Eleanor:
I had to fight back the smile that threatened to tear my lips apart as I walked out of the Alpha’s room.
The way he spoke to me, and the way he looked at me made my chest swell. I entered my room and couldn’t help but admire his gentleness toward me.
Back at the pack, my home, between those who were related to me and the man whom I was to marry, I was nothing.
I was the woman that they hid in a room, the woman they only allowed outside to the garden estate, being escorted. Most of the people who knew of my existence thought that I died a long time ago. Others didn’t even know that I was born to begin with. Even my mother was hidden from view for a long while before she was killed. And though her death remains a mystery to me, I knew that she fought with her life to see my smile.
I took a deep breath as I recalled the first time that I was introduced to Elton. It was the first time that I was allowed to speak to a man. The men who were within the estate wouldn’t answer me no matter how much I tried asking them, and should they bother saying a word, they would be killed on the spot. The maids were barely allowed a few words, and those whom I trusted were either sent away or disgraced until they knew the limit of not speaking to me unless asked.
Flashback:
“You called for me, Father?” I asked shyly, entering his office. I was rarely ever allowed inside, and knowing that he called me here, I knew to keep a low tone so as not to be punished for something that I might have accidentally done.