Chapter Eight

ELENA'S POV

I sat on the cold floor of the store room, scared and frustrated. I saw a rat not too long, and two cockroaches. I can still hear the squirking of rats, which means they're more than one.

I was really hungry and tired, I had not eaten anything since morning, I was weak, losing strength too. I started feeling dizzy and I didn't know when I fell asleep. I was too tired to stay awake.

The door opening jerked me up from sleep, as I raised my face up, I caught a glimpse of someone, walking to me. I was still a bit drowsy, so I couldn't make out the face. It was until the person got closer that I found out that it was Lana, she had walked in with a plate of food in her hand. Immediately I saw the food, my stomach started gurgling. She smiled at me and dropped the food close to me, sitting beside me on the floor.

I gubbled the food down in a hurry, I was so hungry that I cleared the plate, almost licking the plate. She laughed as she heard me belch after eating, I lowered my face and smiled too. “Why are you being nice to me, Lana?” She smiled and held my hand, and said, “you're a nice person, who's just caught up in a bad situation. I was in your shoes once, and I had no one to ease me into my new found reality. I felt lonely and left out, so I get how you feel, I can relate. I'm just here to help you ease into your new found reality”.

Lana stayed with me until I slept off, I was happy to atleast have a friend to speak with and a nice person who had my back.

I jerked off forcefully from sleep, I didn't have a nightmare or was it a nightmare? I dreamt of Lucian. It was the weirdest dream. The maid who used to take care of me as a child used to tell me that if you dream about someone, it means you're thinking about that person. I was not thinking about the drop dead gorgeous Alpha, no I wasn't.

The dream was really hot, I woke up sweating and with an ache between my legs. I dreamt of the Alpha kneeling with his face between my legs. That was weird, because I didn't want that. Or did I? I didn't want that, I didn't want to have anything with a man who condemned me to starvation.

I was still thinking and trying to recover from the dream, when the door was opened and I was dragged out, back to the horror called life I lived. The head of the maids was yelling something, but I couldn't hear her, because I wasn't paying attention. I was too frustrated to care about what she was saying.

I was assigned to 'Lady’ Edwina's room, the same person who had just locked me up in the store room all night long. I was handed cleaning equipment and directed to her room.

I got to the door, fist clenched, toes curled, I was angry, scared, I just didn't want to be here. Finally I knocked, and I heard a voice tell me to enter. When I got in, it was one of the laundry girls, she had come to drop some laundry, and then she left. I got scared, no one was here with me, to inspect what I was going to do. I suspected foul play, Edwina was trying to rope me in again, and I wasn't going to fall for it.

I started cleaning, dusting, making the bed and steaming it. The room wasn't that dusty, I was lucky. I decided to enter the walk-in closet to clean it up too, and when I opened it, it was a mess. Clothes, shoes, were everywhere. Makeup and brushes were on the floor, underwear, scarfs, the whole room was like out of a dumpster.

Could I handle this alone? I didn't know anybody, and already most of the maids didn't like me. I wasn't going to get help from anywhere, so I sprung into action. Removed clothes, and shoes, cleared the room. It took me exactly two hours to clear and put away the clothes and other stuff.

I was done with the closet and got to the bathroom, luckily not really a mess. I handled that, and by the time I was done, I was exhausted. I left her room and went to the maid quarters. I was hungry, but I couldn't dare tell anyone.

I was not even done with half of my work, the chores I was doing were punishment for Edwina's clothes I damaged yesterday, I didn't even do it on purpose. I wished Lucian was here, he wouldn't let this happen to me. She was treating me like a maid because I was a breeder. Something that was obviously not her fault. If it weren't for my dad and my Omega blood, I wouldn't even be here.

“You really have some nerves, resting when your job isn't done, breeder”, someone said, breaking me away from my thoughts. I looked around and finally at the door and found out it was another maid. I didn't say a word to her, I just stood up, and left the room. Everyone in this place was the devil's child.

I started brushing and cleaning the weapon room, careful not to get myself killed while doing so. I didn't know why I was doing this, because last I checked, there were guys whose job was to keep the weapon room clean. Why did they need weapons, weren't they all wolves?

I got tired and decided to rest for a bit, maybe I could learn about these weapons and how to use them, since I didn't have a wolf. The door to the weapon room flung open and a guy walked in. He was looking at me weirdly and I was looking back at him.

“Is there a frog on my face sir?” I asked with a sarcastic smile on my face. He turned away like he was lost or something and said, “, What… What are you doing here? Only guys are allowed in here.” I showed him the cleaning things I came with, and replied, “ cleaning obviously. I mistakenly damaged Lady Edwina's clothes, and this is my punishment”. I said as I lowered my head after saying the last sentence.

He sat beside me and said, “I heard about it, it wasn't your fault. I'm sure she just wanted to put you in trouble, because she doesn't give her laundry to anyone to handle, except a particular expensive laundry company. She's probably out for you”. I wasn't surprised, I knew she was out for me, thinking I was here to take Lucian from her. I mean who wanted his hot ass? Not me, maybe I did.

“I'm Elena”, I said, stretching my hand to him for a shake. He took it and replied, “I'm Marvin but my friends call me Marv. I'm in charge of the weapon room”. I nodded my head in realization, and laughed. “So I'm in your territory, Marv. I apologize, but I have no choice but to be here”, I said to him as I stood up to continue my cleaning. He laughed, getting up too and said, “you're cleaning wrongly. Sit down, I'll handle it”.

Marv was done in an hour, and I had been cleaning for two hours plus, I couldn't believe it. He told me to wait in the weapon room and later sneaked some bread to me. I tried to refuse, but he forced me to finish it. The moment I started eating, I realized I was hungry.

After sitting with Marvin for a while, I had to leave and report to the head of maids. She congratulated me for using the whole day to work, she was obviously being sarcastic and then sent me to join the other maids in the kitchen doing dishes.

I was doing the dishes, when Edwina angrily walked into the kitchen, marched to me and hit my face, calling me a thief. I was shocked, I didn't know what she was talking about, I couldn't relate. Before I knew it, I was bundled up and taken to a dark room.

“What did I do? Why am I getting tied up please answer me”, I asked, tears falling from my eyes, I was being tied. The guard tying me up replied, “still acting innocent, I see. Well the jewelry you stole from Edwina while cleaning her room was found under your bed in the maid quarters”.

Jewelry, I didn't know anything about that. I couldn't even defend myself, what bed even. I hadn't slept in days. Before I knew it, I felt a sharp pain on my back, and another and another, I was being whipped, for absolutely nothing.