing at me, and I became a laughing stuff at the mating ceremony
"The moon goddess will judge you, you dared do this to me, you used me, you promised and failed, it was all my fault for not agreeing with your mother"
Tears rolling down my cheeks.
"And do not forget I am the Alpha of this pack, be watchful of whatever you are saying, I rule over you and this pack"
"Really? Is it how the past Alpha does?"
"Do you want to teach me how to rule, please where are the guards" He turned back and saw his guards "Take her, and let her serve as a slave for seven days"
"What?.... Lucas...me?" I screamed out.
I was dragged by the guards and was taken to the slave prison.
When I was locked up to serve as a slave for seven days, my stepsister walked in and she remind me how unfortunate I've been my whole life and why i was left to suffer, that she and her mum, my stepmother I've always been in touch with the alpha's mother, which is her mum old time friend
Days after, I was always forced to do hard work and whenever I felt tired, I would be beaten hard by the guards.
There was this day, when I was very tired, I was resting.
"What are you doing here? You still haven't gotten used to this place? You should be out cutting trees" The guards with a deep and cold voice uttered.
I managed to stand up, but I was already exhausted.
I was already going when I fell down and hit my head on a stone.
****
I found myself lying on the bed, I was about to sit comfortably when Lucas came in.
"You are awake? Anyways you can continue to work as a maid"
"Did I faint? What happened to me" I screamed out, as I was about to sit, I started feeling pain in all parts of my body.
"Well if you don't know, you fainted and they have treated you"
"Okay," I said sharply, looking at all parts of my body.
"Well, you would stop being a slave but continue to be a maid, I just want you to know your place, as my new wife, my darling won't accept nonsense from you.
"You, Lucas, Lucas you dared do this to me after all we have been through…."
"Been through? I mean tell me what you have been through? I have been an Alpha before I started using you"
"Before you started using me? So you have been using me" I asked curiously.
"I mean don't you ever sit down and reason? Do you think you can rule this awesome pack with me? So you have been craving to be called Liliana, the Alpha's Lucas wife? And you think it is possible"
"I never planned this, you came, you asked me out, I didn't agree, but later I did"
"But I didn't force you, Did I? So no point in what you have said, moreover I have the right to do what I want with you, you are my maid, who dares question my order? Who dares question what I do? None…"
He was talking, and just then, his wife, Odetta came in.
"What are you discussing with her?" She said, packing her hair to the back.
"I am just trying to let her know she fainted and she can now become a maid"
"Why did you suddenly say she should be a maid? You decided that without consulting me first"
"I am sorry darling" He kissed her and continued; "I just think we shouldn't let her suffer more, she suffered already"
"She has to face the consequence, don't you see how she embarrassed us on our mating ceremony?"
"I am sure she wouldn't repeat that anymore"
My heart was just beating so fast, it was obvious from their discussion that they had been in a relationship since, but why was he playing me?
"Okay, she has to do more work than the other maids then, in fact, she would do their work, I mean all, she needs to learn her lessons and know her place"
She looked at me and then knocked me in my head, before finally leaving.
I have been through a lot. Is suffering meant for only me?
Why is it that I have never had peace? From one trouble to another.
I held my hair like I wanted to remove it. I had no one, no family,
My parents died when I was little and my stepmom and stepsister never accepted me as their own,
all I had was myself, I just wanted peace.
****
I continued serving as a maid in the chamber, they made me do all the work the maids are supposed to engage in.
I cried all day and it seemed as if the suffering would be non-stop.
I was about to go and serve Odetta her food when I heard her conversing with my stepmom Alpha Lucas and his mother.
"You need to get something done, people have been expecting you to get pregnant, and you haven't gotten pregnant since, what's going on"
"We have tried everything mum, we don't know what to do anymore"
"Mum, I am tired" Odetta uttered.