Everyone had an incredulous expression on their faces. How can a mere omega be this arrogant?!
Caitlin hated the thought that everyone’s attention was now centered on Bella, who just left. Her gray eyes dilated in kept anger as her face fell and a soft sob escaped her lips, catching the attention of the surrounding people.
“Daddy…” she called out like a kid as tears formed in her eyes. “Does… does Bella hate me?”
Allen Richards felt a headache coming from the mess his youngest had made, but he comforted Caitlin still. He hurriedly walked over to her and enveloped her in his warm embrace.
“It’s okay, Caitlin. You know she was gone for so long, she probably didn’t learn much during her stay in the countryside.” Although Allen never really likes Bella around, it’s true that she’s still his daughter. Now that she’s staying with them, there are a lot of opportunities to teach that child some manners!
As people crowd around the crying and heartbroken Caitlin, no one noticed a man standing quietly in a corner with a glass of wine in his hand. A playful and curious smile played around his handsome face.
“An omega daughter, huh? That’s interesting…” he uttered in a low voice while staring upstairs where Bella had disappeared to.
Meanwhile, Bella was taken to a small room upstairs by the maid. The room was narrow and simple, nothing like the room of a supposed to be an alpha’s daughter.
She laughs at the thought of seeing Caitlin’s enormous room. Even back when she was still a kid and her mother was still alive, they were given an average room in the house and were only allowed to go out of it whenever no one was around. That’s how much the luna hated their presence.
“Miss Richards—”
“You can leave now,” Bella said, cutting off the maid’s words without looking at her.
Bella casually put down her bag on top of the small bed as soon as she heard the door of the room closed and took out her laptop from it. She press the boot button and smiled sinisterly as the screen lit up.
The boot-up speed barely took a second to finish. It was faster than any of the commercialized computers sold on the market.
Bella’s fingers immediately moved at an incredible speed over the keyboard. Her slim fingers produce clicking sounds every time it taps on the keyboard keys. Two more clicks and the screen finally displayed what was happening all over the villa.
She clicked onto one of the footage lined up on her screen and watched the pack’s luna, Hope Richards, toasting her glass of wine with Caitlin like the ridiculous socialite that they are.
The corner of Bella’s lips curved in a mocking smile, disdain flashed in her pretty blue eyes as her fingers quickly move into the arrow keys of her computer, quickly grasping all the patterns in the villa using the footage she had hacked into.
Suddenly, her finger paused for a moment as the small screen of her laptop displayed a carefree-looking man with perfectly sculpted features. A pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses hanging elegantly on the bridge of his high nose.
The attractive man was casually leaning against the wall, his arms slightly hanging on his side while his long legs remained wrapped under the white suit pants he was wearing. He looks so dashing and charming at the same time.
Though his pose seems to look like he was getting bored, it didn’t even affect the astonishing air of confidence and handsomeness he was exuding to where even Bella, who was never the type to be easily attractive to appearances, was distracted for a while.
She was intently watching him from the screen, her eyes filled with curiosity and admiration towards the guy who was silently drinking his wine away from the rowdy crowd of socialites.
Earlier, she thought that everyone around was all the same as Caitlin and her mother, greedy socialites who used their friends and family as ornaments to display to the world. But this guy seems to be so different, at least that’s how he looks like now, given that he had been rejecting a few ladies who tried to approach him.
Bella suddenly gasped in shock as she met the eyes of the guy straight from her screen. He suddenly raised his eyes, his gaze straightly staring at the CCTV camera that she was using to check him out earlier. It was as if he was seeing her through the lens of that camera and on the screen of her computer.
Bella felt like she was getting lost in the blooming, deep pitch black eyes of the handsome guy. It was like he was about to swallow her whole.
Bella bit her lip and pulled out a gasp before her fingers resumed tapping on the keyboard to quickly switch another footage into the screen.
Although she was viewing the other footage around the villa, her mind keeps on going back to the pair of deep black swirls that she saw earlier. She thought she was being ridiculous, feeling so shaken after meeting eyes through the screen. He can’t even see her!
So, for her own peace of mind, she licked her lower lip before working on going back to that footage of the guy from earlier again, only to feel a bit disappointed when he was no longer in the same spot.
She tried looking for him from the other footage around the villa, but she found nothing.
“Mr. Cinderella, aren’t we?” she uttered in a playful tone when she saw through her computer that it was already past midnight.
Bella checked the other footages too, hoping that Mr. Cinderella hadn’t gone home yet tonight but soon enough, the corners of her mouth curled up into a gloating arc.What does she expect? That man surely came to the party to suck up on Caitlin. He probably realized that just his pretty face was not enough to get his hands on the Bluemoon pack. Finally realizing how stupid she was trying to search for that guy, Bella returned to scanning and checking each footage around the villa. When the scene on her screen flashes a garden filled with expensive flowers, a mocking smile crossed her face. In the middle of that garden is a man, and a woman locked up in a tight embrace. She immediately recognized the woman as her sister, Caitlin Richards, who should be busy entertaining the guests in the living room. But what caught her attention wasn’t Caitlin’s presence but the evil-looking face of the guy she was with.Burning with curiosity, Bella shut her computer close, put it inside her bag an
Hope Richards’ face immediately lost all of its colors as they watched the heated scene in front of them. She can’t believe that was her demure daughter in front, moaning and groaning responsively with the man’s every touch.The crowd was so stunned that some even almost stopped breathing while watching everything unfold in front of them.The tiny sounds of people’s shock interrupted the busy couple from their activity.“Gaspal!” Caitlin called out with a delicate cry as she finally see the crowd behind them.Under the dim lights in the garden, her lips carried a suspicious shine and the sleeves of her gown were in disarray. Her hands clutched tightly into Gaspal’s coat.The scene was very awkward for a long while before Allen Richards’ voice roared in the dimly lighted garden. “Caitlin!”Hope Richards’ face distorted before her eyes widened in an understanding of what actually happened. She remembered that bastard's confident announcement earlier.Allen never expected for his demure
Inside Bella’s bedroom, she laid still on her bed with her eyes closed. Her forehead knotting in irritation.After five more minutes of trying to call for sleep, she sat up furiously. Her hand reached out to scratch her long and disheveled hair, while annoyance filled her eyes.“Damn, Caitlin! Now I can’t sleep anymore!” she hissed angrily.Bella exhaled an exasperated breath, got up, and went out of her room. She’s a light sleeper who values the little few minutes she could rest. But that goddamn sister of hers just knows how to further ruin her already ruined day and just destroyed her once in a blue moon peaceful nap!While she was about to descend the stairs, she heard Allen Richard’s voice coming out of his partly opened office.“This is a serious matter at hand, Gaspal! I must make a move in order to salvage the pack’s reputation!” Bella leaned on the wall just beside the slightly opened door. Quietly eavesdropping on the conversation inside.“I understand your concerns, Alpha.
Bella was only six years old when her mother got severely sick.One night while her mother was having another painful seizure, Bella run out of their room to ask for help. They were never allowed to go out unless being called but she was already bawling her eyes out asking for help for her dying mother.Unfamiliar with the house, she ended up coming to the last room at the end of the corridor.The door was slightly open and she immediately saw the beautifully decorated room inside. It was very different from the small and plain room she and her mother uses.The heart of the child was immediately distracted. She quietly entered the room, constantly looking around.“Wow!” she cheered as she looked around the huge room. She wanted to have a room like this too! “Shut your mouth!” the young Bella’s eyes widened in fear as she heard Hope Richards’ angry voice coming from a distance. She then realized that she was about to get caught inside this beautiful room.She frantically looked insid
The next morning, as soon as Bella got up, Allen took her and Caitlin to report to Brighton University together.The family seemed to have made peace regarding the conflict of last night’s chaos and only Caitlin had a stern face along the way, glaring at Bella who was preoccupied with her phone every now and then.When they arrived outside of the university. Allen turned to face his daughters with a stern and strict face, his alpha aura dominating against them. “This is the best university in Cynth City. Make sure not to cause any trouble in here, I took a lot of effort to get you both in,” He turned to look at Bella. “Especially you Bella, your grades are not good, the admin’s only willing to admit you to the education department. Though it was a low-cost profession, you can go back to the countryside to teach if ever.”Bella raised her eyebrows suspiciously, where did he see her grades from? And what? They aren’t good?That what should be good?Caitlin immediately gloated at her, k
The vice principal’s face darkened. “You claim to be Bella’s father . . . right?”Allen nodded readily, ecstatic to finally get some attention from the university’s higher-ups.“Then I shall say you failed being a good father,” the vice principal said with a blank face. The principal looked irritated as he silently watch the scene unfold, his eyes glaring a bit to the two unwelcome presence by the door.“What do you mean?” Allen asked, completely at loss with the vice principal’s words. “How dare you say her grades were poor? Have you seen them?” the principal asked.Allen, loss for words remained looking at him with a confused expression. His wife had told him how bad of a student Bella is. According to Hope, almost all of her subjects are failing and that she only gets to proceed on the next level with her help by bribing the small schools on the countryside.“Seems like he didn’t even checked it himself,” the principal butted in with a cold voice. “If she has poor grades like wha
Suzie stared at the bracelet, didn’t know what to do with it. This was the first time she get to receive something from someone. It had always been her giving something to others that this sudden turn of tables somewhat warmed her heart.“This… this is expensive. I don’t think I can take it.” She can smell Bella’s omega wolf and she wasn’t sure if it was right to take something this precious from someone who was at a bit of a disadvantage against her rank in society.“Nah. That’s fake, so no need to feel burdened. You can choose to wear, keep or throw it away. Your choice.” Bella said with a grin before lying her head on the table and started to prepare for a nap despite the noise inside the rowdy room.Suzie’s eyes went back to the dazzling sapphire ornament of the bracelet, and a soft chuckle left her lips.Their family business is in the line of jewelry. There’s no way she can’t determine a genuine gem.She stared at the bracelet a bit longer before she finally wore it around her w
Suzie excitedly pulled Bella closer to where her brother was, oblivious to the past encounter between the two, she badly wanted to introduce such an amazing woman to her brother.Her brother was already at the age of marriage and yet, he wasn’t able to find his own mate yet. Suzie was starting to worry about him, he’s the youngest alpha ever known on Cynth City and yet he has no luna to support him just yet.“Shawn! This is my new classmate, Bella Richards.” Suzie introduced with a bright smile. “Bella, this is my brother, Shawn Tan.”Shawn Tan subtly sniffed the air before a wide yet elegant smile appeared on his lips. He extended his slender hand in front of Bella who indifferently stared at it for a while before raising her eyes back up to his handsome face.“I didn’t know our Suzie here is capable of having beautiful friends. Feel free to call me Shawn,” he said and even proceeded on carefully reaching out for Bella’s hand and kissing the back of it.Seeing such rare actions from