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Richard chuckled at her new attitude, he knew the effect of his statement on her, with their constant argument each day on who was sweeping the other off their feet with whose looks.



"Hmm!!", Agatha uttered the expression when she tasted the mixture for the cake



"Needs more sugar! Add more sugar! And milk!!", Agatha uttered out to the maid who was stirring the mixture, but in a loud voice.



She learn something that morning, she wasn't the same Agatha of the previous day.



The look on Alpha Richard's face the previous day when he fixed his gaze on her, told her that he disliked the way she yelled at the other maids and servants.



And for alpha Richard to dismiss everyone after seeing their state and condition, it showed she was relatively too hard on them.



When she woke up from bed, she had cautioned herself, told herself to be calm with the other maids and servants, assuring herself she was going to make a big impression.



"Hey! The ribbons aren't perfect enough.", Agatha said aloud from afar, watching as one of the servants wanted to tie a plain ribbon on a wall



She walked closer to him and whispered to him in a soft voice, "The ribbons aren't meant to be here. Take them outside!".



"Agatha!", A deep voice called out to her. From the way it sounded, it sounded like the voice was coming from the stairs.



She looked round to see who was calling her, and then she saw it was Aloha Richard who was coming downstairs with his mate, Emily, who held hands together, walking gracefully



"Yes, Alpha", she greeted as she knelt slightly in the air and bowed her hair to the ground.



"I'll see you later", Richard whispered to Emily as he let go of her hand and walked outside to see what was really going on there.



"Take it easy on the maids Agatha", Emily's light voice spoke again.



Her voice was something else, more rhythmic than the movement of the winds, it had a way of piercing your heart, making you see the truth in whatever thing she said.



"You're trying to make an impression, but don't forget, it's not only to the alpha and his Luna, these ones... ", She said pointing her finger to the other maids who were either sweeping or cleaning.



"...these ones are also reading through your impression", Emily said as he patted the side of Agatha's arm and walked away smiling.



Agatha stood back there for some minutes, evaluating and absorb the knowledge in the words Emily spoke.



She saw the light in her statement, all these while, she has been trying to make an impression, trying to really impress Alpha Richard and Emily, but she forgot that she was giving off pre knowledge of what would happen supposing she was in the position of power and authority.





She was right, the previous day, most of the maids and servants were more than exhausted, some were at the verge of passing out, some already sat on the ground trying to catch their breath, despite the yelling and orders are gave out, some weren't doing the work perfectly as they started.



If not for Alpha Richard's intervention, more than half of the people there would have passed out



She saw her mistakes, and there was no better way of fixing it than to start being friendly with them.



She nodded her head in agreement to the thoughts in her head and then continuing with her supervision.



As she kept walking, she saw one of the servants struggling to cut some vegetables for a salad.



"Hey! Hey!! Hey!!! You're doing that wrong", she said as she walked to him who seemed a little bit disappointed in himself.



"The cucumbers are meant to be at in small squares", she said looking at him and then looking at the cucumbers which he had cut on the chopping board.



The boy, probably sixteen years of age, stood there puzzling on how possible it was for him to cut some round vegetables into tiny squares.



He looked very frightened, and wasn't able to lift his face up and look at Agatha



Agatha saw the way he acted, his body trembling and his hands shaking like he was going to get yelled out or punished.



He was one of the servants who dropped to the ground the previous day, trying to catch his breath.



She knew the boy was expecting a yell from her but she remembered Emily's word and decided to do something else.



"Come on! Let me show you how it's done", Agatha said as she patted him on the back and showed him how it was done.



"You do this..", Agatha tried explaining as she cut the cucumbers into slim round pieces, placed them on top of each other and started cutting them into various shaped lines.



Then, she went ahead to dice the already cut cucumbers into tiny shaped cubes.



"Voilà", she said as she dropped the knife on the board, turned to the boy and smiled at him.



"Your turn! Let me see you do it", Agatha said as she walked away from the board and knife, standing at another end, with her hands folded and kept on her chest, she watched as he followed her exact same steps and it came out beautifully.



"You got it! Keep on", Agatha said as she patted him in his head and continued walking her way, still supervising the entire work



The boys face became brightened, he felt so happy, not just because he finally got the method of dicing the cucumbers, it was the first time in a long while Agatha hadn't yelled or screamed at him.



"Luke! My man", Richard called out to Luke who stood at garden inspecting the way the men were clearing the garden, taking off some weeds and using the take to take them out



"Good morning Richard", Luke greeted as he shook hands with Richard.



While the other men would bow or give out a crisp salute, Luke happened to be an exception. He was the only one aside Emily who could greet him differently from the others.



"How's it going", Richard asked as he put his hands in the pocket provided in the robe. He stood with Luke to view the entire garden, seeing the vast multitude of men working on the field



"We've put the men in their respective positions", Luke began to explain.



"We suspect there'll be Intruders in the party, after all, the blue moon pack is the most sought after pack in the werewolf world, we suspect they'll come in the form of visitors, our men will be focused, trying to discern which one of them will be Intruders", Luke continued to explain



Richard nodded his head as he agreed with what Luke said.



Luke was right, the blue moon pack was the most sought after, if anyone wanted to claim Dominion over the entire werewolf world, the blue moon pack was going to be one of their first targets.



But Alpha Richard was a ferocious leader and warrior, always fightimg and putting his life on the line just to secure his Pack's name and his dignity.



And if for any reason, Alpha Richard was ever caught unawares, then the pack was going to be in grave danger.



"Richard?", Luke called out to him while he still stood there looking at the garden.



"Yes Luke?", Richard replied.



"Can I tell you something?" Luke asked concerningly, his sight still set on Richard.



"Yes Luke, go ahead", Richard said as jeremoved his hands from his pocket and put them behind his back



He stood with power and authority oozing out of him.



"You've got to be ready, as we both know, they'll come, not just for you, but for the boys", Luke said again with low voice.



"Just get your men in position! We'll be ready", Richard said with a dark deep voice and his face beaming with a bright smile.