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

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

glass and poured myself

late.You'd better go back.Everything

our friends came over to persuade

know what I'm

and continued

be often that we'll all be able to gather like

my persuasion, everyone gathered at the

Linda's POV: 

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

saw him going over to sit with Skylar, who

acting depressed and pitiful to win over the

that my words hadn't had

Jerome and keep him

watched their table, I saw Jerome hold Skylar

Jerome act this tender and

felt like I would go crazy with

fight for him

all, I had to maintain

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

protagonists of tonight should have been me

be the

now, it looked like Jerome and Skylar had drunk

were both

go over there and stop Jerome from getting sloshed, but

was an opportunity that I could take

was so drunk, I could easily seduce

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

more

slept with me, she

mind, I

time the dinner party was over, everyone

seemed to have

care of Skylar.Don't worry.I'll send her back to her room.Anthony, help

as she took Skylar away, while Anthony left

"Good night, Jennifer."

waved goodbye to Jennifer

to bed early,"

took Andy back to

him into bed

run

nodded obediently, and I coaxed

he was asleep, I secretly went to Jerome's

my side, because the door

was too drunk to remember to lock the

I

sight of