"Oh, shit..." I cursed, staring at the open wound on her hand that revealed blood.I raised my gaze to stare at the three women who were the same as the woman who tore my shirt that day. They were looking at me with various looks on their faces, but one thing I could deduce was that I saw hatred and anger in their eyes and expressions.The cat-eyed woman's hand slammed into my shoulder so hard that I hit the cold wall behind me. "It's your fault." She pointed at my wound that could not quickly close due to my poor self-healing ability. "How dare you be chosen as Atlas' mate!" She stared intently at me.Again, because of that.I stared at her with an annoyed face, my eyebrows bent as I stared at the three of them.This happened as I was about to rush home immediately after settling down at my favorite spot, but these bar-bar ladies were waiting for me. They dragged me away from the hallway towards the abandoned building at the corner of the campus. The moment I saw one of their faces,
"I don't feel like going to college," I complained as I put on the navy-colored varsity jacket I took from my closet, then picked up my bag on the bed.Suppose I follow my heart's desire. I didn't want to leave the room at all. Especially after what happened yesterday, I didn't want to see those crazy women again.But I have a lot of things to do at the college right now. I need to collect assignments for my semester grade, then meet the lecturer for the assignment of the subject I'm taking and various other things related to my studies. Of course, those things are more important, and I can't postpone or avoid them, so I have to keep coming to campus.I want to graduate soon and leave here. That seems better.I came down from my room with lazy steps. I didn't expect to arrive at class quickly, so I didn't need to rush. When I came downstairs, I saw that Mom, Harry, and Atlas were having breakfast together. I paused momentarily near the steps in front of the dining table.I saw Mom jus
"She's really shameless. How could she show up here after what happened yesterday?" I glanced through the corner of my eye, subtly seeing who else was talking about me as the class was about to start.Then I found Donna and some of her friends sitting facing each other, some even turning their backs to the lecturer's desk just to be busy talking about things that were none of their business.I recognized them as Donna's friends, especially the brunette and the blonde. They often walked together with Donna and Liam."Isn't she just shameless? From the start if she had any shame, she wouldn't have survived on this campus, it's not just one or two people talking about her." Donna glanced at me. I pretended not to hear and see them. "But almost the entire school and Elsie still showed up the next day like nothing happened."I looked down, trying to focus on the book in my hand, ignoring Donna's screeching voice. Maybe they thought I didn't hear what they were saying, but my hearing was qu
It was cloudy outside. I looked out of my bedroom window.The color was enough to make me comfortable. Gray in the sky.Looking at today's weather, I pushed my window open. I look up at the gray sky. Then, I slowly inhaled the cool air that was cold yet soothing.I could smell the leaves from the wind that carried it; for a moment, I folded my hands on the window and rested my chin there. My body was in pretty good shape, as was my mood. After feeling satisfied and enjoying the fresh air, I returned to the file in my lap.I opened the section I had marked again. "The material is fascinating. I'm sure working on it will be more fun." I smiled and started reading the rest of the pages I hadn't gotten to yet.Since returning home yesterday, I have been slowly reading the materials for my proposal. Even this morning, I didn't go anywhere to re-read it because I had enough time and was just waiting for the class that would take place in the afternoon."I can't wait to meet the new professo
I stretched, relaxing my stiff body muscles from constantly sitting and staring at the laptop screen. Then, as I stretched, I caught a glimpse of the sky and found it had turned almost dark."Ah, it's evening already," I said unconsciously and made Professor Seth look at me. He had been sitting beside me, staring at his laptop screen while occasionally looking at my screen.He, too, turned his gaze towards the sky and nodded. "Yes, we can wrap it up for today." The professor closed his laptop screen. He blinked his eyes a few times.Maybe all day this man has been looking at his laptop screen for who knows how many hours, considering his job is a lecturer, plus he takes care of my project.I didn't think we had been sitting in the library for more than two hours without feeling bored. I never felt so happy and excited when I came to campus, let alone forget the time that passed. This was truly a new and memorable experience for me.If I usually feel burdened and upset, today I feel so
There was a tension between Atlas and me that was hard to explain. Maybe it was because of the incident yesterday. When he suddenly got angry and walked out, Atlas no longer spoke to me.But even so, when we met eyes, it felt really uncomfortable. I became tense for no reason."What have you been up to lately, Atlas?" Harry abruptly opened the conversation at the previously calm and quiet dining table.I saw Atlas lift his head and look at Harry briefly. "Nothing special, I'm doing what I usually do," Atlas replied indifferently.At that moment, my and Harry's gazes met, but Harry didn't say anything. I knew that Harry would not consider me. I also knew that Harry must be disappointed and might talk about me, who was only an omega but was the mate of his son.I was prepared for Harry to be angry with me or even to urge Atlas to reject me immediately, but nothing happened. Harry didn't talk about me and Atlas at all, like nothing had happened between us.Staying at the dining table any
"What are you doing here?" I stared at him with wide-open eyes.But Atlas ignored my question, standing close to me while looking at me intently. I tried to avoid his gaze, but it didn't stop making me uncomfortable.I then pushed Atlas' body away from me, but as I did so, the stares of the people there made me momentarily move away from Atlas."Why is he treating Atlas like that?" I felt the woman's gaze at eleven o'clock, staring at me with a displeased look.I avoided eye contact with her. Then, I unintentionally looked at the other woman looking at me with annoyance. "Because Atlas is her mate now, she thinks she can treat Atlas with such disrespect? She's being disrespectful."I lowered my gaze while gently pulling my hand that was attached to Atlas to push him away."She should have behaved herself with Atlas. After all, Atlas is the future alpha." Then I heard a man's voice commenting on me.What they said was true, so I closed my eyes and held back. Suddenly, my gut shrank bec
I am an omega, which has the lowest status in a pack. Because I'm an omega, my strength is very weak compared to the other wolves.People look down on me as an omega, it's a common thing. They think that being an omega is a shameful thing. Weak and lowly, but omega itself has many roles in a pack.Unlike the others, there were more omegas in the pack. They take care of more things, and most of the things they take care of are things that pack members avoid because they are too trivial.But in fact, they are very important. Often the other werewolves and even the alpha don't want to know what the omegas are doing. Even though if what is done by the omega is a little late, then the alpha's work also gets interrupted.If I'm told to choose, I don't want to be an omega either. I also wanted to be strong, not have to suffer unnatural humiliation and be able to live a little more peacefully, but what could I do? I had been terrorized like that.I became an omega without being able to choose
Elsie's PovI stared at the man fiercely. No...no, Atlas can't think that this is his son. I don't want that man to feel that way. No matter how much I don't want to trust him anymore, I will stick to my previous decision.I shook my head, pushing him back from in front of me. "No, it's not. You already know that this is Seth's child!" I denied it loudly, but Atlas didn't believe my words.He shook his head sluggishly. "I'm sure you're telling a lie. The baby in your womb, he responded to me." Atlas fixed his eyes on my stomach, making me grab it and cover it from him. "He became calmer when I got closer to him, and your condition improved. It's like he's talking to me through the bond. I feel it!" Atlas exclaimed, coming closer to me with his gaze fixed firmly on me, not letting me escape him.I tried to break away from him, pushing him away, but my efforts were in vain. "What are you thinking? Just because this baby is calmer, you think he's yours?" I tried to turn the tables by say
Atlas PovSo he was the one who gave the wolf bane to Donna? But he probably didn't know anything. It could be that, just like Donan, prof Awkson was perhaps the one being used.However, finding Awkson to be the one involved seemed to further narrow down the people who were also involved."So my suspicions were well-founded, suspecting Seth was the right thing to do," I muttered seriously, keeping watch all night in that place.Now I'm just waiting for the right moment to go inside and meet with Elsie. But damn, Seth hadn't moved from his spot in days.He remained in the house, and that made me very upset. "This isn't normal. How could he be home for so many days? Does she have absolutely nothing else to do? There's no way an unemployed person like that would agree to be responsible for someone, let alone a baby. He must have some other identity he's hiding so money isn't a problem for him."My suspicions grew daily, and I became increasingly reluctant to leave, leaving Elsie, who cou
Atlas' POVI sighed heavily, pulling my car door open, then getting inside and slamming it shut. Again, even after being inside and watching them from a distance, I still felt annoyed.I was annoyed by various things. So far, I felt like I was being played and tortured at the same time. My feelings became so chaotic when I saw Elsie holding her stomach pain in the hospital. I followed her from behind and was full of anxiety. I was angry because even though I saw her, I couldn't do anything. I could only follow her from behind, hoping that she was okay.I closed my eyes while exhaling a heavy breath that pressed against my chest with an unrelenting weight. "Why do I have to experience such a horrible thing?" I covered my face with my palms and rubbed them back. Of the many difficult things I've experienced in my lifetime, this was the first time I felt so helpless.I didn't understand why, among millions of people, I had to be chosen to undergo this kind of fate. Why did I get bad luck
Elsie's PovI looked out with a carefree feeling. What was previously weighing on my heart and mind seemed to be lifted thanks to my gaze being distracted by what passed before my eyes. As Seth's car passed by, I saw many things.The sight of the bustling city and the many large buildings built along the way comforted my eyes and quieted my mind. I had been thinking about many things for a while, and the noise in my head suddenly disappeared, becoming quieter as I watched my surroundings bustling with people."Is it this crowded, Seth? I don't recall it being the weekend." I turned my head towards Seth, who was also looking out the window.From the crowded place, I wondered what they were doing, where they were going, and what they felt as they walked down the street in the middle of the crowd, mingling with others.Could it be that they felt free? Did they think lighter by enjoying their lives, or did they feel shackled by what they were doing? Among them, some were walking with only
Elsie's Pov"So you're sure this isn't a contraction or something?" I looked at Seth. Even though the expression on his face looked grim and gloomy, he still asked and confirmed my condition, overriding what he felt.The doctor approached and checked my pulse quietly. It seemed not to confirm what Seth asked but because he just needed to check. "No, it's still not labour yet. If it's normal labour, it seems it will still take a while." he turned towards Seth, then later patted the man's shoulder. "You don't need to be that worried. This kind of cramps will probably appear several times during pregnancy, but stay calm, as it's nothing serious."Seth exhaled and looked at me with relief, though his eyes still didn't seem back to what they were before. "Let it go, then. I'll take her home." Seth approached me, helped me get up from where I was lying and sat me in the wheelchair.Before leaving, Seth approached the doctor, who wrote something on paper. Then he held his head and looked at
Elsie's PovEven though I had previously avoided Seth's suspicions of me, and I had also tried to organise my mind to trust Seth, I didn't understand why I still doubted what had happened or why I still doubted that he was someone I knew.I still doubted that what Seth did had anything to do with what Atlas said. My eyes realised his sincerity, realised his feelings for me weren't an ordinary mask, but my intuition for him didn't make me calm.Day after day, I was troubled by my growing suspicion of him. I, who tried to ignore what I felt, finally could no longer ignore my feelings for him. I felt restless, and my desire to keep my mind calm for the sake of the baby in my womb was no longer able to keep it calm.Even though I tried my hardest, I could no longer dismiss the suspicion towards Seth that kept growing inside me. I wanted to keep trusting him and hoping that he was exactly what I had seen, but I couldn't do it. I can't think like that anymore.If I'm a hybrid, then that mea
Elsie's povWhat was he doing? Why did he suddenly come back? Didn't she leave earlier? I didn't understand. My eyes looked at him in surprise while Seth looked at me in confusion."Seth, why did you come back?" I ventured to ask him. Staring at him with the fear in me that I tried to hide. "Didn't you go out earlier?"Why did he suddenly come back? Did he know what I was about to do? Could he be starting to suspect that I knew what he would do? How is this? What should I do?Seth walked closer. I, sitting on the floor near the row where his books were lined up, stared while holding my breath.He walked steadily closer, then stopped on the floor where I was sitting, near a drawer. "I came back because I left something behind." He pulled the drawer out and then took out a light brown file. I watched silently, with my breath trying to escape. Then he looked back at me. "And you alone, Elsie? What are you doing in my room?"I gulped the saliva in my throat nervously. My heart felt like i
Elsie's pov"Where are you going, Seth?" I asked Seth, who was getting ready by putting on his shoes.I looked into his eyes intently after he turned to me as soon as I asked him.Seth smoothed the laces on the light brown formal shoes he was wearing. He turned his head silently to me for a moment. "I have something to buy outside, and then I want to meet someone." He looked at me, somewhat confused.I came closer to him. For some reason, I wanted to prove what Atlas had told me that day. I didn't want to keep harbouring suspicions about him, so I'd better quickly find out what Seth might be hiding from me. "Can I come?" I looked at him expectantly. "How about we do the shopping later and meet your friend first?" I suggested it to him.For all I knew, if it wasn't anything suspicious or anything like that, Seth would never object to me following him, and he wouldHe did as I asked and was patient as always. However, one thing made it necessary for her to act otherwise.He looked doubt
Elsie's PovI stared blankly at what Seth was busily preparing for me, my mind completely distracted with what he might do. I can no longer trust him completely like I used to.I'm not sure what he gave me now is safe. I didn't understand which one I trusted more between him and Atlas, but feeling the way my heart thumped around him and how I responded while being around Atlas, I believed that something wrong was indeed happening.If my feelings are already like this, then I should be wary. If later this proves to be just a suspicion, I will punish myself for suspecting him and apologise to him, while in the meantime, I will be wary of his attitude.I'm sorry, Seth, but I just want safety for myself, especially since the situation lately is very complicated, and I don't want to take any risks."Sit down. Why are you just sitting there?" He smiled softly, as was his habit in front of me.I gazed at that face with observing eyes. I stared at her intently, trying to find a crack at what