Outcast: The Alpha King’s Beloved

Skylar’s POV:
“Skylar, are you in there?”
I was sitting in my room and Jerome was knocking at the door.
“Yeah, come in,” I called out.
There was a click as the door opened.
Jerome walked in slowly with a cautious look.
Then, he held out a gift bag.
I took a cold glance at it.
There seemed to be a dress inside the bag.But why would Jerome buy me a dress all of a sudden?
“Honey, I want you to be my date at the dinner party,” Jerome said, holding my hand.
“You know what? Elder Tony came back with two friends.They were soldiers from Osman Kingdom.They had a narrow
escape with death on the battlefield before they met Tony by accident.Today, they came to the Rainbow House and Mr.Jones
recognized them.It was a wonderful moment.”
Jerome’s tone was sincere, and his eyes glinted with determination.
“Fate is really an amazing thing.It was also fate that made us cross paths.Skylar, I will cherish our precious relationship and
every single moment that we are together.”
“Really?”
I couldn’t bring myself to say anything else, and just forced a bitter smile.
If it had been in the past, hearing such sweet words from Jerome’s lips would have shot me over the moon.
I would have been too happy to even fall asleep.
But today, these words barely made a dent on my bad mood.

I could only force a smile, because I didn’t want to embarrass him.
I took the gift bag and put on the dress that Jerome had bought for me.
His eyes lit up as soon as he saw me wearing the dress, and he even leaned in to kiss me, but I dodged subconsciously.
“Let’s go to the dinner party together.”
Jerome coughed to ease the awkward atmosphere. I nodded and held his arm.
With a smile, he wrapped his arm around my waist and held me tight.
There were a lot of guests at the dinner party.
When Jerome and I showed up hand in hand, all eyes turned to us.
“This is my mate, Skylar, the only love of my life,”
Jerome announced, publicly introducing me as his mate.
The crowd burst into a long round of applause, and they extended their blessings to us.
Watching him take such good care of me and dote on me only made me more confused.
I wanted to accept his care and concern.
After all, he was my mate.
But the truth was, I didn’t have any appetite.Linda’s hostile glances from time to time left me unnerved.
Her gaze was ice-cold, as if she wanted to remind me that I was occupying a place that actually belonged to her.
Linda’s POV:
After failing to seduce Jerome, I realized that he didn’t care about me at all, which made me feel even more desperate.
But at this point, whether Jerome loved me or not didn’t matter.It was okay as long as he could give me and Andy a family.
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But the only way to achieve that was by forcing Skylar to leave Jerome, by any means possible.
I wanted that bitch to never appear in front of my eyes again.
The plan I had was vicious and manipulative, but I had to act now, because I was tired of tip-toeing around like this.
I led Andy to Skylar and proposed a toast to her.
“Skylar, you and Jerome are a perfect match.I believe you will be a good Luna for him.”
“Thank you, Linda.”
After clinking her glass with mine, Skylar drank the wine.I could see that she was absent-minded.Was there something wrong
between her and Jerome?
“Daddy.”
At this moment, Andy pulled Jerome’s sleeve and pouted at him.
“Daddy, I want to sit with you.”
Jerome picked up Andy and let him sit on his lap.
“What do you want to eat?”
Andy pointed at the shrimp in front of him, and Jerome patiently shelled it for him.
Sitting like this, the two of them really looked like father and son.It was a picture-perfect scene.
“Daddy, we need you.Please don’t abandon me and Mommy.”
While eating, Andy suddenly burst into tears.