CHAPTER 272: I HAVE TO LEAVE, OR ELSE

I stood near the rooftop’s edge, nursing a half-filled flute of something sparkling I couldn’t pronounce. I hadn’t taken a single sip. Maybe it was cause of the anxiety that was slowly building up inside my heart, or it was the fact that someone might’ve spiked my drink.

I looked around at their hypocrisy and sighed.

The air was already intoxicating enough, I didn’t want to deal with a spiked drink.

At that moment, I felt something strange in my body.

Ah, I didn’t drink anything yet... So why was I already feeling drunk?

I dropped my hand on my head and then shook it. It was probably nothing, right?

But then it got worse

That deep, low curl in my gut, the warmth building behind my navel, that immense pressure that accompanied a forced release of my Pheromones...

My breath hitched.

No, it couldn’t be, right?

No, no, no, no. This couldn’t be happening.

At least, not here. Anywhere but here.

I gripped the railing beside me, knuckles white as the blood in my veins gradually grew cold in fright. My vision blurred and it felt like everything had started to swirl around me.

The bass of the music pulsed through my chest with a heavy beat but my body had gone numb to it. To anything, if at all.

It was my Heat. Again.

I had taken my suppressants without ever skipping a day because the thought of me actually going into heat in this school scared me more than my identity being exposed to the Alphas.

So why the hell...?

The stars above me seemed to tilt, and I swallowed hard, trying to ground myself as sweet oozed off the pores of my body. The scent of champagne and cologne suddenly felt sharper and stronger to the point I wanted to throw up.

It was sickening.

Someone laughed behind me. Another person brushed past, and their scent hit me like a brick to the chest.

I was leaking pheromones slightly. It was shallow and people wouldn’t quickly notice but the longer I stayed, the more danger I was exposed to.

Even if no one had said anything yet, I could feel the subtle shift in the air but couldn’t tell what exactly it was.

I had to leave or else....

But when I turned, the crowd had thickened behind me and blocked the exit.

And that was when I started hearing their words.

"Oh my, I think he drank one too many flutes." One said with a cackle.

"He must’ve gotten excited and downed it all cause it was the sweetest thing he had ever tasted."

"Oh, come on. I believe he just had low tolerance." Another said, a rather familiar voice and I tried to narrow my vision at her.

It was that bitch from the cafeteria giving orders like she was a queen.

"Oh, Lady Ahn, you don’t need to side with someone like him." Another said. "You even went as far as giving him an invitation and sending him clothes to wear. You’re just so nice."

I froze for a moment, clarity hitting me in that instant.

What did that person just say?

"Oh, I mean, I would be such a shame that the guy the Alphas are interested in doesn’t have a decent outfit to come to the party in." She said, smirking widely. "I was only doing this poor thing a favor. Plus, I wanted to make sure he was able to open his eyes and see his class," she stepped closer. "And our class can never be the same."

I felt pressure.

My instincts told me to run because I was about to be devoured and no bone would be left of me but I couldn’t even move.

The ground under my feet felt wobbly and just finding out that none of the Alphas were behind the invitation, none of them wanted to see me humiliated and in a place way out of my league... Made my knees go weak.

Ah... So this wasn’t it the whole time.

I was sure they would stop at nothing to humiliate me but they did not even take the huge chance presented to them.

So... If it wasn’t to break my will and watch me fall under pressure... What was it that they wanted from me?

Ah, this heat was making me delusional.

I needed to get away.

I wanted to just walk past Lady Ahn but she shoved my shoulder back.

"Where do you think you’re going? Is this the way you show appreciation?"

Is she saying I should appreciate her for humiliating me?

She’s more sick than I thought.

But I couldn’t even focus on these things.

My heart was racing uncontrollably, my eyes were rolling all over the place, and my body... I felt so numb.

I turned around, leaving there since she wanted to claim that spot so much and they laughed as they watched me struggle away.

It looked like so long I wasn’t headed for the exit, they would let me be. And then, I stumbled on the bar.

’I feel like shit.’ I thought and then raised my head, only to see Seo-Jun sitting at the bar, looking at me rather surprised.

He had AirPods on, probably to block out all the crazy and unnecessary chatter around him.

He had a drink in one hand, and next to him was Ki-hoon, who equally had a drink in one hand and AirPods on.

Shit. It looked like they hated these parties as much as I did.

Ki-hoon’s expression was as unreadable as always and beside him were the other two.

Gosh, the four of them were at the bar, drinking without a care in the world while I blamed them for my being here.

They... Had no idea I was even in this hellhole with them.

As relieved as I was to know the truth, I couldn’t exactly breathe out a sigh of relief because of the stress building up inside me.

I couldn’t move. My body felt molten and heavy, like every nerve had been melted in fire.

I was at my wits’ end with nowhere to run to. And right in front of me... We’re the Alphas I wished to avoid during a time like this.

What would you do if you were in my shoes?

(Okay, so I think this level of suspense is golden enough. Muhehehehe, ahem. Let’s head back to the main plot in the next Chapter, shall we?)

Now, let me work on my private advertisement. Since no one reacted to it when I dropped it in the comment section, I decided to drop it here and hope that you all, whoever comes across it, give your honest opinion.

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"What happens when your one-night stand becomes your stepdad?"

It’s been two weeks since that night, but I still can’t forget him. It was so enthralling that the thrill stuck to my bones till now.

It weighed on my mind like a dumbbell and cost me my concentration. A man so hot... Ah, how could I forget him?

I wanted to see him again. I wanted to feel his warmth, his aggressive arms, and the way he smirked ever so often while I moaned like a messed-up recorder underneath him, sounds he seemed to favor.

But it was just a fling between two strangers. No strings attached, and no names involved.

I thought I would never see him again, until he showed up in my living room with his arms around my mother.

And she said,

"Ha-Joon, this is Tae-Hyun, my fiancé. We’re getting married in a few days, so get ready."

My heart stopped for a moment as my world shook.

And then he looked at me, his devilish eyes met mine. I gulped. They were those same eyes that had seen too much of me.

He remembered me, that was certain.

And judging by the way he smirked at me, he wasn’t done with me yet.

Just how did that handsome, no, how did that hot man suddenly gain the identity of my stepfather?

(A story about how a naive college student who wanted to experience sex for the first time and explore his sexual preferences ended up in a tiger’s jaw, and then that tiger coincidentally becomes his stepfather. How will this naive lamb react and what story awaits them?)

Like I said, honest thoughts please.

I shouldn’t have dropped this in a Chapter since it’s an entirely different thing, but I had no choice since no one was reacting to the prologue I left in the comment section of Chapter 256, I decided to drop this here and hopefully, it piqued your interest. You can also go back to that Chapter comment section and check it out.

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PS, don’t forget we’ll be resuming the main plot in the next Chapter.