A Cinderella Story

Chapter 18

By order of His Royal Highness King Grayson,

He will be visiting each pack in order to find his mate and future Queen and Luna. Please ensure every female in your pack is in attendance.

Any pack in violation of this will be punished severely and be made an example of.

Sophia POV

My first night without my roommate felt weird. We spoke before going to sleep. Hannah's mate was currently in the Alpha King's office for a meeting and catch up of the day.

"Oh My Days Sophia! The palace is amazing! Totally huge! I can't wait to explore the whole place." She exclaimed excitedly.

I was trying really hard to be happy for her but a part of me really wanted that fairy tale of my mate finding me and taking me away from this place and living happily ever after with lots of pups. Who was I kidding! Good things never happen to me! Just when I find my mate, I had to go again. I was too embarrassed of him knowing who I really am and then him rejecting me, leaving me to spend the rest of my days being used and abused by the pack.

"HELLO? SOPHIA!" came the voice from the other line.

I quickly broke out of my reverie. "Sorry, what did you say?"

"I said, I can't wait for you to find your mate. I really hope he is from the Royal pack and then we can see each other everyday!" Hannah said.

I sighed deeply knowing that most likely won't happen but I didn't want to burden Hannah with my negativity when she is so happy and carefree. "Yeah, it'll be amazing!" I said hopefully somewhat convincingly.

I heard a door opening in the background. Hannah's mate must be back.

"I gotta go. Got to get some sleep before working in the morning." I told her. I wanted to go before it got too awkward.

"OK. Will speak soon ok?"

"For sure. Speak soon." And with that I hung up and went to bed.

"Omega! Where's the food?" came another annoying voice, breaking me from my memories.

"I'm coming!" I replied back. With that, I took the food into the dining area with a whole lot of eyes boring into the back of my head.

"Its about time!" came the usual drawl of Belinda. I unconsciously rolled my eyes and headed back into the kitchen to carry on with my duties.

"You know, it's a shame you weren't at the ball the other night. The King was all over me, I had to work hard to keep my distance." Came the irritating voice of she-who-must-never-be-taken-seriously.

I rolled my eyes again. We both knew she was the one throwing herself at the King and he was trying to let her down subtly but she wasn't taking the hint. Still didn't stop me from feeling possessive and jealous. He is MY mate after all. I also felt a sense of pride knowing that my mate didn't fall for her advances.

"It'll be any day now that he will be coming for me. I am his MATE after all."

I tried extremely hard to not let her words get to me but my wolf was battling against me to be let out and unleash some whoop ass on Belinda to show her who she was messing with.

"Calm down! We both know she is a lying scum who just wants a rise out of us."

"I know but she does not know who she is messing with!"

Suddenly, I hear another voice behind me.

"Still haven't learnt your lesson, have you Belinda?" Came the voice of my recently acquired friend and Alpha's daughter Olivia.