'Tell her to stop showing up in my chambers as my personal maid. Just look at how dusty the tops are."


'I am so sorry sir," Mrs Caul apologised and I heard her footsteps approaching the door.

I quickly moved away from the door, trying to hide myself from them but I was too late, because the door flung open and Mrs Caul and Alpha Axel found me standing by the door.

'Talk about the devil," he mumbled, walking past Mrs Caul, 'you will just tell her right away that I have preferences now."


Mrs Caul seemed to be uncomfortable with relaying the information but she had to follow his instructions.

'Vanessa, I am sorry but you cannot work as a personal maid for the Alpha anymore. You will return to work as a common maid, just as you were earlier."


I swallowed the lump that gathered in my throat and nodded gently, keeping my face away from both of them.

I felt a pang of shame in my chest and I could not describe why it seemed like I could never rise above a certain point in my life.

'You may leave now," she ordered me, motioning for me to leave the door.

I simply walked out, feeling dampened by such a heavy demotion.

When I first began, I thought staying as a normal maid was better and I almost rejected his offer but when I began the role, I started loving the dynamics of working directly for the Alpha.

It felt elevating to be his personal maid. Now, I was about to suffer a demotion that would be likened to a disgrace.

'But what choices do I have?" I thought to myself, walking back to the maid's centre.

'Why are you here?" Sandra asked, sitting up straight. 'You never show up here these days."

'I am no longer holding my position," I said without a thought.

'What do you mean?" She wanted to know more but I could not say a word.

In my head, I knew that the Alpha was not doing this because I truly was not meeting up with his expectations, it felt like there were other reasons that were unknown to me.

Mrs Caul walked back to the maid's centre, carrying a note pad that seemed like a book for instructions.

'Good morning Mrs Caul," the maids echoed and I joined in as well. There was always a morning briefing before we all began our tasks.

'There has been a bit of a rescheduling. Vanessa is back as a floor maid and she has to be fixed into the daily schedules."

I could see the faces of the other maids. Most of them seemed happy with the fact that I was back with them and I could tell in that minute that they disliked me all the while.

'Vanessa, for the whole of this month, you are handling toilets and trash."

I resisted the urge to puke everything in my belly.

The toilets are not bad but it reminded me of my days as an orphan and how terribly degrading my life was.

I nodded obediently, knowing clearly that I had no choice.

We went about your tasks as usual and everyone got busy.

Emilia seemed worried about me and she came to me while I was doing my task.

'How did you end up back here?" She asked, her voice gentle and soothing.

'I guess I do not meet up with the Alpha's standards for a personal maid."

'Oh, was this his decision?"

'Yes! I heard him complaining to Mrs Caul about my incompetence. Funny enough, I had no idea I was that incompetent."

Emilia gazed at me with a sullen look.

'I feel there might be other reasons."

'If there is , I have no idea. These were the reasons I heard."

'Well, you cannot say you haven't noticed, Vanessa."

'Noticed what?" I was becoming perplexed and wondering what she had to say.

'Haven't you noticed that there are a large number of ladies who dislike you gravely here? They could give anything to see you thrown into the dungeon."

I felt fear creep into my heart.

'Why would they all want me in the dungeon? What did I ever do?"

I was worried about my safety and my life.

'Well, the majority of them feel threatened by your facial attributes and others feel belittled by the fact that you just came into the pack and not long after, you became a personal maid to the Alpha."

I did not know it was such a big deal to be his personal Maid," I mentioned, truly ignorant of that fact.

'It is a big deal! The Alpha would not normally allow just anyone to be close to his personal space. It is either he likes you or you hold a special place in his heart and he just wants you close."

Those words seemed to carry some weight and I felt a pang of realisation in my heart.

'Coils it be that he truly did like me and was being unfriendly because I was not deserving of his presence?"

As much as I did not want my thoughts to dwell on that fact, I still found myself occasionally drifting to the thoughts of rage his true reason was.

The days that followed, I barely saw his face. He was either always locked up in his study or out on a royal meeting.

I had gotten used to being a common maid once again and it was almost like I never left the circle.

One evening, while I was going about my task Choral, another maid came up to me, 'Vanessa, the Alpha demands your presence in his chambers."

I felt panic strike my chest.

What could it be? I thought as I strutted towards his door, trying to control my racing heart.

I was perplexed as I had not set my eyes on him in almost four weeks. Whatever it was, I was certain that I was not ready for it.

'What if he wants to send me away from the Black devil pack if I was of no use to him."

I held that thought down as I stood by the door knocking.