Becoming Alpha’s Personal Caretaker
Chapter 18

Lauren POV

I made an appointment with the director of Moonlight Jewelry, aunt Claire. After my mother was gone, she was the one who helped the company through difficulties.

After talking with her about the current situation of the company and the Fullmoon Tribe, I had a plan in my mind. Even though it was cruel, I knew my mother would've done the same thing if she was still alive. And I would certainly do that if Manuel insisted on giving Moonlight Jewelry to Janice, who was cold-blooded and calculative.

Unexpectedly, I got a call from alpha Manuel the second I went back to Hill Estate.

On the phone, Manuel was yelling at me wrathfully, "Lauren, how could you be so ruthless? Janice's baby died because of you!" "Even though she stole your fiancé from you, you don't love Michael anyway. How could you do that just to get back at Janice?"

In the end, my father still didn't believe in anything I said.

After getting disappointed by him again, I grunted, "So? That's why you call me? For you, I'm just a vicious little bitch, right? Did you see me push Janice down the stairs?"

He hesitated for a second and froze. But then he thought of something and roared, "There were only you and Janice in the parking lot. You're a doctor but you didn't do anything to help her. And if it weren't for you, Janice would've listened to what the doctors said and she wouldn't have run all the way to beg you."

"She ran to me to beg me to give my mother's life's work to her?" I sneered, "or did she wanna beg me to forgive for giving birth to Michael's bastard and stealing my fiancé?"

Hearing me laughing, Manuel was shocked and he said, "I should've known you're heartless."

He should've known that?

Because Janice threw that broken doll to me and said I was the one who destroyed it when we were little?

Had he ever trusted me?

After a long time of silence, Manuel finally told me why he made this call, "I'll give Moonlight Jewelry to Janice."

"Are you sure about that?" I said coldly, clenching my fists.

"You don't get to tell me what to do. You're the heir to the Fullmoon Tribe but right now I'm the alpha and the boss of the group. Lauren, you don't have the right to interfere with my decision," Manuel said gloomily.

I retorted, "Okay. Since you already know I'm heartless, get yourself prepared for what's gonna happen after you give Janice the company!"

"You..." Manuel suppressed his anger and tried to say in a calmer voice, "Lauren, you're also my daughter. You've killed Michael's child and you need to give something to Janice in return as compensation. I'm doing this for your own sake. I can't stand and watch them..."

Beep.

I hung up on him instantly.

He made up his mind anyway and decided to leave the company to Janice. He thought I was responsible for that baby's death. He said that he was doing it for my sake? Screw him! He had never trusted me for a second!

In this dark room with no lights on, the cold wind was blowing and it was chilling as hell. I suddenly realized that I had no one that I could count on in this world.

Alpha Manuel stopped being my father a long time ago.

I didn't want to cry. I should've known that Manuel had stopped seeing me as his daughter many years ago but tears still welled up in my eyes and I felt like I was back to that night when I was eight years old.

Janice took my doll from me and cut it into pieces. And then she ran to father, crying that I cut the doll ruthlessly just because she touched it. She looked so miserable and pitiful like a terrified child and kept crying to Manuel. And father was the same as he was now. He believed everything she said and bought her many pretty dolls to comfort her but he refused to hear me out.

On that dark night, I was hiding in the corner of the room all alone, crying quietly.

That was how Janice slowly took my place as the daughter of the Blanco family and became alpha's favorite daughter in the eyes of the outside world, taking everything that was mine.

And now, Janice and Lola laid their fingers on my mother's company and Manuel said yes to them...

I felt like my heart was being torn apart and I was that little girl again, curled up in the corner of the room.

Knock knock.

Someone knocked on the door all of a sudden.

I came back to my senses and stopped thinking about my painful and lonely past. I suddenly realized I was in Hill Estate, not Blanco Manor. I hurriedly wiped off my tears and straighten up.

"Is there anything I can do for you, alpha Victor?" I said, trying to sound normal.

"It's time for the evening massage," Victor said in his wheelchair, looking up at me.

Holy shit!

I forgot about that after getting that call from Manuel.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," I immediately apologized, "please wait in your study and I'll be there in a minute after I change my clothes."

But Victor didn't make a move. He looked at me and eyed me up and down, saying, "Did you cry?"

I always acted tough and cold in front of others but somehow I always let Victor see this vulnerable side of me, like that time I got a call from Michael. I didn't want to do it again and said, "No. You must be mistaken. I'll get ready in a minute, sir." Then he frowned. He stared at me and didn't leave but asked, "I can be a good listener if you need me to be."

I was confused and didn't know what to do. I just looked at this man and wondered if he was still the person I knew.

The alpha who was so grumpy that he drove more than a dozen of caretakers away right now was asking me if I needed a listener.

Maybe it was because I made it too obvious, Victor pursed his lips and thought about what he said for a while. But then he said, "Don't overthink this. I just don't wanna see you sad."

I looked even more shocked.