The Alpha In The Fox Kingdom

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seen but we regul

ince Vaugh

ion started a year ago he's been coming around to grace us with his presence, to remind us of

when I think of it, about the fact that my kindred especially my parents sold me to slav.ery,

artled every bloody time. I never get used to

ide. I honestly thought I was in trouble, not until she ordered me to follow her

asked, a bit flummoxed. "

myself. A lowlife getting his attention? But then I r

nd muddy feet. They were actually dirty. "I'll go wash them up

ely insulting being found speaking with a slave werewolf like you in

left, and I scu

palace's menial jobs. I walk in there to see a large hall with something like a

the mistress. Their initial background hum of discussion and

ut everyone," she said. "Give us thi

looked irritated, refusing to follow th

ess said gently. "I won't

lf and flounced out, giving me a deat

" said the mistress.

en fox females have been designated to bathe the fox prince. All seven of them go into his pool naked and sponge his entire body with the calmness and deftness of

as if someone has grabbed it from space

r pieces, work like camels, until either the sun sets or we

xie. You'll be handed your own hammer or digger or axe, and off yo

er pouch to my waist, covering it up well with oversized clothes. And by

in front of me. With each stroke she takes, she gets weaker and weaker, until she runs out

taskmasters will decide what best to do with your fallen colleague. To put a sword to their

end you aren't there and l

itch? She isn't just

er impossibly fair and caring arms. She's a white witch, the best living person in the entire fox realm and I d

years ago in a forest at the boundary between this realm and the werewolves'. I'd been abandoned there to die. The giant fox lord, according to these stories, had brought me to the palace wrapped in leaves

l still want to make her your mum. She fed me with ogre'

y little bed. "Even though you were brought in here

ly half awake half asleep from the sound of her soothing voice. "Why didn't the fo

n seeing a werewolf pup as their slave? You're the current manifestation of things t

I wish my parents were captured too so they'll feel a the pa

Madam Mia would

y past? There're probably few hundreds of you captured witches here. Why don't y

stronghold throughout the fox realm. It's like a protective dome. When you're in it, you lose your power. No witch, pixie or whatnot can practice their magic in her pre

I might have slept off l

but your soothing voice remains magical, Madam Mia, and n

t being at the basement listening to you makes the stre

no-brainer that I'd

haustion. And the taskmaster in charge of our section sees me go

s whip to first beat Madam Mia into rising up to

Mia's lash, the singular deathly whip that I'

the sun has collected its heat together and focused it on me. The pain shoots along my spine. Like a projectile vomit, the scream e

h when the fox prince, who I hadn't even no

to look up. After a couple of refus

g is off

with my inner

ghteen in a month's time. My inner

ughable and

't like him. I generally don't like foxes. But even if I have to grant your request, where do I begin tellin

Mia so no one touches her. As I look into his brown eyes, I really need to as

u simply dislike seeing dirty slaves walking around the palace, so I'm probably overthinking this. I believe my eye

ime, his girlfriend appears from no wh

e says over

ked, because he practically

ail? I was just about asking the guards to lead these two weaklings away." He

lace," the girlfriend says.

eplies the Princ

with the girlfriend until they bo

her and I weaklings, but my back hur

sk Madam Mia and I away, leading us back

ime the prince is co

'm co

sly co