Somen’s POV
The dull ache behind my eyes has persisted for days on end. Medication and herbal remedies have yet to subside the aching feeling.
Lights have been too bright for me to properly concentrate and I haven’t been able to focus on my job at hand.
Bianca has tried her best to make me feel better. Despite me telling her that her remedies have not worked yet, she remains in a blissful denial and thinks that I am perfectly okay, that she’s saved me.
It’s the furthest thing from the truth.
Bianca tried to give me a head massage, but her nails always scraped against my skin, digging into my head, and it always ended with me feeling much worse.
With Colia, my condition and headaches felt less severe than they do with anyone else.
…What has she done to me? What is it about her scalp massages that aids me in my plight against headaches and migraines.
“Beta,” Iturri in my desk chair.
The room is dark, shades sewn shut to not let any extra light in. Warm light from the hallway floods inside, the temperature and brightness just enough for my eyes to handle.
“Yes, Alpha?” My Beta approaches the desk.
“If I were to pay Celis to come back and massage my head, do you think she would take the money?” I ask him.
At the end of the day, monry is her biggest motivator.
She’s been greedy throughout our contracted relationship, always taking my money for her loan payments without a problem.
She did say she loved me, though no. That’s not a possibility. I don’t believe her for a single second.
She loves my wallet, not me
Alter hesitation, my beta says:
“Sir..aside from ther
I tall in silence:”
e contract’s requirement of you paying off her loans, Celia has never taken any extra money from you.”
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…What?”
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Chapter 10
Somen’s POV
Is that true?
Celia did not take an extra cent from me?
Not even a couple loose dollars here and there that I would not have even noticed to begin with?
No ordinary woman would voluntarily enter the
When I first sawy Celia in the Red Light District, I knew that she wasn’t like other she–woll Red Light District of their own volition; it’s why I offered her the deal of a lifetime to be my lover.
I sit up in my desk chair, eyes fixated on my Beta’s shadow in the office. I swipe my tongue over my teeth and contemplate my choices.
I can dismiss this whole situation and find a solution elsewhere for my headaches or I can figure out the enigma that is Celia and her motivations. And I can figure out why my headaches subside when she is around
I sigh and wave my hand at the Bota
Tell me more about her…anything and everything that you can remember,” I command.
The Beta shifts in his spot, scratching the back of his neck. After a few seconds of huffing and puffing, the Beta finally responds to me.
“Cella has always been very nice and cordial with your staff. When she originally signed the contract, she was very adamant that your payment only be for her student and medical loans,” the Beta informs me. I nod along with his words, honing in on the last sentence.
…Her grandmother is very ill and is in the hospital and she is the only one who is here to take care of her. Her mother was a doctor, too, sa that also has some influence as to why she joined the medical field.” Beta says.
Vaguely, I recall back when Cella and I were still lovers.
At night, she would sweetly wrap her arms around me, whispering little things about herself
She must have told me this before.
But in the past, I never cared enough to remember much about her.
‘…I see. I say.
So that is why Celia was so desperate for money.
She has been burdened by her grandmother’s medial bills the entire time.
When Celia decided to go and study medicine, a career path typically reserved for noble families, I had thought was out of vanity, a way to make a lot of money.
I have been a fool and have made the mistake of overlooking Cella.
How can I take her seriously, though, since she has refused any extra money that has come her way? It she were so desperate for money as she claims to be, then why decline the extra help that has been thrown her way?
“Bring Celia to me,” I push from my chair and stand up, eyes training on my Beta.
“I’ll pay for her to return Janust see her.”
“Sir” the Beta holds up a finger, causing me to stop and stare at him.
“She might not agree to this. I can’t force her to come.”
I scoll at his words and cross my arms over my chest
“Besides, your time and effort has been catered towards Lady Bianca ever since her arrival! You promised to help her gain Healer Anderson’s Layor so she may become his apprentice |“Beta says.
“Please,” I rest my hands down on the wooden desk labore me, narrowing my aching eyes at the beta, “I insist that you go and collect Cella for
My posture straightens. I fix my clothes and look down at the Beta – Celia is a part of my pack! She has to obey my order whether she likes it or not.
“Bianca–can wait, too.“I say
Puust handle the Celia sitization first.”
Celia’s POV
I need to eam money. I need it now and I need it fast, preferably in large amounts. I cannot go another day feeling like the world is about to slip out from under me. No longer will I stand nights of going to sleep on an empty stomach nor will I allow my grandmother to suffer while I pick apart the couch cushions for extra change.
