Office Romance with a Werewolf - Chapter 146

Pak!

A sharp, short slap sound echoed inside the living room.

Lady kept on badmouthing Nida in front of Randell, which Randell couldn’t tolerate anymore. He eventually slapped Lady.

However, it was not a simple slap. It was one hard slap because Randell forgot that he was holding Lady’s phone.

Randell immediately regretted what he did and hurriedly grabbed Lady’s cheek to check the bruise he made from slapping her.

“Oh no! I am sorry!”

Randell didn’t know what to do after seeing her cheeks turn dark red.

Slap!

This time, it’s Lady who slaps Randell. She slapped Randell’s hand, then took away her phone. She eyed Randell as though her patience had reached its limits.

“Sorry for trying to help you. I am leaving.” Lady turned away from Randell and realized she had crossed the line as well. She and Randell aren’t close. She doesn’t know why she’s so worked up about trying to help Randell.

“N-no, this is a misunderstanding, Miss Lady!” Randell tries to stop Lay from leaving and holds on to her tattooed arms. “I am really sorry for slapping you.”

“No. It was my fault. I should have my own business.” Lady gently brushed Randell’s hands on her arm, but Randell kept his grip on her wrist. “Please let me go.”

“No! We are going to see each other again tomorrow! It would be the same! Let’s talk this out now!” Randell exclaimed. Randell thought that it would not be a good idea to let their misunderstandings now be. They are no longer strangers; they will be seeing each other at class and they already know each other’s issues. Although it’s not just long ago that they met, Randell is sure that Lady would be a good friend.

“Okay fine, I won’t leave and won’t badmouth your – ummm, that woman anymore. So please let go of me.”

“Thank you!” Randell smiled again, but he didn’t let go Lady yet.

“Please let me go.” Lady said as she followed Randell into a room while dragging her hand.

“The phone scrathed your face. Let’s put medicine on it so it won’t scar.” Randell let go of Lady after they went into his room, then went to look for the first aid kit that Ranz hid in their luggage.

“Is this your bedroom?” Lady doesn’t like how Randell casually takes anyone else inside his bedroom.

“Yes, I shared this with my brother.” Randell usually replied. The first aid kit was also on his hand and he guided Lady to his bed and started treating Lady’s cheeks.

“There’s a little scratch here. I am sorry.” Randell closely looked at Lady’s cheek. That made Lady even feel Randell’s breath as he talked.

“Mocha.” Lady commented while Randell was busy putting on ointment on her cheek.

“What? You want a mocha?” Randell thought Lady was requesting something to drink, but Lady shook her head.

“Your breath smells like chocolate mocha coffee.”

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Meanwhile,

Randell and Nida took a cab on the way to the substation because they couldn’t ride in Randell’s car for the reason that Randell had finally found a girl to flirt with.

“I am worried. Should we just go back?” Ranz spoke to Nida. Nida just gave him a short glance before returning her focus to her phone.

“What are you doing and you’re not even worrying about Randell?” Ranz peeked at Nida’s phone to see what she was looking at.

“I am checking on the food stall at the substation. I am hungry. Let’s eat.” Nida replied while showing off the food stall she liked to check out.

“Hey, Randell is with some sort of stranger. Aren’t you worried?” Ranz grabbed Nida’s phone away and fixed his gaze straight on Nida.

“Aren’t you treating Randell like a child? He is old enough to mess around on his own. Why are you so worried about it? Plus, that girl is human. “What else do you have to be concerned about?” Nida’s response was an irritated one, as she didn’t get why Ranz was too worried about Randell.

“Why am I overreacting? Shouldn’t I be worried instead?” Ranz’s response was another question. Ranz actually couldn’t explain his feelings, and all he knew was that he was anxious for Randell.

But for Nida, there is no need to restrict Randell. If he wanted to do something, since they were already split in two, Ranz and Randell could now live differently.

“Come on, leave him alone. Let’s ask him tomorrow to tell us how it goes.” Ranz’s face was brushed with Nida’s fingers to erase Ranz’s anxiety. Let’s have a savory dinner tonight. But in reality, Nida sent some of her silver dust to watch over Randell in case something else happened. She still needs to fulfill her promise to protect not only Ranz but also Randell equally.

Nida winked at Ranz, causing him to heave a short sigh. Seeing Nida act now, Ranz feels like Nida is back to her old self. Her odd behavior now is making Ranz feel nostalgic about their childhood. “She was eccentric.” he thought.

Ranz and Nida went to the food stall in the substation, but while they were picking a good stall to eat at, they saw a group of werewolves from the other pack.

“Shall we choose a different location?” Nida asked Ranz in a hushed tone, as she doesn’t like to get noticed by the werewolves, to which Ranz responded with a nod. While acting normally, they coolly walked away from the food stalls, but before that, they could not completely leave the place because the werewolves had already noticed them.

The werewolves surrounded Ranz while ignoring Nida because they thought she was unimportant.

“Hello! Our new pack members said, You are an alpha.” One of the guys in the group of werewolves stood in front of Ranz and looked at Ranz scornfully.

Ranz didn’t respond and just observed the group of werewolves surrounding him. Ranz recognizes one of his former pack members, who is now one of the werewolves surrounding him.

Ranz stared at them with a disappointed look that made them back away. He never thought that his former members’ loyalty was so weak that they left with just one storm, not knowing that Randell, his brother, had also abandoned the pack.

“Hey, hey, why are you backing away? He doesn’t look strong at all.”

The guy that seemed to be leading the group casually tapped Ranz’s shoulder. The guy wasn’t wrong; Ranz is actually weak and will lose if they fight; the former pack members only back away because they remember Ranz’s intimidating aura when he was still a werewolf.

Ranz kept his silence and didn’t respond to their provocation because it would be harder to escape if he did.

He then looked to where Nida was to ask for help, but she was not there where she used to be standing.

“S-she abandoned me?” Ranz’s hands tremble as soon as he can’t see where Nida is now.

“Oh, are you getting scared?” The group scoffed at his reaction and forced him to walk forward. Let’s go to a much quieter place.

The group walked with Ranz until they reached an abandoned building.

“We can play freely here.” With the werewolves’ hideous smile, they one by one transformed into their berserk form. While his former pack members cower in a corner, Ranz is being sorrounded.

“W-what should I do?” Ranz couldn’t even fight back to a mere average human strength, and now he has to face a couple of strong werewolves.

“Are you looking down on us? Do you think you can take us down without your werewolf form?”

The werewolves growled as Randell remained standing straight.

In Ranz’s opinion, there’s no use in getting on guard when he doesn’t have anything to shield to defend himself, but from the werewolf’s point of view, Ranz is underestimating them for acting reluctant and not even changing into his berserk form.

The werewolves growled and showed off their fangs toward Ranz, as they disliked his way of facing them.

More than ten werewolves kicked their feet together and dashed toward Ranz, flaunting their claws.

Ranz’s body stiffened as the fear of getting hurt came over him, and he just closed his eyes to wait for the claws and the werewolves to jump on him.

“Is this the end? If only I knew that I would die now, I would have stolen a kiss from Nida!” he thought as he clenched his fist waiting for his end.

But nothing happened.

Ranz still closed his eyes, but he could see the sudden burst of bright light around the area. He kept his eyes closed as he waited for the bright light to disappear.

“A goddess? Goddess!”

Ranz could hear the werewolf’s voice suddenly sounding frightened and calling out to someone as a goddess.

“We are sorry! We are not aware that they belong to a pack guarded by a god!”

“god? Whom are they talking to?” Ranz wonders as he tries to open his eyes, but his eye lid won’t open.

“Ack! why!”