Outcast: The Alpha King's Beloved

Linda's POV: 

I woke up early the next morning, while Jerome was still asleep.

Looking at his sleeping face brought me a sense of joy that I hadn't felt in a long time.

Nothing had happened between us last night.

Despite how hard I had tried to seduce him, Jerome didn't want to have sex with me at all.

In the end, I had no choice but to take off his clothes and lie next to him naked.

Lying next to each other naked was enough.

With that, I'd be able to convince Jerome that we had sex last night.

I decided to deal a heavy blow to Skylar.

So I sneaked into the bathroom and called Andy.

"Andy, my dear son.Go find Skylar right now and ask her to take you to find your dad, okay?"

"Mom, where are you?" Andy asked.

"Andy, don't worry about that.Ask Skylar to take you to see your dad first, okay?"

"Okay, Mom,"

Andy agreed on the other end of the line.I knew my son well.

No matter how confused he was, he would listen to me and do as I said.

After hanging up the phone, I tiptoed back to bed, tightly clung onto Jerome's naked body, and pretended to be fast asleep.

A while later, I felt movement next to me.

It seemed that Jerome was stirring from his sleep.

"Linda? Why are you here?"

Jerome asked in panic and pushed me away without hesitation.

Did he loathe me this much? His first reaction after waking up in the same bed as me was to push me away.

I suppressed my frustration and blinked sleepily, as if I had just woken up.

Then, I crawled into his arms with an aggrieved look.

"Jerome, we had sex last night.You know what? It's been a long time since I felt this happy."

"Linda, what are you talking about?" Jerome's eyes widened in disbelief.

"What on earth happened? I was drinking with Skylar last night.Why are you in my bed?"

"Jerome, you don't remember? You got so drunk last night.I was worried about you, so I came to see if you were okay.But you held onto me and didn't let me go.You kept talking about our past together, Jerome.You said you couldn't forget me, and that you looked for me for a long time."

I tried my best to tell him a believable lie.

"That's impossible.Why would I say something like that to you? I love Skylar.I wouldn't want to sleep with anyone else, no matter how drunk I was,"

Jerome said firmly.

obvious that he didn't

know what? All these years, I couldn't forget about you at all.I really wished that I could be with you again.But the truth is, you're the one who initiated something last night.Why don't you just admit it? Are you regretting it

with tears pooling in

do anything to betray Skylar.You're

head with his hands and shook his head desperately, like he

Jerome? You think I'm a woman who would lie about

the messy clothes strewn over the floor and the marks covering

these a lie too? You're the one who gave me all these

I tried my best to

going to deny what you did to me? Are you going to treat me like

denying

that I managed to shake his conviction about what the

of how Skylar will react, I can keep it a

pretending to be

Know you can't let her go.I won't do anything

continued to cover his head with

took a deep breath

what I did, but the thing is, I really don't

a child for you.But today, for the first time, I've found out what kind of person you are.You don't want to

I broke down completely.

my eyes, and sobs wracked my

I successfully won over

comfort me and patted me

cry.I didn't

found a set of clean clothes

on

I continued to cry, trying to

I was wearing

scent was all over

Skylar's POV: 

had

difficulty and stared blankly at the ceiling.I

me back to my room last night

that, I couldn't remember anything about last

was

put on my slippers and lugged myself to the

washed my face, I

time, I heard a knock on the

"Hang on."

my clothes, I went to

had come

guy, what are you doing here?" I asked, touching his

to see him? Mom didn't come back last night, so I had to sleep alone.I

on,

sorry for him, I

"Okay.Thank you."

Andy nodded.

was just a small kid who had grown up without knowing

a hard time

involved in the

worry.We're going to see