Theo
Finally, the kitchen is cleaned, all the dishes washed and put away, the floors are mopped and everything's in place as it should be. Next on my list is cleaning the lounge room. I make my way to the cleaning supplies cupboard next to my bedroom and I'm in the middle of gathering everything that I'll need when I hear someone shouting my name across the hallway.
"Oi slave, Alpha Jack wants to see you in his office right now!" Gamma Drake's voice bounces off of the hallway walls as he approaches me giving me an instant headache.
"Ok, Gamma Drake I'll go there straight away," I tell him while keeping my head down as I walk to the Alpha's office on the fifth floor. By the time I make it all the way up the stairs, I feel like I could pass out from the pain. I'm too unhealthy and unfit to walk the stairs but I'm not allowed to use the lift that was installed a few weeks ago. I arrive at the Alpha's office door and the Gamma is already waiting for me. Of course, he used the lift but still, I just know that he is going to have something to say to me, he always does.
"You're nothing but a fat lazy bastard mind. How the f**k did it take you so long to get up here? I've been waiting for ages!" He bellows at me as I continue to look at the floor praying that the Alpha will call me into his office any second. He leans into me and grabs the front of my shirt gripping it tightly with one hand while his other hand forms a fist and slowly makes its way to my face. Great! I feel another broken nose coming my way.
"Drake get in the f*****g office, and you too Omega, the Alpha wants to see you." comes the pissed-off voice of Beta Alex as he appears at the doorway of the Alphas office glaring at Gamma Drake, he gives me a quick nod of the head and I make my way inside. Beta Alex is properly the only person here that I can say I like apart from the Smith Omega family, granted he doesn't really talk to me unless it's work-related but he's also never abused me in any way physically or mentally. He's never called me slave only ever Omega and more than once he's somehow stopped me from getting hurt as he did just seconds ago with Gamma Drake.
He's different from the Alpha and Gamma and I don't think he likes how they treat the Omegas here, I sometimes think he would be better off at a different pack, a pack where people are treated better, where people are treated well... like people and not unwanted dogs. He honestly seems like a good guy, I know he doesn't have a mate and that there is a story there but what the story is I'm not sure of either way I hope he finds someone one day, he deserves that.
"Right slave, We have important visitors arriving today. They should be here at 2 p.m. Alpha Jake and Luna Sophia of the Blue Lake pack and four of their children. They will also be accompanied by thirty warriors and fifteen she-wolfs. I need all the bedrooms on floor four cleaned to perfection I also need five of our guest rooms on the bottom floor cleaned, some of the warriors will be staying there to be close to Alpha and his family. The rest are staying at our hotel on pack lands."
"Of course, Alpha I will get straight on this,"
"That's not all, you will also be cooking dinner for an extra fifty-one people and I expect nothing but excellence in all the food slave and I'm warning you now if you mess up even the smallest of mistakes I will kill you in front of our guests so that everyone can see your pathetic ass meet its worthless end. I may still do it anyway as a little after-dinner entertainment for our guests... we'll see." He roars with laughter at his comment and tells me to get out of his sight and get my work done.
Finally, I've finished the last bedroom. They have all been cleaned to perfection, all new bed linen, polished, and vacuumed. The bathrooms have all been wiped down and mopped and I've opened the windows to air the rooms and added a sprig of air freshener. f**k I'm honestly exhausted.
I feel like a truck has run over my head. My nose is still swollen and sore and my broken ribs are throbbing against my skin, all I want to do is lay on my cot and sleep the rest of the day away but unfortunately for me, I still have hours of work to get done before that can happen which starts with making and serving dinner to over four-hundred pack members including our special guests.
I've never met Alpha Jake or any of his family but I take a moment to wonder what they are like. Are they kind? Do they treat Omegas well? Or are they just like Alpha Jack? Will they be mean to me? Are these visitors just added people to beat me while they stay here? God, I hope not. Trying not to dwell on something that I can't control I shake myself out of my thoughts and head for the kitchen.
Soon It's 6.15 pm and time to start putting all the food I've cooked into dishes and get them on the table. I've made a lot of food and a huge selection of deserts praying it'll be enough to save me from any more beatings today or even death. I just need to lie down in a dark room and sleep. I take a moment to massage my temples with my fingertips to try and ease some of the discomforts in my head but Luca isn't helping my headache, he's been prancing around and getting restless for the last four hours and it's driving me insane.
"I'm sorry Theo, but I can't help it, something feels different, ever since the visitors turned up I feel unsettled."
"Do you have any idea why Luca? We haven't even met the guests yet so it's not like they have done anything to hurt us...yet."
"I have no idea but as soon as I find out what's going on I will tell you and I promise I'll try and settle down as much as I can. I don't like making your headache worse."
"It's ok Luca, I know you don't mean any harm. Well figure this out together don't worry."
"Thank you, Theo."
Luca retreats to the back of my mind and puts the wall back up. While I've been lost in conversation with Luca I've managed to put almost all of the food into the dishes I've made chicken, beef, pork, and lamp joints and I am accompanying them with potatoes and a huge selection of vegetables and homemade gravy. We also have Mac and cheese, homemade burgers and fries. I've got huge bowls filled with pasta and sauce and buffalo wings, BBQ ribs and sweet and sour chicken breasts spaced out across the table with four different types of salads and dressings.
I then finish it off with homemade bread and garlic bread and I've got all the deserts ready to go as soon as the Alpha gives the word. I've made apple pies, blueberry pies, peach cobbler, carrot cake, lemon cake, and homemade ice cream. There's more than enough food for everyone which I'm thankful for, I just need to get the plates and silverware ready and get drinks on the tables and everything will be ready to go.