ALPHA DERRICK’S CHAMBER


    Derrick was standing by his window, smoking a stick of cigarette devilishly. He was bothered by his uing wedding with Felicia.


    Marriage was thest thing on the list of things he wanted to do in life, but his father just changed everything, and he hated the fact that he couldn’t cancel the wedding even though he was the alpha.


    He was thinking of how to stop the wedding from happening as he smoked his cigarette devilishly.


    A knock at the door disrupted his thoughts, and he nced at the door.


    “Alpha, the head maid is here to see you.” He heard Ramos’s voice from outside the chamber.


    “Let her in.” Derrick replied.


    The door opened and Pam stepped inside the chamber with Prisci walking beside her.


    “Greetings, alpha.” Prisci bowed and greeted Derrick.This text is ? N?velDrama/.Org.


    “Who is she?” Derrick asked Pam as he stared at Prisci while smoking his cigarette.


    “She is Ortega’s best friend.” Pam replied, and Prisci lowered her head nervously.


    “You can leave, Pam. I’ll send for you when I need you.” Derrick said, and Pam bowed before walking out of the chamber.


    It now remained Prisci and the alpha king in the chamber. That made her so nervous that her palms became sweaty even though the room had a conditioning system which was working perfectly.


    Derrick watched her from where he stood as he smoked his cigarette. He could notice how nervous she was and he knew why she was nervous.


    Standing in a room with someone as powerful and domineering as him was enough to make anyone tremble, and that is the reason why Prisci was nervous.


    The chamber was silent as none of them said a word. Derrick was still standing by the window, smoking his cigarette and his gaze was fixed on Prisci.


    The silence in the chamber was killing Prisci and she was silently praying that Derrick should at least say a word in order to break the silence.


    She didn’t know the reason why Derrick sent for her, and that was one of the many easons why she was nervous.


    “So, you’re a friend of Ortega, right?” Derrick finally broke the silence as he began walking towards her.


    “Ye… yes, alpha.” Prisci replied with her head lowered.


    “What’s your name?” He asked.


    “Pr… Prisci. My name.. my name is Prisci.” She stuttered.


    “Do you know where Ortega is?” Derrick inquired as he finally stood in front of her.


    “No, alpha.” Prisci shook her head negatively with her head lowered. She was scared to look at Derrick’s face because he might kill her if she does that.


    “Look at me.” Derrickmanded, and she slowly raised her head to look at his face. Her body shook with fear when she saw his dangerous yet handsome face.


    “You don’t know where Ortega is?” Derrick asked, peering into her


    “No.” Ortega shook her head vigorously. She was fiddling with her finger and her heart was pounding fast due to the closeness between her and the alpha.


    “I thought you guys are friends, and friends should know each others whereabouts, am I right?” Derrick asked as he puffed out smoke from his mouth.


    “Yes, alpha.” Prisci nodded.


    “So why don’t you know your friend’s whereabouts?” Derrick questioned.


    “Actually, we were in our room….”


    “You both share a room?” Derrick cut her off.


    “Yes alpha, Ortega and I are roommates.” Prisci replied.


    “The both of you are roommates?” Derrick inquired with furrowed brows.


    “Yes, alpha. We are roommates.” Prisci answered.


    “So, howe you don’t know where she is when the both of you are roommates?” Derrick asked.


    “We were eating dinner in our room when one of the maids came inform me that the head maid needed me in the kitchen. I left Ortega in the room and I went to the kitchen where my attention was needed. When I came back to the room, I couldn’t find Ortega. I asked almost every maid in the maids’ quarter but none of them saw her.” Prisci exined.


    “So, what you’re trying to say is that you left Ortega in the room the both of you shared, but you couldn’t find her in the room when you came back, right?” Derrick asked, and Prisci nodded.


    “Yes, alpha.” She replied.


    “What’s the name of the maid who came to call you when you were eating dinner with Ortega?” Derrick asked.


    “Her name is….”


    A knock at the door interrupted Prisci before she couldplete her statement.


    “Alpha, a maid named Roxanne wants to speak with you.” Came Ramos’s voice from outside the room. “Should I let her in or do otherwise?”


    Derrick took a long pufff from his cigarette before speaking, “Let her in.”


    ‘Why does Roxanne want to tell the alpha?’ Prisci thought to herself as she heard the door opening, then she heard footsteps approaching her from behind.


    Roxanne wondered what Prisci and the alpha were discussing. She knew Ortega and Prisci are friends, and she became that Prisci might found out that she was the cause of Ortega’s disappearance.


    “Good evening, alpha.” Roxanne greeted Derrick with a bow as she stood beside Prisci.


    “Who are you?” Derrick asked as he drew in hard on his


    “My name is Roxanne and I’m one of pce maids.” Roxanne answered.


    “And why are you here?” Derrick inquired.


    “I… I came to report a case to you.” Roxanne answered.


    “A case?” Derrick raised a questioning brow at her.


    “Yes, alpha.” Roxanne replied and a lump formed in her throat.


    “What case?” Derrick asked with a cautious curiousity.


    “Uh….. One of… one of the maids is.. is missing.” Roxanne stuttered.


    Prisci nced at Roxanne immediately she heard her statement.


    “And what’s the name of the missing maid?” Derrick inquired.


    “Her name is… Umm… Ortega.” Roxanne replied.


    Derrick’s interest was piqued when he heard that Ortega was the missing maid.


    “Seems like this maid knows something about how Ortega got the confirmation card which gave her the free passage out of the pce.” Derrick said inwardly as he blew out smoke from his mouth.


    He threw his cigarette on the ground and he crushed it with his bare feet.


    “Pour me a ss of wine from the bar over there.” Derrick said to Prisci as he pointed at the inbuilt bar in his chamber.


    Prisci hurriedly walked over to the bar, filled a ss with wine, then she walked back to Derrick and she respectfully but cautiously handed the ss of wine to him.


    Derrick collected it from her and he walked to the nearest couch. He sat on it and crossed his leg with his gaze fixed on the two maids standing in front of him.


    He took a sip from the wine before speaking,


    “You,” he pointed at Roxanne. “How did you know that the maid named Ortega is missing?”


    “Actually, we both went out of the pce an hour ago and….”


    “Hold up.” Derrick cut in. “You and Ortega went out of the pce this night?”


    “Y… yes alpha.” Roxanne replied nervously.


    She was already getting scared but she didn’t make it obvious. She kept a straight face so as not to raise suspicions.


    “So, you said the both of you went out of the pce, right?” Derrick asked after taking another sip from his wine.


    “Yes, alpha.” Roxanne replied.


    “How did you get out of the pce?” Derrick asked. “I mean, did you fly over the fence or what? because there’s no way my guards would allow you to go out of the pce without a confirmation card, and I’m so sure you are not one of the people in the pce who have a confirmation card. So how did you get out of the pce?”


    “The truth is, I…. I stole it from the head maid.” Roxanne replied with a borrowed courage.


    “You stole a confirmation card from the head maid?” Derrick repeated with a smirk across his face.


    “Ye… yes.” Roxanne nodded and hung her head low to avoid Derrick’s gaze.


    “And why did you steal the confirmation card?” Derrick asked.


    “I stole it because I wanted to give Ortega a tour around the kingdom.” Roxanne answered.


    “And why did you want to give Ortega a tour around the kingdom?” Derrick inquired.


    “Because she has always wanted to see what the kingdom looks like ever since she go to the pce.” Roxanne replied, trying her best topose herself so as not to make the alpha suspicious.


    “And what do you care if she has always wanted to see what the kingdom looks like?” Derrick questioned.


    “Because she is my friend.” Roxanne replied confidently, and Prisci nced at her with a shocked expression on her face.


    “Oh, so you and the human are friends, right?” Derrick asked.


    “Yes.” Roxanne nodded. “We’ve been friends since she joined the maids.”


    “In summary, what you’re trying to say is that you stole a confirmation card from the head maid so that you can give your human friend a tour around the kingdom, right?” Derrick asked. with a smirk across his face.


    “Yes, alpha.” Roxanne nodded.


    “So, where is your human friend now?” Derrick asked, even though he knew Ortega was in the royal clinic. He was just questioning Roxanne because he wanted to know how Ortega ended up in the alleyway where she would have been raped if he didn’t show up.


    “She… she got…. She got lost while we were touring the kingdom.” Roxanne replied and she swallowed the lump in her throat.


    “The human got lost while you were showing her around the kingdom?”


    Roxanne immediately went on her knees and she sped her hands together in a pleading manner, then she started crying.


    “Alpha, I know what I did was wrong, but please I want you to send some guards to find Ortega. I’m ready to serve any punishment you give me, but please help me find Ortega. Please.” She begged as tears streamed down her face.


    ‘Is this really the Roxanne I know or an impersonator?’ Prisci thought to herself as she stared at Roxanne. She was surprised to see Roxanne crying and pleading.


    The Roxanne she knew was proud bitch that would never cry nor beg, but seeing her crying right now gave Prisci the impression that Roxanne was telling the truth.


    Roxanne’s story made sense to Derrick, but he still felt like she was lying. He felt like there was more to her story


    Why would she want to show someone around the kingdom at night when she could have done it in the day?


    A knock at the door disrupted Derrick’s thought.


    “Alpha, a human named Ortega wants to see you.” Ramos said from outside the chamber.


    Roxanne’s heart started beating when she heard that Ortega was outside the chamber.


    Her n would get ruined if Ortegae inside the chamber. The truth would be revealed.


    Roxanne started praying in her mind that the alpha should send Ortega back. She prayed silently that alpha Derrick should not allow Ortega in or else she would be doomed.