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
I left the company and got into my car. I was not surprised to see that my car was waiting for me outside. I believed Patric was the one who called my driver to take out my car."Alpha, where to?" My driver asked.I could not reply. Where would I go? In Natalia's house? Was she there?With a rough heartbeat, I dialed a number while trying to calm myself.The call connected, and a man's voice reached my ear."Alpha.""Where is she right now?" I asked while looking outside the window."Alpha, as you ordered us, we always kept an eye on her. She is in the Moon Lovers coffee shop right now.""Moon Lovers coffee shop?""Yeah. That is the place where she is currently working."Why was she working in a coffee shop? Didn't I give her my cards to use?"Send my driver the address," I said and cut the call.In a few seconds, my driver got the address and started the car to head to that coffee shop.In the meantime, I checked my phone to see the balance of the cards that I had sent her through De
"Alpha, don't you want to go inside?"My driver's voice made me look away from Natalia.But then I could not help but glance at her once again.My driver lowered his head when he realized that I was not in the mood to reply to him.I came here all the way to talk to Natalia, but when she was in front of me, I had no words to say.What would I tell her? How would she react?As I was thinking all of these while looking at her for a long time, I heard a few voices from outside."She is like a butterfly. Hard to catch.""Yeah, but she is your sister-in-law. Don't look at her like that.""Senior, you can't say that. I introduced you to Natalia.""So what? Your big brother fell for her. So stop looking at her with any other intentions."I frowned when I heard those voices. It was their words and Natalia's name that caused my frown to deepen.A couple of boys who appeared to be college students passed by my car.It seemed like they were leaning on my car a few minutes ago. By looking at the
Third POVNatalia immediately yanked her hand away the moment Adrian was about to pull her along with him toward the door to leave the shop."What's wrong with you?" she asked with a pair of frowning eyes.Adrian looked at his hand, which was in the air, when she snatched her hand out of his grip.She could not help but try to observe him.What was he doing here?"Natalia, I need to talk to you right now," Adrian said, gritting his teeth.He was not angry at her but at himself. He could not just handle himself at that moment. All he wanted to do was tell her about him learning the truth."Why you–"Natalia wanted to yell at him but then paused. She glanced around and realized that everyone was staring at her. She gave them an apologetic smile."Guys, please enjoy your coffee."Adrian stared at Natalia, who was smiling at others but only giving him the cold shoulder.A young boy stood up and made his way towards them."Mr..."After pausing for a moment to examine Adrian from head to to
Her polite tone shone more rage in Adrian's eyes. He was only mad at himself all these times. However, he was not at all pleased with Natalia's casual behavior toward Evan.Natalia rolled her eyes when she saw him standing like a statue."Excuse me, young man."Natalia heard Liana's voice, and she stepped aside.Liana looked at them from the counter and said,"Please tell me if we can help you."Adrian shifted his gaze to the old woman, then turned it back to Natalia."Are you coming with me or not?"Natalia felt that he was giving her a warning. She was not someone who would take it."I told you that night. I'm just tired. What new blame are you going to throw in my face this time?""Did I say I came here for that?""Then why are you here? Adrian Miller, if you want me to lose my job, then just go to my boss directly and ask her to fire me. What else can I expect from you? But at least don't destroy her running business," Natalia said with an angry tone. But her voice came out like w
Adrian tucked his hands into his pockets and gave everyone a bored look."Raise."Everyone stood straight but did not dare to look into his eyes."If I hear any of you whisper again, I will cut your tongue off of your mouth."If it was someone else, the young people would have thought it was just a fake warning.But it was none other than their head Alpha, Adrian Miller.He had a history of ruthlessness. No one could just ignore his warning. They obeyed him and sat down in their chairs quietly, turning their focus back to themselves.Natalia was already dumbfounded by Adrian giving orders to Liana, but the action that the pack members took really stunned her.She could see both fear and respect in their eyes.No wonder they did not recognize Adrian at first. Just like she did, Adrian confined his scent."Thank you, Alpha." Liana said this to Adrian and bowed to him."Your thanks won't help me."Liana was startled by his remarks. But then Adrian spoke again."Give your employee a break
Natalia's POV"Hey! Stop the car.""Can't you hear me? I said stop the car."I kept telling the driver to stop the car, but that man was just like his boss. He did not listen to me as if he were deaf.I could not believe the man who was sitting beside me. He was a dangerous beast who could kill me at any time.Did he plan to kill me so that he could have my children all by himself?Was he afraid of his life because I said that night that I wanted to kill him daily?I was so lost in my thoughts when I heard his voice, which was soft as honey."Why do you think that I want to kill you?"I was shocked.'What the hell! Can Alpha Adrian even talk with that tone?' I thought.As I turned my head to look at him once again, I noticed that he was staring at me."What are you looking at? Can't you see I am worried about your plans? Why do you want to kill me? To have my children all alone? You can't kill me, Adrian Miller. I will kill you before that."I scoffed at his silence, but my eyes fell