Chapter 9

• Yvonne's POV
• Even after leaving the office after work in the afternoon, I still think of what to do. I know this is costly and a million and half dollars is no small money, it isn't something to waste but I wouldn't consider using it on this as a waste.
• The pageantry handed me a sum of thirty million dollars and since I got it I haven't really used it because I had nothing to spend on. Taking out one million, five hundred thousand dollars wouldn't make me poor, as long as I have kept the money without removing it to buy a single thing just because I didn't find that necessary, I can keep the money in my account without withdrawing to get anything that wouldn't be so important.
• My mind steadies on the road as I drive home. Nelly offered to help me but I ask her not to bother because there has been a ban on the habit of bringing in friends except family members. Alpha Jack placed the ban two months ago, I heard but it wasn't in effect until last week when he asked his security to chase a man following one of his cousins who returned from work. It was a hilarious event that day, I couldn't stop laughing although I was in a gloomy mood all through, that wouldn't stop me from sharing in the euphoria.
• Now, I'm back to face the consequences of my action early in the morning, I pray Jack wouldn't be around, I can't even imagine what will happen to me and he is so heartless forgetting that I'm carrying his baby, I mean he doesn't even knows prior to the distant treatment he gave me for the past one week, immediately after the day he broke my V-card.
• I have met with him on two occasions, the first I came across him as he was about to enter his car and go out, I greeted him but he didn't even turn to look at me. I couldn't imagine him snubbing me, so I thought perhaps someone made him angry until I stayed for two, three days without him even saying a word, I mean he didn't even call me to his wing or come visiting, then I knew that his issue was with me but I haven't offended him in any way.
• Immediately I pass through the gate, my wall comes crashing to the ground, I look up and pray he would forget about the threat and let me be, I would be so happy. Even if this isn't gonna be as wished, I have Jeff but the issue is if he will defend me now he knows another man has taken me when he really loved me. There is nothing as painful as your bride who is a virgin taken by someone before you even get to, coupled with the fact that he added lots of expensive gifts and millions of dollars to the deal. I feel really bad for him.
• I had finished parking the car at the garage, removed the key and wanted to come out when I noticed two huge men belonging to the Palace Guards Battalion, they were in their green khaki, and brown desert combat boots. This is one of the deadliest sects of the military. They are used to war, they have faced a lot of difficulties from living in the forest and deserted lands for years on the grounds of deployment, with this they have no other choice but to be hard hearted. So these are the type of people protecting the Alpha Princes, each of them have their separate guards battalion.
• My heart begins to dance, I feel the rush of hormones inside me, then I remember what Nelly said but even if she was here, she wouldn't be able to defend me, she might get wounded. These types of men don't mind taking lives, they don't mind maiming and they don't like good people, they hate the words 'mercy' or 'sorry.' It's not in their vocabulary.
• So I remained inside the car for about thirty minutes after observing from my side mirror that they were throwing wicked glances at my car from the back. Inside me, I pray that they would get tired and walk away. I then realize that these are not the type of people to talk of tiredness with, rather than them being tired, it's me who would be tired. If it's Jack that has sent them, they would eventually come for me.
• As if I knew it, they briskly walk to the front of my car, the point I'm sitting, one on each side. My eyes grow red like that of a frightened rabbit, I almost have a heart attack because I know I'm done for.
• "Madam, come right out!" The one on my right barks, the one on the left attempts to open the door and pull me out upon my delay in coming out prior to fear but the one on the right stops him. "Let her come out all by herself, don't touch her!"
• I can't believe my ears, what am I hearing? But these people are beasts, they have no pity for humans, could it be because I'm a woman? I still don't get it. I open the front door towards the right even when I'm sitting on the driver's seat by the left, I'm afraid of what the man on the left would do to me. Tears of fright begin to stream from my eyes, as I finally open the door and get out. No need to lock this car, the pressure wouldn't just let me but I manage to ask.
• "Please can you permit me to lock my car?" I ask the one that had prevented me from being dragged out of the car. The soldier on the left immediately rushes over attempting to pounce on me, but the one on the right blocks him, standing in between me.
• Oh! How I've become a savior today. I wonder why this guy is so kind to me and the other one is equally the same, on the bad side.
• "I'm so sorry but please take it easy with me, I'm pregnant. I might give away my life if need be but I don't want to hurt my innocent baby." This sentence of mine shocks me, they immediately lay their hands off me, even the soldier from the left side of my car who wanted to pounce on me retraces his steps, staring at me with huge surprise. They haven't heard any lady say this before.
• "Don't worry, lock your car." The right soldier tells me, I gaze into his face and a lot could be communicated through his face. His face lets me know that he has that inner fear in him, that inner sympathy, qualities I never expected that someone like him could have. It's just so surprising.
• "The Alpha of the Northern Pack wants to see you, he asked us to bring you here but we will permit you to take yourself to him now, we know what to tell him when he asks us." The left-winged soldier says in a sympathetic tone, which makes me emotional. I want to kneel and thank them but they persuade me to rather go now as Alpha Jack has already noticed I'm back.
• "Okay, thanks so much!" I say with a courtesy before running off, climbing the stairs to the wing where Jack's apartment is. I'm afraid of meeting Deliaha, his girlfriend, she is pure hell. Even if she is a lady, I fear her more than Jack himself but I wouldn't let her raise a hand on me, I wouldn't be that weak for her to gain control over me.
• I pass through the corridor leading to the giant door of his apartment. I attempt to knock on the glass door but even before I do, it's open. Fever comes over me upon seeing him with a long whip.
• "What's this for?" That's the first statement that comes out from my mouth, I ask in a distasteful tone, my face filled with scorn. What does he think he would do with a whip?
• "Am I your slave?" I clap my hands in amazement. The fear I had before arriving here is far gone and amusement has filled that space, I'm utterly amused at why he would stand here waiting for me with a whip.
• "Have you forgotten who I am?"
• "Of course, I do but do you think because you are the Alpha, you can do absolutely anything to me. What do you think the moon goddess would regard you as," I pause, rest my hands on both sides of my waist, then lean my head forward to his face. I notice someone walking right beside me, standing at a distance. It must be Deliaha but I don't care to look. "A fool!" I place much emphasis on it.
• I watch his jaw drops and his facial expression depicts someone that is startled. "I thought you can never be afraid, I never knew you have emotions!" I say it right to his face.
• A slap lands heavily on my left cheek which is the direction he is standing. Only here I realized who I was talking to, before I could say a word, both of them pounced on me, snatching my car key and bag from my hand. Unluckily for me, I was with my iPhone, which Deliaha takes and snatches against the wall. I don't know why some people tend to be jealous of me holding the phone worth three million dollars, it was given to me as a one of the prizes of winning Miss Werewolf but what I'm glad of is that no matter how you hit, even if you hit it against a metal or burn it in fire, nothing would happen to it. I take a look at them, then on the phone only to see that it is still intact. I bend and pick it up in a flash, before they even expect it, put it inside my bag together with the car key and before they realize, I dash out of the room, running straight to the grounds of the estate where I open my car, hurriedly get into it and zoom off.
• "Never again would I return to this estate, I'm staying outside, I don't mind whether Jeff bought me with a price or not, all I know is that I would maintain my integrity and not let any man treat me as if I'm trash. I know my worth and would never act as if I don't.
• I find a comfortable place to pack my car and call Nelly. She picks, she would think it's like other normal calls I use to place on her not knowing this one is quite different. She picks it up and I can hear her voice on the other end.
• "Hello baby, good evening." She greets me in a sweet voice. I only wish I enjoyed this type of peace she is enjoying right now which is obvious in her tone, so sad I'm not.
• "Nelly," I call her by her name and in a sorrowful tone to let her know that all is not well.
• "What's wrong Yvonne, your voice sounds strange. What is happening?" She grows panicky.
• "I don't want to bother you too much babe."
• "What do you mean?" By her tone, she is trying to say I've told you not to repeat that word again, aren't we friends and best of friends as that?
• Taking a heavy breath, I then move on to pouring out my problems although she might not have a tardy solution for them.m but I still feel the need to say it out. I can't continue to bottle things up, I'm doing myself more harm than good. Sometimes when I tell trusted people my problems, whether they provide me with a ready remedy or not, I feel like half of the burden has been lifted up from me and in time, I realize that the other has also been lifted.
• "Jack stood at the door of his apartment as I returned with the intention of whipping me."
• "Seriously?" She gasps.
• "Yes and he succeeded in beating me up with his girlfriend. I escaped with my bag, phone and car key even before they realized." I chuckle, shedding tears at the same time. "They didn't even expect this. I mean I ran out of the room, I'm now in Elliot Park, returning to the house I was given after winning the pageantry."
• "I'm coming right there to meet you now, I thought of resting after work but I can't enjoy myself while you are in pain. I really want to be with you…."
• She is about to say something else when I hear the police siren from a distance. That must be the police being sent to come after me. My spirit tells me this and I want to escape as soon as possible.