Chapter 5


    Two days passed, and I hardly saw Ivy, seeing


    her in small intervals here and there. The King kept her ridiculously busy


    and spending so much time in these quarters was


    boring. The men on this floor were hardly here, and I found myself hoping


    they were just so I had something to clean. My days are turning repetitive


    and bing a constant. Mopping floors that were never dirtied or wiping non–existent dust.


    Filling my mop bucket, I dropped in


    some cleaning chemicals and grabbed my mop. I struggled under the weight of the sloshing water as I


    made my way from theundry, passing rice in the kitchens, who was


    busy making lunches, and out to the foyer. Water sloshed over the sides, spilling onto the floors, and I c


    ursed as I set the bucket down before using the mop to clean up the mess I had made on the steps.


    With a groan, I reached for the bucket, only I found a hand to grab it for me; I had no idea where he ca


    me from


    and didn‘t even hear hime up the step behind me. He grabbed the bucket and started walk ing up t


    he steps. He said nothing, and I nced at Gannon, who didn‘t even look back


    and continued carry ing the heavy bucket to his quarters before setting it down on the top step.


    “Thank you,” I called after him, but he didn‘t even acknowledge the words that left my lips just kept walk


    ing toward his bedroom. I watched him slip into his room and close the door. With a sigh, I started scru


    bbing the clean floors. I didn‘t see hime back out of his room, and the floor was so quiet I was sure


    he must have slipped past at some point. rice sent lunch up with Ester


    and some lunch for me. She had blonde hair, and her servant‘s uniform was a little too tight. Sometime


    s when she bent over, I could see her ass cheeks poking out from the bottom. I thought it a little


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    around here, though they didn‘t seem to mind her half–d body and her boobs busting out the top.


    She thrust a ted sandwich at me. “Here, I haven‘t got all damn day. Some of us have real work


    to do,” she snapped at me. I set my dust brushed down and reached for the sandwich when she dropp


    ed the te. I didn‘t understand what her problem was. It was clear she didn‘t like Ivy and me. The entir


    e castle heard about her ranting and raving about Ivy taking her job. Yet I had done nothing to her. The


    te shat ters on the ground, and she huffs.


    “Fucking clumsy half-breeds, seriously


    get it together,” she snaps, sashaying her hips as she walks off. I sighed, grabbing the dustpan and bro


    om to clean up the broken ss.


    “Ester!” a booming voice growled behind me, making the woman stop. Her entire body tensed as she r


    eached the stairs.


    Footsteps behind me had me peeking over my shoulder to see who it was, and I was


    startled to see that Gannon was still up here. I for sure thought he had snuck out when I returned the m


    op bucket to theundry. His footsteps stopped beside me, and I


    peered up at him to find his imposing body standing be side me. Instinctively, I shied away from his


    anger and swallowed, dropping my gaze back to the task at hand.


    “Yes, Gannon,” Ester purred in a sickly sweet voice. I rolled my eyes, and it was clear the woman was


    a power–hungry whiny brat. I pick up the ruined sandwich, dumping it in my little bucket before


    grabbing the dust broom when it is snatched from my hand, making me jump. He grabbed my arm and


    hauled me up right as I looked up to find him holding it.


    “Clean it up.” Gannon growls at her. The order rolling off him made my knees buckle, but his


    grip on my arm kept me upright as my legs threatened to go out under


    hismand. Gannon held the dust broom out to Ester, and I gasped. Ester pins me with a re that


    threatens to set me on fire before pursing her lips.


    Yet even Ester didn’t appear to want to challenge this man as she stalked forward and


    snatched it from him before bending down to clean up the broken ss. Her ass cheeks poked out


    from under her skirt, and Gannon growled, making me


    look at him to see him look away from her. His grip on my arm tight ened as he pulled me away from


    her.


    “And fucking find a longer dress. No one wants to see your ass on disy,” Gannon snarled at Ester as


    he pulled me toward the stairs. I swallowed,


    wondering if I was in trouble because he still hadn‘t let my arm


    go. Was he taking me to rice to tell her of my clumsiness? Unease pooled in my stomach as he


    trudged down the steps.


    . “I‘m sorry, I didn‘t mean to,” I told him when he stopped on the steps. He looked at me and seemed to


    realize he still held my arm.


    “Sorry,” he muttered, letting me go. I stood awkwardly while his eyes ran the length of me before his


    gaze settled back on mine.”


    “You shouldn‘t let her speak to you like that. Ester can be a bitch, but she holds no


    more authority in this castle


    than any other servant, so don‘t put up with it, or she will walk all over you,” he said, and I nced back


    up the stairs. Did he not realize I was only a werewolf? She definitely held more authority than me and


    could rip me to shreds. I was not stupid enough to cause confrontation, especially with a Ly can.


    “Come on,” he says, and my brows furrow, but I don‘t move. I was stationed to remain in the Beta’s qua


    rters.


    “Now, Abbie,” Gannon calls as he steps down a few steps. “But I have to,”


    “I said now,e on,” he says, stopping and looking at me expectantly. I chew my lip, wondering wher


    e he is taking me, but I know better than to refuse. I follow him, and he leads me


    to the kitchens, where he gives me a nudge through the doors ahead of him, where rice


    looks up at me.


    “Finished already, dear,” she


    smiles before her brows furrow when Gannones in behind me. Her eyes widened,


    and rice wiped her hands on the tea towel she was using.


    “Gannon Love, I am sure whatever she did,” rice quickly defends me, but he says


    nothing, stepping past me


    and walking toward the pantry. rice rushes over to me. “You didn‘t go into any of the forbidden areas


    ?” she whispers, and I shake my head when he returns with bread and condiments. He points to a stool


    beside him.


    “Abbie, sit!” he says, and rice and I look at him before she quickly nudges me to do what he


    asked. My hands shook as I used the bench to climb up onto the high stool. I sit there ying with my fi


    “Everything alright, son,” rice asks, touching his shoulder.


    “Fine, ma,” he says to her, pulling bread out from the bag when Esteres in, dumping the dustpan an


    broom in the cleaning cupboard. Gannon growls at her.


    “You can finish mopping the entire floor and take Abbie‘s duties for the day,” Gannon says to her with ou


    he doesn‘t even look up at her.


    “Either that or I will make you shovel shit with Peter in the stables, Ester, so choose,” Gannon says,


    and she huffs but storms out. rice looks after her and nces between Gannon and me.


    I shrug, unsure what to make of it, when Gannon


    sets a BMT sandwich in front of me, cutting it in half before cutting his own.


    “Eat,” he says, tapping the te and rice nods to me, and Gannon takes the other stool beside me,


    eating his own sandwich.


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