"I have my eyes on you," she said, moving away from me. "Do not embarrass this department. Do you understand?" I nodded.
"She cannot be Nara's rival," I heard her say in her mind as I was leaving. I turned and looked at her.
"What!" her eyes widened at me. I faced my front, reaching for the door handle when I heard her saying in her mind again.
"I will have her thrown into the street, feeding her to hungry vultures." But I didn't stop. I just banged the door and left.
As I returned to my duty at my boss's office, he walked in without noticing my presence. I lowered my head in shame. "When you're done, call me Secretary Soyoung," he said into the air. He didn't even look at me, let alone notice that I was the same girl who poured wine on him at his engagement party yesterday. As I was just about to leave, Nara walked in, noticing my presence. "You again?" she said after recognizing my face. Just then, Sungmin raised his busy head to see what was going on. Na-ra had grabbed me by my hair, her nails sharp enough to rip through my throat. She growled softly around my neck, her eyes turning green. I do not know if she was more powerful, but she had the mark of Guyong's pack, the pack that had no alpha. As I saw the tiny scar at the corner of her eyes, I sent a warning snarl at her immediately.
"Let go of her!" Sungmin ordered, still without realizing who I was. Humans didn't see the scars beside their eyes; it was not visible to them.
"And what if I don't?" Nara said, turning to him. I sensed war. I must act fast before things got out of hand. Guyong's clan were a load of aggressive wolves. "You disgust me!" he spat ignorantly. If Nara were to react, by now he would be lying as shattered meat. She avoided the green eyes that would be too detrimental for him to see.
"Excuse me, sir!" the secretary he asked me to call earlier barged in with a file in her hand. Nara's nails were reduced to their normal size immediately. Thank goodness she came!
"Oh! I am sorry. I will return later. Excuse…"
"No, come in!" I interrupted, forgetting that I was not the boss. Sungmin tore a gaze at me. I bowed in respect as if trying to plead his forgiveness for speaking on his behalf. Nara left angrily, knocking over the secretary who stood in the way.
When I got out of Sungmin's office, Yula blocked me. "What happened in there?" she asked with curiosity.
"She almost ripped him!" I whispered, turning my eyeballs around to observe the expressions of the other workers.
"Huh!" Yula's mouth widened. "How could she think of doing that?" I gazed at her, as if questioning, but I didn't mind-link. "Don't mind her… Hyejin's here!" she whispered, and we dismissed very quickly.
I sensed her sniffing, and then our eyes met; she knew we were just standing there gossiping. "Fools!" I heard her say in her mind.
"Dad! I can't continue working for the Yoo," I said blatantly.
"Why the sudden change of mind?"
"I have a lot of enemies; I just can't do it, dad!"
"Jiah," he called with that familiar tone. "How then do you want us to clear out the debt with the Yoo? The debt I incurred when your mother was sick before she died."
"If I must continue working there, you must tell me what happened to my mother!" I growled as my eyes turned silver again. I hid them from him. He shouldn't be seeing that for his health's sake. I couldn't help but cry. I would get my revenge on Beta Guyong; he put my father in this condition. He had given him a life-threatening beating when he wanted to take me away when I was a child, but thank goodness a strange alpha had saved me, according to my dad. That Alpha must have been dead by now because dad said nothing about him again. He was the only Alpha who lived in his time. Everyone feared him.
Dad's eyes were full of tears now. "Sit," he ordered me.
"I can't say all, but your mama was the only witch who lived in her time. She was not among the witch's pack. In her time, the witches had a pack of witch-wolves. People who were half witch, half wolves. Or people who were just witches. The witches' pack wanted her to join them, but she refused because they did evil things. She was a good witch. When she was pregnant with you, I took her out of the country so that the witches would not get in touch with her, but they connected whenever she made her incantations and tortured her. I had to come make sacrifices for them to let her be until you were born.
After you were born, we had peace of mind, and then we returned to Korea. But when you were twelve years old…" he suddenly began to cough. "Take me to Hayan!" he said in between deadly coughs. I lifted him and put him on my shoulders and took him to Hayan, the old woman who healed sick or injured people using spiritual materials, and she also delayed time. I remember when I was nine years old, she had delayed the time of death for me to keep me alive until my mother was able to appease the witches to let go of me. They had attacked me when she connected with my spirit to activate a spell.
"His soul is being manipulated," she said, looking into my eyes. Yu-la could have stopped this before it happened.
"Yula is such a nuisance!" I said in my mind. I smelled her rage; she must have been messing with my head. When did she learn to do that? I thought, and she perceived.
"I haven't slept, you bastard!" she replied in the mind link.
"Can't you force one?" I replied angrily.
"Stop it!" Hayang distracted the mind link, warning me not to do that in her territory.
"He will be fine in 21 days' time. Try to get him out of Guyong's hands before the completion of these days," she warned. And the next thing that came to my mind was Yula.
"What?" she replied in my head, but I did not respond. Hayang had warned that I shouldn't do that in her territory. But how did she know that I was mind-linking Yula? Sometimes she amazes me, and yet she still remains in her space. Trouble stays away from her while she does the same. I remembered when she healed Luna Hwan, who was ripped by her Alpha for refusing to have sex with him. That was the story we were told, but no one really knew what happened. The only Alpha who lived in his time—Alpha Hwan, the one Dad said had saved me when I was twelve. I thanked her and left.
I received a strange attack in my tummy. It was unbearable pain. I stopped for a while, only to squeeze my tummy in my hands as I tried to control the pain. My eyes turned again. I had to hurry down to the office to see if Sung-min was okay. As I barged into his office, I saw Nara trying to talk him into drinking a cup of wine. It was blood in the original sense, but humans can't see it.
"Master Sungmin," I called out, trying to distract him.
"Excuse me, Nara," he said, walking past her towards me. I saw anger in her eyes.
"Are you leaving me for a commoner?" she shouted over her shoulder, but he didn't listen.
"It was you from the party," he remembered now. My eyes became weaker. I felt like a baby around him.
"She is such a slut! This is what sluts do; they snatch other women's men," I heard her barking like a failed dog. Anytime I was close to him or saw his picture, I felt the connection—a different air. Even if he was just an omega, I felt secure around him, as if he were my Alpha.
"I think work is over for us today. Let's take a break home." he said as we got distracted by the shattering sound of the cup, it fell and broke. Nara looked at me suspiciously.
"Home? What home?" I asked in my mind. Nara already walked past us angrily. Almost knocking me off my feet! After she left, Sungmin held my hands and walked me out of the company. I found my body melting into his. He stopped and looked at me, did he notice that I was intoxicated around him?