Ophelie's POV

Knuckles rapping at the door had my eyes open instantly as I peered at it, taking in glances while I tried to soak in my surroundings.

My hands fell by my side while I let my eyes roam the room, the events that had led me here racing in fast enough to get me racking a hand through my hair.

A sigh left my lips before I flung the bedsheet to the side before walking in strides toward the door where the same maid from last night stood.

"Yes?" I waited for her to speak, with my hands hanging on the door, watching as she fiddled with her hands a bit before uttering.

" We have orders from the alpha that you are to have breakfast with him. You are to prepare and be out in the next ten minutes. Is there anything you want me to help you with?"

" Loic," I called out, his name leaving a bitter taste in my mouth. What I would do to have him out of my life at the moment.

" Alpha Loic. We are not allowed to call him by name, and that goes for everyone, as we can't afford his ire. The only one allowed to call him by name is..."

" Astrid." I had my back to her, stalking back into the room while I let her walk in. Yet another pest that I had to deal with, then Margot, Marlow, and Cayla.

I rolled my eyes, taking one last glance at the maid before sauntering into the bath, where I went through the daily rituals of taking my bath while admiring the body I now possess, one that happens to be a great beauty and wouldn't pale in contrast to mine.

" All done." I slipped my foot into the flip-flop when I came out to the gown, emerald green, placed on the bed.

" For you. These are the colors the alpha would like to see you in."

I scoffed. " See me in?"

" Yes."

" Well..." my lips curled into a smirk as I lumbered across the room, flicking open the wardrobe. My hands pulled out a red gown before handing it to my maid.

" I will put on this."

" But..." she hesitated.

" Thhh..." I sucked in my teeth, letting her know I wasn't about to be disputed. "It's that, or I won't be heading over for breakfast."

" But Alpha Loic had demanded to see you in this."

I plopped into the chair, my hands running on the face that had now come to be mine. " Then he can put it on instead if he so desires."

Left with no option, I watched her shoulders slump as she moved to dress me up, making sure the accessories matched with what I had on before we sauntered out, with her on my heels.

The foyer led to a massive door which had men standing guard before they pushed it open.

I sucked in a deep breath when I came face to face with him, taking note of how his hands had clung onto the knife he was holding at my sight.

" He is pissed." Clio muttered to me.

"Then let him be." I answered back before edging closer, closing the gap between us.

"Good morning, Alpha."

He leaned against his chair, his eyes running over what I had on, from the V-shape that showed my luscious boobs to the slit that hung above my lap, leaving much to his imagination.

" I am sure I gave a directive to your maid, Priscilla. One that you were to follow to the latter." He uttered, flicking his head to Priscilla.

" You didn't let her know of my desires?"

" I did, Alpha Loic."

" And?"

" She insisted she would be coming out in these instead."

" Stomping on my words." His hands ran on the napkin close to him while fixating his eyes on me.

If we weren't mortal enemies, I would have allowed myself the time to admire his physique, how much hold he would have had over me, and how he would have been a good choice only if he hadn't ended my life.

The chair creaked underneath his weight while he made his way to me. " You discarded them, not giving heed to my instructions. Do you know what you will be?"

" Alpha?" I answered.

" Do you know what you are and what you will be to me?" His voice raged as he stomped closer.

Astrid eyes dipped in on me while she smirked, one I wished I could wipe away from those lips of hers.

" Your breeder."

" My breeder..." he drawled while my eyes fell on the table, my eyes steadying on the knife that would be easy for me to get and stick in his throat if it was sharp enough.

" One for me to fuck. One, I should be able to give instructions and should listen. One to bear kids for me whenever I deem fit."

My eyes stared into his, refusing to back down because there would be no way he expected that of me.

" Now, tell me..." He was inches away from my face while I had my eyes on the knife, picturing how fast it was going to take for me to stick it in him. For me to end his life. How swiftly I had to walk and do the act.

" He is pissed." Clio repeated.

I had taken a step further when I felt his hands clasped around my wrist, stopping me from taking another before I felt the cold air hit me; the gown had come undone with a snap of his finger.

I stood, hands clenched, unable to say a thing as his hands wrapped around my boobs. "This, Adele, is all you are to me. A plaything, one who I expect to carry out my words to the letter, and since you didn't. She will suffer."

" She had nothing to do with this." I countered, trying to fight when he shook his head.

" The rule is simple. Abide by what I say, or your maid suffer. Guards, lash her over and over until she faints and is unable to take a step." he ordered.

Ophelie's POV

I tried to sink it in as it was happening too fast. "Alpha, alpha please." My maid begged, her knees kissing the ground.

"Please, I will do better. Don't let them do this to me."

I had my eyes gazing at Loic, wishing I could tear his head from his body, but I knew I couldn't do so, not now. I had to be calm, plan, and make sure he wouldn't have an idea about a thing.

I was a werewolf now, which means I wasn't as powerful as I was, and this body wasn't mine. I wouldn't know how to wield it until I learned.

My knees buckled to the ground, while the cold air seeped into my body.

"Please..." my voice broke. "I will do better. I thought you would love to see me in this color, as it does complement my skin. It is none of my maid's fault. She tried to do everything just so I wouldn't put it on, but...but...""Drag her out." His voice bounced against the wall as he commanded. "When you are done, hand her over to the infirmary. They should patch her up like new, and then she can go back to who she was assigned to."

I watched as the guards pulled her away, my hands shielding my body while I did, hating myself that someone had to suffer because of me. When I should have been able to do better, listening would have made it better.

"I told you." Astrid had her hands stretched out at him. " You have to break her for her to listen to you. She doesn't know her place yet, but I am sure she will do so soon enough." She spat out before nodding at the guards, who shut the door, leaving us alone.

Standing up on my feet, my hands ran over my clothes as I tried to slip them on when she strolled over, shredding them into pieces on me.

" Well, what do you think, Loic? Isn't this better?" she mumbled out before letting out cackles of raspy laughter.

" It fits her better, doesn't it?" She winced, trying to get his affection when he scoffed before heading over to his seat.

" Sit and eat." He ordered.

I stood, not moving an inch, as I wasn't sure I would be able to stomach anything with all that had happened today when Astrid swept the food off the table.

" She can very well eat off the ground if she so pleases. Punishing her maid isn't enough punishment for her misdeed. What if she doesn't know just how much what she has done means? Why would you let her have the easy way out of this?"

"I am not. She is to attend to me later, and I have to make sure she is fed just so she can whet my appetite later. You know how huge it is."

" Then fuck her just that way." I swallowed, not wanting Loic to do anything. I knew it had to happen somehow, and I would run out of excuses to ward him off.

Astrid sauntered over to him, her hands on his pants as she unzipped them. "It isn't like it's my fault that I have been unable to birth a pup." she panted.

" I have tried, and I have tried; watching another woman having your pup will kill me, it will hurt me, Loic, but I am ready to withstand that because of my love for you."

" And you will have that pup when it is born. I assure you." Loic smoothed her hair before fisting her hands around it while she curled her lips on his manhood.

My hands clenched, my lips sealed, and my heart slammed so hard. What was this ache? Why did I feel this way when I wasn't supposed to?

" You are hurt." Clio pointed it out, but I wasn't about to believe that. They could do whatever they wanted for all I care, all I wanted to do was end Loic's life, and I would make that happen.

Her moans as she gurgled, slipping her mouth in and out of his dick, had me tense. I stood rigid, waiting for the dismissal, which wasn't forthcoming, and it wasn't difficult to know what her intent was, what she was trying to show me. She could go on because I didn't give two fucks about it.

She could show that she had the man all right, he was hers, and I had no issues about that.

The rest of what would have been breakfast was pushed on the floor as Loic hoisted Astrid on the table, pulling her gown up.

" Just like always, you are ready for me." He said to her as he watched me before he slipped in, while making sure I was watching.

The moans and grunts filled the room as he slipped in and out of her, pushing his cock in and out while she dug her fingers into his back. My eyes remained, lurking on them when he turned her, her back to him, before he plunged in, hard and firm.

Her moans filled the room while she cried for him to go on, to fill her like always, to take her. My eyes stayed dry before I dropped to the ground, my hands clenching the knife close to me.

If I could take steps, I could kill him. If I got close enough while they were lost in pressure, it would be my time. The one I have been waiting for.

"Yes Loic, yes. Oh, Loic, fuck me loic, take my pussy, Loic, take it all." Astrid moaned while he had a hand on her hair, pounding into her hard.

My feet drew closer, each inch closer and closer, when he slipped out, took a glance at me, and I halted. His cork dangled out before he turned to me. "Kneel and take this in your mouth."

Astrid turned to him dumbfounded. "You can't. You..."

"Now. Adele. Open up that thing you call a mouth and take this."

Ophelie's POV

"She can't. You can't." Astrid vented, showing her displeasure when I threw a pleading gaze at him.

"I still don't feel fine, Alpha." He hissed before turning to Astrid, who had her back turned right away.

Relief slipped out of my lips because that had been so close, and it was the closest I had come to getting in bed with my enemy. The thing that would have caused me.

"Alpha Loic." A tap at the door caught our attention, followed by a guard who spoke up.

"The Elders are here. They are requesting to see you and your breeder."

My hands tightened on the knife before I slipped it into my gown, making sure it was touching the palm of my hand.

"Let them know we will be there soon." He threw a disgusted gaze at me. "Go and get dressed, this time in the color I had given orders for you to wear. I will send for you when it's time."

My head curved before I stepped out, each step determined to make him pay. I should have known that he would try to get me to join them, but never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that he would do so while Astrid was there. He ought to accord her that respect.

The grunts and sounds of the whip being let down on someone met me, and I knew there was no way I could disobey him anymore.

The gown he insisted I wear lay on the bed when I got in. The knife was cold against my skin. My eyes swept across as I tried to discern where I could keep it that would be out of wandering eyes and hands, and I settled on the wardrobe, which would make it difficult for anyone to see that something of such a nature was in there.

My eyes fell on the body I now occupy, the once beautiful gown rendered to pieces. A sigh left my lips before the sound of a whip came across once more, and I found my foot gliding over to the mirror to watch.

Priscilla, as I had come to know her name, was bent over, almost tied, her head hung below as she took in every single whip, her tears, and screams echoed across, jabbing me so hard.

If Loic wanted to show me who was supreme and why I shouldn't go against any of his laid-down rules, then he had won. He had used the one thing I wouldn't be able to dispute or try to fight off. My maid.

He had shown me that if this persisted, then he would continue to mete out the punishment that I was supposed to get on the people who worked for me.

Slipping off the gown, my hands leaned against the table as I gazed at Adele's body, its features perfect and ready to make anyone's mind run wild with endless possibilities on what they could do to her. Tame her.

I was sure that Astrid saw that too, and maybe it made her jealousy swell even more than before, as that was why I would keep being a target to her.

"Are you ready?" A voice asked, yanking me off my thoughts.

I gulped in my spittle, turning to meet another of the maids, who would be the one Loic must have sent to bring me over to the meeting.

" Alpha Loic awaits, and the elders do as well."

" Can I ask what their purpose is for being here today? Why are they here?"

" To see you, to ask when exactly they should be expecting heirs."

My eyes turned swiftly to her as I bobbed my head before slipping on the gown I had been instructed to wear, noting how she sighed, one seeming to have been borne out of relief.

She must have heard as well what had happened, how I had made Priscilla pay for what had been my mistake, and no one wanted to be put through that.

" How is she?" The name hung above us even when I knew she could tell who it was.

" She has been sent to the infirmary after she fainted."

" I'm sorry. I know how traumatizing that must have been for everyone, and..."

" You don't have to apologize. The alpha had to choose the color because he knew he would be meeting the elders with you, and as such, you had to be at your very best to meet them. It is just sad that it has happened."

" I'm sorry. I never knew about that."

If I had known, I would have done everything to make sure they didn't get punished in my stead, no one even told me that it had to be done in the first place.

" You don't have to worry, we have to go now."

I sashayed along the hall as the emerald green gown I had on swept along the hallway before I was meant to stop in from the meeting room.

"The breeder is here, Alpha." The guards announced leaving a sore taste on my lips as I tried to take it in.

" You might be his breeder now, but you can always be more if you play the card right." Clio pointed out, causing me to roll my eyes.

" Why would I want to be something more when all I want to do is be in an advantageous spot and get close to Loic? Being something more will make me stay by his side forever."

" Not forever. You will also get the opportunity to take Astrid out. It would be a blow to her, and you will be able to get your opponent out. If you are lucky enough, you will be able to place Loic's blame on her. If you play the card right."

" Clio." I almost called out before I chided myself. Why haven't I thought about that?

" You can cite her being unable to get over you being his breeder as the cause."

I grinned, letting that in when Loic's voice came once more. " Enter." He commanded.