Chapter 11: My Luna.
Lila's POV
I woke up feeling really different.
What had I done? Why did I do it?
I turned to get up, to slam into a warm bare chest.
Cole. He stayed. He stayed after everything. I thought he would sneak off back to his room so that no one would know what he had done.
"Well, good morning my Luna. Waking up to a wonderful view I see."
I gasped and looked up at him. I had no idea I was still staring at his chest.
"G-good morning, Cole." I could feel myself blushing as I pushed back a little bit.
"Are you okay?" He asked softly, placing a hand on my thigh. "I mean, it was quite the adventure last night."
"I'm fine." I smiled. "Just a little sore. Nothing a hot bath won't handle…..if I had a hot bath." I said the last part in a whisper seeing as I hadn't even remembered it.
"You don't have hot water in here?" He asked in alarm as he got up off the bed.
"No. I don't have a bath either. I do have a tap and a rusty iron bucket though, so it's not so bad, I guess." I tried to lighten up the atmosphere.
"Fucking hell." He growled fuming. "Come on. Let's go to my room. You'll bathe there."
He wanted to take me with him to his room.
"People are going to see us together coming from the maids' quarters. They'll know what we've done."
"As they should." He said. "You're my Luna and they need to know and respect that."
I felt my chest rise in excitement at what he had just called me.
I jumped off the bed, just to fall back down from the shock of the soreness I felt down there. Memories from our night together began flooding back.
The way I moaned like there was no one else in the house, his veiny hands and broad chest over me as his delicious length pounded into me. The way he talked to me and made sure I was okay with everything he was doing. It was the absolute best moment of my life, and I really didn't know that it was going to feel that good, but now that I had slept and woken up, I felt the brunt of it.
I was feeling so sore. It wasn't bad if I took it easy, but I hurried and I really felt it.
"Lila, are you okay?" Cole asked as he rushed to my side.
"Yeah." I gave a little laugh. "I'm just a little bit sore."
The way he looked at me was very clear that he didn't believe what I was saying.
"I mean it. I'm just being dramatic, okay? Ignore me."
I didn't want him to think that I was too weak to be his Luna or to drop me now that we'd done this. I was fragile, but I didn't want him to see that.
"I still don't believe you, so I will be carrying you." He said and picked me up princess style.
"This is too much. Cole, put me down."
"Nope." He said and started taking me to his bedroom.
I noticed the stares of all the other maids and concubines as we passed by, and even if I had mentally promised myself that I wouldn't, I had to hide my face in Cole's now clothed chest just to avoid the stares I was getting.
I knew it wouldn't stop them from staring, but at least I wouldn't see them.
"Are you shy? Or ashamed?" Cole laughed as he took me up the stairs.
"I don't know. I just know I feel something like these two things." I said without bringing my head out of his chest.
He laughed and moved faster and in a second, we were in the room.
"Change into your robes, while I go run a bath for you, okay?"
"Okay." I nodded, and the moment he went into the bathroom, I started changing.
"Come. Let me give you a bath."
Give me a bath? No way. If he gave me a bath, he would see all my scars and then he definitely would hate me.
I couldn't let him bathe me. Not yet.
"I can do it myself. Please." The last word was basically a whimper, because I knew as the Alpha, he could choose to go against my word and there was nothing I'd be able to do about it.
He looked at me with understanding and nodded. "Okay. Just be sure you're okay in there, and if you need me, just shout for me."
"Thank you." I grinned and slowly walked into the bathroom so that I wouldn't trigger the pain again.
"You're welcome." He smiled as I closed the bathroom door behind me.
The bathroom was basically the exact same type I had when I was living as the Alpha's princess. Now, I was a maid and this bathroom was nothing but a dream.
I slowly stepped into the hot bubbling bath, and I instantly felt like I had made it to heaven. It felt so good.
Cole's POV
Now that Lila was in the bathroom, it was time to go make things clear for everyone. I saw some scars on her stomach last night, and I could tell that those injuries were just freshly healed, meaning that she had to have gotten them when she was here.
I had already called a guard to gather every fucking person in this place because I was so serious about this, and he had told me that he'd gathered them, so it was time for me to get going.
"You called for us, son," Father said from his throne.
"Yes. I came here to issue a warning to each and every fucking one of you. Lila is my Luna. She's untouchable by any one of you. She's not to be used as a maid or hit. She should be treated as the fucking queen that she is. I'm issuing this warning very clearly now, because the punishment is not something you'll believe. Dismissed." I turned and left.
I wasn't going to let them treat her like shit. Not anymore.