Chapter 6 Back To School

• *Cali POV*
• A week later…
• Its been a rollercoaster of a week. My head has been spinning since the day I became “Marcus’ possession”. I am not allowed to do any chores. I have my own suite with a cupboard full of designer clothes and I get to sit at the massive dining table and choose what I eat. It’s all so overwhelming.
• Nora, other maids and the guards treat me like a princess. It’s still so strange how unrealistically happy they all seem and how they absolutely adore their master. I call them master Marcus fan club.
• Today will be my first day returning to school. I woke up at dawn like I use to at Beta Diana’s home. Leroy pulled me back to bed and reminded me that I had nothing to do but get myself ready.
• It’s after seven when I walk down the stairs and find Marcus waiting for me.
• His eyes light up and his infectious smile spread across his face. Dark chocolate skin tone, sharp eyes and jaw, well-trimmed beard and moustache. Beside his wealth, this man is a catch. No wonder girls fight for him at school.
• “Wow, Cali! You look exquisite!”
• I can’t help but blush as he inspects me from head to toe. I suspect I will soon be joining the master Marcus fan club.
• “Mmh, I think I am going to be forced to have a guard around you every minute. The boys are going to go wild,” he says worriedly while I roll my eyes at him. This summer dress is not even the best in my cupboard. It is actually the modest of all my new clothes. Nora was not impressed when I chose it. She wanted me to go all big and make a statement to everyone who looked down on me. I don’t want to attract too much attention to myself.
• I can’t help but twirl as I giggle at his dramatic approval. The floral cotton fluidly moves with me. It tightly hugs my bust and waist before opening up like an umbrella and ending just above the knees. I chose low heel pumps to appear casual. The ridiculously expensive diamond watch on my wrist completely annihilates my efforts to appear modest though.
• “Ready?”
• I nod and he holds out his arm for me to take before ushering me to the car. The guard is already waiting to open the doors for us.
• Marcus looks at me worriedly the moment we slip into the back seat.
• “How are you feeling about your first day back?”
• I shrug my shoulders. “Okay, I guess.”
• I already know that Rose wrote all about my sale on the school tabloid and everyone is curious to know whose sex slave I am. Its going to be a shock to everyone when I show up with Marcus. I have tried to stay under radar all my school days, it’s safe to say that’s all in the past now.
• “Hey, look at me,” he urges. “As far as everyone is concerned, you are mine. You are a Taylor now, a Beta family member. You don’t have to take crap from anyone, except the Alpha.”
• I can’t help but smile. A bought slave is always at the mercy of his or her master. One could remain a slave, in my case a nameless one. Or could if lucky, be elevated to whatever hierarchy the master is. In this case Marcus is giving me his name, and his hierarchy, making me a Beta.
• It’s still surreal that I have an identity, a home and people who care about me. Marcus behaves like a protective brother I never had yet he is only a year older than me. Him and I have had long conversations. Life forced him to mature at a very early age. Having become an orphan at a tender age of five, he had to man up and protect his inheritance from vultures in sheep’s skins. He also knows to an extent how it feels to have no one. The difference is that he was wealthy, from a Beta family and friends to the throne. Just a week in his mansion I now believe Leroy when he said Marcus comes across as an arrogant ass but the kindest.
• I can’t help but be nervous when the car pulls up at our school. Marcus gives me his arm the moment we get off.
• “Remember what I said,” he urges and I nod my head.
• It is just my luck that the first people we meet is Leroy who is standing with Rose.
• Seeing him with her somehow raises a different feeling than I use to have.
• “OMG! You are the one who bought her!” Rose exclaims too loud for my liking. I can see passers-by’s staring at me.
• “Leroy. Rose,” Marcus greets. I can tell that he is already annoyed with my forward ex master’s daughter. They are both Leroy’s childhood friends but I don’t remember ever seeing the three of them together.
• “Marcus, Cali,” Leroy greets back with a straight face but avoids meeting my eyes.
• “Cali? OMG! You gave her a name!” Rose exclaims again.
• “We will be on our way. See you later Leroy,” Marcus says and leads me away without responding to Rose.
• I can feel Leroy’s eyes on me as I walk away.
• “I am going to move your locker to the Beta section,” Marcus tells me. I frantically shake my head. That means being in the same section as Rose.
• “I don’t want to be with the Beta girls. I am fine where I am.”
• The place is filthy but I was the only nameless slave of school going age in the pack. It meant I did not have to share that stinking area behind the toilets with anyone.
• He sighs. “You can’t remain there. You are moving to my private one then,” he says decisively.
• Leroy, he and a handful of other wealthy heirs have exquisite private lockers. Unlike the usual metal cupboards, these are small cosy private rooms. I don’t know why they are even called lockers and I don’t get the need to have one. I have heard Rose beg her mother for years now wanting one for herself but Diana loves money too much to spend it on a private locker.
• “The school can’t oppose us sharing mine because you are mine,” he adds.
• “Okay,” I agree with a shrug. I hardly ever access my locker anyway. All it has is my change of clothes should I ever need one and stationery.
• It’s just after lunch time when Leroy grabs me into his locker and shuts the door.
• “Your Highness?” I am confused by his actions. He has been clear that nothing can link us in public but turns around and does this.
• “Seriously? You are going to pretend you don’t know me when we sleep together every night?” he asks sharply. He looks angry for some reason and I don’t know why.
• “We are not…”
• “I did not say fuck!” he snaps and puts his arms around my waist.
• I sigh and try to untangle myself from his arms.
• “You can’t do this.”
• He shoots me a cold stare.
• “I can’t do what?”
• “You can’t grab me into your locker and this,”I say looking at his arms he has tightly wrapped around me.
• “And why not?”
• “Everyone believes that I am Marcus’ sex slave. He is your best friend. You can’t turn around and…”
• “You don’t tell me what I can or can’t do. Why are you walking around holding Marcus’ arm? Why have you moved to his private locker?” he cuts me short and fires questions at me.
• I lift up my head and search his angry eyes before it hits me that he is jealous.
• “There’s nothing going on with us. As far as everyone is concerned he is my master. We all agreed to keep it that way,” I remind him. He is the one who has been lecturing me about this the whole past week before I returned to school.
• “Yes, we did but you don’t have to parade around like lovers. There is enough space in the Beta girl’s section. I confirmed with Rose.”
• “I’m sure you did,” I sneer, getting angry. He already knows how his so called friend treated me yet still asks her about something pertaining to me.
• “What’s that supposed to mean?”he growls. I guess his wolf is mad at me too.
• “Nothing. I did not want to move there.”
• “You would rather move with Marcus instead? Do you have a crush on him now?”he asks sharply with an accusing tone.
• “I am gonna go to class now,” I say decisively, not in the mood to deal with this.
• He yanks me back into his arms and hungrily kisses me. We are both breathless when he breaks off the kiss and curses under his breath. He runs his finger over my lower lip and whispers.
• “What am I going to do with you Cali?”