LILLIAN'S POV~

I yawn lazily immediately I wake up on this beautiful morning. I don’t know why I feel like today is going to be different.

I check my belly before going to the bathroom and I realized that the wound is slowly healing.

It’s sad that I can’t heal myself yet, but at least I’m safe. All thanks to my healing abilities, the maids that first bullied me when I arrived and call me names like ‘Scarred Vamp’, has now learnt to accept me.

My scarred face is not getting any better but still better than when I first came here. It’s a very slow and sad process, but at least I’m alive.

I crave blood just as much as I crave food and yes, just like the normal vampires, I can't stay in the sun, but a day after I arrived here, a shaman was brought who made some incisions on my hands and because of that, I was able to walk in the sun.

After bathing and putting on the uniform ugly uniform that now cling to me like a second skin. I step out of my room and meet the other maids adorning themselves with different make-ups and ornaments.

I tap someone’s shoulder, and gestures to ask her what’s happening before picking up broomstick. She turns around and grab my hand, pulling me down to sit beside her.

I frown as if to ask, What’s that for. “Madam Bella gave us the permission to adorn ourselves today” she says, “You need to adorn yourself too. Here…” She tried rubbing my face with the powder but I dodge.

Madam Bella came in afterward. We all rise to our feet’s and bow. She raises her chin up high like she was the madam of the house before walking around us without any words.

We all look at each other with confusion before she finally speaks “Your uniforms looks so out of place. I guess y’all need a change because we have a lot of guests coming”

Guest? I wonder.

Hearing this, the girls giggle in euphoria. Four maids follow her on command and they came back later with a sack full of another set of dress for everyone.

We all depart to get changed but mine is slightly different. It showcase my hourglass curves that I don't like showing off to avoid men gawking at me.

I goes outside to check if I can get another fitting but everything is already taken. Just as I think of going back to my room to change into the formal uniform, the other maids came out of their rooms too and I realize that it looks like this on everyone.

My neighbor was the first to gasp in horror and shock, “Lillian!!” She squeals . “Anyone seeing you will think you’re a madam of someone household! You look so big and curvy”

I smile simply. I wish I can tell her that I'm once a madam of someone's household.

Sooner, the day's activity starts and I'm halfway through sweeping our yard when Madam Bella comes in again.

“The entourage are almost here babes” she announce before mapping out the schedules for the day.

I was tasked to clean the banquet hall alongside other maids, as we go toward the banquet hall, I start to feel my throat hitch.

The burning becomes intensively crazy that I drop all the broomsticks I'm carrying without second thoughts and clutch my throat. Before I could know anything, tears tickles from the corner of my eye and my nose starts running.

The maid walking ahead of me stops when she notice that I’ve stopped moving. “Lillian!! What happened to you?” She ran back.

I try saying, I don’t know but my throat itch incredibly until I cough out so hard. So hard from the bottom of my stomach and then I spit a big phlegm.

“What’s happening here?” A commanding voice questions and I hear movements coming from behind us. We turn around and a dignified man and his entourage is standing behind us. Madam Bella stands beside the man and immediately she sees us, her eyes widens in shock.

She rush to me quickly and pull me up. “What are you doing? Hurry and clean this place!”

I hurriedly pick the broomstick and mopping stick to start cleaning “Ohh, yes…..” Wait! Did I… Did I just talk?

“Yes” I try again and my voice responds. I look at Madam Bella whose jaw had also drops in shock.

The other maids standing beside me tap me. “Lillian, did you just talk?”

Thin lies of tears run down my eyes immediately and my head Instantly feels as if a fog has been lifted.

The maid gasps, “Oh… Lillian… Your… Your… Your scars are disappearing!”

“I… I… Can talk?” I hear my own voice again.

No pains, no Itching, just my normal voice like before and to escalate the shock, the scars on my hand starts to fade into normal skin.

Madam Bella grabs me and make me face her. She's also shocked to the core. “Hey. What’s going on with you? You can’t talk or heal yourself like other vamps right?”

I nodded. “I… I don’t know” I cried silently and chosing my words carefully as if my voice would close again if I talk again.

I was still jubilating this change when the man and his entourage interrupted. “Maidservant Bella what’s happening here!!”

She instantly bowed, “I apologize for the drama Beta. This maid here….”

“I wasn’t asking you to narrate anything to me right?” He quipped at Madam Bella. “Lead me to my room”

“Yes Beta” Maidservant Bella bowed again and shoved me and the other girl aside while the men walked past us. Our heads are bowed as they leave.

Immediately they leave. The maid rushed back to me, “How did that happen? Your face is glowing Lillian”

“Really?”

“Yes” she rejoiced with me as we packed the equipments to go get the banquet hall cleaned.

I must say today is awfully busy and tiresome. We all go up and down making this preparation and the other before we all crashed at our yard tiredly.

Lillianryone was jubilating my recovery and I was also very happy because the wound on my belly had disappeared miraculously too.

I don’t know how it happened but my body is back to the usual Lillian that I used to be.

With the new uniform we’re wearing, I stand out totally and the other maids can’t stop ogling at me about how beautiful I looked.

I know I’m pretty. Naturally, I don’t use make ups before I look good but this miracle is totally shocking that when I got to my room I jumped around joyfully.

Then some moments later, Madam Bella came back again. “Hey girls. Get your head up, the banquet is starting soon”

“Is the Alpha here now?” One maid asked.

She smiled, “He’s been around since morning. He went for pack inspection. But the banquet is starting now”

The girls giggled excitedly and quickly rushed to start adorning themselves again.

I faced my neighbor, “Who are they talking about?”

“You don’t know all along?” She ask, shocked and I shook my head. “Oh. I forgot you can’t until two hours ago. Well, the Alpha of this pack, Alpha Adam has been out of the country for months now for treatment and he came back today so the banquet is to host his welcome”

Alpha Adam…. Why does that name ring a bell as if it’s someone I’ve known before? And more surprisingly, his name resonates with mine…. Alpha Adam and me, Lillian…

After the preparations, I was assigned to serve the tables alongside others too.

I don’t know why, but before I enter the banquet hall where the said Alpha Adam was, I suddenly feel a strange cold envelop me as if the hall has turned to a deep freezer.

The guests keep whispering to each other while waiting for us to serve them. At the far end of the hall, was someone whose face I can’t see clearly because I was still standing at the door waiting for Madam Bella who instructed us to wait for her command before serving.

She came in afterward and exchange greetings with the guests before getting the far end of the room where the Alpha was and I was expecting her to bow, but instead, the man stood up and hugged her.

I frowned, “Why is she hugging the Alpha?” I asked the fellow standing beside me.

“Haven’t you heard that Madam Bella is the maid that breastfeed the Alpha when the formal Luna died of fibroid?” She whispered and I frowned more deeply in confusion.

She breastfeed the Alpha? No wonder she had so much authority here.

After her greetings, she gestured to us to come in to serve. I served the food and drink on my tray first before going back to go pick more food but as I tried leaving the room, I feel the strange feeling around me became more strong.

I thought maybe it’s because I haven’t taken any blood for the past few days so I buckeled myself to get another serving and shockingly, Madam Bella gestured to the far end of the hall. “Lillian, you go serve the Alpha”

My eyes widened, “Why Madam?”

She eyed me dangerously and I quickly bowed and proceeded to his table. It was at this point that I realized that most of the men’s attention was directed at me and I know that because of what I had on and my scar free face.

As I moved closer to the Alpha’s table, the feeling of familiarity and strange surrounding became more thicker than I could understand.

When I got before him, I had my head bowed and I couldn’t see his face as I knelt down to serve his table.

Despite how strange I was feeling, I tried my best to serve his table and just as I picked the tray to leave as quick as possible, his hand suddenly reach out from under the table and grabbed my hand!

My eyes widened and I looked up fearfully only to face that pair of stinkingly beautiful amber eyes staring at me.

There was a standstill for a while before he opened his mouth and breathed out, “Found you, Circe Nola”