The Alpha Prince's Abused Mate Chapter 63

ALANA

The next day, I went into the stacks of expenses of the village to cut off some unnecessary costs when I noticed excessive spending the last few years. Millions of dollars are being cashed out to purchase these particular things.

Getting up from my seat, I asked some guards and workers in the mansion to help me do the task for today.

In the lavish living room of the mansion hung many many expensive paintings that one can think the whole place to be a museum.

“Get all of the hung paintings here, please.”

“Yes, ambassadress.”

So for the next few hours, they carefully took the paintings from the walls one by one.

As someone who loves painting and had been educated under the best art gurus in the capital, I know these costs more than what was declared in the papers. I planned on selling those to add up to the other programs for the kids in the rural areas.

“Hey, what is happening?! What are you all doing?! Stop it!” Minerva yelled at the workers. “My paintings! My lovely paintings! How dare you touch them, you filthy scoundrels!”

They stopped working and glanced at me waiting for my signal.

“Keep on working. Do not mind the luna. She is just surprised, that’s all.”

They continued unscrewing the frames and ignored the luna who was brewing in anger already, obviously way beyond pissed at me.

“Surprised?! Alana, I am not just surprised! I am livid that I can feel I could kill anyone right now! I demand you to order these people to hang back my paintings again!”

“Your paintings?” I matched her arched brows with a grin. “You don’t own any of these paintings, Minerva. The alpha king and the queen luna owned the money you spent on buying these and now you will have to return it to the people.”

She hitched my wrist and twisted it in a way that got me reeling in pain. “These are my paintings! I bought it with my money! You can even check it on the records!”

“I did and if I can check it on the records then it means it’s not yours to begin with. If I report this to the alpha king as a form of stealing, are you ready to defend your ownership with proper documents?”

My grin got bigger when she fell silent. Shoving her hand aside, I crossed my arms on my chest and stared at her face. I used to wish to the moon goddess for her to love me since they told me she is my new mother.

At first, I really wanted her to see me as her daughter, but when she abused me too, locking and spatting me on the face, I no longer prayed for the moon goddess to make her like me.

“You have become too cocky, Alana! Why? Because you know that the alpha prince is on your side? Do you enjoy getting screwed up by him thinking that you have the chance of being his luna?! Well, that is hopeful thinking since you and William will not be together! Sophia is the one and only woman for him!”

The winds blew so hard even though it’s a hot humid day as I let out a hard resounding slap on her face. “Do not disrespect the alpha prince! You don’t know what your filthy mouth is saying!”

Minerva gasped as she held her red face, disbelief crossed her eyes. She must have been so shocked to see that I could even do that to her.

“How dare you slap me?! How dare you hurt me when you are just nothing but our mutt?!”

She positioned to attack me but a royal guard stepped in unsheathing his sword to Minerva’s meltdown.

“You are not doing the correct job of being an ambassadress! You just want to bully us into surrender!” She turned to the workers who were already packing the paintings ready for transport. “Put my paintings back onto the wall now! Do not take them away!”

“Take those away, I am ordering you!” My voice thundered across the whole living room, shocking her more because this is the first time since forever that she found me to be authoritative. “The luna does not have the power to decide about it so you can go and sell those at lowest prices possible.”

“Yes, ambassadress.”

They began to take the boxes out into the waiting truck as Minerva could only helplessly look at them.

“No, no! My paintings! My lovely paintings.” She still ran for them but decided to go back to me when she cannot chase for the truck anymore.

“Alana, order those men to return my paintings to me now! Do it! Order them now!”

I just smiled at her. “Don’t worry. All of the money will go into helping the less privileged children. You still did a good thing, Minerva. Just think of it as your piggy bank and that I have to break it to pay for something.”

“You!” She pointed at me and would have attacked me right away had it been not for the guards beside me. “Are you doing this because you want to take your revenge against me, your own mother who raised you right?!”

My face turned dark. How dare she say that? She never raised me right! She abused me! She made me scared of people! “This is not yet my revenge, Minerva. My teacher told me you cannot call doing the right thing as a form of revenge,” I said in gritted teeth while closing our distance.

“And one more thing, you are not my mother. No one raised me. I practically raised myself. As for my revenge, don’t worry. It’s happening the soonest.”

I left her in the living room speechless and seething with fury knowing very well that she cannot do anything to me.

“Thank you, William,” I said silently in my head when I remembered how he gave me permission to do what I want to take my own justice. “I swear, I will be brave to make them pay for what they did to me.”

WILLIAM

I was waiting outside the room of the alpha, anticipating his reaction once he learned that Alana banned food inside Sophia’s room and sold all of his wife’s paintings.

A few minutes ticked by and the door opened revealing the alpha growling in wrath. There is a bandage covering the ear he lost from me.

“You are not going to lift a finger or help your wife or your daughter, alpha,” I spoke as I took my time to put my hands in my pockets and looked at him. “Just let Alana do what he wants to them. The worst thing she could do now is to kill them though that would be unlikely.”

He clenched his jaws the same way that I am clenching mine. “You wanted me to just watch her torture my wife and daughter?! What kind of thinking is that, alpha prince?!”

I laughed sarcastically while brushing my hair with my fingers. He’s spouting gibberish things as if he’s clean himself.

“Why? Is there something wrong? That is exactly what you did to her, right? You watched as your daughter and wife abused her and then take those fucking whip and beat her like she is not your daughter so don’t give me that reason. You can’t convince me using that.”

“You cannot just expect me to sit still and just let her be! Sophia needs food because she is still recuperating while Minerva loves those paintings so much. What kind of a father and a husband I will be if I let a damn lady take all those things from them!”

I breathed a long sigh and ran a tongue over my mouth. “Damn lady… address Alana again using that foul word and you will lose your other ear, alpha. You will be famous in history as the only alpha without ears because he lost them for desecrating an ambassadress reputation.”

I walked up to him and did not mince any of my words. “Just do what I said, Killian. Let Alana do what she came here to do. The moment you do something against her, I will be the first to chop you finely and throw your disgusting flesh into the river for the crocodiles to feast on, you understand me?”

The alpha did not respond but just his intent eyes on me.

I laughed at his face. “I will be the one to take care of you, Killian.”