I turned my head to look at Adrian. "We can manage," I uttered at him.He did not pay attention to me and looked at Max directly."It's already late, and you are not in a good state. I can't let you get harmed in my pack. So get in the car."Max slowly turned to face him, and then he gave Adrian a nod."Thanks, Alpha Adrian."I closed my eyes in annoyance. Max should not have accepted his offer.After heaving a sigh, I walked toward the car while holding Max. I opened the back door and helped him sit inside.I walked around the other side and opened the door. Before I could get inside, Adrian grabbed the edge of the door to stop me."Where are you getting in?" he asked.I looked at him and replied, "In your car?"I mean, was it not obvious to him?He frowned at me. “Why? Do you want to go to the hotel so you can carry out your plan?”He was getting on my nerves right now. How could a person take so much humiliation at a time?"I don't care what plan you are thinking about. But I don't
I turned my attention away from his gaze and looked out the window. It took us more than half an hour to reach the hotel. Out in front of the hotel, Adrian pulled over the car.I glanced at the hotel and realized that it was the same hotel where I had stayed during the time when I stayed in the pack to help Adrian's father with Max's cure.I turned my head to the side, only to find Max sleeping peacefully on my shoulder.I stared at him for a while. He looked somehow cute to me in his sleeping state.The sound of a knock on the window glass caused me to divert my attention away from Max and brought me back to the realization of what I had been thinking until that moment.'What is wrong with you, Natalia?' I asked myself and shook my head.The moment I turned my head to look out the window, I noticed Adrian glaring at me.After he had made my life a living hell, he still had the courage to give me glares every time, which led me to believe that he only needed one opportunity to kill me
Adrian's POVAs soon as Natalia admitted that she had drugged me that night, I was taken aback. I fixed my gaze on her deep blue eyes.I saw flashes of fur inside them, which took me off guard. A frown formed on my face. Wasn't it supposed to be me who should feel anger in my heart? This woman played me and moved on in her life without even thinking about how I would repair my life, which she had ruined many years ago."Happy? You know the truth now," she said while laughing like a mad woman.She folded her hands in front of me and said, "Now let me live my own life. If I destroyed your life by marrying you, please forgive me. If I am a sinner, then marrying you in the past is the deadly sin of my life. I know you hate me for that marriage, and believe me, I am regretting meeting you in my life every single day."I was shocked when I caught a glimpse of tears in the corner of her eyes. She was trying her best to keep them from falling, and she was able to do it perfectly. I could not
I was on my way to the pack house in my car. Right now, my mind is completely disorganized.Because of her words and the way she looked, I could not help but think about the past.I recalled the night she drugged me. I used to believe that she was the one who did it."How can she admit it?" I groaned in anger as my fingers clenched around the steering wheel.I was okay until today. I was aware of her plans against me, but the moment she admitted that she had drugged me and married me only for my position, it gave me discomfort in my chest.I swerved the car to go in a different direction. I no longer had the mind to return to the pack house.I went to my company's apartment. I took a shower to ease my mind, but Natalia's words kept replaying in my head.I went out of the bathroom after the shower, lit a cigarette, and took a few puffs.It somewhat relieved my distress a little.At that moment, my phone began to ring. I glanced at the screen of my phone and noticed that it was Lynda.I
I could not sleep the whole night as the past began to replay in my mind.After that night, when I woke up the next morning, I found a stranger lying next to me naked under the blanket.I was not shocked at all. I thought it was just another girl in the club who wanted to earn money by selling her body.But what surprised me was that I could not recall anything. I was not even sure if I had slept with her. But there were many purple marks on her bare back, indicating that I had slept with her."Are you okay?"I heard Patric's voice, which brought me back to reality from my thoughts of the past. I had no idea when he entered my office room.I was sitting on the couch while holding the cigarette between my two fingers. When I glanced at the cigarette, I found it half-burned. I was so preoccupied by the old memories that I forgot about it."Hmm," I replied.Patric walked over the couches and took the opposite seat. He looked at me."They are on their way to the company."As I heard him,
I was able to recognize myself in the video. In that video, I was having a conversation with a friend. Our drinks were served, and I took a sip on mine. Later, a waiter helped me get into a room since I was not feeling well.I rewinded the video and saw the waiter adding something to my drink. I was not expecting it.When I tried to see who gave him the order, my eyes widened.It was not Natalia!It was another woman. I was able to get a better look at her face by zooming in. My jaw was clenched as I stared at the face of the woman that was displayed on the screen.I discovered that she was Natalia's cousin."Does that mean she did it and Natalia is innocent?" Benjamin asked all of a sudden, as all of them were standing next to me, to find the truth.I said nothing, which made him stop talking.There was no way that Natalia could be innocent. She might be the one who gave her cousin permission to do it.I continued to play a few more videos. This time, I was only interested in watchin
She began to cry while holding the doorknob. She took out her phone and dialed someone, but after speaking with the person on the other end of the line, her face turned pale.She threw her phone away and wiped her tears. My eyes were not moving from her broken look. Something moved inside me as I struggled to maintain control of myself.At that time, a few men approached her. She took a step back as they stood next to the room. One of them opened the door and directed her to enter. From inside, a man in his fifties came out and stood at the door.I could hear gasps from beside me.Natalia joined her hands to the old man as if she did not want to go into the room.Standing outside the room, one of the men grabbed her by the neck and forced her to gulp down a bottle of wine. She pushed him and began to cough after taking a few gulps.Those men began to laugh while looking at her. The old man said something to the men after scanning Natalia from head to toe, then went inside the room, l
The moment the video was over, I shoved the laptop away from the desk and threw it on the floor."Adrian!"Patric tried to hold my hand, but I yanked it away. "How can I be so stupid? HOW?"I growled when I felt like my heart was burning in hellfire. I could not believe Natalia was innocent and had not drugged me.In fact, she did not even look like she had any intention to trap me.It was all because of Natalia's cousin."Bring that bitch here to me. I will kill her."I yelled at my officials, who immediately lowered their heads in submission.I ran my fingers through my hair as I was losing all of my patience.Natalia was innocent!She was not the one who drugged me. Her intention was not to ensnare me in any way. Because I was under the influence of drugs, I was the one who might have been the one to initiate getting closer to her. She was only trying to save herself."WHY?"I punched the glass of the desk in anger. Immediately, blood rushed out of my broken skin as my hand broke