Chapter 75
Alpha Damon opened his eyes abruptly and checked the screen of his phone to see if it was morning, but it was nowhere near morning at all. He took a deep breath as he hit his bed hard and grunted heavily. “Why can’t I get any sleep?” He asked himself as he sat up on the bed. His mind had been filled with the thought of Ava. Even if he wanted to forget her, he could not just do that as each time he tried, he only ended up thinking about her more. He got up from his bed and went out of the room to the bar, as he thought of getting a drink to help him sleep faster.
“What do we have here?” He asked himself as he checked through to see the varieties of drink that were there. “Voila.” He said as his gaze fell on the one he felt was the strongest of all the drinks there. He brought it down and poured some into a glass cup, immediately emptying it into his mouth. He took a deep breath as he dropped the cup on the table and gazed at it with a straight face.
“There wouldn’t be a need for this.” He said in a low tone and grabbed the drink, walking back into his room. Not long after, he arrived at his room and started to put the contents of the bottle into his mouth. He gulped it and retracted the bottle after a while, squinting in response to the harsh taste of the drink. Taking a deep breath and walking slowly to the bed, he sat on the edge of the bed for a while before placing the bottle in his mouth and gulping down the contents again. He squinted again but this time, it was not as intense as before as his taste buds were getting acquainted with the harsh taste of the drink.
“Why can’t I just stop thinking about her?” He asked loudly as if he were asking someone in the room. Just then he thought of calling her and canceling her leave, but his ego was there to stop him from taking such action. He took a deep breath and gulped down a portion of the drink but did not squint this time. At that moment, he felt a little relieved as the effect of the drink slowly started to show.
“I want to be free from her. I don’t want to think of her anymore.” He said in a low tone as he drank from the bottle again. This time, the drink had already passed the half mark. He told it up to see the remaining drink before he placed it in his mouth again to drink from it. “Why am I even thinking about her? She is a whore and a gold digger. How did I even get mated to that slut? I regret ever meeting her.” He said to himself in a bid to make himself feel better.
“She got pregnant for another person. She is not good for me. I want my woman for me and me alone. I don’t want a woman who fucks around.” He said and emptied the rest of the contents of the bottle into his mouth. At that moment, he noticed that his eyes barely agreed to stay open. He slowly leaned backward to lay on his back. Just then, his eyes were closing, and he tried hard to keep them open as he tried to get himself to hate her, but he just could not hold his eyes for long as sleep slowly took over.
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“Alpha Damon.” He heard faintly followed by a hand that rubbed his back slowly, and he opened his eyes slowly, rolling over to the other side of the bed to see who it was. As he raised his head, he noticed that he had a sharp head, causing him to place a palm over his forehead and press it while he grunted. Princess only kept mute as she watched him do what he was doing. “Why is princess here?” He asked himself and opened his eyes suddenly when he remembered that he was supposed to be at work.
“What is the time?” He asked, and he immediately started to search for his phone on the bed.
“It’s past 11 AM,” Princess said in a low tone, and he gasped, tilting his head to look at her. He stayed mute for a moment as he thought of what to say.
“How did I…. sleep this long?” He stuttered as he slowly took his gaze away from her.
“Are you asking me, or you are trying to remember why you slept so long and got me worried? I had been knocking on that door, but you did not respond. Were you under some kind of sleeping pills or what?” Princess asked, and alpha Damon gave her a straight look for a moment, not uttering a single word and just then, her eyes went off him for a moment as she looked around the whole room.
He slowly started to recall what happened last night when he was unable to find sleep, causing him to scoff as he placed a palm over his face for a moment.
“What is going on? Why are you acting weird?” Princess moved closer to him, but he took a deep breath and tilted his head away from her, not uttering a single word as his thoughts were filled with what happened last night.
“Alpha, Damon, you are not saying anything. Talk to me.” She said, and alpha Damon took a deep breath as he tilted his head back to look at her before talking.
“What do you want me to say to you? Just leave me alone, I am not ready for all this drama this morning.” He said as he groaned in pain while he stood up from the bed and walked straight to the bathroom. Her eyes left his body and as if she were being directed, her eyes landed on the empty bottle that was just beside the bed and she gasped.
“Were you drinking yourself out? Alpha Damon.” She asked in a loud tone as she took the bottle and walked behind him into the bathroom.
“Look, woman. Know your boundaries and don’t cross them. Get out and let me freshen up. I am late for work.” He said she had no choice but to leave the bathroom, shutting the door immediately.
“What insolence!” He exclaimed as he walked under the shower and allowed the water to run over his body for a moment before he walked out of the room.
“Aren’t you going to work?” He asked, immediately he saw Princess sitting on the edge of the bed, holding the empty in her hand. She did not say a word in response to what he had just said as she kept playing with the bottle in her hand.
“I believe I am not talking to a deaf person.” Alpha Damon said, and she tilted her head immediately to look at him, taking a deep breath before she talked.
“I told you about her pregnancy and how she is fucking around because I wanted you to close her chapter in your life and start a new one with the one who is ready to stay with you. The one who loves you and deserves to be loved in return. But then it was that time that you think about her more. To the extent that you couldn’t sleep because of her. You had to resort to drinking before you could get a sleep. And now you are going late to work because you overslept.” She explained slowly as if she were counting her words as she spoke them, but alpha Damon only kept mute as she did not utter a single in response before she continued.
“Every day I try to show you reasons why you should let go of her and focus on me, but it seems the more I try, the harder you try to get her back into your life. You don’t look at me at all, and it’s really not fair.” She said, taking a pause as she tilted her head to look at alpha Damon, who had already started to dress for work.
“Princess, there is no time. I promise we will talk about these when we come back home.” He said, and she shook her head slowly as she took her gaze away from her.
“What did I expect you to say.” She said, and there was a moment of silence in the room before she cleared her throat slightly to break the silence.
“I won’t be coming to work.” She said, and he paused what he was doing, tilting his head to look at her, inhaling deeply before he talked.
“Why is that?” He asked, and she looked at him directly in the eyes for a moment before she talked.
“I am feeling kind of sick. I need to visit the clinic.” She said, and he slowly took away his gaze for a moment before talking.
“Okay…. sorry. Get well soon. I need to go. I will be back, and we will talk about it.” He said as he grabbed all his stuff and dashed out of the room, closing the door behind him gently. As he walked through to the exit, he realized that he had left his phone in the room, and he scoffed as he stood there for a moment, trying to think of what to do, before princess came after him with the phone, and he grabbed it from her, rushing to the car.