Chapter 7

The sound of a slap filled the room. Brianna just slapped the Alpha, which made him stop what he was doing.

After a moment of silence, Brianna realized what she had done and immediately regretted it.

"Jack... I'm sorry.. a-akhh!"

"How dare a lowly Omega like you slap me?; you've really crossed the line, you b*tch!" the Alpha shouted while slapping her cheek back, making those lips bleed again.

His anger grew even more when he saw the Omega crying.

"Listen, Omega," he said in a dangerous tone while gripping her jaw more roughly than before. "You are nothing but trash in my house; remember that! If you still want to stay here, don't you dare fight me. If not,

You better get out and sell your body like the cheap Omega you are."

After that, Jack removed his hand from Brianna's jaw disdainfully and stepped out.

Brianna could only cry when she was alone; for some reason, the Alpha's words really hurt her.

"Why does everyone blame me for being born as an Omega? I never asked to be born like this in the first place," Brianna sobbed while holding her chest which felt extremely tight and painful.

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The next morning, she wakes up feeling unwell.

When the Omega touched her forehead, she realized that it was a bit hot.

"Must be because I've been waiting outside for too long yesterday," Brianna mumbled while massaging her head slowly.

To be honest, the Omega wanted to tell Jack that she was sick, but she decided to keep it to herself when she remembered last night.

Sell your body like the cheap Omega you are.

Tears started to flow again from the Omega's eyes as she remembered those words.

For some reason, her heart still aches when she remembers Jack's words.

She had gotten used to hearing herself being called by that nickname by her parents ever since they found out about her pregnancy; even her heart felt numb when she was called like that but somehow, her heart ached when Jack called her that.

"Is it because I still love him?" the Omega asked no one before chuckling softly, laughing at her misfortune.

She just managed to escape her parents' torments, and now she is back to receive another torment, and this time from the alpha she loves.

Taking a deep breath, the Omega decides to get up and get ready to do her housework.

But just as Brianna took a few steps, she suddenly staggered. Her head feels so dizzy and her vision is kinda blurry. 

After sitting for a while, the Omega felt a bit better and returned to her activities.

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After she finished placing the food on the table, the Omega saw Jack coming down the stairs, neatly dressed.

"Hi, Jack…" Brianna greeted him, but the Alpha ignored her and played with his phone. "Are you going to work?"

"Yes," he answered briefly without glancing at her, still busy with his phone.

"Then you should eat first; I already prepared some food for you. I learned it from YouTube yesterday."

Jack, who heard that, immediately stopped playing on his phone. The Alpha glanced at the food served on the table and walked towards it, making her smile.

But that smile didn't last long after Jack dropped her food on the floor, causing it to shatter.

"From now on, don't you dare try to cook again! Your cooking tastes like trash! If you intend to poison me, find a better way," said the Alpha, as he walked away from her.

The Omega couldn't do anything but stare at her food, which was shattered on the floor.

For some reason, she was getting tired of Jack's disrespectful behavior toward her.

However, she decided not to take it personally and went back to work.

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Apart from Brianna, today seems to be a bad day for Jack as well.

After throwing away her food. The Alpha couldn't help but keep remembering the Omega's reaction. He couldn't stop imagining how Brianna's bright smile immediately fell after he did that, and it was starting to annoy him!

"Why do I suddenly feel this way?" he wondered. "Isn't that what I always do to her every morning? Why did I keep remembering her sad face? It's not my fault that her cooking was bad, and it's not like, I ask her to cook for me after that disgusting soup." 

Then Jack thought about the last night's accident... last night, how come he went crazy like that? All this time, he never acted that way toward Omega, and even now he doesn't understand why couldn't get her scent out of his mind.

Her scent... somehow it feel like a drug to him, something that even make his wolf... excited, and whatever it is, it make him crazy and he didn't like it.

"Maybe after this, I should add the rule. I must tell her that my room is off limit from now on." 

Jack mused, before pressing the car pedals, and drove faster. Hoping that by arriving at the office earlier can lift his mood. 

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When Jack arrived, his mood immediately getting worse than before. 

The air conditioner which is always fine and still new suddenly breaks without reason, forcing him to open a window for ventilation; his meetings didn't go well; and the climax is that his subordinates don't work as well as he expected, which led them to fail to reach the weekly target.

Seeing that everything didn't go as his expectation, the Alpha felt annoyed, and decided to end his office hours early and assign a large amount of homework to his subordinates as punishment.

But even after doing so, the Alpha’s mood still hadn't improved, so finally, he decided to take out his phone and call someone.

Kring... Kring.... PIP!

"Hey, please prepare the usual. I will be there in 30 minutes."

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"Here's your emergency cake, sir."

Daniel said while holding out a chocolate cake, which he gladly accepted.

"Thank you," he muttered softly as he began to eat the cake.

Daniel sat in the chair next to him and stared hard into Jack's face.

He could see that the Alpha looked very stressed; there were even bags under his eyes, indicating he was not getting enough sleep.

Clearing his throat, Daniel decided to ask, "Hey, Jack?"

"Hmm?" Jack hummed while eating his cake.

"Is everything okay? You look stressed," Daniel observed.

"I'm always stressed, Niel. As always, my subordinates don't work as expected, and the office air conditioner is broken ughh... Why does the life of the CEO in the movie look more beautiful than mine?"

Daniel continued to hear Jack's rambling, but he was still not satisfied with his answer, so he decided to elaborate on his question.

"You're not like this because of Brianna, right?" asked Daniel who immediately got a sharp look from Jack.

"How do you know her?" he inquired, and for some reason, hearing that name made Jack's mood worse.

"Well, I met her when I brought you home drunk. You know, she seems like a good person and different from all the other omegas. She is even willing to wait for someone like you outside the house," Daniel explained, which earned a scoff from him.

"Tsk, well, what can I say, appearances can be deceiving! Besides, I never asked her to wait for my return; maybe she was just waiting for someone to bring news of my death."

"But to be honest, I was very surprised when I first saw her. As far as I know, you really hate Omegas, especially if they are maids. It's unclear why you decided to hire her unless, oh—"

Suddenly Daniel started smiling broadly, making Jack look at him in surprise.

"Hey, are you okay? Are you feeling stressed too? If you want, you can take a day off; you've been working too hard all this time," Jack offered him, but he was met with a chuckle from Daniel instead.

"My, my, our little Jack has grown up," the Alpha said, placing his hand on the bigger Alpha's shoulder. "I never knew you had such good taste."

"Taste? What do you mean?" asked Jack, feeling confused.

"Of course, Brianna, you idiot. I didn't know that you're really into her and intend to approach that Omega by making her your maid!"

Hearing that, Jack immediately widened his eyes. How could his best friend think like that!

"Like her? ME??? No way, I just hired her to humiliate her because she's an omega, that's all," Jack said disapprovingly, but Daniel just shook his head and still had a big grin on his face.

"Jack, buddy, it's okay; I know that feeling. I know you must feel embarrassed to admit it, but don't worry; I won't judge you. I'm happy that you can find a mate," he said, which once again got a disapproving look from Jack.

"No, I didn't! Ugh, I think you really need a day off; I'll schedule one for you."

"You know, Jack," Daniel said after a brief pause.

"Sometimes you need to be more honest with yourself and try to embrace it. I know that you don't want to accept the fact that she's an Omega, but seriously, who cares about that?

The past is just the past; enjoy the present happily because those moments will never return; don't let yourself regret like me."