"Come again. The housekeeper, what?" He asked, to which Eric also swallowed hard before saying. "I was told the housekeeper beat her until she passed out."
He suddenly found a rage growing inside him. It felt like he wasn't in control of himself. "The housekeeper dared to beat her? Get the doctor first and bring that woman to me now." He said. His tone denoted how angry he was feeling. Eric also ran out immediately.
He was so angry, but he still managed to control himself and sit. The confidence she had to beat her was what pissed him off the most. Not long after, the door opened, and the woman entered with Eric and a guard behind her.
Ms. Jones knelt on the floor with her face down. She knew she was in trouble with the way the Alpha was looking at her, despite that, she couldn't help but have a little confidence that he wouldn't do anything to her.
"I heard you discipline my maid. Why is that?" Aiden asked calmly. It took everything in him just to be as calm as he was, despite how angry he was.
The woman looked up to meet his intense gaze. "I'm sorry, Alpha. I had to punish her. She broke the rules of entering into your study room." Ms. Jones had hoped the Alpha would see her reason for punishing her as reasonable and wouldn't do a thing to her, but she was surprised when the Alpha smirked. Something she had never seen him do before.
"You had to punish her?" He scoffed before asking. "And what rights do you have to punish her? The housekeeper?" He asked, raising his voice, but the woman could not talk.
"She's my personal maid, and no one will touch her. No matter who the person is," He said sternly, to which Ms. Jones also nodded. "I can't believe I'm even wasting my time having this conversation with you." He stood and turned to Eric and the guard standing behind the woman.
"Make sure she gets beaten the same way until she passes out. And remove her as the housekeeper. She would be better than the lower rank of the maids." He said this before leaving the room immediately.
Ms. Jones looked up. She couldn't believe what she just heard. She had been his housekeeper for years, and she couldn't believe that he would just lower her rank in just one night. "Alpha Aiden." She called out, but the man had climbed up the stairs without looking back at her.
***
In the room. She laid on the bed with her eyes covered. Some parts of her body were bandaged, and she was placed on an IV drip. The doctor was still checking her up when the door opened, and Aiden walked in.
"Good evening, Alpha." The doctor greeted him, but Aiden did not bother exchanging greetings. "How is she?"
"She will be fine, Alpha. She just needs to take her medicine and rest well." The doctor said, to which he also nodded.
"I shall get going then. A nurse will stay with her tonight. I shall come back tomorrow." The doctor said it with a bow before leaving the room.
He kept looking at her as she slept peacefully. Seeing different parts of her skin getting bandaged because of the housekeeper got him even more angry, but he kept controlling it. "She's so weak. She can't even heal on her own." He scoffed, still looking at her.
He couldn't believe that he actually punished people who hurt her. The housekeeper. And Mr. Smith's wife, the man he was supposed to invest in his company. He had told his assistant to stop the investment because of what his wife did to her at the party. "You need to stop all this, Aiden. This should be the last time." He sighed.
Just then, his phone rang, and he left the room.
**
The next morning,
She opened her eyes slowly, only to find herself back in the room. The last thing she could remember was when the housekeeper was beating her. "How did I get back here?" She thought as she tried to rise up from the bad, but she was met with a terrible headache.
Ah! She winced, touching her head, but she saw a lady run towards her. That was when she realized she wasn't the only one in the room.
"You need to lie back down, ma'am." The lady said. She was trying to help her lie back down, but she didn't move.
From her clothes, she knew she was a nurse. "What happened? How did I get here?" She knew the housekeeper couldn't have beaten her and still brought her into the room to get her treated.
"You passed out, and you're here to get treated." The lady said, not knowing how to answer her question right. "Please just lie down. The Alpha won't be pleased to see you stressing yourself."
"The Alpha?" Amelia asked with her eyes wide open in shock, to which the nurse also nodded. "Could it be that it was the Alpha that told them to get me treated? No, he couldn't have done that." She thought, shaking her head, until she remembered. "What if he's planning to take me back to that dark place?" Tears ran out of her eyes as she thought of going back to the dark dungeon.
Without saying anything, she removed the drip from her hand and stood up to leave. "Ma'am, what are you doing?" The nurse asked, surprised. She was at first surprised when she saw tears in her eyes, but seeing her remove the drip, she totally left her mouth open.
"I'll be right back, please." Amelia said, leaving the room quickly, before the nurse would try to stop her. She didn't want to go back to the dungeon, and she would have to beg him and roll on the floor if that would stop her from going. It was still early, and she knew he would still be at home.