THE ALPHA'S MARRIAGE OF DECEPTION

Chapter 6

Evelyn POV.

"You mean my father?" The words slipped out of my mouth before I could swallow them back. I knotted my brow, my throat dry as sand.

The lady quickly replied, "Yes, you call him father, we call him our boss."

I quickly unwrapped the paper.

It reads : Meet me at Hall 31L by twelve noon today. If you are a minute late, you know the damn consequences.

I folded the paper into a ball as I handed it over to her. My breathing spiked. I knew what this meant.

"Where is Hall 31L?" I asked, as fear enveloped me. "I am new here, I don't know anywhere here."

"He asked me to take you, when it is time."

I checked the time, I have less than two hours to show up.

Father's word means all. Especially not to mention how I had failed my first task on the mission.

Only the moon goddess knows where the bastard had been since yesterday night.

No brake light. Nothing.

The maid was about to step out when I immediately asked, "have you by chance seen Alpha James this morning or did you know his room?"

She pressed her hand on the door knob as she turned to me. She looked at me dejectedly and shook her head. Like I meant nothing.

Like a child that had come home with terrible grades after his father had sold his last cow.

"I have not seen him today," she moved a little bit away from the door. She lowers her voice I knew mostly because of eavesdroppers who may be sticking their ears probably to the door.

"Let's assume, I have seen him today, so you want me to take you to his bedroom? To do what exactly? That's too immature and a rookie move or have you forgotten the first rule?" The lady let out.

I was shocked to see her say such things, because it was barely twenty-four hours ago she and her friend, Leticia, were the most friendly people on earth. I thought I had seen some companions in the palace.

"Noo... I was just trying ..."

She didn't allow me to finish my statement. Like my words never carried weight in front of her. She turned her back, approached the door, and slammed the door and left.

I could hear the sound of her shoes fading away from the door.

A few hours later, I was in hall 31L, an empty abandoned hall. Everything in it looked perfectly neat.

I never knew there were numerous halls like this in the palace grounds. We walked past hundreds of them before we got there. Even my legs were almost aching.

It was like an empty hall. Not a sort of hall if I am to put it properly, but a kind of interrogation room. Or some kind of empty warehouse. Only two chairs and a table sat at the center of it.

A warning signal that this type of hall does not hold a good review of good things.

Antonia, the young lady who had brought me in, had instructed me to sit and wait. For the next line of action.

It was not until ten minutes later that I sat on a chair, when I heard the footsteps of my father, Elder Cedric, Antonia, and two other hefty guys. Marched in.

Heavy. Determined. I knew I was dead.

Suddenly, my father smiled. While approaching me.

"Oh you have really done well my lovely daughter," my father let out, his walking stick tapping faster as he approached me."I hope you are not hurt in there."

"Father," I breathed, my chest swelling with relief. A relief of acceptance and encouragement.

I sprang up from my feet and opened my arms like a lost daughter who had finally found her father's embrace.

I hardly moved closer to his embrace, very unusual of him, though. When...

A heavy slap landed on my cheek. Like a whip, it cracked through the hall.

So heavy that it took me off balance and the next seconds I found myself on the ground. My butt landed with a heavy thud.

Like that wasn't enough, his walking stick landed on my ribs.

Ahh!" I cried out in pain.

I held my ribs as a sharp pang of pain erupted through my spine.

"You incompetent piece of trash!" My father bellowed. His voice shook the foundation of the building. "I gave you a very simple task to do and you failed!.."

"You bloody fucking fail, Evelyn!"

My chest heaved. Tears swelled my eyes but I swallowed them back.

"It wasn't my fault father..." the words escaped from my mouth.

As I held my ribs, clutched it in pain and held the other hand to my face.

"Shut your trap, stupid fool..." My father bellowed at me.

His voice sent a quake to the foundation of the building as everything on it vibrated under my feet.

"I...I will n...never..."

Three hot slaps rolled in again.

"Please father!.." I begged him as I rolled on the floor like a kid exhibiting the spanking after stealing a portion of cake from her mother's pan.

"...I can never give birth to an incompetent fool." He fired back. His voice was laced with anger which I have never seen before.

"It's ok, friend..." Elder Cedric quickly cut-in, "don't forget she is going back to the palace and you don't have to inflict injury on her that would be obvious and suspicious."

"Going back where?" My father quickly turned to Elder Cedric. Like he had spit out venom.

A dangerous one.

The hall suddenly went silent.

Even the two guards and Antonia shifted backward nervously.

I knew that was the end. It was my fault. I should have gotten the job done. No matter what, I should have.

My father gave out a wicked giggle, " I am warning you for the last time, Please don't get me even angrier with these utterances of yours."

He turned back to me, his jaw clenched so tight as thick vein bulged in his neck

"This discarded piece of trash," he pointed his walking stick at me like a sword, " you will not go back into that palace again."