Gabriel was sitting in his study that night, deep in his thoughts. A lot of information about the Adler family was still unknown to him, but one thing he could agree on was the truth that he had made the right decision by keeping Selena by his side.
"I wonder if she's sleeping now. Does her foot still hurt?" Gabriel mumbled with his eyes focused on the blank wall.
'Wait! Why am I thinking of her?' Gabriel thought.
At that moment, his phone suddenly drew his attention back to the room as it vibrated on the desk. He then reached out for it and answered.
“Hey, Dan. Do you have any information for me?” Gabriel asked.
His worries seemed to subside a bit when his friend's name appeared on the phone's screen.
“Seriously, you don't have any consideration toward me. Why didn't you ask about how I am doing? Instead, your mind seems focused
Jin rushed into the Adler mansion in tears. She and Zac had a heated argument about what had happened at the restaurant. She could not believe that she did not notice before how cowardly her boyfriend behaves."He could not stand up to that stupid alpha! What a turkey." Jin mumbled as she climbed the stairs with her hands folded in a fist.Jin finally reached her room and entered, then shut the door. Once she turned her room light on, she jumped back in shock when she saw Mila seated on the edge of her bed."Where have you been?" Her mother said in a stone-cold tone.'Why is she here? It's all Selena's fault. If she did not cause trouble for Zac and me, then we wouldn't argue, and I wouldn't be home this late.' Jin thought while staring at Mila, who seemed to be losing her patience."I am out there trying to get you to a position that would make you invisible, and you can't even
"Shut your mouth!" Mila yelled at her daughter after giving Jin another slap."He died." Jin cried as her body trembled in fear."I see that," Mila stated with less care in her tone.She stared in dismay at the pieces of body parts in the crate. The arms, legs, head, and other organs were all separated."Who would do such a gross thing, and why would they send him here?" Jin asked as she struggled to suppress her urge to vomit."If I remember clearly. Rake is your hitman. So I should be the one asking you why he got sliced up and stuff in a box?" Mila said."I asked him to kill Selena the day of the party, but after reporting that he got the job done, he disappeared. No one had seen him, nor was he answering his calls.""Now we know why he wasn't answering his calls.""Do you think Selena did it?"
Selena opened her eyes the next morning to the bright dawn light. She let out a deep sigh, stretched both her arms, then got out of bed. As she walked past the mirror, she took a quick glance at her reflection and felt depressed. The dark circles around her eyes were too visible. She did not get much sleep last night after Gabriel left.Selena spent the nighttime turning around in bed as she wondered why Gabriel did not kiss her and took off in a hurry without telling her why he stopped.“I don't even want to kiss you, stupid alpha,” Selena mumbled before heading into the bathroom.A few minutes later, she was fully dressed. Satisfied with her look, Selena left the room and went to the dining room.When she arrived there, she saw a lot of maids, and the table was full of food, yet she did not see Gabriel.“Excuse me. Can you please tell me where Gabriel is?” She said to
The boardroom got as noisy as a kindergarten as these grown-ups whispered to each other."Selena, stop lying. You and I know that you got bitten, then rejected!" Jin screamed.She could not stand Selena's bossy attitude anymore, and the smirk that Selena gave her after her remark made Jin angrier."Cousin, you seem to know more about me than I know about myself. If I say that I never got bitten or rejected by a base alpha, then who are you to tell me otherwise?" Selena said. "Because I was there when you got bitten!" Jin shouted before getting a hold of her tongue."Didn't I tell you to shut up?" Mila whispered as she pinched Jin's thigh."Ouch!" Jin shouted, and everyone's attention was on her."Cousin, that is a strong accusation. Getting bitten is something personal and passionate between an alpha and his omega. So why would I invite you to watch if I was getting bitten? Won't that be weird?" Selena said with a bold face, yet she made sure that her words sounded provoking.The memb
Selena gazed at the surprised expression on Jin's face and felt the thrill rushing through her body. For the first time since everything happened, she felt in charge and above her enemies."What happened, cousin? You look shocked." Selena said."Where are the two marks?" Jin asked.Selena did not give a response, but she did enjoy making Jin look like a fool and having her cousin stupefied."What's going on there?" Mila shouted.She stood up from her seat and approached Selena and Jin. Then her eyes caught a glance of Selena's neck."What? How is this possible?" Mila stated.She thought her eyes were playing tricks on her. However, Mila's second gaze at Selena's neck confirmed her doubts."Aunt and cousin, why do you guys look pale? " Selena mockingly asked."It can't be possible. I was ther
"Sir?" Bob asked as he watched his young master space out.Gabriel did not react to his butler's call because his mind was too occupied with various thoughts."She's been bestowed to another alpha?" He angrily mumbled while staring at the monitor before picking up his phone and dialing Dan's number."Gab, what's up?""I found out that Selena has an alpha, and I need you to uncover who he is?" Gabriel stated with the outmost seriousness."Dude, you can't keep adding up my work. When do I get a vacation if your omega is going to take over my entire schedule?""Dan, not now! I need this information!" Gabriel firmly stated."Fine. You are the boss."Bob frowned after overhearing Gabriel and Dan's conversation. His young master investigating this issue was not pleasing to him since he had his reasons.
"Sir, how long are we going to be here? It seems like others are leaving, so are we not going to do the same?" Bob asked after most of the board members' cars had driven out of the parking lot."Mila, Jin, and Selena have not left the building yet. Something does not feel right. Let's wait a bit." Gabriel replied as the anxious feeling he felt kept growing.A while later, Jin came out of the door, approached her car, and got in. However, she did not drive away."Why isn't she leaving?" Gabriel mumbled as he watched Jin from his car's windshield.After five minutes passed, Selena came out the same way. As Selena approached her car, Jin started her vehicle engine."Damn it!" Gabriel screamed when his ears detected the engine sound.Without a second thought, he opened the car door, jumped out, and raced toward Selena."Sir, you don't have your mask on!" Bob yelled, but it was too late."Gabriel?" Selena mumbled when she saw him running toward her.Before she could say anything else, he gr
Bob stood quietly in consternation after Gabriel refused to answer his question. 'You are making it hard for me to keep my promise to your parents. When the master and madam were alive, the one job they gave me was to look after you if anything happened to them. But since Selena entered your life, all you've been doing is running into danger and acting irresponsibly with your safety.' Bob thought."Where is Selena?" Gabriel asked. His question finally broke the silence in the room. But it also made Bob angrier and more concerned. He grew frustrated over the fact that Gabriel still cared about Selena, even though he almost died because of her."She is asleep in your room?" Bob stiffly replied."That brat dared to take a nap while I am in such a condition because of her?" Gabriel stated, sounding a bit hurt and angry."I wish that was the case. However, it was doctor Lee who gave her sleeping pills to help calm her down because she was panicking, and he did not want the anxiety she was
The first golden light of dawn sneaked into Gabriel’s room as the tender breeze lazily blew against his curtains.He then gently rubbed his eyes before slowly opening them, and for about five minutes, he didn't blink with his sight focused on the ceiling.“Knock,” Bob's voice echoed into the room.The calm beat of his heart as he laid still kept replaying in Gabriel's ears along with the whispers of nature and the disturbances within the walls of the villa.“Sir, the ceremony will begin in less than thirty minutes.” Bob anxiously said as he impatiently waited outside his young master’s room door with his sight glued to his watch.In annoyance, Gabriel threw the blanket off him and sat up in bed. Then he gently rested his feet onto the cold floor before standing up.The sunlight then beamed against the multiple scars on his bare upper body as he walked past the window and headed into the bathroom.Finally, after waiting for what felt l
Gabriel's eyes seemed to be getting more violent as he approached the entrance of the house, and when he was finally a few distances away from the door, Gabriel spat on the ground in disgust when he smelled Dakar’s scent.Anger then curled hot and unstoppable in his gut like a blazing inferno that wanted to burn him from the inside out when Gabriel sensed Selena inside the building.Every emotion he felt from her caused his muscles to grow tense and his vein to bulge on his head. His pulse sped up and he was breathing shallow as he felt his blood boiling in his vein.Gabriel then tried to get a hold of himself before going in. But the rage he felt had already devoured him and his inner alpha had him under its full control.At that instant, the door opened, and the moment Gabriel saw the smirk on Dakar's face as he stood at the doorway, Gabriel grabbed him by the neck and ran him into the house and towards the wall. Then he smashed him into the concr
Gabriel kept staring at his phone and it was bothering Guss who was behind the steering wheel because he had been doing that since they met a while ago. He knew that something about his boss's attitude was off, and the fact Gabriel was distracted made Guss quite worried since he knew that Dakar was not a normal creature, and if his young master was about to fight him, then he needed to be a hundred percent focused. “Stop the car!” Gabriel shouted with intense fear in his eyes. “What is it, boss?” Guss asked in confusion. “Turn the car around!” “What?” “Turn the damn car around now!” From the force in Gabriel's voice, Guss knew not to ask any questions. So he made a turn and then gazed at his young master. “Selena is not heading to the villa,” Gabriel mumbled while struggling not to think about the worst that could happen to his wife. “How do you know?” Guss asked in dismay. “There's a GPS track
Liam gazed at the two officers standing in his office with a hostile expression on his face.“Why are the both of you here?” He asked.“Mr. Adler, it is about your sister.” An officer replied.“What about Mila.”“She's dead.”Liam's eyes seemed a bit colder as he intensely gazed at the two officers.“We know this is not pleasant news, and we are sorry for your loss.” The other officer stated.“How did this happen?” Liam calmly asked.“Well, the maintenance guy that committed suicide DNA matched that of your sister. We don't have the full details about how it happened. But since this company belongs to you, we are here to ask for the footage from the CCTV cameras of that day.”Liam kept calm and silent as he gazed directly at both of the officers.“Thank you for this information. But I wouldn't be releasing a
Selena looked away from the papers on the table, then she gazed at Gabriel entering the room.“Where did you go this morning? I woke up and your side of the bed was empty.” Selena mumbled.Gabriel closed the door and approached her. Then he drew a chair closer towards Selena and sat down.“I went to get this,” Gabriel said with a bright smile on his face.He took out a box from in his pocket and rested it on the table.“What’s that?” Selena asked.“Give me your hand,” Gabriel said as he smiled at his wife.Selena giggled as she placed her hand in her husband's palm.Gabriel then opened the box, took out a simple diamond ring, and slipped it on Selena's ring finger.“I got up this morning and noticed that your hands didn't have a wedding band on it. That didn't feel right to me, so I went out and got one.” Gabriel said.
The light in the medical room shone upon Selena's face as she blinked her eyelids. Then after a minute or two, she finally opened her eyes and her sight immediately landed on Gabriel angrily staring down at her.“What happened?” Selena mumbled.“Did the fact that you almost fall to your death mess with your memory?” Gabriel asked while striving his best not to lose his temper.“Fall to death? What are you talking about?”“Wait. You really don't remember a thing?”Selena gazed at Gabriel with confusion in her eyes. Then she tried to sit up.“Ahh! Why does my body hurt this much?” Selena mumbled.“You really don't remember falling off the edge of a twelve story building?” Gabriel asked.“No. All I can recall is Mila explaining a bunch of stories to me before injecting me with yellow fluid, then everything became blank in my head.”
There were so many thoughts going through Selena's head as she repeatedly thought about Mila's text and the risk involved in facing her aunt.Selena was so stressed by this that she started tapping the desk over and over again.Craig and Mathew seemed a bit disturbed by Selena's sudden mood swing as they watch her fingers continuously hit against the wooden surface. But when Selena abruptly stood from her chair, that had them a bit troubled.“Madam, is everything okay?” Craig gently asked as he and Mathew stared at Selena wearing her coat.She then walked towards the door, but as she was about to open it to head out of her office, Mathew and Craig seemed prepared to follow her out.Selena slowly let go of the doorknob, and then she turned around to face them with anger expressed on her face.“I am an eight-month and a few weeks old pregnant omegala, off course I am not okay! M
“It has been five months and three weeks since the terror that took place at JC hospital. The country is still bleeding from such a monstrous happening.”Selena frowned as she stared at the news lady on the tv screen.“I told you not to watch the news. It will just make you moody.” Gabriel said.Selena faintly smiled as she stared at her husband, laying beside her on the bed. Then she turned her attention back to the television.“The past months have been difficult as we wait for the elders and our leaders to shine some light on the situation. But recently the footage from the JC hospital’s CCTV cameras was released to the media and we can assure you all that the terrific act was single-handedly done by a rogue Alpha named ‘Dakar.” The new lady continued with her report.Selena felt Gabriel hugging her from the back as he rested his chin on her shoulder.“How about we call it
Gabriel gazed at the uncomfortable looked in Liam's eyes, and he could tell that something was off.“Hand the phone over!” Gabriel commanded as he walked towards Liam.“But…” Liam tried to speak out. However, the rage in Gabriel’s eyes made him rethink his words.He then gives the phone to Gabriel before taking two steps back.The anger expressed on Gabriel's face was extreme when he stared at the name on the phone’s screen. Then he answered the call and kept silent.“Liam, how could you betray me? Do you think that I am afraid of going forward with the pieces of information that I have on you?” Mila’s angry voice echoed out of the phone speaker.Gabriel removed the phone from his ears, place the call on speaker, and handed it over to Liam.He said nothing, but Liam knew exactly what he wanted him to do. He hesitated for a moment. However, Liam knew that the only op