40. Know your place.

"You're to report to the alpha king's quarters immediately." Florence said sternly to Winifred as soon as she stepped into the laundry where Winifred, Martha and a few other servants were busy washing.

Winifred's heart skipped a bit on hearing this and all the servants in the space had immediately snapped their heads towards her direction. It had been a day since the drama that happened at the Frenchay square and she and Arthur had barely exchanged a word after all that happened. She had simply gone back to being just his slave while Arthur had gone back to his duties as the lycan Prince too.

Getting specifically asked for by the one man she hadn't seen since the dramatic scenario she had put up on discovering that he was a two in one scared her, partly because her few days in the lycan castle had opened her eyes and ears to how cruel and brutal he could be, he was rarely around and was always on one trip or the other but the moment he was around, everyone in the castle seemed to be on their toes, diligently trying so hard to please him at every turn. They said he had an harem of sex slaves, about three of them and it was also said that he even brought in a new young one when he got back from one of his trips today.

"Huh? Did you mean to say the prince's quarters?" She asked, hoping that her ears had only heard something different than what she had actually said.

Florence threw a glare at her, and if eyes could kill, Winifred was sure that she was going to be six feet under the ground instantly. "Did I stutter? Or are you now deaf?"

Winifred didn't bother to say any more words to her, instead she proceeded to drop the clothes that was in her hands and started to walk out of the laundry warding away the judging and curious eyes that followed her. The alpha king's quarters was a little bit far from the laundry so she took several minutes to get to her destination. On getting to the entrance of his room, she took a deep breathe yet remained outside the door like she had been locked out. But then Alexander had noticed and sniffed her presence, "What are you doing there? Come inside unless you're planning to stand there forever," he said loud enough for her to hear yet calm as possible. When her presence and scent eventually enveloped him, signaling that she was now inside, he smiled.

"Close the door behind you," He spoke again and this just succeeded in making Winifred's heart race because she couldn't help but wonder why he was asking her to close the door. Reluctantly,  she slowly turned her body, shutting the door close which made the sound of click in the quiet room, even though she refused to move further away from the door in a bid to be able to pick race easily in case he tried anything threatening to her. But then, the alpha king simply walked around the room, into something that looked like a secret passage in his wardrobe and then he brought out a slave, Winifred was sure that it was that same new one that had been rumored, the one he had just gotten for himself.

Winifred took a good look at Alexander and she couldn't help but wonder about how he had three grown up kids but still looked like he could pass as just their siblings instead of their father. He was handsome, almost like his son, Arthur, she noted, with high cheekbones, strong narrowed jaw and eyes that were leaner but wide enough which were very prominent on his face.

"Sit down," she heard him say but when she looked around, she wondered if it was directed at her or at the young girl he had just brought out.

"Oh, not you, dear Winifred. All you have to do is stand there and look pretty, while you make sure that your eyes are on what I'm about about show you." He said, as if he had read her thoughts. Winifred simply stared at him in discomfort, she was scared to say something that might open what she had previously said. She wondered if she was just getting tamed by them since this wasn't really what she would have done on a normal day, but then maybe it's just a once bitten, twice shy case.

He then ordered the girl that was simply standing to sit down on his bed and after some time, Alexander came to sit next to her, facing her as he placed one leg on the ground and the other on the bed. He raised his hand to see her flinch, "Don't be scared," he whispered, even though he didn't care if everyone was going to hear him in the whole castle, it was his castle afterall.

The girl as if believing him though scared tried to stop herself from shivering when his hand went to pat her head very gently, "That's right. Calm down," he smiled at her, "There's nothing to worry about. I'm not going to hurt you, not at all," he said as his hand smoothed the errant strands of her head as if he were petting a dog.

And just as he patted, the girl started to finally calm down, her heart settling in her chest until she suddenly felt her hair being pulled back in a painful manner causing both her and Winifred to wince,

"M-master, please i.. it hurts!" she cried when the alpha king pulled her hair with a tight grip and her head fell back.

"Hurts? What are you talking about?" asked Alexander in confusion, acting as if he didn't know what the slave was talking about, "I am loving you here, so sweetly. Stop crying," he said to her where tears had started to form in her eyes. A single tear escaping from her eyes which turned his expression dark and then just like that he went from sweet to brutal in a split second.

"I am being nice, what are you crying for?" He asked. He looked in Winifred's direction and when he saw that her attention is totally on him just like had instructed, he looked back at the slave in his hands, the fear in her eyes turned him on more than sex did, the light in his eyes lit as he watched her squirm and cry, trying to get away from him like an insect trapped in a glass as he watched knowing there was no escape in this cobweb world he had created for her, "Shh, don't cry," he tried to pacify her when his hand hadn't let go of her tangled hair which only caused her scalp to hurt more painfully, "Okay," he whispered before letting go of her hair to see the girl move away from him, keeping a distance as her wide blue eyes looked at him.

The girl didn't know what to make of as her owner apologized, "Forgive me," he said as his hand reached towards her but because her scalp was still hurting, she averted his touch  and instead leaned back causing Alexander's eyes to narrow at her out of unpleasantness.

And then suddenly the alpha king came at her, his hand wrapping around the girl's neck as he dragged her up to the center of the bed, "I told you there's nothing to fear yet you are being difficult with me. The other slaves were so much better who listened, why are you being difficult? Don't you want to be loved?" he asked her with the same sweetness in his voice which now scared the girl on the bed. It scared Winifred to the bones too, it scarred her even, she didn't understand why she had been called on to witness this, she didn't understand why any male should resort to treating a female this way. She wasn't enjoying what was going on underneath her gaze, she didn't like how the girl kept looking in her direction as if asking her to help me in any way that she could. It took all the strength in her to keep standing, even when the girl had started to plead.

"M-master, please sp-spare me. P-p-please," pleaded the slave girl but her pleas fell on deaf ears as Alexander was not listening to her. His hand was still wrapped around her neck, pushing her to the bed so that she couldn't move her body. As her body started to thrash, his hand tightened around her neck to see the air blocking out of her body slowly. Leaning closer to her face and positioning his lips next to her ears, he whispered,

"What are you scared of?" The slave whined painfully as one of his legs was placed on her arm and and that was when Winifred totally lost it as she immediately charged at the alpha king and tried to free the poor girl from his clutches as much as she could but then Alexander threw the girl down and then turned on Winifred.

"What part of stay right there and look pretty did you not understand? Why do you always think that you are some kind of hero? Huh!" He snapped at her dragging her towards the wardrobe that had a secret entrance to a room, after finding a rope, he then dragged her roughly back towards the entrance. He was then able to tie her legs and hands easily, he also gagged her, he was an alpha afterall and she was just a human girl, his strength was a multiple of hers.

After he was satisfied that Winifred was definitely not going to interrupt him anymore, he charged towards the whimpering girl on the floor, more tears slipped past the girl's eyes which only made Alexander look at her, confused as to why she was crying even more, "Shh," he patted her head so that she could stop crying after moving his hand away from her neck which stopped him from choking her further, "Good girl, now don't cry any further. You are to not cry," he repeated his words and the slave who was now beneath him gasped for air, her chest heaving as he played with her hair.

"It's time to see if you are as pure as it was said when I bought you,"  he let out before starting to tear her clothes as she struggled to hide, trying to prevent him from taking the clothes off her body but when she did it only excited the man further.