Outcast: The Alpha King's Beloved

Jerome's POV: 

Although I was dancing with Linda on the dance floor, my attention was fixed on Skylar.

When I saw her gulping down glass after glass of alcohol like she wanted to drown her sorrows, I felt as if a knife was piercing my heart.

"Focus, Jerome," Linda said to me.

She even slipped her arms around my waist, trying to get close to me.

"Sorry, I have to leave now.You can dance with someone else."

Excusing myself as politely as I could, I pushed Linda away and walked towards Skylar.

When I reached the table Skylar was sitting at, I grabbed her glass out of her hand and shot her a pointed look.

"Skylar, stop drinking.Let me take you back," I told her.

To my dismay, Skylar was so drunk that she didn't even recognize me.

"Who are you?" she slurred.

Her cheeks were flushed red, and her eyes looked hazy.

It seemed that she was already dead drunk.I couldn't let her drink anymore.

"Why did you steal my glass? I want to drink more! Give it back to me!"

Skylar's voice rose in anger as she spoke, and she snatched the glass back from me.

"Skylar, listen to me.Stop drinking.I'll take you back to your room,"

I coaxed her gently.

But as if she didn't hear me at all, Skylar picked up the bottle of alcohol and poured herself another glass to drink.

Sitting next to her, I hugged her and looked at her sadly.

"Skylar, please don't torture yourself, okay? You're breaking my heart."

"You know what? I've lost the one person in the world that I love the most.I thought there was finally light in my world, but now it is dark again.Do you have any idea what despair feels like? Since I was a child, I grew up without a family.I thought I'd finally have a family now, but I was wrong," Skylar cried.

Her words were like a slap in my face.

What did she mean by saying she didn't have a family now? I was her family, wasn't I? 

"Skylar, what are you saying? You have me, and you have great friends like Jennifer.All of us love you, and we will always be by your side."

I held her tightly in my arms, wishing that my embrace would be enough to comfort her and calm her down.

Somehow, I had a bad feeling that if I loosened my grip on her now, she would disappear from my life forever.

"No, I don't know you.Go away! I just want to get drunk and forget everything,"

tightly to the bottle.It

you want to get drunk, I'll drink together with you.I'll be here with

empty glass

it's already late.You'd better go back.Everything will

of our friends came over to

know what I'm

concerns away and

won't be often that we'll all be able to gather like

gathered at the table to drink with

Linda's POV: 

dance floor when he pushed me

him going over to sit with Skylar, who was drinking like

me, it was obvious that she was acting

hadn't had any impact on her at

pester Jerome and keep

I saw Jerome hold Skylar in

long time since I had seen Jerome act this tender and

felt like I would go

I couldn't fight

to maintain a kind and

being, I had no choice but to sit ina corner with Andy and

of tonight should

should be the

now, it looked like Jerome and Skylar had

were both swaying

from getting sloshed, but all of a sudden, something

opportunity that I could take

was so drunk, I

sex together, he would

about it, the more confident I

me, she

in mind, I secretly lingered near

time the dinner party was over, everyone was a little

seemed to have

Skylar.Don't worry.I'll send her back

Jennifer say to Anthony.I watched as she took Skylar away,

"Good night, Jennifer."

goodbye to Jennifer with a

to bed early," she replied

Andy back to our

him into

sleep by yourself tonight.Don't run around, okay?" I said

and I coaxed him

asleep, I

seemed to be on my side, because the door wasn't locked from the

drunk to remember to

I entered the

sight of Jerome curled up in