Becoming Alpha’s Personal Caretaker
Chapter 66

Lauren's POV

"You've decided to attend this ball?" I hesitated and asked.

Victor paused and nodded, "You don't want me to go there?"

"No, it's just..." I shook my head slightly.

"Hmm?" Victor looked me in the eyes.

"Nothing." I became hesitant and didn't know whether I should tell him my worries. I didn't wanna hurt his pride.

"Lauren, what it is? You can tell me." Victor held my hand and said gently.

"I am a bit worried about you." I paused and eventually uttered.

"Lauren, I will be fine. No one dares to gossip about me in my presence. Don't worry. Besides, you man is not that weak." Victor gave me a warm smile and a comforting look. My man...

My lips curled up uncontrollably.

Victor was right. If he was there, he would definitely catch everyone's attention. A lot of tribes had been speculating about the powerful but somehow disabled alpha. If he didn't show up, people would start guessing and if he did, I knew he would still take the wind even though his legs hadn't recovered yet.

I was confident that he would still be the same powerful and frightening alpha as long as he showed up at the ball. So going to this ball would benefit Victor as well as his tribe.

I smiled, "Fine then. I'll give you a massage treatment later and if your condition is good enough, as your attending doctor, I'll allow you to go."

Victor was amused by what I said and chuckled, "Then, would you like to be my date, Miss caretaker?"

I didn't expect him to ask me to be his date. But after some time of consideration, I took his hand and turned him down, "I'm not gonna bring a date to this ball." "Why?" Victor frowned.

"Manuel asked to meet me at the ball so we can talk about the inheritance. If I go with you, they'll know you're the one who's been supporting me." For now, I had no intention to let Manuel and the others know about Victor. Knowing how greedy Manuel and Susan were, I could imagine what they would think and do once they found out about Victor.

"So what if they know?" Victor said with contempt, "even if they do know, they're just a bunch of losers and I'll keep you safe."

"I know you will and you're capable enough to do that. But if you go to the ball with me, Manuel will see more value in me and might not want to let me leave the tribe. He'll think twice about the inheritance and they might become more defensive toward me. Of course, I know you can settle these things for me..." I sat next to him on the couch and looked him right in the eye, saying, "but Victor, I want them to pay. Although you're my lover, I don't wanna be too dependent on you."

I had heard about how possessive alphas could get and they tended to be extremely protective when it came to their lovers. Some of them would even see their women as their possessions. But I wasn't a damsel in distress and I hated this kind of unequal relationship. Alpha Victor was a proud man but I also had my pride. I couldn't bear to be so dependent on other people and live in the shadow of a man.

Tension was mounting in the room and Richard quietly took a step back.

But Victor just pursed his lips and looked down. He said with an ounce of sadness in his voice, "Fine. I'll have someone drive you there. Rest assured, no one will know they're from the Midnight Claws Tribe. Please don't say no to that, Lauren."

I knew Victor wasn't like other men and he had already known what kind of woman I was. I would never cave in and allow myself to rely on other people. But I didn't expect that he would get so upset about not going to the ball with me. He seemed a bit childish but in a delightful way.

"Okay," I gave him a peck on the cheek and comforted him, talking like I was pampering a child, "I'm sorry, alpha Victor, you're gonna have to be my secret lover during that time." "Secret lover?" Victor froze. He had never been called that before.

I raised my eyebrows and stroked his cheeks mischievously since he couldn't do anything about it. I whispered into his ears, "Yeah. And if you play along, I'll give you a treat after that." "Lauren, come back."

I ran away and ignored the look on his face, "I'll go and make some coffee. Then I'll go back to my room and continue reading those materials about your surgery. You guys keep talking."

Richard covered his mouth and coughed a little so Victor wouldn't notice he was laughing. But his eyes had given it away. Victor glared at him coldly and Richard immediately shut his mouth, acting natural, "Well then, alpha Victor, I'll go and prepare your clothes for the ball."

The clothes for the ball...

What Richard just said reminded me that I hadn't attended a ball as grand as this for years and the annulment ceremony was just a simple banquet. But the Moondance Ball was different. Since the organizer of the ball was friends with my mother, I must get fully prepared for this ball. But now I didn't have a stylist or someone to bring me all kinds of dresses for me to choose from. Guess I would have to ask Victor to do me a favor again. The stylist he hired for me was pretty good.

However, Victor ignored what Richard just said and rolled his wheelchair toward me, saying with a straight face, "Lauren, there's something I need to confirm." "What?"

"About the treat you're gonna give me for being your secret lover."

Well, you don't have to accept the secret lover identity so quickly. Don't you remember you are a proud Alpha? I mumbled inwardly.

I looked at Richard who had been pretending to be invisible and peeping at us and sighed.

Victor added, "I hope that you'll give me the treat and fulfill the promise you made me before at the same time right after the surgery."

At the same time after the surgery...

I thought about the promise I made to him when we almost had sex and realized what he meant. But why was he acting like he was talking about business? He was kind of cute that way when he was taking this so seriously. My head was spinning and my heart started racing. I wanted to glare at him but that would make me look like a teenage girl who had never dated anyone before.

So I kept my cool and picked up my coffee cup, smiling, "Okay, if my little secret lover does a good job."

"I promise you'll be satisfied," Victor said, implying something else. Then he took my hand and pulled me closer. He gave me a kiss and I had to let him because I was afraid that I would spill my coffee. I got a bit breathless and my legs went weak from that kiss. He was getting better at this.

And Richard, who was still in the room, looked out the window and acted like he didn't see anything.

I finally couldn't take it anymore and stared at him irritably. I stormed into my room with that cup of coffee in my hand.

Damn it.

I touched my red lips which got a bit swollen because of that kiss and I could still feel his warmth on them.

Victor was always able to turn me on so easily. I just couldn't resist him at all. What was gonna happen once he fully recovered? Would he mate with me and mark me?

I still remember the way he stared at me in the glass garden when he was aroused. His eyes darkened and he looked so dangerous, fixing his eyes on me as if I was his prey and he would devour every inch of me...

"Woah. I told you, you didn't need to stop that night. He doesn't seem so fragile at all. And you could take the lead if he didn't," Bella teased me in my head and sounded very regretful that Victor and I didn't get to finish what we started in the garden that night. I took a sip of my coffee to calm myself down and opened the files on my desk, saying, "See, these are the materials I've prepared for Victor's surgery. You want me to have s*x with my patient under that circumstance?"

"The doctor and her patient. The client and his caretaker..." Bella thought of something and said in a flirtatious way, "doesn't that sound kind of hot and exciting? A forbidden love... Besides, you're the one who threw yourself at Victor in the glass garden, Lauren, remember that."

I didn't know how to argue with that and even felt a bit guilty.

"It's alright if you had sex with him that night. You would've had the chance to see whether s*x would help his legs recover or not," Bella said.

"No," I turned the page and started to calm down, "even though we were turned on at that time, we'd rather have sex after his legs are healed. Because we wanna make sure that our lovemaking will be only because of love. We want it to be pure and true."

I knew the reason why Victor stopped at that moment. He knew I didn't trust intimate relationships so he didn't want our intercourse to be mixed with something else. He couldn't bear to have me question our love.

After staying silent for a while, Bella gasped, "Love is so complicated and contradictory."

"Yeah, indeed."