"Oh, shit..." I cursed, staring at the open wound on her hand that revealed blood.I raised my gaze to stare at the three women who were the same as the woman who tore my shirt that day. They were looking at me with various looks on their faces, but one thing I could deduce was that I saw hatred and anger in their eyes and expressions.The cat-eyed woman's hand slammed into my shoulder so hard that I hit the cold wall behind me. "It's your fault." She pointed at my wound that could not quickly close due to my poor self-healing ability. "How dare you be chosen as Atlas' mate!" She stared intently at me.Again, because of that.I stared at her with an annoyed face, my eyebrows bent as I stared at the three of them.This happened as I was about to rush home immediately after settling down at my favorite spot, but these bar-bar ladies were waiting for me. They dragged me away from the hallway towards the abandoned building at the corner of the campus. The moment I saw one of their faces,

"She's really shameless. How could she show up here after what happened yesterday?" I glanced through the corner of my eye, subtly seeing who else was talking about me as the class was about to start.Then I found Donna and some of her friends sitting facing each other, some even turning their backs to the lecturer's desk just to be busy talking about things that were none of their business.I recognized them as Donna's friends, especially the brunette and the blonde. They often walked together with Donna and Liam."Isn't she just shameless? From the start if she had any shame, she wouldn't have survived on this campus, it's not just one or two people talking about her." Donna glanced at me. I pretended not to hear and see them. "But almost the entire school and Elsie still showed up the next day like nothing happened."I looked down, trying to focus on the book in my hand, ignoring Donna's screeching voice. Maybe they thought I didn't hear what they were saying, but my hearing was qu

I stretched, relaxing my stiff body muscles from constantly sitting and staring at the laptop screen. Then, as I stretched, I caught a glimpse of the sky and found it had turned almost dark."Ah, it's evening already," I said unconsciously and made Professor Seth look at me. He had been sitting beside me, staring at his laptop screen while occasionally looking at my screen.He, too, turned his gaze towards the sky and nodded. "Yes, we can wrap it up for today." The professor closed his laptop screen. He blinked his eyes a few times.Maybe all day this man has been looking at his laptop screen for who knows how many hours, considering his job is a lecturer, plus he takes care of my project.I didn't think we had been sitting in the library for more than two hours without feeling bored. I never felt so happy and excited when I came to campus, let alone forget the time that passed. This was truly a new and memorable experience for me.If I usually feel burdened and upset, today I feel so

"What are you doing here?" I stared at him with wide-open eyes.But Atlas ignored my question, standing close to me while looking at me intently. I tried to avoid his gaze, but it didn't stop making me uncomfortable.I then pushed Atlas' body away from me, but as I did so, the stares of the people there made me momentarily move away from Atlas."Why is he treating Atlas like that?" I felt the woman's gaze at eleven o'clock, staring at me with a displeased look.I avoided eye contact with her. Then, I unintentionally looked at the other woman looking at me with annoyance. "Because Atlas is her mate now, she thinks she can treat Atlas with such disrespect? She's being disrespectful."I lowered my gaze while gently pulling my hand that was attached to Atlas to push him away."She should have behaved herself with Atlas. After all, Atlas is the future alpha." Then I heard a man's voice commenting on me.What they said was true, so I closed my eyes and held back. Suddenly, my gut shrank bec

These few days, I was quite calm because there were no problems, and everything was going well. The project I'm working on is almost finished, and then my meeting with Prof. Seth wasn't interrupted either.It all happened thanks to Atlas, who had avoided contact with me for the past few days. I didn't care, and I actually felt relieved, although, of course, Rory often showed up later and got angry with me because my attitude towards Atlas was considered bad by him.She kept rambling that I might get into trouble later because of my attitude, and then I would regret treating Atlas like that, and that kind of thing meant that I had to go to Atlas and apologize for my attitude towards him. Seriously! I certainly wasn't going to do that.But I didn't want to think about it. I wanted to enjoy my time off as best as I could before Atlas got back at me. Who knows when Atlas will end his quiet time and start giving me trouble again? So before that happens, I will enjoy my peace.I closed my l