After my first dance, demands for having a private audience with me rose through the roof as the customers started to bid among themselves.
My master tried to control the situation to no avail as the customers began offering all sorts of amounts just to spend time with me.
After hearing the amount of jewels being offered, my master soon brightened up and started the bidding process immediately.
The bid price started to go higher in which the customers didn't mind as I soon realized that most of the customers we have tonight belonged to the elites.
After seeing Orm's father trying to bid as well, I'm beginning to think of ways how to make him lose the bid as he is bidding a quite high amount that made a new record.
I asked my master if I could tease the customers in which he instantly agreed as what he is about to earn tonight is equivalent to 5 years of past profits.
So I began dancing the pole dance in my best seductive way in which all the customers began offering ridiculous high amounts that made my master extremely happy that he gave me a single jewel.
That was generous of him.
And the jewel is a green one.
I'm touched.
To my dismay, Orm's father ended up winning the bid.
I would surely get nightmares after this.
If Orm could see us now, I don't know how he'll react.
....
Especially now.
My master in his generosity, made me perform a lap dance for Orm's father in front of the customers.
This is definitely gross.
Good thing that he didn't recognize me but to my bad luck, I recognized him.
As I danced, he touched my waist in which I tried my best not to flinch. To disguise my disgust, I tied up his hands behind him as I began to tease him with my dance.
He seemed delighted and extremely aroused with what I've done in which in reality, I'm trying my best not to puke.
Dirty old creature.
Though I'm not sure if he's that old but he is Orm's father after all.
The thought almost made me puke for real.
Soon the dance ended, in which my master told the rest of the customers that he is closing for tonight as Orm's father had paid for the entire night just to spend time with me, making the rest of the customers groaned with disappointment.
I'm also groaning with them inside my mind.
Why?
What have I done in my previous life to deserve this?
Still I kept smiling as I accompanied Orm's father inside the private room for special customers.
....
He was soon accompanied by a companion of his in which he paid my master a huge amount of money that my master didn't finish complaining and instead left us alone after giving my chain to them.
At this point, I'm tempted to run away but common sense finally won in which I remembered that I was planning to learn the truth of what happened to Orm's mother.
He introduced his name as Yilan, in which I told him that his name is beautiful and I liked the sound of it.
But his appearance is hideous to see.
He seemed delighted that I find his name beautiful that he immediately told me to sit on his lap.
Ew.
I playfully began embracing him on his back as I tried to avoid sitting on his lap to no avail.
Instead, it made him more determined to let me sit on his lap that he pulled my chain in which I sat down on his blasted lap.
He began embracing me, feeding me with small fruits from his mouth in which I timidly bit a small amount of it, making an excuse on how I'm trying to maintain my figure to please them.
Good thing he agreed as he admitted that he likes seeing exotic female creatures who maintain their figure.
I recalled that Yilan was supposed to be a playboy in which I had an idea.
Seeing that he is vain despite his hideous looks, I began stroking his hair and spoke softly to him about how beautiful his hair is, which is the truth as I can see that Orm somehow inherited his hair.
Yilan looked like he won an unlimited amount of jewels in which he began nuzzling my neck, much to my dismay and told me that he adored me after seeing me earlier that night.
Orm is definitely going to kill his father. And me.
I began laughing and stroke his cheek in which he bit my finger playfully.
GROSS!
I want to cry.
He placed his chin on my head as he tightly embraced me in which he began to talk to his companion about something I didn't quite understand.
His companion praised him in finally finding the perfect mate as Yilan chuckled, admitting that he hadn't found his perfect mate in the past.
I was right. Orm's parent's love story was for show.
Yilan then told his companion while he embraced me, that he was with several female creatures in the past, having a harem and several mates but none gave his heart warmth and joy unlike now.
I wonder how Orm is going to react if he heard what his father just said.
But yes, I finally confirmed that the love story isn't real. I wonder what happened to Orm's mother?
They began talking on where Yilan is planning for me to live as I might get killed by his other mates and members of his harem. Yilan told him while smiling at me, that I'm going to be with him wherever he goes as he doesn't want anyone to touch a single strand of my hair.
My ears hurt after hearing him say that.
His companion seemed to think for a while before saying that his beautiful offspring Orm might see me as soon as he gets back from his mission in which Yilan began to hiss furiously and told his companion that offspring of his should not be allowed to even look at me or else he will end up like his mother.
This is getting interesting.
I stood up in which Yilan began to pout and told him that I'm pouring him some liquor in which he brightened up and praised me for being thoughtful.
Soon, both him and his companion became talkative as I kept refilling their cups in which Yilan made me sit on his lap again and embraced me, coiling his tail around us.
I want to scream.
But I have to know the story first.
I placed my head on Yilan's chest, much to his delight, in which he started to talk about Orm.
He admitted that Orm is quite talented in which he didn't expect as he just abandoned him and his mother at his mansion.
Just as what I've suspected.
His companion asked him if Orm's mother was the elf that they experimented in which Yilan started to laugh and told him that he made use of her to contribute to the research.
This is unexpected.
And very dangerous information.
Orm's mother turned out to be a member of a rare type of elves in which Yilan somehow manipulated a situation that made the entire family deep in debt to him. He told the head of the family that he is willing to erase the debt if they give Orm's mother to him. Desperate to get out of their situation, they gave her to him and he took her to the high council.
Wait.
High council?!
Experiment????
Everything sounds familiar! Like what happened to me!
It's getting more dangerous here. I must be careful with my moves as I am stepping on thin ice here.
Yilan glanced towards me in which to keep him happy and talking, I held his cheek and told him softly how I loved hearing him talk as his voice is music to my ears.
That was a lie.
His voice sounds like nails scratching on a chalkboard.
He looked like he is in heaven as he began kissing my hands in which his companion kept praising him for being in luck tonight.
I want to soak my hands after spending time with him.
He held me tenderly as he resumed talking with his companion.
It was hard having a double identity in which when the Chieftain Monarch issued an order trying to kill or capture the rest of the council members after someone made a fiasco on the latest experiment, he made a decision to quit the high council but not before hiding and letting them escape first.
Oh dear.
This is bad.
A conspiracy within the palace.
Rahab is indeed helpful with his clue.
May he suffer in hell a thousand times.
The companion then apologized to Yilan in which he told him that it's a shame that it was a failure with Orm as he is disfigured, not perfect.
So it was because of their experiment? Orm thought that he is a runt because of his mother's stress.
Yilan admitted that the false reality they made with Orm's mother made her clingy towards him that he soon got rid of her. Her purpose was done after all as their offspring turned out to be not what the head wanted.
Wait.
Who's the head?
And false reality?!
Orm's mother really thought that Yilan really loved her!
It was all just a big lie!
But it was true that Orm's mother ended up as a prostitute in the red light district as Yilan somehow sold her as a prostitute in which he changed his mind after a while. Then Orm was born.
Now I know the whole story.
Poor Orm.
But poor me if he found out about my real identity. Though the magic user did a great job in hiding my mating marks and changing my appearance.
My body is still the same and my face somehow but since my ears were altered and my hair is too long to grow in a short time, it would be impossible to connect my two appearances. The icing of the cake is that my regular cuff was covered with a larger cuff that covered most of my neck. My voice somehow changed because of it.
Still, both Yilan and his companions are former high council members. I must be vigilant around them.
So the high council did several experiments before me. The question is, for what purpose? Also, being in a false reality is dangerous as it would root into your mind, especially what happened to me that I really thought that I was talking to Orm at that time, including the rest of the pack.
After a while, Yilan's time is up in which he tried to pay for more time with me in which I declined, much to my master's protest in which I embraced him, telling him that I want to sleep as I'm quite tired earlier after dancing for him.
He began to nuzzle my face and told me to wait for him as he is going back to the palace where he worked in order to fix things for us so he can bring me with him there.
Kissing my hand, he said that I'm going to be his last mate and he would never let me go as I am his and he is mine for eternity.
After he left, I soaked my hands in a strong cleaning potion and took a long bath while I made my plans to escape.
Or else, death is my last option.
....
My master told me that several high paying customers are in need of my attention in which he made me dress in a pretty yet provocative clothing. My hair was loose this time but with several pretty flowers decorating it. I didn't wore any jewelry as there was no need.
The guard pulled my chain in which I obediently followed as he made me enter the special room. My master walked beside me as he told me that the customers I have right now seems to be some sort of travellers from a distant land that has a regal look on their appearances.
As he opened the door, I can hear the group became silent in which the guard went inside, pulling on my chain.
I kept staring at the floor in which my master nudged me to welcome my customers. I slowly raised my eyes and saw Lion and the pack staring at me.