The Mate He Never Expected: His Crazy Obsession

Chapter 7) Growing a backbone.

Priya's pov,

My entire body hurts like hell.

My legs were wobbling very much, with my head spinning into different realities as I stared around the private grand Hall that I had just finished cleaning.

The hall was massive, and I had spent over 4 hours cleaning it by myself. Not a single person showed up to help me.

I suddenly fell to a sitting position on the floor, panting fast as I clutched my chest.

At that same second, I gave myself a slap on the cheek. Before I proceeded and said, “You are really stupid and weak, Priya. You lack a spine, Priya. You are so, so stupid”.

I was scolding myself.

My stomach grumbled. The inward pain, twisting and biting. I have not eaten anything the entire day, because I have been working all day long.

I did not have a single time to myself to rest. Neither was I given the break to eat anything.

I had been threatened by supervisor Penelope, that if I did not finish doing the work she had assigned me, and I dared to eat or rest, she was going to make sure that I got fired from Devicia hotel.

With my trembling hands, I took out my miserable cracked cell phone from my pocket and checked the time.

It was exactly 12:00am.

So, I had been a working horse the entire day. Again.

Each second that passed, I felt my eyes getting hot, with my lips shaking.

“I really am a fool, Lara. I don't know how to stand up for myself. I am a coward”. I admitted. My feet sat up, with my knees facing upward.

I rested my head on my knees, and wrapped my arms around my legs, defeated. Tears streamed down my face, but I felt nothing.

My head became blank, and I could not think anymore.

“You are right, Lara. I am a great disappointment to not only you, but myself. Even I could see that clearly now”. I muttered in defeat. The truth of my words, heavy.

Though she did not reply to me. She must be angry at me. After all, she had been trying to advise me every single time she had the chance, but I did not listen to her.

So, who am I to blame her for her silence?

I remained sitting on the floor and hugging my legs for a few minutes, before I stopped sitting on the floor and weakly rose up to my feet, heading out of the hall and returning home.

Upon arriving outside the building, what greeted my eyes was the beautiful and peaceful dark sky, and the thousand stars which stretched out like endless fireflies.

I felt peace as I stared at the bright full moon, which was so full of life unlike usual. “Someday, I wish my life could be like yours”. I smiled at the moon as I said.

Shutting my eyes and taking a deep breathing, I transformed into my wolf form, and cool air enveloped me, as if trying to comfort me in its own way.

“I will be okay someday”. I said to myself, despite not having a single clue when that day would come.

…

It was the next day, and I woke up from sleep with a groan. The bones in my body were sore, and every movement I made, I would hear most of my bones cracking.

They were exhausted. I remember how I fell on my bed and slept off the instant after I returned home last night.

Was it even last night?

It is past midnight.

So in the end, I finished yesterday without having any breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Not even a sip of water.

But, I had decided on something important yesterday. When this month eventually ends, and I had received my paycheck, I was going to call it a quit.

I am going to quit working at Devicia hotel.

Yes, it took me everything to find this job. But, I really can't take it anymore. I don't want to keep on enduring. I want to break free.

Lara was right. The more I allow people to trample on me, the more they are going to keep on trampling on me.

I even wanted to report supervisor Penelope and Trisha to the higher ups in the company, but I knew that that was a mission impossible and a foolish thing for me to do.

Who was going to listen to a poor werewolf like me? They were only going to listen to me if I had powers of my own.

And if, by chance, I had reported supervisor Penelope and Trisha to the higher ups, and my appeal failed, I knew that supervisor Penelope and Trisha would not sit back and watch me live or work freely.

They would make life unbearable for me, and by then, if I called it quits and stopped working at Devicia hotel, I would not be able to get my paycheck.

The same paycheck I needed, in order for me to keep on staying alive while searching for a new job. I couldn't risk that. I can't be that clueless.

Though that is not the main thing I should do right now.

My feet touched the ground as I sat up on my bed. The bed was small sized, and only fitted a skinny werewolf like me.

I sighed deeply, as I thought of how to begin. How to approach her. The person whom I needed to apologize to.

“La-”. My words hung in my throat, causing me to sigh again.

‘What do you want to say, Priya? Don't you see that if you are restless, I am restless also?’. Lara’s harsh voice came through, and I smiled. If I remember correctly, she was not always like this.

When she awakened in my life three years ago, she was very nice, sweet, and innocent. But after a year, she gradually began to change. She did not talk to me like before, and she grew distant from me, and learned to insult me, calling me names for being stupid.

It was insane that she changed only after a year of being embarrassed and hated by everyone. Meanwhile, I had been enduring those cruelties for as long as I could count or remember.

But I knew she had changed for my own good. And it was time I followed in her footsteps and did the same.

Before, I thought she was overdoing things, but now, I can see clearly that it was not the case.

“I am sorry, Lara”. I said, and kept on smiling, because I was reminiscing the first moment she appeared in my life and filled a huge hole in my life.

It was because of her that I was not alone, and had not gone crazy.

Because I had someone who would always accompany me whenever I went.

‘What are you sorry about?’. She asked me with a scoff, not having an idea that I was ready to make some changes in my life because of her, and thanks to her.

I now had a reason to fight back.

If not for myself, it was for her.

“I am sorry for everything. I was stupid for not listening to you. I am an i***t”.

She remained quiet, but before I could say another word, she said, ‘And?’.

“Huh?”. I was confused for a second.

‘Keep on talking. Tell me how stupid you were for not listening to me’. She said to me, and seemed to be enjoying the way I was insulting myself.

I couldn't blame her though.

“I am naive, foolish, and…”.

‘And what?’.

“Just forgive me already, Lara. Stop doing this to me. I have apologized to you”. I shut my eyes and swung my hands once as I complained.

I feared that if I didn't complain, she was going to continue making me insult myself.

‘So now you know how to complain? That's the werewolf I can work with’. She said, and hearing that, I understood that she had forgiven me.

But, I thought too soon.

‘I will forgive you and stick stronger to you like the way we were always meant to be. But, that will be under one condition, Priya. And you must do it’.