Chapter 24: Chapter 24

"Will you stop looking so intensely? You're making me make terrific errors, you two dipshits! Ugh!" An annoyed Dr. Asher yelled and angrily threw his stethoscope on the sofa.

I massaged my forehead due to the building anger and distress I was feeling, all thanks to them.

Right now, Asher wanted to diagnose my health, but Oswald and Wyatt kept watching us intently as if they didn't have anything to do, which seemed to be infuriating Playboy. Ahem, I mean Doctor Asher.

This is over three times that Doctor Asher has thrown his tantrums because of the two instead of getting me diagnosed. Now, I can't help but fear that I'll be late for school at this rate.

"Will you do what you are ordered to do, or I throw you out?" Wyatt pronounced coldly with his arms crossed, which made Asher snort.

I sighed in relief and gave this man, who always seems to notice whatever I'm about to say, a grateful nod.

Asher suddenly banged on the table hard, which made me jump in shock. He pointed at Wyatt and me and narrowed his eyes at us with a mischievous grin on his face, saying, "Hey. Why are you two sneaking a look at each other? She's mine now." He boasted with a flirty smirk.

"Touch my mate, and I will break your head." Alpha Oswald growled domineeringly while giving Asher a cold glare. I secretly snorted at him for his threatening act. 'Jerk.'

'What do you mean he's a jerk? You have no taste! Can't you see how domineering he looks just now? So authoritative! That's why he's my mate…'

Before Maia could continue gushing about her mate, I silently blocked her and sighed in relief after doing so. What domineering? Simply a jerk!

An astonished Asher smacked his lips together and squinted in disbelief. "Maia is your mate? Incredible." Completing his words, he turned to me as if to confirm if Oswald was being truthful.

I glared at Oswald, who didn't even know what he wanted. Why do I have the feeling that he can't wait to tell everyone I'm his mate? So crazy.

I faked a casual laugh and waved my hands in the air playfully. "It's a joke. How can someone like me be the alpha's mate? Can you please hurry up? I need to go to school. I reminded him, and my heart filled with distress. I couldn't wait to go to school, yet I was being delayed.

Asher picked up his stethoscope and gave me an indecipherable glance: "You seemed more outspoken than I recalled." He pointed out and inserted the ear tips of his stethoscope into his ears.

I arched my brows and gave him a bored gaze. "Did I?" I retorted lazily, and he nodded. I shrugged. "Perhaps Beta Wyatt had grown on…"

"Praise another man, and I won't hesitate to break your legs and kick you out." Oswald suddenly growled at me, and it made me furious.

What is his problem? He doesn't acknowledge me, yet he keeps poking his nose into everything. Does he think he can control me? "You only know how to threaten me every time, and all he does is support me. I hate you." I bemoaned at him and bolted into the room.

The diagnosis is termed to be a failure anyway since that asshole is here.

He won't follow me anyway, so stop being expectant.

I rubbed my chest and fell on the bed, not comprehending what madness was going on within me. "Ugh. What's wrong with me?"

I kicked my leg in the bed angrily, not understanding the stupid bellowing I did. It's not worth it. The situation doesn't call for my anger. Not at all.

When did all these silly and stupid emotions begin to run through me? Where is that girl who always stayed patient and unfazed in front of Aida and her stupid cliques? What's happening to me? Is this all because of the presence of my mate, or am I the one going insane? Ugh, so frustrating...

I was yet to comprehend myself when a knock sounded on the door, interrupting my chaotic thoughts.

"You know how to unlock the door; come in," I grunted casually, expecting it to be Asher or Wyatt.

The door opened immediately, and the agarwood scent wrapped around me gently for the first time. I stared at Oswald, who peered inside before he casually walked into my room. How come he's here? It can't be that he spontaneously followed me to apologize for his actions, can it?

I eyed him defensively and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Oswald's hands were tucked in his pocket casually, and he took a glance at my room lazily. "Here lies your abode." He commented with an indecipherable tone.

My eyes were pinned on him, unamused, wondering what he was about.

Oswald sighed and ruffled his hair. He walked toward me with an apologetic look and bowed in front of me remorsefully. "I'm sorry if I appeared as a jerk." He uttered, to my surprise.

Somehow, I was infuriated again. After all he did, does he think all I needed was an apology?

Can we have a proper talk, and can I know what's going on between us? Why the hell does he need to apologize, why?

"What does it matter anyway? That doesn't mean you won't kick me out, does it? That doesn't mean you won't poke your nose into my life, does it? That doesn't mean you won't do that mysterious test of yours, or does it? Right, I was close to other genders; I've done many things you said I shouldn't do, and I've failed the first trial; does that mean I'll be kicked out…"

"Maia!" Oswald growled at me with eyes filled with anger, which made me clench my fist. Although he was angry, I knew the probability of him doing anything to me was low.

"Well. Well. I don't intend to talk to you. You can leave now," I said lazily, waved my hand in the air as if to shoo him away, and turned my back to him. "I'd like to dress up, or do you want to do that with me? I asked lazily while staring at him through the corner of my eyes.

Oswald grabbed my chin and lowered his head. His lips brushed mine as he said with a sexy and husky tone, "You think I'm afraid of challenges…"

"Lorelei is on our way. Thou Alpha, hurry out. Asher yelled, interrupting him, and at that moment, I caught a glimpse of a negative expression flickering past his face. What is…

Before I could process my thoughts, he lowered his face to kiss my lips. I turned my face to the opposite side, making his lips fall on my cheeks. "Oswald. Don't."

Oswald's lips began to trail soft kisses on my face, sending tingles through me and making me let out a soft whimper.

"Maia, you belong to me." Oswald declared authoritatively and pinned my arms to the bed.

His fingers began to trail my face while our eyes were locked. "Mine." He declared and lowered his lips again, but before he could touch me, I moved my face away.

"Break up with Lorelei, and I will believe that," I whispered coldly while staring at him with my lips curled up in mockery. "You can't anyway." I taunted him and pushed him away from me.

Oswald ruffled his hair. His lips parted as if to say something, but in the end, his lips closed, and he took a step back.

Oswald gave me a stare filled with complexity before he walked out of my room with reluctance.

I bit my lower lips and ruffled my hair before kicking the bed angrily.

What's wrong with him? He was the one who wanted to kick me out; now he seemed to be begging me. He didn't look reluctant when he planned to throw me out the first day we met.

His change occurred after…

I wrinkled my brows while trying to remember when the changes occurred. It occurred… Yes, it has occurred ever since Wyatt's party.

Perhaps Oswald is intending to bed me after discovering how beautiful I am.

After all, it has also happened in the Red Flame Pack.

I was serving refreshments to the council elders during a meeting when a lady reported her mate for making love with her and rejecting her the next morning, even though he had never told her about rejection since the beginning. The judgment had been presented to the council elders, but instead of making the right judgment, they told the boy to do as he deemed fit since he was the son of one of them.

Three days later, the lady committed suicide due to the humiliation that came after, and yes, she was an acquaintance of mine. And no, the pack didn't care about the girl's death.

Her parents had to leave the pack the next day after her death due to the pack members' ridicule.

Even the girl's corpse wasn't buried in the pack because Alpha Henry ordered that burying such a corpse was humiliating for the 'pure' pack.

There were a lot of cases similar to that in one way or another, but all were swept under the rug because of the deep corruption in the Red Flame Pack.

I'll do my best to have a soul of righteousness and make sure all the sinners don't go unpunished when I'm back as the princess of the Red Flame Pack.