Lahat ng Kabanata ng Begged Me For Rejection, He Regretted: Kabanata 71 - Kabanata 80

“Chad, the Alpha made him a Delta today!” The girl Vanessa, comes to her brother, pulling his arm to turn him to her, “Did your precious Hannah tell you that?!”Vanessa knows she is making a scene, and she knows this is the last day she can stay in Hannah’s little group, but she doesn’t care. She stayed only to keep an eye on her stupid brother --Their parents are old now, and they are both Gamma blood like her. Unlike Chad, who was born a Beta blood.He is the hope of the whole family, to stay in the “high rank” level.Chad looks genuinely surprised as he shoots a curious glance at Hannah.“I’m sorry, I didn’t think to mention the rank of everyone I meet.” Hannah has calmed down from the original panic now. “Vanessa thought I wanted you to harm Leo, for some reason. I really don’t want that. I invited Leo to celebrate his win, pure and simple.”Which is true today. And truth is always genuine in people’s ears.“I know,” Shrugging, Chad says with an evil grin that says “gotcha”, befo

So that’s the real trap.Lilith opens her eyes wide in shock. That’s how easy it is for high ranks to mess with a low rank. They didn’t even need to use violence, not when that risks violating the pack law. Just simply, crash him with money. Why not. It’s the least costly way.Leo curves his lips -- now the game really starts.“I have no money. Guess the bet is off then,” Leo says with an honest shrug, not a trace of shame in his voice, but only jocosity as he taunts back, “Did you really expect a guy coming up with half a mil ON the day the Alpha assigned him a Delta? That’s very...innocent of you.”His bank account’s probably still sitting at three digits. And that was only because Lilith had been supporting him for the past three years.When he was still playing tennis, the prize money of any of his games would be enough to match Chad, easily. But when he’d fled his pack, his identity had been wiped along with his accounts. Not that he’d have used them anyway — Emery would have trac

Pocketing is the easiest part in snooker.Which was exactly why Chad had been stuck on the bench for five minutes, watching Leo glide around the table as if he owned it.Red, color, red, color — dropping clean and effortless, the cue ball kissing the next target like it knew where it was supposed to go. The scoreboard ticked up, also in a clean and steady way: 1, 7, 1, 5, 1, 6, 1, 3...So boring.Leo wasn’t even doing anything special. Chad’s break had just been that good — that’s all.He shouldn’t have gone for a break-and-run at full power. If he hadn’t underestimated his opponent — if he’d played a proper safety instead of assuming an Omega couldn’t even spell snooker, let alone win — he wouldn’t be sitting here watching his lead disappear.Snooker has 15 red balls, 1 point for each, and 6 color balls, each with a different point from 2 to 7, which is carried by the black ball. One has to pocket a red ball before a color, or it’s a foul.Just when Chad thought Leo was going to run

“I didn’t know you played pool!” Lilith cheers at Leo. With him safe by her side, Lilith could finally let her stiffened nerves rest a little and turn back into the carefree girl she prefers to be.“I know things!” Leo grins, raising his eyebrows at Lilith. “I thought YOU hated pool!”It took Lilith a moment to figure out why Leo would think that way. There was once, just one time, long, long ago, that Leo asked her if she wanted to play pool in a bar. Lilith frowned when she looked over, and Leo never mentioned that ever again.She didn’t hate pooling. She hated the drunk that was playing on one of the tables that night. Those kinds of drunks raised up a lot of bad memories she had working with Beth in her younger days.Lilith didn’t know Leo would pick up her moods so accurately and cautiously.Leo pressed the button for 62, but the elevator opened to 79 first. In the short moment of people walking in, Lilith heard Erica’s voice -- more accurately, her shout -- from the same floor.

Did he know?! Who is this man, seeing through her like she was an open book?!“Was she the one who told you all these royal family secrets?” Leo asks Erica.“Yes!” Erica nods frantically like she was just saved, “Yeah...she, she was my source...”Leo nods with a smile -- If he had doubted whether Erica was the Alpha’s daughter since when she said, “I don’t mind,” when Leo apologized for speculating about the royal family, he knows now.Erica IS that daughter, and for some reason, she doesn’t want people to know.“So what can I do now?” Erica asks Leo in haste, “I mean, what could Knox do now, if his situation is so dangerous? I mean, the Alpha might name an heir any time now!” Erica heard her father the other day, talking to a beta about the matter of naming an Alpha Heir!Let's out a slight laugh, a little surprised, “I mean...that’s not a decision I would dare to talk about.”The little princess is so innocent. Does she know how obvious she is right now, asking for advice on such an