Alpha's Rejected Luna

Chapter 6

I arose to another stressful moment, it was morning and the time for maids to start duty. Riana had to wake us with a scream, she was find of doing this. It's very hard to escape her trouble, the only time you're free from it is when you're back in the evening. I can't wait till afternoon when I'll be back from work to rest but now I've gotten myself entangled with Riana, I don't know if I'll know rest.

Riana is supposed to be in her thirties, single and hasn't found a mate yet after her boyfriend broke up with her when she was twenty-one. That's the news that reached us, here there's nothing that is hidden, I just think that my issue with Prince Williams would soon be laid bare. What makes me a bit glad is because Kate is not a friend that would spill my secret. We always confide in each other. Riana must be jealous of seeing me catching the eyes of the royal prince, she thinks it shouldn't be someone like me or perhaps it should be her.

My work today is to clean the flower vases, wash the inside and replace old flowers with fresh ones. This isn't my job but Riana forced me to do it. She's just looking for complex task to assign me, wishing for a chance I'd get into trouble for her to punish me. As I was doing this, the cleaner assigned to perform these tasks approaches me.

"Heyy, what are you doing in my work place?" He asked jokingly, he's supposed to be around eighteen or nineteen, I guess.

"Hi," I wasn't in any mood to entertain any jokes, Riana would kill me if she discovered. I continued my work without raising my head to look at him.

"This' my work, who asked you to resume here or are you just trying to play your crush on me?" Here he is again. I've been hearing of all his jokes but hadn't experienced one before. Shane is a witty, young man that seems very much like a player but I haven't seen him flirting with a girl before, that's just the controversial part of his life. He plays and jokes around girls, but I've never seen him act romantic around any. Some times, I imagine seeing him as the brother I never had.

"My mistress, the royal lady did." Shane must have been surprised to hear me say this. He resumed work to find me doing what he's supposed to do. I started this as early as eight, I dared not protest because that's what Riana was really expecting so she could punish me.

"That woman is filled with so much hate, why would she ask a young woman like you to do such burdensome tasks as carrying heavy vases and washing them. It's really difficult. Don't worry go and rest while I help you do these."

"But I was asked to do this? I might be punished." I protested knowing fully well that Riana would do something horrible to me if she came and saw another person doing the task she assigned me.

"But this' my job, what do you think if our master should come see you doing my job. Don't you think I would get a far more horrible treatment?" Between Riana and the man in charge of the male workers, I wonder who was more harsh. I do find myself pondering on this most of the times but I can come to the conclusion that Master R, as is popularly known by is worst than Riana but I actually prefer him to Riana. Master R only punishes when you err as the guys working in the palace do say otherwise he's nice and friendly but Riana always finds a way to implicate you whether you offend or not. If you grab her attention like it just happened to me, you wouldn't know any peace again. I just think of how I'll go through the rest of my life in this palace with this.

Well, I had no choice but to leave Shane do his job, it was his task anyway and like he said, would face a greater issue if Master R should come see a girl doing these things. I went over to the bench beside and sat down on it. It didn't take long when I under his amusing charms and started off the most interesting discussions ever. I think we spent about three hours talking until all of a sudden Riana approached.

"I think you've been taking so much liberty here. I'm gonna do something that would weaken your ego, I won't punish you either but I would give you a greater punishment in few days time, one you would always live to remember. You think I don't know what's making you so deviant?" I got puzzled. What does she really means? I felt like asking Shane this question but I was all alone in this, how would he get the answer to give me.

The first day passed after I left Williams' palace and nothing happened, he didn't even send for me and I began to have doubts if he just wanted to humiliate me. "If he truly likes me, why wouldn't he invite me the second time?" I told my bestie, Kate. A voice rang in my head, 'Come on, you're just a maid, don't take things too far with your prince.' I sighed, Kate didn't really know why, I felt worthless. Whenever I had issues connecting me with royalties, I always feel this way. I didn't see any reason why humans should be divided into the superior and inferior category when we were created same, just that others assumed positions the termed inferior couldn't.

"What's really disturbing you, Irsula? You shouldn't let that bother you as long as he's indicated interest in you. You know he's a prince and they don't act like we commoners."

"Stop that, don't say! We're not commoners." I got pissed to hear my best friend saying the same thing I feared hearing the most. She shouldn't be the one saying this.

"But are we? We are the omegas and they, Alpha class." I thought for awhile, heaved a sigh of relief.

"That really isn't my focus, I think I should leave this prince stuff and feeling of a thing and focus. It's because of him Riana now targets me and I can never get off her eyes except either she leaves this work or I leave."

"What would make you leave?" Kate got curious.

"Haven't we forgotten our deal, to leave and further our studies?" I'm sure Kate must have temporarily forgotten to ask me such a question. "Right from the first day I came here, I came with a purpose. To finish with my bank account occupied with an amount sufficient to sponsor myself through college, aside the one I give to my parents."

"Yeah, that's true." Kate said somewhat indifferently. Her interest now must have been in Williams' issue, she would most likely do something that would make the prince notice her again but I wasn't in for that. What Riana would do to me in a few days time bothered me more than the fact that the prince didn't call or send for me.