The King's Wife Is The Alpha's Mate

Sophie just wanted to serve them their tea and cookies and left her former schoolmates in the living room, but they apparently enjoyed taunting and making fun of her. So, seeing she didn't react to their insult, one guy touched Sophie's arm and mocked her with a disgusting smile on his face.

"So… is what Lucia said true? Do you sleep with many men?" He smirked and raised a brow at Sophie. "Can I pay you to sleep with me? This way you can make extra money for your baby."

"That's not true!!" Sophie's eyes were furious even as she held onto the tray of snacks to be served to Valerie and Lucia. "My dear cousins here enjoy slandering me. I did nothing that they accused me of!"

Finally, she lost her patience. Even though Sophie did not care about her reputation towards her classmates, she cared about Nicholas so much.

If they really thought she slept with many men, it would shame her husband's name as he was the only man whom Sophie had ever slept with. Her baby would also suffer the same humiliation if she didn't stand up for herself now.

Those wicked people would make it a habit in the future and call her baby a bastard for having a slut who slept with many different men for a mother.

No! She would not let them insult Nicholas and her baby.

"Um, what do you mean?" One of the classmates asked before she was sent into silence by Lucia and Valerie's death glare. The student quieted down but Sophie took it as an opportunity to explain.

A sad smile appeared on Sophie's face as she thought about Nicholas. "I have only slept with one man and we both loved each other very much. Unfortunately, he's gone now."

"Hah?" Lucia glanced at Valerie and snorted. "That's even worse, right, Valerie?"

"Do you know why, sister?" Valerie raised a brow.

"Because it goes to show how stupid Sophie really is." Lucia rolled her eyes and then looked pointedly at her invited classmates. "If this woman has really been loved then she would not be here with us and trying to ask for aid. Gone? The man left Sophie for sure."

Sudden murmurs would come from Sophie's previous schoolmates as they all silently thought about the situation. Lucia, who was Sophie's older cousin, did have a point that Sophie wouldn't be here if she was married to the man who impregnated her.

Premarital sex was deeply frowned upon by men and women who valued themselves at this point of time and age. 

It was supposed to be a prized thing for a husband to take only for himself and to sleep with other men while unmarried diminished the value of the woman and made it impossible for her to marry.

Harlots and prostitutes were the banes of people who were from 'good' societies. Although the truth of the matter was that it was the richer upper class who afford these services more than the peasantry who slaved at work.

"Oh, that's right." Valeria clapped her hands. "How foolish. I may think she's being a bit delusional to say that it's love simply because you were touched by a man and given money. Seriously, we don't know what would happen to her if she continued doing what she did."

"I wouldn't be surprised if she ended up dead if she continued down her path." Lucia snorted. "There's a lot of diseases involved with sleeping around so I hope that my classmates are warned and stay away from this filthy woman, okay?"

"The prestigious Cawden Academy is put in shame that its former student is nothing more but a woman acting like an ill-bred sow."

The tray of tea finally fell down and crashed because Sophie couldn't take it anymore. Their ridicule was too much and she glared at Lucia and wanted to attack the woman or maybe pull at her hair.

"That's enough, Lucia." Sophie icily said. "I've tried to put my head down for the sake of my child, but if you continue to berate me in front of other people and try to ruin my husband's name, I won't be able to hold back myself anymore."

However, Lucia already seemed to have noticed Sophie's anger and only raised her brows haughtily and didn't stop at all. She sneered at her cousin. 

"What? Are you going to lift your hand against me? I will not hold back just because you are pregnant. Maybe I'd do you a favor and kick your belly to remove it."

SLAP!

Sophie was filled with rage, drew herself closer at her cousin, and slapped Lucia in the face. "You take that back! Don't touch my child or I will kill you myself!!"

"Help, Sophie's gone nuts!" Valerie would quickly shout and call for the maids and servants. Unlike last time, where Sophie was quickly held back by the stronger adults, she seemed a lot stronger.

The male servants who easily dragged her to the basement before found themselves facing some kind of unnatural strength from Sophie. It was as if she was even more agile and stronger than the males as she didn't let go of Lucia's hair.

"Quit this, you wench!" Lucia shouted and tried to scratch Sophie and return the favor.

However, Sophie smoothly moved away from Lucia's fingers and only slapped them away. Lucia winced in pain and ducked back against Valerie who looked intimidated by how Sophie was acting right now.

In the past, Sophie always held back and only avoided Lucia and Valerie while they were bullying her, but now it was different.

It was as if her instincts overtaken her and some parts of a werewolf's instinctual fighting and survival instincts made Sophie untouchable until she was carefully dragged back away from Lucia by three of the servants who were all men.

"This no-good harlot is crazy!" Lucia touched her hair and was furiously looking at Sophie. "Throw her to the basement again to teach her a lesson. My mother and father will hear of this and you will be punished severely."

"Yeah, this is reprehensible," Valerie added and looked at her sister carefully on her head. She pointed at Lucia's scalp. "Are you okay? I think you have a bald spot now."

"Oh shut up, Valerie!" Lucia angrily looked at her sister and then narrowed her eyes back at Sophie. "All you've proven today is that you're really like a stupid dog who needs to be put down. I was only talking but you dare attack me?"

Sophie felt like she could overpower the men who were holding her arms right now and pulling her back, but she felt tired. She knew that she was the one who attacked Lucia, but now all she felt was a drain of energy.

"Oh, so now you're not going to answer or say anything?" Lucia angrily stomped her feet. "What are you? Some mute kid? Maybe it'd be better if your tongue was cut off."

"Leave me alone, Lucia..." Sophie coldly looked up. The frightening and dark look on her face made her cousin finally shut up and then turn away, returning back to her classmates.

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From Missrealitybites:

It seems mama wolf doesn't take too kindly her child being insulted XD

I hope Sophie could be stronger from this point onward.