(Adelaide's POV)
"..On that exact day, there will be a festival coming up and the pack is hosting it. That goes to say that you'll be serving about 500 to 600 people on that day and of course who's going to take care of every other menial thing?.."
I remembered Alpha Vickson's words now as I woke up by 4am in the morning to start cooking. I was going to spend at least 5 hours on food this time, I knew it. This was not merely for the pack but itwas food for wolves who would be coming from other packs for the festival.
I couldn't help imagining my typical day when I could sleep for however long as I liked without interruptions, but instead of that, I was here, already awake at 4am in preparation for a festival that wasn't even my business.
As I cooked, I cleaned the kitchen too, scrubbing the floors clean as I also folded the clothes I had washed previous days back.
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I was sweating profusely as I ran around. It was already 12 in the afternoon and I was wearing the only other clothes that I had. They barely fit, they were so large that it felt like I had been thrown into the clothes..
These were the clothes that Luna Deli had thrown at me early this morning after I was done cooking.
I ran around refilling glasses of drinks for wolves whom I did not recognise but the ones that recognised me were even worse. They hit my butt as I turned my back to them in a s****l way, I couldn't ask them not to do it, it would be counted as disrespect and I would be punished severely by Alpha Vickson.
Even with the terrible clothes I was wearing, my ass still stood out. Despite the beatings and maltreatments I had gone through, still, I had grown prettily in my time in this pack and my figure made the she wolves jealous and the males horny. Severally, I was sexually harassed by Randall, the pack master's son, he would shove me to the wall at the laundry room and put his hands on me.
At other times, he would order me to go down on him, it wasn't like I had a choice.
Randall was the bane of my existence in this pack, I hated that I was powerless and I could not resist his power, being the puny human that I was.
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"Where the f**k is she..?" I heard someone growl close to the kitchen, when I looked and met his eyes, quickly I lowered it. Randall! I gritted my teeth and swore under my breath. I had finally finished serving and was about to take a short break but nope nope! This bastard.
Soon, I was at his side in no time. Instead of saying anything, he held my arm roughly and pulled me to the laundry room, which was quiet and serene, the sounds of the party here, was very minimal.
At his shove against the wall, I noticed belatedly that Randall had a boner. He had never f****d me, so I didn't expect him to f**k me or want to. He must have wanted me to go down on him again.
He pushed me down to my knees and opened his zipper waiting, but I shook my head. I wasn't going to do this. "No" I voiced out in a small voice.
"What?" Randall asked surprised and I repeated my negative word. I would not suck his d**k and that was it.
"You dare say no to me?" Randall laughed in disbelief before pulling me back up, ripping a part of my dress in the process before he slapped me viciously, I was back on the ground before I knew it.
His d**k was limp in a few seconds after, he was kicking me in my back and stomach angrily at my refusal and I just cradled my head hoping that it didn't get cracked open by mistake or something.
"Get the hell away from her" a deep loud voice growled as I heard the approach of another wolf.
Who was it this time? Another wolf that wanted me all to himself?
These were my last thoughts before I became unconscious.
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"Hello there"
This was the first thing I heard when I opened my eyes again. I was no longer on the floor and I was...
Wait. Where was this? This bed is so soft, I thought to myself as I sighed in delight.
My brain snapped back to reality when I remembered what I had just heard. Hello there? The last time I heard that, I was 12 and I was still with my parents, did I go back in time?
I squinted in the direction of the person that had said when I saw a man. A wolf. He must be a wolf to be here, his demeanor gave him away too..
"Where am i sir? How long have I been asleep? Please can you take me back? I'm supposed to be working right now.." I told him as my eyes flew to the clock behind him; I was wondering what Alpha Vickson, Luna Deli and Randall would do to me for staying off work like this. Reclining on an hospital bed for the first time since I had become a human slave..
Before the man even spoke a word, the scent of wild berries mixed with an air of a green forest assaulted my senses; What in the worldsmells this good? I groaned as I tried to sit up. It was then that he sauntered in, who the hell is this gorgeous looking man and why is he sending before me, scratch that. Why is he coming closer to me?Forget that he looked familiar and I felt like I had known him forever.
"Hey darling, are you okay?"
It was then that I remembered my wounds. f**k. Randall. I gave myself a once over and I nodded quickly, swallowing my spit, that threatened to make me drool.
"I'm Ivan and this is my beta, Eric."
Eric smiled at me, he was the guy that had spoken to me first before this guy named Ivan walked in.
"I'm your mate." The attractive man announced and I started. A few seconds after his words, Eric had slunk away like he was never there.
"What? My mate?"
"Don't you know what that is?" He frowned ever so slightly, and asked again..
"Can't you feel anything? You don't feel a bond between us?"
I looked down as I affirmed that I could feel those things, I also added that he smelled so nice.
"Those are my pheromones and only you perceives me that way cause you're my mate."
Oh. How do I even have a mate, I'm human, isn't that thing for wolves?
I had realised moments ago that I was in an hospital and was being treated after Randall's assault, I was still worried though about Alpha Vickson and all, but there was also an air of authority about Ivan, so I tried to keep mum about my worries.
It was in this moment that the doctor came in, he smiled tentatively at me, before whispering something to Ivan and left. Ivan looked over me with a weird look in his eyes before walking out of hospital room. His affable demeanor gone and his smile wiped off.
I saw him get to Eric who was just outside the ward. They walked away from the hospital room and I wondered what the doctor had told him.
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"I, Ivan Mounte, Alpha of the Druid pack, hereby reject you, Adelaide Jackson, human slave as my mate..because how the hell can you be human? Why would the moon goddess bestow me with a powerless mate? And a human at that???!"
Ivan said, all flustered and I was bewildered. He was rejecting me because I was human? Immediately, he said these words, I felt my heart break, it seemed like there was a pain coming from deep within me and it was heart wrenching.