Chapter 5

[SYLVIE’s Point-of-View]

There was no way I could hide the horror many did to me.

I caught her wrist when she started walking out, ignoring the disaster she had caused. I didn’t even feel the burning feeling of the hot drink when it spilled on my chest. I cared more about my papers, and I would never let Mandy go away with it!

“What the f*ck is wrong with you? Let me go!” Mandy’s eyes widened, trying to intimidate me with her vicious look. “It’s an accident, Sylvie! You are not looking at where you are going!”

I hissed, my lips curled against my teeth. “You are not even supposed to be in this area, Mandy! What are you doing here?! Your table is outside Alpha Ray’s office!”

She looked at me incredulously and said, “What are you talking about!? I just went to the pantry to get a cup of coffee, idiot! And you were on the way, and now it’s my fault?!”

The other team member’s eyes were starting to gawk at us. It was obvious that Mandy was trying to sabotage me with her cute little tricks.

Then I reminded myself that I couldn’t lower myself to her standard. Mandy was known as a bully in this office, and since I worked here, I did everything to avoid and never be the subject of her torment. It would be just a waste of time to deal with her horseplay.

And so I let go of her hand, and she shoved her way away from me while giving me a piercing look in the eye.

“Good! Know your place, Hall,” she smirked at me tauntingly and walked out of the department.

“Goddess, that’s awful. Those are the papers you are going to need for your reports tomorrow, Sylvie. Are you sure you are going to be okay?” One of my teammates, Abby, approached me and looked at the damage that Mandy had done.

I shook my head in panic. She was right. Even if I worked for it over time, there was no way I could finish all of this. I would be in huge trouble if I failed to submit it to our department head.

“I don’t know. I-I can’t go home. I have to do it tonight and wish the goddess would help me fish it by tomorrow,” I said to Abby, not able to look her in the face because I was so angry my eyes were teary.

“Oh my goodness, here she comes!” Abby whispered in a wary voice as she stepped away from my cubicle, not wanting to be involved in Mandy’s growing dislike of me.

I looked at every page, but all of them had coffee stains. Frustrated, I shook my head and took them from my table to throw them in the trash bin, just beside the copy machine.

I stared at the papers I worked hard on in the trash bin with an empty feeling in my chest. I didn’t know when I should start. I had a soft copy on my computer, but I had to make ten copies of them, each consisting of sixty pages. The worst part was that each of them had unique data, and I had to sort them out based on each of the head department’s needs.

Mandy went to the copy machine and looked at the documents she ruined with an annoying satisfaction on her face. I knew she did it on purpose to destroy my performance for tomorrow.

“It’s okay, Sylvie. You are Ray’s new favorite pet and I am sure he would make some adjustments for you.” She said in a mocking tone and that’s when I confirmed it was indeed about me and Alpha Ray being close for the past several days. “Or maybe you are doing extra work to get the Alpha’s attention?”

My eyes turned sharp and my blood spiked to my head.

I didn’t know what happened next, but all I knew was that I wanted to kill Mandy and break her neck. In a split second, I pushed her to the copy machine. Mandy’s eyes widened with fear; she couldn’t believe what I did as I hissed and glared down at her with my killer instinct.

I Had enough of her already.

“Be careful of what’s coming out of your mouth, Mandy. You don’t know what you are saying.” I hissed at her and threatened her with my sharp teeth. My face was so close to her as I pressed her hard on the machine behind her. “You don’t know me or what I am capable of, so just stay away from me.”

Despite the fear in her eyes, she retorted, hissing, “I am your f*cking senior here, Sylvie! You have no right—”

Mandy tried to push me away from her, ready to fight back, but once again, I pushed her to the machine, and the equipment groaned from the impact of her body. Then I stepped closer to her and tilted my head, pointing her the security camera above us.

Then I smirked, and Mandy looked at me like I was crazy. She looked at the camera and back at my face. That was when I threw her a flash drive, which she caught immediately, puzzled at the thing.

“Thank you Mandy for being a considerate officemate! I can’t believe you would volunteer to work on the documents for my report tomorrow! That flash drive has all the soft copies of the reports and instructions on how to sort them. The coffee splashed on the ones I worked on was very unfortunate. But since you are being a klutz and ruining my work, I believe you should be the one to work on them overnight.” I made my voice a little louder so that the camera would record it clearly

“Wait, what?!” Mady blinked several times, like she couldn’t believe what just happened. I stepped closer to her again, and she froze.

“Stop provoking me, Mandy. I am not like the others who you can threaten with your looks and your position in this company. Just like I told you, stay away from me, and don’t push me to kill you!” I murmured to her, low enough that only Mandy could hear it.

The security camera had a microphone and audio on it, and that meant there was no way for her to display her hostile behavior or her image would be ruined, and she never wanted that. She would never want Alpha Ray to be disappointed with her if she aimed to be the next Luna.

“Goodbye, Mandy. Thank you for your hard work.” I smiled at her and shook my fingers goodbye to make her more angry. Her face was red before I turned my back on her and took my things from my table.

“You are going home? What about—”

“Mandy will deal with it.” I winked at Abby and I felt her eyes following me in disbelief until I was out of the office.

I hated what happened in the office and I never wanted anyone to see that side of me but Mandy was just another level of bully and I would never let her treat me like she treated the new employees who saw her as one of the important people in the office. Mandy was only there because of her family status. There was nothing special about her; besides that, she had a pretty face and nothing more.

Was Alpha Ray interested in her? Was there something special between the two?

I shook my head. I shouldn’t be worried about things like that. I knew Alpha Ray. He was not the kind of man who was only interested in physical looks. I don’t think he was too shallow to be attracted to Mandy.

I frowned. Why was I suddenly interested in Alpha Ray’s preference for women?

Wiping my chest from the coffee stain, I went downstairs as fast as I could, hoping I would catch up with the bus trip since renting a taxi was too expensive for me. I waited for another fifteen minutes until a sleek black car stopped in front of me. The window of the car opened, and I saw Alpha Ray inside with a smile on his face.

“The bus is too crowded for this kind of hour, Sylvie. Get in! I will drive you home,” Alpha Ray offered. His blue eyes were fixed on my face, pleading for me not to refuse him.

I hesitated at first, but then I remembered Mandy, and if she found out about it, I knew she would die of jealousy, so I accepted, “Fine.” And I went into his car, still wiping the coffee stain on my shirt.

Alpha Ray noticed it, and he frowned, “What happened, Sylvie? I can smell coffee on you.”

“Long story,” I sighed and then continued wiping it as the wet fabric stuck to my skin, making it see-through and revealing my cleavage.

We were not getting too far yet from the office building, and I already felt the heat spreading inside the car. And it wasn’t the heater that made the temperature rise.

It was Alpha Ray, and his sensual eyes burned with desire after he saw the wet part of my clothes and my skin underneath them.

He was in heat.