The Forced Maiden For The Cursed Alpha King by Josephine Ivy

Chapter 27

SABRINA’S POV:

I woke up some hours later, passed out cold on the marble floors of a random room I had been cleaning till my eyes turned blurry and my body gave way.

I sat up, processing my surroundings. My head thumped with a bad headache. There were buckets of water around me, and a couple of rags and mops. I had been cleaning before I passed out. One look at my hands and I grimaced. My palms were covered in painful blisters. Red and sore and irritated from all the cleaning chemicals I had used.

Over and over again. Till all the work I had done was redone three times.

My entire body felt heavy like lead. The lack of windows in the king’s wing made it difficult for me to tell the time. I gathered myself up and took all my supplies with me, as much as I carry without hurting my hands even more.

Since lady Nifra wasn’t waiting for me, in her hands my schedule for the day, perhaps I could take the day off.

I was dead wrong.

As I packed up the supplies and turned to leave, there was lady Nifra walking into the room.

“Did you enjoy your nap?” She asked, disapproval all over her face. She threw my list of duties for the day at me. She didn’t even wait for me to reply her. “Since you’ve wasted all your time sleeping, you have less time now to get those done. I suggest you get to it immediately.”

My expression turned sour as I watched the list fall to the ground. I snapped my head back up and glared at her. “I can’t do it.” I spat. What does she think I am? Q machine?!

She huffed. “Like that’s any of my concern. If you don’t want to do it, take your grievances to the King himself. Tell him you won’t do it.”

I gasped, taking a step back. Her eyes narrowed and her lips curled into a cruel smirk. She knew. She knew that the last time I had opened my mouth to the King, he gave me more work than ever to do. That’s how I ended up passed out for crying out loud!

She knew I couldn’t tell him anything. And she didn’t care. If anything, she took delight in my suffering.

The cold hearted heifer!

Without another word, she turned and walked out.

I threw the supplies on the floor. In my anger, I knocked over a bucket of water. Now I had more work to do. I let out a scream of frustration that bounced off the walls.

My luck is just the absolute worst.

After blowing off some steam with screaming, I picked up the list of duties angrily. At the end of the day, all I could do was scream and still obey. And every single thing I had to do was entirely new. I was hoping that maybe it would be the places I had done so at least if have some time to rest. But no.

Fuck me sideways. If I survive a week of this, I’ll be the happiest ever.

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“Miss Sabrina?”

I paused my scrubbing of the walls and turned. A guard stood behind me. “Yes?” I asked, annoyed that even a second out of half day was being wasted answering to a random guard

He handed a piece of paper over to me. “This is for you.”

I stared at the paper and then his face. “What is it about?” I asked deadpan.

“I don’t know. It’s for you. I was instructed to give it to you.”

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I stayed warily at the paper in his hands. It was a light green piece of paper that looked that the paper was very expensive. Slowly, I reached out and took it from him. The paper felt very smooth in my hands. But it came off stained with a bit of blood from my bleeding fingertips.

you.” I

nodded and walked off.

the light green envelope. Inside was a creamy ivory piece of

was a letter.

said to myself. A smile lit up on my face as I read the words

pardon me writing you a letter. Meet me at the black gardens a little after sunset.

myself and pressed the letter close to my

I felt butterflies in my

one bright spot in my dreary

letter and hid it secretly in my pockets. Now all I

of work I had to do was now like a hurdle I had to overcome in the nick of

by. I did my very best to avoid the King. And thankfully the only time I saw him was when I had to dust his library. I quickly greeted

I was

day would come when I would be able to give him a piece of my mind without severe repercussions. Perhaps it will never happen. But it

in my pocket. A subtle reminder that the sooner I finished

But, a letter?

surprise he planned for me if he had to send a letter. The thought made me shiver with excitement. I wonder

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finished with my duties, I hurried back to the harem for a quick

you off to in such a

in my

Nifra walked up

are you

that I now reported my movement to you, lady Nifra.” I said calmly. “I’m done with my duties, and I’m going for an

I did all the work she tossed at me in that list. I didn’t

Sabrina.” She said,

a lot to look forward to.”

narrowed Rer eyes. “In any case, I have a few questions for

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raken back by the sudden question. “My family?”

with a thick swallow. The question of my family had memories

My parents, his Paru. My me at Crue pack The horrible memories. tw

my face, ho far I hadn’t had any reason to

me about them. Talk about opening a healing wound

She said, nodding to herself. “Have you ever had a relationship with a vampire? Or are there any vampires

hell is with all

in my head. Loud and glaring. This sudden talk about my family, and

“Vampires”

a relationship with one? Or do you have friend or family”

said. “Is there any reason

This isn’t the

And even if I did, I wouldn’t

said, frustration clear in her

doesn’t matter the connection,

and continued on my way to the death

arrived at the death gardens,

on my face, it was hard to mask my happiness at this

shuttling in the black rose bushes ahead. My smile widened and I walked closer.

My words died in

bushes. A man that