An Alphas Possession

Chapter 2

          Three guards enter the lobby followed by hundreds of maids. A guard with long black hair steps up onto a stool. All the girls stop talking and wait expectantly for him to speak. “Each female has been assigned a maid to dress them for the dinner with the Alpha king Trench, Luna Queen Trench and Prince Trench. It starts at 7:00pm sharp. Do not be late, they don’t like to be kept waiting.” The maids spread around the room and to that of their assigned figure. Two maids wearing a black dress with a white apron walk towards Juliet and myself, one smaller than the other, but both petite. The larger one speaks, “Lady Juliet, please follow me.” Juliet looks at me with her eyebrows up. I shrug my shoulder and she follows the maid into the arch. I turn back to the small maid standing in front of me. She keeps her head down as she talks in a small voice, “Lady Lane, will you follow me please.” She hurriedly tries to walk past me but I grab her arm. She looks up at me with her green eyes that are laced with fear.
“Don’t look down when you talk to me, and please, call me Lane.” She looks surprised by my action but nods her head anyway.
We walk to my room where she begins curling my hair and doing my makeup which I told her to do lightly. During this time I learnt that her name is Rose and she’s thirty-three. She hadn’t found a mate and so she ended up working as a maid here in the palace. Rose goes into the walk in closet and come out with a beautiful, short, strapless, purple dress with a white bow. “Isn’t that a bit formal.” She shakes her head no.
“Compared to what the others will be wearing, this is far less formal.” I nod my head and take the dress from her hands. I strip down and put it on. When werewolves shift from wolf form to human form, they’re nude, therefore we aren’t afraid to be naked in front of one another other. She zips up the back and places my hair over my shoulders. She gives me a pair of nude heels to go with the drees. Just as I bend down to put them on, I glance at the clock but have to look at it again. It’s 7:03pm. I look at Rose and she has her eyes wide open. She quickly pushes me out of the room.
 With my heels in hand, I run out of the lobby and down a hall. An old butler was walking my way, and I asked for directions. “Down the stairs, go straight until you reach the foyer and go down the other hall. At the end there will be guards standing outside the dining room.”
“Thank you so much!”
Without time to spare, I sprint in the direction he told me. Sure enough, the guards stood outside another set of large wooden doors. I place my hands on my knees and pant for what seems like a minute before putting on my heels. When I look up to tell the guards to open the door, the doors were already open and everyone inside was sat staring at me. Including the King, Queen and Prince who sat at the head of the table. I straighten my back before taking a seat at the end of the long table that could probably fit fifty people. My eyes watch all the girls as some give me disgusted looks and other sympathetic ones. My eyes land at the people at the other end of the table; the royals. The queen looks at me strangely but the king has a smile on his face in amusement. Then there is the prince. He looks at me with a blank expression which makes heat crawl up my neck. I immediately stare down at my hands to hide it.
            The king clears his throat, “Thank you all for being here,” like we had a choice, “we wish you the best at finding a mate. As you all know my son will be attending the ceremony this year to look for his mate.” I hear some squealing sounding around me. My head snaps up only to see the prince with his intense gaze still on me. I gulp and avoid his stare by looking around the room. “Therefore, he will be the first to choose tomorrow.” The squeals got louder. “After him, the royal males choose.” The royals are a group of wolves that are a part of the same family that rule the werewolf community. They set the rules that all wolves must follow, such as this ceremony. They are treated with respect from the moment they were born, this tends to make them more aggressive and possessive. “-Then the middle class males.” With that said, he snapped his fingers and servants came in and placed a bowl of soup in front of each individual. I picked up my spoon and took a sip of the soup with an intensifying pair of eyes burning into my skull.
            The sound of metal scraping against metal echoed my room as light filtered in and shone onto my face. The sudden appearance makes me groan. “Get up. You need to eat breakfast before we work on you” I peek between my squinted eyelids at the clock. 7:22am.
            “It’s too early.” I bury my face into the pile of pillows. Within seconds my face slams against the mattress. I look over the side of my bed to see Rose, holding the pillow I was once using in her hands. I roll my eyes, “Fine.” I get up and grab a pair of gray sweats and a black long sleeved top that the palace provided for me, and head into the bathroom. I look at the mirror and stumble back. Whoa. My hair is sticking out everywhere and my eyes are droopy. ‘You look like a new-born baby wombat’ Lev commented.
        ‘Thanks’ I reply to her, sarcasm evident in my tone of voice. I turn the knob in the shower to hot, and check the temperature with my hand before hopping in. My hair soaks in water before I put green apple scented shampoo on it. After rubbing it in thoroughly, I put conditioner into my hair and comb it out. I wash my body with a rag and shave my legs and arms before wrapping a towel around my body and exiting.
        When I was done changing, I headed down the stairs and into the kitchen. No one was inside. Above the fridge sat different cereal boxes. It wouldn’t hurt to have some, right? The blue bowl that I got out filled with Lucky Charms cereal and milk. My legs swung off the bar stool next to the island as I ate, humming to a tune.
        “What are you doing here?” A deep voice came from behind me. My mouth let out a shriek as I jumped off the stool and hid behind the island, hiding me from the unknown person. When the room went silent, I looked over the counter top to see an amused looking prince standing there with his arms crossed over his chest. My eyes widen and I stumble to my feet. I bow my neck down in submission.
“Sorry, Prince Trench. I w-was eating breakfast a-and I didn’t see y-you there.” I stuttered.
“Look at me.” My head moves up slowly but my eyes stay trained on the floor. “Look at me.” He growled. I stayed still, eyes glued to the floor. Heavy footsteps rung around the room as dark brown shoes advance towards me. He stops when we were toe-to-toe. His middle and index finger rests below my chin while his thumb relaxed just below my lip.  He pulls my head up to look at him in the eyes. I take in a deep breath as his facial features came into view. He had dark brown hair that hung over his forehead and a light stubble. His lips were a bright peachy-pink but the most significant feature was his eyes. They were a dark blue with light brown around the pupil. Beautiful. The most shocking thing was he was looking over my face as if he was memorizing it.
            I stumble a few steps back and clear my throat. He blinks out of his trance and lets his hands fall to his side before he looks back at me. “This is the private kitchen. You shouldn’t be here but I will allow it for today. Next time make sure this is the right place.” He turns on the ball of his heel and walks out. I let out the breath of air I didn’t know I was holding. Shaking my head from the stress of this encounter, I sit back down on the stool to finish my cereal, scolding myself about walking into the wrong kitchen.
            “Where have you been?!” Rose yells at me the second my foot stepped into my room, “I told you to go eat breakfast, not go for a run around the whole palace! It’s 11:20am.” Just when I was going to reply she starts to speak again. “Never mind. There isn’t enough time.” She pushes me down into a chair as she looks around for all the beauty supplies-Makeup, curlers, straighteners etc. and comes back to make me seem perfect.