"I don't have all day, Vanessa. Hurry up!" The grating voice of my boss made me recoil as I lingered outside his office, attempting to regain my composure.
"Don't lose it. Don't lose it. Don't lose it," I chanted to myself, struggling to contain the cascade of frustration that threatened to engulf me—days of enduring unbearable misery in these drab clothes flashed through my mind.
"If you don't want to miss your salary, you better bring that ass up here, hoe!" he barked again, his breath foul enough to rival a sewer. I couldn't fathom how his three wives tolerated his presence. Perhaps they didn't. Maybe they kept a safe distance from this wolf, avoiding his disastrously odorous breath.
The man had twenty offspring, yet here he was eyeing every living object here wanting to divulge. If I'd relay on the rumours, he was presently sleeping with the wife of the head control of the coast. The mere thought wanted me to gag, but Liu Xin had contacts with people you'd never to mess around with.
"Vanessa! Do you want me to mark your unwillingness?" he hollered.
"On my way!" I replied, mustering all the patience I could conjure. I blink myself out of the daze and scurry off to the shabby office. My heart pounded loud and clear in my chest.
"Here, thought you didn't need money. Don't tell me you've found a sugar Daddy already!" Liu Xin chuckled, throwing the bundle of cheques on the table for me to pick up.
I watched as the bucks rolled off on the floor beside me and curled my fists.
He wanted me to collect them from the floor so he peek at my breasts. I inhaled a sharp breath and quietly collected the cash from the floor.
Stay Clam. Stay Calm. Stay Calm. I repeated in head. I just wanted to fly out of his range as soon and as far as possible.
"Given, it won't be problematic with those hips. What'd ya say, need one more to keep your tits together?" I heard the growl and my chest tightened.
"Umm…Thanks!" I gulped, blinking back the tears in my eyes.
I'd never forgive that Alpha Wolf for putting me in these miseries. He knew I was weak and helpless—yet he toyed with me. I couldn't wait to kill him with my bare hands. Him and my pathetic Emperor for a mate for sighing me off as if I wasn't the mother of his springs, as if I was worthless.
His betrayal had stung far then the inferiority I had felt when Alpha Wei Zhang tried to claim me.
I was exhausted. And it was more pathetic that we hadn't even started yet. Sighing, I started walking out of his office when I heard the screech of wheels and footsteps.
"I wasn't kidding, Vanessa. I know you are barely making it out there. And if you don't know, you are wasting your days of beauty. You deserve a better life. You know I am rich and powerful on this island. I can you give you lavishing lifestyle."
I could feel him on my back. His nasty odorous breath perked the hair of my neck.
"Do you have any idea with whom you are talking to?" I hoped he had heard the edge in my voice. My hands fists at the side and I was moments away from launching on him vaguely aware of the power difference.
"This has got to be the most absurd power distribution ever. The universe dishes out all the goods to them – muscles, speed, and brute strength, while all Seraphants get are venom and the occasional ability to shift. Where's the fairness in that?"
"I know." He whispered in my ear, as his enormous hand snaked around my waist. A sudden jolt of sensation ran through my body.
"I know you are the she-devil. Alpha Wei Zhang's mate!"