Lyla...POV
Kkkkkkrrrrrrrrriiiiinnnnnnnkkkkkkk...
Kkkkkkrrrrrrrrriiiiinnnnnnnkkkkkkk....
i grumbled, but quickly shut down my alarm, i wash my face,brush my teeth and quickly rush out of my room to start on breakfast and my morning chores.
I slowdown as i see Aunt Helen standing at the top of the stairs, i cant really see her face its still too early for lights in the hallway.
Then i felt my insides squeezing in on me, it is the worse pain ever....
Tears instantly fall from eyes, as i fight the instinct to scream out.
I am thrown against the wall , my body hits the ground and then i am rolling down the stairs..
Oh good goddess,Oh my freaking goddess, when will my suffering end?
i try to crawl away, but my legs wont cooporate..
"So you feel disgracing the family,with your useless stoic appearance, will be good?"
she asks as she descends the stairs..
To top it all off, she continues to reel off my crimes,you are due to be at the Royal palace and didn't deem it fit to let me know?
she asks in a cold voice.
How stupid can one human be ?
You smear the family name in school, where you w***e yourself for academic assistance, then your slutty plan finally works and you want to go dressed like a slut ?
Do you have no regard for your uncle?
she asks shaking with anger....
i close my eyes tightly as my body is flung into the wall again, but this time i hear a crack.
i can taste blood as my lips bust on impact..
"I am sorry" i whisper pleadingly, while praying yet again for mercy ..
I know my entire chest and rib region will be a deep angry purplish black for days,
i have hit my head and might have cracked a rib, this continues, till i eventually black out.
When i come to, i feel someone kicking my legs...
"Get up you lazy imp"
Riley shouts, screaming at me,while kicking my legs to wake me up..
"Breakfast NOooOoooW" she orders.
i bit down on a scream of pain as i manage to move ...
my entire rib region feels like they are on fire. My head is pounding and my entire body aches..
Tears fall freely from my eyes as i make French toast, frittata, hot chocolate and instant coffee.
Once i am done, i slowly head back to my room to take a bath and get ready.
I am late for school, but start to walk gingerly, i sigh as some tears escaped and leaked from my eyes,it will take forever to get to school today.
**************
Helen's ...POV
I stared at the hideous excuse of a human , she is a shell of her mother Becky.
The blonde beauty of my peers in the Royal supreme pack,they were part of the royal court's rich and famous.
I hated her with a passion, she had everything i wanted and she still ended up mated to every girls dream Alpha, George Caddel.
well....in the end, I didn't loose out because i am mated to her brother Fred.
The i***t i harbor in my house is neither blonde nor pretty like my daughters.
Yet she has the guts to flaunt the fact that she is intelligent and very good with with school work, in my face.
How can someone from the bloodline of George and Becky be anything but a Were?
I have always felt Becky was covetous, greedy and a jealous soul...and her empty shell of a child is now suffering for her misdeeds.
The lack of respect to send her stupid child that should have died with them, to my home is totally unforgivable, but the hideous woman didn't even have the courtesy to inform me.
My thoughts have turned dark ,angry and murderous.
*****************
I walked slowly and gingerly as i made my way from the school's mini bus to the entrance of the Royal Ed centre.
The building was huge,the front was all glass.
It looked slim and was rectangular in shape, with the top of it slanting from left to right.
A woman was standing, waiting anxiously at the entrance to the building.
she was wearing a pink skirt suit. Thick rimmed glasses covered half of her small face and she had her chestnut colored hair in a pony tail.
I gritted my teeth and groaned as i tried to ignored the pain that shot through my body as i ascended the six or more steps to the building's entrance, with five other students from my school, that were awarded the scholarship.
Mrs Milo, our student guide, was patient with me because i told her, i was sick, and walked with me.
"Hello and welcome to the Royal Ed centre, i am Rhonda,i will be your guide for the day, please feel free to ask me anything concerning the centre and the ceremony."
she said with a smile, "nice to see you again, Sasha," she said to Mrs Milo.
Rhonda led us to the reception area, where a young man with red hair, dropped some kind of greyish substance on our fingers, Rhonda explained that it is to enable all 22 students mindlink her during the ceremony as we are not allowed to speak in the presence of the crown prince who will be attending the ceremony.
Gabriel the red haired guy then began to call our names from a tab in his left hand as he handed each of us a tag with our names and school on it.
Rhonda led the way to the hall for the award ceremony , letting us know that other awardees had arrived ahead of us.
sweat broke out on my forehead as i struggled to sit and find the best sitting posture with less pain, a tear slipped out and i hurriedly bent my head down to wipe the annoying tear away.
F***************kkkkkkkk !!
I screamed in my head, but raised my head in time for Rhonda to give us a little orientation on how the ceremony would go.
we were advised to use the rest room now, as the ceremony would start in 10mins.
Getting up was a no-no for me so, no rest room visit either.
The ceremony started and the crown prince was introduced, with an air of authority combined with a little aura of power.
He walked in with an entourage of nine,
godddddeeeess !!! he is so handsome, i exclaimed in my head.
There were about four women with them, the prince held hands with a blonde beauty.
There were other ladies around but the prince only gave attention to the blonde, i looked around and saw that all other female awardees were starring at the prince.
His highness was dressed in the army combat uniform, like the other men with him.
I recognised the two betas, Gabriel and Fonsi, the others were introduced as his gammas, and they were all cut from the same strain of handsome gene.
Momentarily forgetting my body pains, i breathed in deeply, and bit down on my lips to stop a groan from escaping my lips.
The prince is now giving the award certificates to each of the awardees, i knew i finished in the top ten.
i watched anxiously, as the top three students received their awards, my palms were all kinds of sweaty right now, i was just so fidgety.
"Lyla Caddel" Rhonda's strong voice carried my name through the hall.
I froze instantly , then quickly gritted my teeth against the pain in my ribs as i got to my feet and slowly made my way to the podium, with a fake smile plastered on my face.
Aunt Helen will definitely kill me if i dragged any type of attention to myself.