ODETTE'S POV:
When I woke up, I was confused at where I was. Looking around I noticed I was in the Alpha Kings bedroom. And that's when memories of what happened flashed through my mind. I had been whipped. And not with an ordinary whip, no, he whipped me with a sex toy! I was so embarrassed and sore.
Sitting up I noticed the Alpha King was nowhere to be found. It was just me, alone in his room. When I heard a knocking on the door.
Getting up to answer it I was greeted by a purple haired bitch.
"Can I help you?" I asked indifferent to her answer.
"Why are you in the Alpha's room?" She sounded shocked.
"Getting punished. He whipped me and then put me to bed." I shrugged acting like it wasn't a big deal, despite the throbbing pain in my ass.
"He let you in his bed? That doesn't make sense." Raven shouted with disbelief.
"Yeah, I'm moving into his room too. Why are you jealous?" I poked at her insecurity; I could practically taste her interest in the Alpha King.
"You manipulative bitch." She yelled snatching me up by my hair.
"Ow, get the hell away from me, before I kick your fucking ass, Raven." I snarled.
She jerked my head and threw me on the ground.
Falling on my ass hurt and a groan escaped my lips, but then a blunt force slammed right into my stomach.
Raven had started kicking me. Over and over, she slammed her foot into my stomach and on to my ribs.
"I fucking hate you, you're just the daughter of a dumb whore and a monster." She shouted at me going in for another kick.
But that was it for me, I stopped caring about me getting punished later, I grabbed her foot and twisted it, snapping her ankle and forcing her to lose her balance and fall over.
She screamed. "Ow! My ankle. I swear to the goddess I'm going to kill you, Odette. Just you wait."
"I'd like to see you try. You couldn't even beat me in training, what makes you think you can do it now? Because my magic is neutralized? Even with that handicap, I could still kick your weak, pathetic ass. You don't scare me." I pretended like I was going to kick her while she was done, but I didn't and when she flinched, I laughed.
"Like I said weak. I didn't flinch once when I was hit by the whip, and here you cower at my feet like a bad dog. You'll never be better than me Raven. Get over it and find a new hobby other than trying to bully me."
I walked around her leaving her on the floor hollowing pain. Once I was walking down the stairs, I heard footsteps start running down the hall towards Ravens cries.
I hurry back into the kitchen, where I find the servant girl, Emalea, making lemonade.
I notice that she's totally engrossed in her task of stirring it, I quietly snuck up behind her and then jumped yelling "Boo!"
She screamed and knocked over the pitcher of lemonade, because she was so startled.
I moved quickly to catch the pitcher, just barely catching it before it hit the ground.
"Oh, goddess you scared me out of my wits, I knocked over the pitcher, thank you for catching it. Your reflexes are really fast. Wow!" She looked at me genuinely impressed, not just kissing my ass with fake compliments. That was the first time a stranger was ever truly, off the back, real with me.
"Offer to help with laundry still stands, if you still need it." I mention to her.
"Oh, gosh, that would be a tremendous help, I have to bring this pitcher over to Lady Isabella, I'd ask if you want to accompany me, but ah, I don't know if she'd like you wearing that dress. She's extremely modest. In how she lives and dresses, she's the daughter of one of the council members." Emalea mentions to me.
"Nothing I can do about it." I shrugged "This is the uniform your Alpha King is forcing me to wear."
"Oh, my goodness! Why?" She covered her mouth in surprise.
"To humiliate me, punish me for my father's sins." I answered with a tine of indifference. "Throwing a fit about it won't benefit me, so it at least it's not ugly. Though, I will say, this is extremely revealing for me, I am usually fully dressed. You'd probably call me modest too."
"Oh, like what?" She asked me.
"I wear Lolita. Doll dresses for people. I was in a beautiful black dress the day I was kidnapped."
"I'm so sorry, it must have been really scary for you." Emalea finished gathering the cups and pitcher.
"Here let me help you with that." I grabbed the pitcher from her hands.
"Thank you, I really appreciate it." She was refreshing, she spoke to me with no intent on gaining anything, it was really nice. Maybe that's why I'm so comfortable talking to her.
"No problem, anytime really. I like you, so I'll definitely go out of my way to help you."
"Really, you don't think I'm boring?" She asked looking at me with her big grey doe eyes.
"No way, you're just the right amount of you." I smiled big at her.
I saw tears form in her eyes. "That means the world to me. Truly."
And then she did something no one but my two close friends have ever done. Without fear she grabbed me and gave me and wrapped her arms around me, giving me a huge, warm hug.
I was so stunned I froze. Unable to move. My breathe caught with my words in my throat. I didn't really know how to respond. Do I hug her back, push her away, just stand here like a detached idiot.
"I'm sorry, was that inappropriate? Did I cross a line? Oh, my goddess I'm so sorry." She gasped quickly releasing me.
For some reason her sudden withdraw and fear broke my heart, so I did what I could do. I grabbed her hand and reassured her. "No, you didn't do anything wrong, so don't apologize. I was just caught off guard. You could say I'm not used to that type of affection. I didn't mean to give you the wrong idea. Truly, I've just never been hugged, well I mean I have, but not by people who aren't close to me."
"Are you serious? But you're so pretty and you're pretty funny, who wouldn't want to be your friend?" Emalea was shocked I guess when I said that, cause it didn't look like she believed me.
"Ha, that's rich. No one wants to be my friend because they like, they all approach me with ulterior motives, and who needs enemies when you can have fake friends instead? No thank you. Plus, people who don't want to use me are afraid me, so either way. People suck, but I like you, you don't suck."
To my surprise, she laughed. "Well thank you, but excuse me for asking this, why do they want to use you and why would anyone be afraid of you?"
"If that's not the most innocent question I've been asked today. I'm a princess, my mother is a bad ass empath with the ability to manipulate any vampire. And read the emotions of everyone in a room with her. When people have secrets, that's the last thing they want. Many people assumed growing up, I'd develop the same abilities as my mother." I paused for a moment to let that settle in.
"And when you're a child, you can't control your thirst, so I ate from every person that touched me, making them sleep, people eventually stopped touching me all together, except for my two best friends and my family. So, its safe to say, I wasn't the most popular, and I didn't get a lot of hugs."
She looked at me like she was appalled just as much as me at people's behaviors.
"Last, but not least. I am a gifted and powerful telekinetic, as well as I'm well trained in hand-to-hand combat and weaponry. My father is the strongest vampire, and I've trained with him my whole life. I was trained by powerful witches and wizards on how to wield my abilities. And they just keep growing and getting stronger. You see this collar, it's to keep me from using my abilities." I rub my hand through my long hair moving my bangs from my face "Basically, I'm a raging fire wrapped in silk. Born from control and chaos."
She just stared at me speechless.
"Wow. I'm just so sorry." Then she hugged me again. And I realized just how nice a hug from someone could be.