Alpha’s Tormented Seductress

Alyssa woke up with a splitting headache. She haven’t felt this type of pain in her head ever since she came into the palace.

She sat up on the bed and glanced at the clock. It was currently 5:am and everywhere was still dark.

She strolled into her bathroom, poured some water on her head and drank some. But then, the headache wasn’t getting better.

Just as she made to head back to her bed, she heard a ruffle coming from her door. At first, she thought that it was only a hallucination, but when the sound became louder, she needed no one to tell her that someone or something was at her door.

Walk reluctantly, she strolled to the door and turned the door knob, still cleaning off her eyes to have a clearer view of what it might be.

Her eyes popped out in shock when she caught sight of Liam, laying on the floor, with his hands wrapped around his chest and his face clearly in discomfort.

He had slept right at the front of her door, even though he was drunk.

Perhaps, he was so drunk that he couldn’t make his way back to his room, or maybe, he couldn’t sleep with the thoughts of Alyssa being mad at him.

“Prince?” Alyssa called out, even though the word took a while to leave her throat.

She couldn’t call him Michael anymore since that was clearly not his name.

Liam turned on the ground again, mumbling some words in his sleep and shivering slightly. Alyssa parted her lips in wonders as she stared at him.

Her heart raced and her head was clouded with different thoughts. She thought of why the prince would decide to spend the night on the cold floor, rather than his comfortable bed in his quarters. She also wondered what people would say if they suddenly found him loitering around her room like a servant. This caused her heart to skip a beat.

Crouching low, she tapped him continuously until he finally jerked up and shot his eyes open.

“What are you doing here?” Alyssa asked, ignoring how disheveled and unkept he looked.

Liam blinked his eyes severally until reality kicked in. He was currently at the front of Alyssa’s bedroom…

He quickly stood to his feet, staggering in the process and grimacing from the pain he felt on his legs. Alyssa could see that he had a terrible night sleep, but she would rather not care about that.

“What are you doing here?” Alyssa’s impatient voice boomed again and for a minute, he thought of what to say.

“Alyssa…I couldn’t sleep without seeing you”, Liam said in a calm voice that made Alyssa’s stomach twirl.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

She ignored how his voice made her feel. She still felt rage and nothing was going to stop that.

“Get out!” She screamed with every strength she could find inside of her.

Liam staggered again, trying to walk into the room, but she pushed him out even before he tried.

“Leave me alone!” She ordered with a look of displeasure dancing in her eyes.

Just then, she felt a pang on her forehead and she winced in pain.

Liam needed no one to tell him that she was currently having a headache and without muttering any more words, he dashed out of her room.

***

He came back after a while with some herbal mixture which was meant to relieve headaches. The door was shut just as he had thought and with a racing heart, he tapped on it again.

“Alyssa!”

Alyssa turned the door knob open, but shut the door the moment she caught sight of his face.

“I’m really sorry! I was trying so hard to tell you, but you kept telling me that it didn’t matter”, Liam said from the other side of the door while Alyssa kept mute and strolled back to her bed.

She recalled the countless times he made to reveal something to her. She also remembered that she had told him that nothing, no secret whatsoever would change the way she felt for him. This realization caused her heart to ache and unknowingly, silent tears trickled out of her eyelids and down to her cheeks.

“Forgive me, Alyssa”, Liam said again, hitting the door and sobbing silently.

He held the herbal mixture in his hands while he hoped that she would open up the door.

“I brought something to relieve your headache”, Liam said again as he tapped the door incessantly.

Alyssa looked up in wonders. She was shocked to her bones, because she never mentioned that she had a headache.

Liam truly loved her. He could even detect that she had a terrible headache. Guilt engulfed her when she realized that she might be treating him bad, especially because she had been the one who restricted him from saying the truth.

The truth though was that she couldn’t bring herself to see him differently, even though she loved him. He was the prince, the prince of the kingdom where she worked in as a maid…

“Alyssa…I love you”, Liam said in finality when he realized that she wasn’t making any efforts towards opening the door for him.

And with that, he dropped the herbal mixture on the ground and dejectedly walked away.

Alyssa stared at the door when she realized that he had left. She felt a wave of loneliness and slowly, more tears dropped from her eyes.

She missed the man he had been to her before the whole truth came off. She liked the fact that he was simple and caring. She loved that they always met at the lake where they would chat extensively until they got exhausted.

However, she couldn’t imagine doing all of that again. He was a prince now, and no more a servant…

Just then, a knock on the door jolted her back to the present. She was certain that it wasn’t Liam and that prompted her to head for the door.

She met Tiffany standing there, with the herbal mixture Liam had left on the ground.

“I guess someone left you this…”, Tiffany said to Alyssa who didn’t show any slightest form of interest.

“It’s for headaches…Did you tell anyone to get you this?” Tiffany asked again, but Alyssa wasn’t in a mood to hold a conversation.

“No!” Alyssa bluntly replied after which she walked past Tiffany who was surprised.

“At least, take it if you have a headache!” Tiffany shouted at Alyssa who didn’t turn back for a second.

Alyssa went about her daily activities, trying so hard to keep a straight face and ignore the most part of her emotion.

She drifted off at several points, because she knew that this was the time to make a decision. She either decide to remain at the palace as the maid, or to step up her game and lay hands on the artifact after which she would return home.

“Alyssa!” Another maid called out when she realized that Alyssa had been standing at a particular spot for twenty minutes.

Alyssa jolted out of her thoughts, faked a smile and continued arranging the clothes on the cloth line.

She thought of Liam again, and her heart skipped a beat. She was in love with him and she could swear that she never felt loved all her life until she came to the palace.

“Was she willing to leave all of that? To return to the hell she called a home?”

Those were her thoughts and questions for the rest of the day.