Chapter 147: Humiliation

Moana

“Ugh! I can’t believe you!” Sam’s new girlfriend shouted, causing Edrick and I to run over to the scene while a group of other intrigued employees gathered around as well. “You’re a cheater!”

“Baby, it’s not what it—”

Slap.

Sam’s face went red with a mixture of embarrassment and redness from the hard slap that his girlfriend gave him. A chorus of gasps and confused mutters erupted amongst the people who had gathered around, and meanwhile, Mia only stood leaning against a tree with a subtle smirk on her face. Her eyes finally met mine and Edrick’s, and she winked.

I knew then that she had accomplished what Edrick had essentially hired her to do: she had made Sam betray his new girlfriend. I wondered if his new girlfriend even knew that he cheated on me to be with her, or if he just brushed me off as some crazy lady who he didn’t even know when I found them in the restaurant that day.

Either way, Edrick was right. Once a cheater, always a cheater.

this job if it wasn’t for me,” his girlfriend, a Beta, said with

girlfriend — well, ex-girlfriend now

ran after him like a flash and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.

smirk. She yanked Sam over by his collar, causing him to struggle the entire way, and presented him to Edrick and I

widened as he stood in front of Edrick and myself. He began to stutter out a series of apologies for causing a scene, but Edrick

nothing more than petty high school

could make Sam betray his new girlfriend in less than thirty minutes, I thought that she was either joking or that she was too full of herself. But now, Sam stood here like a little kid who got in trouble in front of Edrick, and I had to focus all of my energy on containing my smile.

to stare down his nose at Sam, who was

in my company,” Edrick said, his voice low and serious and not mischievous at all like before. “I have half a mind to fire you on the spot just for disturbing my company picnic. And you should apologize to your colleagues for causing so

Sam blubbered, his eyes fixed on the ground. I had always thought that Sam was pretty tall, but Edrick was far taller and towered over him. Edrick especially towered over him now as Sam began to shrink into himself, slouching

fire this jerk,” Mia said. She wrapped her arm around Sam’s shoulders and gave him a lighthearted shake as though they were old friends, but it was entirely condescending and emasculating. “He did threaten your fiancee, after

nodded. “You’re right, as usual, Mia,” he replied. “We’ll fill the role with someone

in front of them, pleading with me. “Please, Moana. I need this job. I have to pay my

type to get a fancy apartment and an expensive car as soon as he got a

had come from the lowest caste in our society; not just a human, but an orphan, too. I knew how it felt to barely make ends meet, and even though I knew that Sam would have little trouble finding another job as a werewolf, and even though he had done me horribly

“Please, Moana…”

I sighed and turned to face Edrick. “Don’t fire

widened.

know what it’s like to live as a lower status, and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone else. Not

several long moments, Edrick just stared at me with his eyebrows raised. I knew that he felt uncomfortable by my request, but I just didn’t like the idea of causing someone to lose their

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