Outcast: The Alpha King's Beloved

Jennifer's POV: 

These days, I had been paying close attention to Skylar.

I felt that she had become very withdrawn.

In the past, she used to tell me everything, but now, it seemed that she was keeping a lot of things to herself.

I had no idea what was going on in her mind.

In the middle of the dinner party, I saw my brother coaxing Andy.

People were gathered around the little boy, except for Skylar.

After a while, I noticed Linda come out of the restroom.

Not long after, Skylar also came back from the same direction, with a dull and upset expression on her face.

I immediately knew that Linda must have said something to Skylar.

Otherwise, my best friend wouldn't look so downcast like this.

"Skylar, what's wrong? You don't look well. What happened?"

I whispered, taking a seat next to Skylar.

"Nothing.I wasn't feeling well, but I'm much better now."

Skylar shrugged and forced a smile at me.

I could see that she was trying her best to hide her emotions.

Of course, as her best friend, I knew that she was lying.

"Come on Skylar, tell me the truth.Did Linda corner you in the restroom just now? What did she say to you?"

Skylar turned away, avoiding my gaze.She seemed to be fighting an internal struggle.

"Skylar, you can't bear everything by yourself.You still have us.We will always be with you.Tell me, did Linda talk to you alone in the restroom? What did she say?" I pressed, unwilling to give up.

Skylar sighed, finally realizing that she couldn't hide anything from me.

"You're right.Linda did come to the restroom to talk to me, but she didn't say anything unexpected.She just asked me to give up on Jerome so that the three of them can be a family.She's not asking for anything unreasonable, right? She's just doing it for the sake of her child.As a mother, she lives a hard life.It's only right for me to give up on Jerome.After all, she came into his life first."

Hearing these words, I felt sorry for my naive friend.

How could she sympathize with her rival in love? Was she too kind, or was she just too stupid? 

"Skylar, don't trust anyone blindly, especially Linda.You should take a step back and look at the situation logically.I don't think that she's as simple as she seems," I advised her.

"I will.Thank you for your concern." Skylar smiled gently.

"Jennifer, you are so nice to me."

"That's what I should do.Look, they'll open the dance floor later.I'll take Andy away so that you'll have Jerome to yourself.You two should dance together and improve your relationship."

"Jennifer, that's so considerate of you. But what about you and Mr.Jones?"

Skylar asked, biting her lower lip worriedly.

"You silly girl, it doesn't matter.I will have plenty of chances to dance with Anthony in the future.We're not in a hurry.Besides, I like playing with Andy."

I gave Skylar a reassuring nod.

it seemed as if her spirits had been

I didn't consider it a

knew that the problem was far from

my

one who could save their relationship was

most now was

that he wouldn't

walked up to Jerome, I found that Andy

spend alone with Skylar? After thinking

look! What's in my

"It's a lollipop."

lit up in excitement, and

we go and play over

I want to

over to me

over his head at Jerome, signaling to

what I

away to

first part of my plan had gone

Jerome could fix things

lose such a good

was my

her to

to the dance floor with Andy, who was hopping around

the two of us had a good

seemed that I was good with

while,

for playing with kids," Anthony said with a

children.Look at Andy, he's so

said, giggling at the little boy, who was now happily

of sight with his eyes,

cute.Maybe we should also have a child of our

Anthony whispered, leaning in.

I asked,

him wrong? Did he want to have children right now? The truth was, knowingly or unknowingly, I was warming up to the idea

and I could come to

two of us were talking, Andy accidentally shot the water gun at

froze for a

to be angry,

here.I'll teach you a

mock fear and

boy around a pillar, and the sound of their

for a few seconds, I joined them, running back and

of us had a

Jerome's POV: 

Andy pestered

was only after Jennifer considerately led him away that I could

way I felt towards

result of the paternity test proved that he was my biological son,

intuition told me that

father and son would have a natural understanding, but

was

just appeared in

more time together and become familiar with each

saw Skylar standing aside alone and staring blankly

of her looking so forlorn broke my

knelt on one knee, and stretched out my