8. Excuse me!

Makawee's standpoint

"You, Luna Kim needs you!" I knew it was me. It was always me. I looked at Giselle.

"Go, I'll handle the rest of the raking."

"Thank you," I muttered and walked off. The person who called me was no other than Jastun. I really hate the guy. He led me into the main pack house, going straight to a very luxurious foyer.

"Better behave yourself," he scolded. As usual, I ignored him. He knocked at a bedroom door, glancing at me.

"Who's there?"

"It's me, Jastun,"

"Come in," he opened the door slowly, glancing at me each time. He inclined his head that I go inside which I did. He shut the door behind me. The room was more of yellow than any other colour, it was sickening. Her bedroom would have been beautiful if the colour wasn't irritating.

‹Anything she do, say, touch will always be sickening to you because she's the one who is taking our place in Kale's›

‹La la la la la,› I sang, to ignore what she was going to say.

"Come, the Luna is in the bathroom," that witch always following Kimberly said. She led me to the bathroom, as yellow as can be. Kim stood there in a yellow towel…

Geez! Obsess much!

Her face was full of mischief and ecstasy as she stared at the bathtub which was filled with dirty smelly water. "The drain is clog," she said plainly. I tilted my head in confusion. "I unclogged it or had someone do that and this happened," still didn't get it.

‹She wants us to clean for her? Never!›

‹Shut up, you.›

‹I have a name.›

"You haven't taken your bath since you got here, right?" She asked, turning her head to face me, her eyes sheening with mischief. "Jump in and bathe." My eyes widened.

›Is she kidding me! I'll get tons of infection if that gets to me! More than the ones I already have.›

"Do as the Luna says,"

Do as what! Urgh!

Well, I didn't have the time to object because I was suddenly picked up and thrown into the tub, my head banging against it but that was little to no care. The water immediately flowed into my ears, nostrils and mouth. The smell was death's kiss, the dirt burnt my slowly healing eyes. I tried to get up but I was pushed back down, my head pushed in. I gargled as I struggled, the water was leaking into my brain!

That's enough!

Agreeing to the voice, my body's reflexes activated and with one spin in the water, I pulled whoever was pushing me down into the water too. I jumped out, wincing as the pain of hitting my head and rib against the tub. I couldn't see but I knew it wasn't Kim I threw into the sewer water. "You insolent…" She reached out for my hand. Feeling her heat getting closer, I yanked her forward and threw her in as well. She let out a very loud scream. I jumped out of the tub, falling on the ground.

‹Don't cry, Kawee, don't cry,› the voice sobbed. I called her Halona, Lona for short. It makes it easier to identify her. She's like this good voice that always… mostly lead me to the wrong direction.

‹Hey! I heard that!›

Anyway, I was still on the wet floor, struggling to move my muscles. I was passing out, I knew that. "Strip her! I want her stark naked and whipped in the warrior's ground, let all eyes see her rotten body. Then after she is given her one hundred strokes, tie her there under the burning sun. This punishment is to be repeated for three straight days!"

"Yes, Luna…"

"Kim, I plead that you don't strip her, if the alpha finds out we disobeyed his orders, that's enough…"

"Leave the alpha to me," Kim snapped. "I want her stripped… No! Let all the warriors take joy in pouncing on her…" Lona started laughing in my head, they try it and I'll kill them all.

‹To hell with the vow! If they try to defile what belongs to Kale, I'll kill them!›

‹Excuse me?!› I shouted back.

"Leave her out in the sun but don't strip her, my instinct is clawing against that idea."

"No…"

"Don't, Kim, have my instinct ever been wrong?"

"I gave an order to have her stripped, whipped and tied under the sun! No men is to touch her, not one finger but leave her out to dry and keep the teenagers out of the ground until her three days expires."

That was the order given and that was what was done. Whipped every morning and left out to dry, for three straight days. Yes, naked but that wasn't my major concern. By the time it was the third day, I had gone completely blind with almost deaf ears. My body was almost useless but I could manage. Two more strikes was all there was, two more strikes and I'll die. That was what I wanted. I missed mum, I needed to be with her.

‹What about Kale?›

‹What about Kale?› I flared. ‹What have he done for us than cause us pain!›

‹He isn't aware of what is going on!›

‹Nuance!›

"Are you sure you can manage on your own?" Rina asked anxiously. She led me to a river to bathe since I literally smelt like the biggest rotten flesh in the history of…of…of…I don't know. Giselle was sent out with some other maids to go clean up Kale's lakehouse. Rina was called by her sealed master to come see him. Eventually, I had to manage on my own.

"Yes, Carina, I can manage, I promise."

"Don't stay too long or any wolf can come out here and rape you. Many of them have seen you naked and are all wanting you, be careful."

"Nakedness isn't a new thing to them,"

"Amongst their kind, not humans like us. Please be careful."

"I will,"