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.

*****

“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.

I said.

and walked

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

a

lit up on my face as I read the words written down

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

myself and pressed the letter close

and I felt butterflies

in my dreary life. Caldan and

I had to do was hurry up so I’d meet him on

pile of work I had to do was now like

him was when I had to dust

that I was

a day would come when I would be able to give him

of Caldan’s letter weighing heavily in my pocket. A subtle reminder that the sooner

But, a letter?

The thought made me shiver with

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back to the harem for a quick shower. I changed and

to in

froze in my tracks.

walked up

are you going?”

Nifra.” I said calmly.

more?? I’m very sure I did all the work she tossed at me in that list. I didn’t miss anything. I made

She said, clicking her

a lot to look forward

I have a

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the sudden question. “My family?”

a thick swallow. The question of

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

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

she comes up and ask me about them. Talk

herself. “Have you ever had a relationship with a vampire?

hell is with

off in my head. Loud and glaring. This sudden talk about

“Vampires”

with one? Or do you

said. “Is there any reason to these absurd questions?”

isn’t

know, lady Nitta. And even if I did, I wouldn’t tell

“Leave.” She said, frustration clear

with one? It doesn’t matter the connection,

what had just happened and

death gardens, the sun

walking deeper into the garden. I could feel the wide smile on my face, it was hard to mask my happiness at this point. “Are you there?” I called out.

in the black rose bushes ahead. My smile widened

words died in my throat

of the bushes. A man