The Alpha Prince's Purchased Maid
Chapter 178: Truth from a Strict Teacher

Chapter 178: Truth from a Strict Teacher

What would the strong choose to do to the weak?

“What did the king do to the weak?” I asked when I managed to speak again.

“A long time ago, there were countless wolf packs in this world. You can call them packs, you can call them kingdoms, villages, tribes, or even nations. Wolves were everywhere. It isn’t entirely wrong to say that the first king united the wolves into this current kingdom; however, he didn’t do it to save them...” the prince explained before he paused.

I didn’t know what to say so I waited for him to go on. My eyes lowered from his eyes to his lips...

Concentrate, Mila...

He’s trying to teach me something important yet I’m...

“The first king raised an army of strong alphas, called the Ultimate Alphas. With that army, he raged war on other packs. He captured the people with wolf blood and made sure that the strongest were brought to his kingdom. In other words, he didn’t save those wolves because they needed to be saved. Instead, to fulfill his selfish desire of building the strongest pack, he fought and killed countless lives. He was responsible for the downfall of many kingdoms until there was only one kingdom left that is ruled by wolves and that is this kingdom,” the prince explained without any emotion.

“That’s...” I murmured after being stunned into absolute silence for a while.

That’s clearly not what is written in the book at all.

“Well, I have no idea why I’m telling you this. I guess I just thought that it would be better for you to know the truth...” he said as his toned turned light.

It was as if that dark secret that he had just told me didn’t matter much. However, I found it hard that the prince would tell me something as significant as that without any good reason. Then again, there were times when he clearly did things on a whim.

Sometimes he could be cruel and very manipulative. Sometimes he was so caring and kind. It was still very hard for me to understand him, and I sometimes wondered which is his true self.

Was it possible that one person could have such conflicting characters?

Prince Leonard sat back down in his seat and started flipping through the pages of the book. It was like that little episode did not take place between us. The way he acted so casually like nothing happened confused me even more. He was the one who said all those strange things and then he kissed me. I could still taste his sweet taste in my mouth.

“What’s wrong?” he asked as his eyes glanced up from the book to me.

That was when I realized that my hand had flown to my shoulder. It was just for a very brief moment, but I thought that I felt a stinging pain on my shoulder.

“It’s nothing...” I replied before smiling a little at him to cover things up.

The prince’s eyes returned to the book in his hand while I lowered my hand away from my shoulder. My breath quickened along with the beating of my heart. Just when I had just told the prince that it was nothing, my shoulder started to throb in slight pain. The skin on my shoulder started to feel hotter than before.

“Mila, can you come over here?” the prince asked as he waved me over with his hand.

“Umm...sure...” I replied while feeling a little confused.

I stood up from my seat and walked around to stand at his side. Glancing down, I saw that the prince had opened the book to a double page that showed a very large map.

“Sit down,” he instructed.

Sit down...where?

I blinked my eyes rapidly in pure confusion as he turned to look up at my face. There was only one chair on the prince’s side of the table and that was the one that he was sitting on.

“I’ll get a chair. Please wait a moment...” I quickly said before turning away.

I felt the prince’s grip on my wrist as he grabbed it to stop me from walking away. I closed my eyes and let out a silent sigh that I hoped that he couldn’t hear. Somehow, I wasn’t surprised that something like this was happening.

“There’s no need for you to grab a chair. Sit down, Mila...” the prince urged as he pulled on my arm.

“I...” I murmured when I turned around to face him again.

His hold on my wrist wasn’t particularly tight but his touch felt hot. The longer he held me, the more I was sure that my shoulder was throbbing more intensely than before.

What is happening to my body again? Whenever he touches me or when we get close, my body starts to react in such strange ways that I didn’t understand.

I looked down as I hesitated to do what he obviously wanted me to do. How am I supposed to just sit on his lap?

“It’s easier if we sit on the same side of the table. Sit down on my lap,” he instructed more directly than I would have liked.

“I can bring a chair...” I began saying before I clamped my mouth shut.

The prince stood up from his seat before I could finish what I had intended to say. The look in his eyes as he stared down at me disapprovingly told me that he has had enough of my attempt to delay things and that he had pretty much ran out of patience.

“Turn around,” he instructed a little coldly.

Before I could move my body to follow his instructions, his hands grabbed my shoulders and had started to spin me around so that I was facing away from him. I didn’t have long to feel confused about what he was doing to me when I felt his strong arms wrapping themselves around my waist from behind and then I felt myself being lifted against his body.

“Sit and concentrate on your lesson, Mila,” he instructed.

--To be continued...