The Runaway Luna

Chapter 7

Ross’s POV

After the mornings meeting I head back to my guest suite in a foul mood. I can’t believe that i***t King is siding with that asshole Alpha Gabe, who still refuses to cough up his wayward stepdaughter after 3 years. I’ve searched everywhere for the skinny little b***h, and nobody seems to know where she could be!

It was the kings idea in the first place to saddle me with the so called ‘daughter’ of my enemy in order to forge better relations between the two rival packs after the last attack resulted in so many deaths. Alpha Gabe probably laughed at the joke he played on me, foisting the supposedly unwanted stepdaughter onto his unsuspecting enemy, and then hiding her away afterwards. I’ve been suspecting this was his plot all along, despite him claiming innocence as to the chit’s current location.

None of the other alphas at the meeting claim to have come across the she wolf. She would have to be really damn stupid to go rogue, as such a tiny thing as her likely wouldn’t have lasted a week. And I doubt that she had funds enough to travel very far. So where the heck could she have gone if not back to Clear Lake?

I reach my guest room to find that the cleaning staff is just finishing up.

“The bed is made and you have fresh towels,” the maid says, baring her neck to me in submission. “Will there be anything else for you, Alpha?”

She’s not half bad looking, I think. She’s got curly brown hair, and the maids outfit does little to disguise a shapely body. And I’m definitely in the mood to f**k something after the morning I’ve had.

“Yes!” I tell her. Then I alpha order her to drop her panties, lift her skirt, and lay down on the bed.

“This is against palace policy,” the maid tells me even as she does exactly what I ordered her to do. And damn she actually does have quite a fine body! “I do not consent to this! If you touch me against my will, you’ll find yourself being dragged down to the dungeon in less than two minutes! The Lycan king doesn’t tolerate his staff being mistreated.”

“Fine then,” I shout angrily, frustrated that I wasn’t going to get my way. Apparently Miss Omega thinks she is too good for me. “Get out of my sight!

She pulls her underwear back up and leaves immediately. Stupid ‘palace policies’! I should be able to f**k any omega that catches my fancy if I want to.

I pick up a fancy looking side chair and bust it into kindling. Then I take some ugly painting from off the wall and send my fist right through the center of it.

“Gosh, I hope this isn’t against the palaces policies too!” I say out loud, despite the lack of any audience. “I hope I don’t get tossed in the little old dungeon! Boo hoo, I’m so scared!”

Then I go into the bathroom and piss all over the toilet, which currently has the lid closed. “Oopsie! Did I do that?”

I go out in the hall and find the omega maid working on the room next door.

“Hey, you did a horrible job cleaning my room, and you left a big nasty mess in there!” I snarl at her. “Go clean it again! You have exactly one hour until I return, and the room had better be spotless!”

“Yes alpha!” She tells me, resigned.

Then I go down to the training grounds to work out some of my frustrations. I’m starting to wonder why I even come to these stupid things. I never get any satisfaction.

My officers, whom I dragged down there with me are wondering what has put me in such a horrible mood, so I explain about the prissy maid while I pummel them soundly.

“Maybe we could help you to get back at the maid?” Lewis suggests, an evil glint in his eye. “You can’t get into trouble if we make sure the maid isn’t aware of who her bed partner is, or possibly her partners…”

I laugh as Lewis tells me more of this plan he has. It’s pretty dodgy and I’m a little hesitant, but the plan would certainly teach that uppity maid who her betters are!

Julia’s POV

I’m halfway through my lunch when Cassidy finally appears, and she looks really pissed off.

“Oh Julie! You would not believe the horrible morning I just had!” She says before taking a huge bite of her cornbread. Today’s staff lunch was chili con carne, which is always served with cornbread and honey butter, and so delicious! Then she goes on to explain how one of the alphas had tried ordering her to have s*x with him, and then made an enormous mess of his room to retaliate against her when she threatened to have him escorted to the dungeons.

“What is it with these jerks?” Cassidy complains bitterly. “They can’t get any she wolves of their own rank to play house with them, so they’ve got to get their jollies by bullying the omegas?”

“Probably,” I agree wholeheartedly. “I’m sure some Alphas are better than that, but the one I was mated to was an asshole who didn’t care about me. I didn’t stick around long enough to see how he treated the omegas, but I doubt that he was any better than the one you dealt with this morning. Did you happen to catch his name?”

“I didn’t,” Cassidy tells me. “But I’ll be putting in a complaint with the head of housekeeping about the Alpha in room 402! If he pulls another stunt like that tomorrow, I want to be reassigned.”

“Good plan,” I agree. “We shouldn’t have to tolerate behavior like that, just because alphas are higher ranking than most of us!”

I’m so glad that I wasn’t cleaning the rooms on the fourth floor! I was doing the guest rooms on floors two and three, while Cassidy did the fourth and fifth floor guest suites. I did discover that Alpha Gabe was in room 310, but he was absent the entire time I was cleaning his room. Then I made sure to use copious amounts of room deodorizer so he doesn’t suspect that I’m the one cleaning his room. My heart was certainly beating double time from fear the entire time I was in there, though.

I still hadn’t discovered Alpha Ross’s room yet, but I was only done with the rooms on the third floor. It’s possible he could be on the second floor.

“I better get back to work,” I say once I’ve finished eating lunch. “I want to get my rooms done before the afternoon meetings are over!”

“Good luck with that!” Cassidy says, giving me a thumbs up. “That asshole in 402 put me half an hour behind schedule, since I had to clean up chair splinters and mop the bathroom floor!”

“Maybe we should do a swap tomorrow? I can do room 402 if you will take 310!” I suggest.

“Why?” She asks suspiciously. “What’s wrong with the guy in 310?”

I explain that he’s my step father and that I’d rather not run into him. Cassidy agrees to the swap at once, and so it’s settled. And I actually feel a little bit of relief.

If only I knew where Alpha Ross was so I could avoid him, everything would be great!

I head to the second floor and get busy cleaning furiously. I want to finish up quickly and be on my way. I’m going to be a bundle of nerves until this whole alpha gathering thing with the Lycan King and all the Alphas ends in two days time.

I’m not worried for my own sake. I rejected Ross, so if he tried to drag me back to Harvest Moon the Lycan king would never allow it. That is why I came here. But if Ross should learn about Rowan, he could take Rowan away from me. Alphas always have more rights to their heirs than the mother does. It’s not fair, but it is what it is. My protests would probably fall on deaf ears. I pray to moon goddess that Ross doesn’t discover his son.