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,"

slurred, holding on tightly to the bottle.It seemed that I

drunk, I'll drink together with you.I'll be here with you.I'll do whatever you

picked up an empty glass and

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

came over to persuade

worry.I know what I'm

away and continued

we'll all be able to gather like this.Let's

everyone gathered at the

Linda's POV: 

to get Jerome's attention on the dance floor when he pushed me away, asked me to dance with

to sit with Skylar, who was drinking like

it was obvious that she was acting depressed and pitiful to win over the

seemed that my words hadn't had

to pester Jerome

their table, I saw

long time since I had seen Jerome act this tender and

felt like I would

fight

to maintain a

sit ina corner with Andy and just watch while

the protagonists of tonight should have

should be the

Jerome and Skylar had

were both swaying

to go over there and stop Jerome from getting sloshed, but all of a sudden,

was an opportunity that

I could easily seduce him

together, he would have to take responsibility for

thought about it, the more confident I was that

she

I secretly lingered

was

seemed to have

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

Anthony.I watched as she took Skylar away, while Anthony

"Good night, Jennifer."

to Jennifer with a

to bed early," she replied

took Andy back

the bedroom, I tucked him into bed and touched his

run around, okay?" I said

and I

he was asleep, I secretly went to Jerome's

because the

drunk to remember to

myself, I entered

was greeted by the sight of Jerome curled up in