Chapter 31: She…And Dante?

Selene hurried to the bed.

She picked up her phone and hurriedly dialed a number.

The other party was quick to pick up. [Selene?]

"Papa..."

[What’s wrong, Selene? Is it Dante Baris? If something has gone wrong, tell me right now and I’ll have you brought home! Dante and I will have to make a different kind of negotiation whether—]

"No, papa, it’s just..." Selene hesitated. "Papa, tell me, Wild Omegas truly can’t react to alphas, even supreme alphas, right?"

[That is right. Wild Omegas will never react to Alpha’s scents or pheromones so long as she chooses not to. It is all about the will of mind, and unlike Wild Omegas, regular omegas are quick and subservient to Alphas]

"So then..."

Anxiety began to emerge on her face.

She swallowed.

[Selene, is something wrong?]

"Well...a Wild Omega reacting to an Alpha’s scent and pheromone, what...does that mean?"

Mr. Tobias chuckled in confusion behind the phone. [That is not possible. Well unless...the supposed alpha is her mate]

Selene’s guts turned.

Her heart dropped to her stomach.

That’s not possible! That’s just not possible!

She rapidly shook her head.

She and Dante...?

It couldn’t be!

If we were mates, we would have sparked, right? The very first day we met at that altar, we would have made an instant connection. We didn’t! We haven’t, not up until now. We are not mates...

...We couldn’t be.

[Selene, what is going on? Why are you quiet?]

"Pa...this thing about...mates..." She stuttered, "I-it’s not completely impossible, right?"

[What do you mean?]

"Even if we are Wild Omegas, we can still...accidentally react to an alpha, right...?"

[Well, no studies have ever proved that is possible. But it doesn’t also mean it’s impossible—]

Selene breathed out in relief.

[—But why are you asking? Did something happen, honey?]

"N-no. Nothing! I was just...curious, hahaha. I’m going to hang up now. I love you papa!"

[Love you too, honey. But—]

She hung up.

She tossed the phone to the bed, grabbed a glass of water and quickly swallowed the suppressant.

This was the first time since she manifested that she was taking a suppressant.

"Things go wrong at least a few times in life," she consoled herself. Then she shook her head. "But Dante is trouble to be around. What if something like this happens again? I need to make him send me back willingly."

She thought: It’s just, he’s not exactly an easy man to rile up. I’d have to be more troublesome than he can handle.

But how exactly...do I do this? How can I annoy him?

Her eyes narrowed into thin lines, lips curving up in a mischievous manner.

—-

Meris stepped down from her car. She shut the door and lowered the hat that obstructed her face.

A pair of sunglasses protected her eyes even though it was dark at night.

Taking a look from her left to her right, she hurried her way down a slope and approached the door of a small medium house.

She pressed the door bell.

It rang. And it took a minute before the door was finally open, but only slightly.

She looked up.

"What are you doing here?" the person, Mavros asked.

"Let me in!" She gritted out. "Someone might see me, let me in quickly!"

He glared at her first before he stepped aside, allowing her in. He shut the door almost instantly.

Turning, he grasped her by the shoulders and slammed her back into the wall. "What are you doing here? Do you want to get us caught?!"

"I had to come here. This isn’t something I can speak over the phone. I had to come, Mavros."

"What if we get caught? This is Dante’s pack. He has eyes everywhere! How can you be this reckless?"

"So what?" Meris snapped."Nothing this big works without risk. Living in that manor everyday, I’m already risking my life. Do you think our message exchanges and phone calls aren’t a risk?"

"Lower risk!"

"I don’t care! I had to come here. I feel like I’m losing my mind, Mavros. You don’t understand! That place—"

"You reek of him."

"What?"

"You reek of Dante’s pheromones!" His fingers immediately wrapped around Meris’s throat. "What did you do with him? Have you already slept with him?!"

Meris glared at him. "Of course not. He has yet to let me that close to him. And why are you acting like this?"

She shoved him.

"I’m eventually going to sleep with him anyway and bear his heir." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

"You’re my mate!"

"And so what?" She spat, "We were mates before we took this route. You said you were fine with it. Why are you acting up now?"

Taking a deep breath, she calmed down and slowly stepped up to wrap her arms around Mavros’s shoulders. She smiled at him. "Calm down, hm? Even if I bear his child, I’ll always be yours, Mavros. Always your mate. I could never truly belong to Dante."

"Besides," she leaned up her toes and kissed below his jaw, "Once I carry his heir, we will kill him off. And then...everything will be ours. The pack, the assets, all companies, all his wealth. Everything will be ours. And that child...just like him, will be a supreme alpha. And it’ll be our own child to raise. Not to mention, you can go ahead and mark me then, erasing his mark completely."

Mavros rapidly blinked his eyes, lifting his fingers to curl them into her hair. "I’m an alpha at the end of the day. And even though I agreed to this, it disgusts me to smell him on you."

"I know that."

Meris cupped his cheek and aligned their lips to deeply kiss him.

His hands dropped down to her waist. And then all of a sudden, he lifted her up, having her wrap her legs around his waist.

He buried his face in the curve between her neck and shoulder, leaving little kisses.

His gaze fell on Dante’s mark. His canines stretched out and he rested the pointy tip against the mark.

However, the very moment they met her skin, Meris jolted, screaming out in pain.

She shoved him, lifting her hand to cup the spot.

"What are you doing?!" she yelled at him.