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,"

the bottle.It seemed that I couldn't stop

I'll drink together with you.I'll be here with you.I'll

picked up an empty glass and

already late.You'd better go back.Everything will be fine

came over to persuade

know

and continued to

often that we'll all be able to gather like this.Let's have a

my persuasion, everyone gathered at the table

Linda's POV: 

floor when he pushed me away, asked me to dance with someone

to sit with Skylar, who was

she was acting depressed and pitiful to

words hadn't had any impact

Jerome

As I watched their table, I saw

had been a long time since I had seen Jerome act this tender and

I would go

fight for him

to maintain a

to sit ina corner with Andy and just

right, the protagonists of tonight should

should be the one

Jerome and

both swaying

go over there and stop Jerome from getting sloshed, but all

that

was so drunk, I could easily seduce him

as we had sex together, he would have to take responsibility

the more confident I was that my

discovered that Jerome slept with me, she would have no

plan in mind, I

the dinner party was over, everyone was

seemed to have drunk

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

she took Skylar away, while Anthony

"Good night, Jennifer."

Jennifer with

early," she

back to

tucked him into bed

run around, okay?"

nodded obediently, and I coaxed

I secretly went to

side, because the door wasn't

he was too drunk to remember to lock the

myself, I

by the sight of Jerome curled up