Melody’s POV
I was bored out of my head in a meeting when my grandmother, Christina Carter, also known as CC, called me to her office, I soon concluded my meeting with the PR and headed to my grandmother’s office. She looked worried as she looked through the papers but smiled as soon as I entered the room
‘Melody, my dear,’ She sighs. Usually, when she gives me that look, she is disappointed in me. She throws the reports at me and shakes her head.
‘This is stupid Melody, you’ve been working here for a year now and you still can’t write a proper report,’ I internally roll my eyes. This woman never misses an opportunity to criticize me! Am never good enough for her.
‘I’ll do it again, Grandmother,’
‘It’s Madam here at the office,’ she says sharply, She exhales and gets to her feet. Wearing her fur coat and walking past me.
‘I don’t want you to do it again,’ She stops abruptly, turning around to face me.
‘I want you to do a better job, Melody! I’m the CEO here and I don’t want you slacking! OMG, you get hard to work with by the second,’ She hisses.
‘Matthew!’
‘Yes, Madam,’ Her assistant bows
‘Is everything ready for the trip to the royal pack?’ She asks, the mention of the royal pack highlands my interest. Whatever can I do to make this woman take me with her? I glance at the duo as they run through their calendar and a smirk makes its way to my lips. Anaiah Altamirano thinks is Queen and has Leondre’s heart all to herself. I scoff when I remember how she insulted me.
‘Everything in here in mine, and I don’t share,’ That bitch thinks she’s running the show in the sapphire royal pack. I’ll do everything I can to bed her mate just to see her smugness vanish.
She doesn’t deserve to be the Luna of that pack, she doesn’t even merit to be the Lycan Queen. I’m supposed to be but all the years, Leondre has rejected all my advances towards him. He was first with that dreadful Nsansa Jones, thank the goddess for her death and just when I was about to glide into King Leondre’s life, I was informed that he found his mate.
‘Aah, Grandmother, I want to discuss something with you,’ I inform her, she scowls.
‘Oh, you’re still here,’ She mutters.’ Give me a minute,’ My grandmother is an elder Lycan, and a powerful woman who bore two sons, one of them is my useless father who chose love over the title as the Alpha so CC ousted him, and the other, my uncle Blanco, the perfect son, and her pride. Christina Carter is not particularly fond of my mother because was a stripper in her words who ‘trapped my happily married father by getting pregnant with me,’ Father disgraced the mighty Carter family so they paid her to leave after I was born and she accepted to abandon me, but my father was so in love with her that he chased her down to another continent leaving four kids and a wife, including me. I hear they are living a happy life in south Asia. They invite me to stay with them but my dreams are far bigger than living happily in a two-story house.
‘Yes, Dear what?’
‘I want to come with you to the Royal pack,’ CC looks at me up and down before asking.
‘And why is that? I’m going on official Lycan and personal business,’
‘I know but my birthday is coming up and you know I get sad because of my parents, I will feel better if I leave the pack,’ I say sadly.
‘Don’t throw a pity party it’s pathetic and stopped working after your sixteenth birthday eight years ago and you have so many friends,’ She snaps and a few tears escape my eyes.
‘Melody there are so many places to go for some fun, why there and don’t lie to me,’ She is serious now. I sigh and think for a while.
‘I offended the Queen and would like to make amends,’ I tell her, facing the floor, if this doesn’t convince her, I don’t know what will.
‘I heard about your unruly behavior and I already sent an apology letter to her office,’
‘I just want to tell her that I’m genuinely sorry. And also, I met a man in that pack and I want to know if he might be interested in developing our feelings into something profound,’ I reciprocate her solemn expression. CC slightly raises her eyebrows, looking for a lie but doesn’t find one.
‘I knew you had an agenda of your own and not just an apology… What rank is this man?’ She asks.
‘Beta,’ I’m quick to lie, damn, I’ll have to find myself a Beta.
‘Fine, you can come but don’t embarrass me and be mannerly,’
‘Thank you!’
Anaiah Altamirano, here I come to turn your happy life upside down, you’ll see everything you built crash down in your presence. I grab my phone from my handbag and call a dear friend of mine, Fai, to tell her am coming to have some fun.
‘No way!’ She squeals, Fai’s parents originate from this pack but they transferred seven years ago to live in the city and joined the Sapphire Royal pack after a dispute with CC.
‘Remember how I told you that one day I’ll get Leondre Lavista from that woman?’
‘Yes,’ She says with a tone of curiosity.
‘I’m going to do it soon and be Queen of Lycans,’ I inform her.
‘Oh honey, don’t hold your breath because you will die, they are happy and in love, they dined here last night,’
‘I’ll come up with a plan to somehow put myself in the equation, you know me,’ We laugh. Fai might be my friend but I know she won’t risk her parents’ position in the pack after they’ve worked so hard to get their status so I need to enlarge my friends. I rub my chin as I think, who? I need an ally against Anaiah Altamirano and I just know who.
