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.

girlfriend, a Beta, said with

now — turned on her heel and

He tried to chase after her, but Mia suddenly ran after him like a

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

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 only stared

standing around us. “Let’s not let pretty high school drama ruin your nice afternoon.” People in the crowd snickered at the way that Edrick referred to it as nothing more than petty high school drama, which caused Sam’s face to turn an even deeper shade of red. His eyes shifted back and forth between Edrick and I, and Mia continued to stand behind him with her arms folded across her chest in case he decided to try

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. It felt good to see him get a little taste of the humiliation

stare down his nose at Sam, who was practically trembling by now. Once we were alone,

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.

him. Edrick especially towered over him now as Sam began to shrink into himself, slouching as though he wanted to

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 replied. “We’ll

further. “No, please,” he whined. He then turned to face me and clasped his hands together in front of them, pleading with me. “Please, Moana. I need this job. I have to pay my rent.

type to get a fancy apartment and an expensive car as soon as he got a job at WereCorp, even going so far as to go into debt to appear

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 wrong in the past, I

“Please, Moana…”

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

eyes widened.

as a lower status, and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone else. Not even this

I just didn’t like the idea of causing someone to lose their job entirely over this. Sam

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