Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-34. Dared to dream

[Xanthea]

The next day, by the evening, Mavka had packed my stuff, and it was already sent to the Aile castle.

"I thought I'll be prepared for the night in the castle," I said as Mavka and other maids helped me wear the black lace garter belt lingerie.

Mavka merely glanced at me before getting on her knees to fix the garter belt with my sheer black stockings.

This time, instead of a dress, they made me wear a black miniskirt with a white crop top and a white denim jacket. Mavka helped me put on the white sneakers while one maid styled my hair in a high ponytail. I knew what I wore was decided by the triplets.

But I liked this look. I always wished to dress up like this, but...

I clenched my fist as a shudder ran down my spine.

I shut my eyes, trying hard not to remember all the times Nikolai hit me because he didn't like the way I dressed.

'If you want to look like a slut, wear those revealing dresses in a whorehouse, not in my palace. Do it when you are thrown out of our family. But as long as you are in the palace, you will dress as I want you to...' Nikolai's words rang in my head and I quickly shoved them away.

Growing up in the palace, I always wore the dresses Nikolai and luna Meesa allowed me to wear. Baggy clothes that covered my body. That changed a little when I moved out, but even then I never had the courage to wear what I wanted. I was always paranoid about being watched. Plus, such clothes weren't appropriate or safe to wear, given where I lived.

Even today, when I was in a completely different realm than theirs, when I didn't even know if they were dead or alive, I was still not sure if I should like the way I look.

Maybe that was why I never cared what the triplets made me wear. I was used to being treated like a doll.

Today, my outfit seemed to have been highly influenced by Raven. Especially when the hairstyle and the dress didn't just reveal, but highlight the hickey on my neck.

'Have a great time explaining this to Asher tomorrow.'

I bit my lower lips when Raven's words repeated in my head.

An uncanny nervousness drifted in my chest. With Ezra and Raven, I knew I had to prepare myself for the worse, but with Asher...

I didn't know what to expect.

I kept wondering what Asher would say or how he would react. There was something I feared more than his reaction. Something I had tamed my thoughts to not ponder over, yet they kept revisiting it - my expectations.

I don't know what, but I expected something from Asher from the moment our eyes met on the altar.

I had never had expectations from others and even if I did, I always expected something bad, but from Asher... I expected something... something that... wasn't bad.

And that's what scared me the most.

"You are ready, your highness." Mavka's voice brought me back to reality.

Even though I loved my outfit, it looked completely out of place on my body. I skimmed my eyes from my reflection in the mirror to Mavka.

"I still have some time until the car arrives, right? Can I visit the High lady once?" I asked.

A car

coming with me,

voice, I turned towards the door, where

as I took

He completed the attire with a black jacket, which he styled with black boots. His sleeves were

loose on his shoulders, I could see the

wristwatch and rings on

in his formal alpha suits or scrubs, but this was the first time I had seen him in casuals. And for some reason, it hit

uncanny flutter built in my chest, and I

"Everyone out," he commanded.

before they walked out of

up from the chair and stood before him. I fidgeted under

hide from him. There wasn't an inch of my skin that he hadn't already seen, touched and claimed. But I instinctively pulled the hem of my

dropped to

thing a princess must wear at all times with all her dresses?" He asked, brushing his fingers over mine. My grip over the hem

into my eyes again. When I didn't reply for a

you read? Not all answers can be found in books, after all. Isn't it, princess? But then again, you were never treated like a princess in your father's pack. No wonder you don't know the answer. Bookish knowledge

I pursed my lips before answering.

He chuckled.

my gaze at him, feeling my face burn with

was something different about his laughter. Maybe that's

at him, dumbfounded. I could have never imagined Raven laughing so warmly and comfortably. Maybe with

resonated in the room before fading away as he

full experience. You won't find the

or royalty. Every woman can wear a bra. But something that differentiates a royalty from common people is confidence. Even a rug worn

understand that? The thing that you lack the most

my fingers, lowering my gaze at

his tongue, letting out

and straightened my spine. Correcting my posture, he stopped me from fidgeting

the mood to murder you, you don't have to fear anyone else," he said, holding my gaze, and I

my chin and turned me around, making me look at myself

at myself, the outfit didn't look as much out of place as it did before. I didn't know that just changing the way I stand could make such a huge difference in my perspective and perception of myself. "Confidence mostly comes from posture and how you carry yourself. You'll learn with time."

within me as

"Umm. A-alpha..."

"Hmm?"

maintain eye-contact with him through the

the High lady once?"

wearing a sharp smirk in his

"No."

just wanted to see her

As far as I know, 'your' sight needs some healing..." Turning my face to the side, I looked at him,

before me. I gaped at the case

"Take it..." he commanded.