The Thief (Sahyo)

Chapter 6: The Talk

There is a Trigger Warning for this chapter. It involves sexual assault and Mina's past. If it does make you uncomfortable I do suggest skipping this chapter. It's nothing graphic, but could upset a few people.

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Sana yawned as she was helped out of her bed by her handmaiden. Her bags were packed and already in the carriage by the time she was awoken. To her, her heat was nothing but an inconvenience. A break without a break. If she could live the rest of her life without them, she would.

Spending a week basically unconscious with twenty guards and two maids listening to her having orgasm after orgasm to quell the thirst of an omega in heat was not only inconvenient, it was hugely embarrassing. The king often told her it was easier to cope with when you find yourself a mate to accompany you through your heat. Especially if that mate is an alpha rather than a beta.

Sana briefly wondered whether or not she'd actually want to spend her heat with anyone. For an omega to share something as intimate and special as their heat with someone, they had to be special. Her traitorous thoughts allowed herself to think about the thief and whether or not she thought the thief was classed as 'special' in her mind.

Before her thoughts of Jihyo were anything graphic, she was interrupted by a servant alpha of the king.

"Your highness." He bowed, "The king wishes to see you in his study before you leave."

"Thank you." She smiled at him.

Sana was pretty sure that she was the only member of the royal family that the alpha servants wouldn't spit on if they had the chance. Before she left for Japan when she was sixteen, she treated alpha's very much like the king did. They were her play things, nothing more and nothing less. Just there to occasionally amuse her and perform chores for her. Her eyes were opened in Japan as was her mind. Every day that ticks by her guilt at how she treated alpha's would weigh heavily on her mind.

But then she'd think of the village. All the hard work Jihyo and the rest had put into it with gold from her own jewellery box. Nothing will ever erase the cruelty she made the alpha's in the palace endure, but her conscience weighed a stone lighter knowing there was some sort of kind future for those alpha's.

She stopped by the kings study and knocked a few times. The door was opened by another alpha servant, one she has known all her life. He was one of the best trained alpha's the palace had ever known. Sana , with the help of Momo, had tried so hard when they were children to try and break this man's ever obedient ways. She brushed her cruelty off as she got older, 'I was only a child.' She used to scoff. But as soon as she stepped foot into the palace after departing Japan, she offered the alpha an apology and even kissed his cheek.

His face was as neutral as ever as he opened the door as wide as it could go and bowed as Sana swept past him. The princess eyed him for a few seconds. He was getting old. His face was hollow and the bags under his eyes were getting bigger and blacker. Sana wondered whether the king would allow the alpha to work until his timely death or if he'd throw him out once he became too frail.

"Your majesty." Sana bowed her head slightly at the king. Normally, the princess would greet the king in a slightly less formal way, but he was currently surrounded by nobles from his court so she had to greet him like he was the king rather than her father.

"Sana ," He grinned at his youngest daughter, "Come!" He beckoned her to sit next to him in the vacant chair to his right.

As soon as the princess sat down, the nobles began to disperse. Not before bowing and saying their goodbyes to the king, of course.