Becoming Alpha’s Personal Caretaker
Chapter 51

Lauren POV

"Did you see the look on his face? Ha ha ha..." Mila was laughing out loud as she left with me, "five million coins. That is magnificent. I'll remember that scene for the rest of my life."

What Victor did really lightened my mood but I still pretended to be annoyed and pushed Mila's head off of my shoulder, "Leave me alone. You've done a great job at hiding all of this from me. You didn't tell me anything."

"I'm sorry, I was wrong," Mila apologized. She gave me a complicated look and smiled significantly, "am I friends with a big shot now? Lauren, you're the boss now."

Hearing Mila teasing me like that, I rolled my eyes at her and said seriously, "What happened with you and that duke? Did Lola and Janice set you up to give you a hard time?"

"Why are you asking me that? I'm so out of his league! It's just a trap and I thought I could handle it so I didn't tell you about it. But who knew Cayce could be so despicable!" After saying that, Mila put her head on my shoulder and rubbed her cheeks against it, "Five million dollars! Lauren, I'm all yours now."

I jokingly hit her head gently with my knuckles and said, "Then you'd better start working for me, Miss Mila."

"Okay, okay."

I knew Mila was hiding something from me but I couldn't just interrogate her if she didn't tell me everything herself. No matter how close we were, there were still secrets between us.

In the parking lot, beta Richard was sitting right next to my car. He greeted me, "Miss Lauren."

Seeing that, I realized something, "Is Victor also here?"

"Yeah, alpha's waiting for you," Richard smiled at me and opened the door for me.

Before I could say anything, Mila pushed me into the car, "Well, I'm perfectly fine now and you should go home. I gotta go to the lab next and we can meet another time. Bye!"

"But..." I stuck my head out the window, concerned, "I don't think Cayce and the people behind this would let it slide so easily. You wanna go by yourself?"

Richard instantly said, "I'll drive Miss Mila there."

Mila pursed her lips and glanced at him. She seemed like she wanted to say no but then she spoke up after thinking of something, "Yeah, he can take me there. We've met before already. Just go home. I'll call you tonight."

I was finally relieved. The car was started and from the rearview mirror, I vaguely saw these two talking about something. Mila seemed very secretive and even a bit awkward.

Hmm?

"Huh?" my wolf Bella and I gasped at the same time and were both shocked at what we just saw. Mila called herself a playgirl and there was something happening between them. It seemed a good call to leave these two alone. "What are you looking at?" Victor said gently in a deep voice.

"They..." I wanted to speak my mind but it didn't seem appropriate to talk about Mila's love life with him so I stopped. I told him about what happened at Cayce's office and got more and more irritated, "Damn it! I shouldn't have made that promise to him. I should've negotiated the price. Five million dollars! How many years do I have to work to make that kind of money?"

I only became childish in front of Victor and it was hard for me to control my temper. And now I was kind of embarrassed about what I just said.

But Victor just smiled at me, asking, "Did that make you feel better?"

"Yeah..." I couldn't deny the fact that I did feel a lot better when I saw Cayce getting pissed off like that and I loved it.

And somehow, I finally knew what it felt like to have someone who got your back.

Victor gave me that confidence.

Victor chuckled and looked at me with a soft look on his face, "As long as you're happy."

In front of other people, alpha Victor was bad-tempered, terrifying, and cruel and he was intimidating as one of the most powerful men on earth. But in front of me, except for the time we first met, Victor had always been considerate and gentle and was even a bit childish. He seemed to be okay with showing his true self to me.

And the walls I built up started to crumble bit by bit because of him.

I avoided eye contact with him and said, "I did feel good but it's five million dollars! Why did I do that when I finally got in touch with you? I don't know how long it will take for me to pay you back the money."

I gotta urge Manuel to give me the properties that belonged to my mother and me.

Victor gave me a bigger smile, "You can do whatever you want with my money."

That was the most straightforward love confession I had ever heard. My heart melted and my head was in the clouds. But at thought of giving those five million dollars to Cayce, I was still very mad, "I should've known better. I could've donated the money to help the orphans instead of giving it to that jerk."

Cayce didn't even care about the lab.

And all of this was none of Mila's business and it was just an excuse.

"And he's the one who took the win." I couldn't take it anymore and smacked the seat with my fist.

The seat wasn't hard at all and my hand didn't get red after that punch but Victor still grabbed my hand and took a look at it. His eyes darkened and his voice was filled with coldness, "Rest assured. They'll give the money back to you and they'll beg you to take it back." "What?" I didn't quite follow. Cayce was such a snob. How could Victor make him give the money back to me?

But Victor didn't seem to want to explain it to me and was being quite secretive about this. He just rubbed my hand and smiled at me with his eyes shimmering like the stars, "Will you give me an award if they give the money back?"

He looked at my lips with a subtle look on his face.

I was also curious about why Victor could be so sure about it and I said yes, "Okay. But what if he won't?"

"Then you can have whatever you want."

"You can't touch me for a month, is that okay?"

"Yeah." Victor nodded and didn't hesitate for a second even though my condition was a bit too much.

He seemed very confident.

However, in a few days, Cayce wasn't so cocky anymore and called me respectfully just like Victor said, "Miss Lauren, I'm sorry about what happened that day. I went to your apartment and couldn't get to meet you these days. Could you give me a chance to apologize to you in person?"

"What do you want? We're practically strangers now," I frowned and tried not to hang up on him right away.

"No, no, no. We were wrong about what happened with Mila. I want to give the money back to you guys," Cayce unexpectantly said.

I was completely shocked.

How did Victor pull this off?