"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be busy with the secretary thingy?" Katherine looked at the man.
"Secretary thingy?" Maximus looked at her, amusement dancing in his eyes.
"Yeah, whatever secretaries of the royals do. Follow around your prince and handle things or whatever that is-"
"And allow you to cause a ruckus in the kingdom again?" Maximus asked, liking the way her nostrils flared in anger as she looked at him with a wronged expression.
"I didn't cause a ruckus. Didn't you hear? I saved Prince Elwin," Katherine snapped.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night, Kitten," Maximus smirked, teasing her even more.
"You... What did you just call me? If my hand hadn't been wounded, I would have shown you my claws and scratched that ugly smile off your face!" Katherine scowled.
Maximus supported his elbows on his thighs as he bent to look at the girl, with his head on his interlocked fingers.
"Claws? Shouldn't it be paws? We are wolves. Oh, I forgot, you don't have a wolf," Maximus smirked.
Katherine looked at the man in front of her and gritted her teeth.
She swore she had never felt so wronged and helpless in her life like she was feeling at the moment.
"You know what? F*ck yourself," Katherine snapped.
She was about to add more when in a split second the man towered over her, gripping her neck with his gloved hands wrapped around her throat as he looked at her with his eyes shining.
"Don't disrespect someone you can't afford to mess with, Kitten. Not everyone is as sweet as Prince Elwin.
I can easily snap this head with a little force and tell everyone I did it for fun. And guess what? No one would care," Maximus said, his deep cold, and detached voice paired with his tight hold, making Katherine's heart pump loudly in her chest.
She kept looking straight into his eyes, feeling afraid now.
She knew she was indeed crossing her limits with people's patience here. This wasn't just a normal organization and neither was she a beginner where people would consider her.
This was a royal Kingdom, and she was a reputed nuisance to them.
Katherine tried to breathe, her complexion turning pale.
'Think Katherine, think. Anything to catch him off guard. It's obvious threats won't work. And if you acted cute it might only fire up his anger because they already think Delilah only seduces people with her innocence,' Katherine told herself, tears brimming her eyes.
"Has anyone told you that you look hotter when you are angry?" Katherine said out of the blue, and the man, who was threatening her earlier, paused in his actions.
Was this girl for real?
'Katherine! Are you trying to get yourself killed?' the demonic system, who had been quiet since earlier, raged.
'Do you have a better idea to get me out of this situation? What if he kills me? Damage my vocal cords? Delilah only has a couple of good things about her. Do you want me to stay still and let him do whatever he wants?' Katherine snapped back in her head.
'If that's the case, then say something else. Something more vulgar. This won't cut through,' The demonic system immediately gave its green signal, catching Katherine off-guard.
Katherine - (*_*)(*_*)
"What do you want me to say? Yes, daddy? Choke me harder? Is that what gets you off?" Katherine said, forcing a smile on her face, and the man looked at her for a few seconds before removing his hand from her neck.
The next thing she heard was the sound of the door slamming indicating he left already.
Katherine coughed loudly, getting as much oxygen as she could in her system to compensate for the lack of it because of the assault.
Katherine massaged her neck with her left hand once the pain started to soothe.
Now that she looked around, she was not in the room assigned to her, and it was definitely not the infirmary she had gone to get her hand wrapped in this cast.
Katherine looked at the cast where the word "stupid" was written and sighed.
This man was more dangerous than she gave him credit for.
The look in his eyes, as if no power was above him as if nothing mattered to him in the world and everything was legal and acceptable as long as he was the one doing it, everything screamed danger.
If this was what the elder Prince's secretary was like just because he was the Prince's subordinate, what was the Elder prince really like?
Curiosity started engulfing Katherine's mind and she got down from her bed, wanting to know where she was.
She opened the door of the room, limping slightly because of the pain in her legs. She stopped walking when she remembered something.
'Haven't I earned any points for saving the Prince? He was even worried about me. I even made the secretary scold the commander,' Katherine reminded the system, and the demonic system rolled its eyes.
'Of course, how can you forget about it?' The demonic system scoffed before taking a deep breath.
"You have 10 points deduction for damaging Delilah's image, 10 points deduction in character development for using your entire strength even when the system warned you about it -"
"Yo, what the fuck!" Katherine said out loudly, making everyone turn to look at her, and she smiled awkwardly before bowing to everyone in apology.
She rushed back to the room she stepped out of to get hold of things and what the system was saying.
"Have you lost your mind? So much deduction? I saved the Prince and almost became a heroine. What about that?" Katherine almost wanted to hold this demonic system's horns and flail it in the air until all its senses were back in place.
The demonic system rolled its eyes as it could read the thoughts in Katherine's head.
"Stop overreacting. I wasn't done speaking. You have a 50-point increment in strength because you used that strength to show your skills and bravado to save Prince, which he didn't need. Your stunt left many people surprised with your punch and the kick, and Delilah's image improved slightly. For face slapping and getting commander into bad beef with the secretary, you have 40 points increment in Charm-"
"Is that why Prince Elwin was mesmerized by Delilah's beauty?" Katherine interrupted the system with a happy smile.
The system looked at the girl before sighing. She really can't keep an emotion constant for a long time, no?
"You also have 60-point increments in healing capability. It was your wolf's demand," The system said, catching Katherine's attention.
"My wolf's demand? What did she say? Is she coming out anytime soon?" Katherine immediately became excited.
The system shook its head at her, making her a little disappointed.
"You still have a long way to go for that to happen," The system said before it clicked its fingers, and a digital screen appeared in front of Katherine and she looked at her current stats.
"Yo, what the hell? The upper limit is 500? Not 100?" Katherine exclaimed, surprised.