Middle Child Syndrome - Chapter 209

Chapter 209: Ch 209: We took the wrong person
‘Where am I? I don’t remember what happened. Why does my head hurt? When did I blank out?’

Rika had a few questions she wanted an answer to. But unfortunately, her body was in no condition to be able to do anything.

Even if Rika wanted to lift her head and look around, she could only see the pitch-black darkness that prevented her from doing anything.

“Oi, the princess is awake. Shall I give her another dose of the medicine? She doesn’t look like she’s in heat yet.”

Someone yelled, and Rika could hear the speaker walking closer to her.

It made Rika want to attack him, but her hands and feet were bound, and she was tapped down to a chair. She would not be able to move property for a while.

“Don’t try to escape, princess. We ensured these bonds were snug and hard when we bound you down. Even an alpha would not be able to escape from these bonds. Now, do tell us how you overcame the effects of the drug. Is it some special kind of training? Or are you just special?”

The speaker walked toward Rika before he ripped the tape off her mouth and forced her head to look up at him.

Rika could not tell if the speaker was an alpha, beta, or omega. Her nose was clogged even worse than it usually was.

“What? Nothing to say? Man, the scent of heat is so tough on you, but you are not behaving like the cheap whore you should be at the moment. Just what is wrong with you?”

The man asked as he tilted Rika’s head aside to sniff at her neck.

Those hands on Rika’s face stiffened and pulled back in likely shock. A barely audible growl left the man’s throat once he was done sniffing Rika.

“Oi! Are you sure we snagged the right person? This girl doesn’t smell like anything. My instincts are also telling me that this is a beta. The one we were supposed to snag was the Goodwill princess, right?”

The likely alpha asked, and Rika felt better knowing she had not been the target.

It seemed as if these people were aiming for Suzie instead of her, and Suzie’s heat-riddled scent had confused these people into kidnapping Rika instead.

This was the part where Rika should say something like, ‘I am not Suzie Goodwill.’ But since she did not have a death wish, Rika remained quiet and did not say much.

She would let these people figure out that they made a mistake.

“What? How can that be? We both smelled that sharp smell of heat! Everyone knows what the Goodwill princess smells like. Now, let me see…shit! This girl has black hair. Our target had blond curls. We got the wrong person. What should we do now? The boss will eat us alive.”

The second person finally came closer to Rika.

His hand was much rougher, and he had no sympathy. Somehow, Rika could tell that the second handler was a beta who had trained himself to be on par with an alpha.

“Well, one thing is for certain. We can’t let this one go because she will tell everyone what happened. Should we just kill her?”

The first speaker asked. Rika felt a spike of fear in her heart.

Had she ever been this close to death before? Rika could not recall a single moment.

“No. We should let the boss decide what to do with her now. We might become victims if we do whatever we want without considering our actions’ consequences.”

The second speaker sounded confident, and Rika was sure she would not be killed.

They left Rika alone once more, and the silence felt stiffening.

Rika had no idea what fate awaited her. But she did know what was now dependent on a rescue mission.

‘I hope either Zhu Li or Rocxx realise what happened once they failed to get into a contract with me. Shit! How did I get into such a situation in the first place?’

It was all her fault. Rika knew that much, but that did not mean she wanted to acknowledge the truth.

…

“Where did she go? I swear that I can see her phone beeping nearby. But there is no human to accompany the phone.”

Zhu Li looked around the bathroom area where Rika had to message him.

But no matter how hard he looked, there were no traces of the beta left in there.

It made the dominant alpha think the worst, and he panicked. He even tried calling Rocxx, but the other alpha’s phone rang and rang without any answer.

When Zhu Li decided to give up and turn to the recording cameras to find out what had happened, he felt a dominant presence behind him.

He had never felt such an impressive Alpha aura, making Zhu Li pause.

Before he even had a chance to turn around or talk to the other dominant, he was attacked and grabbed by his throat.

Zhu Li grabbed the offending arm and tried to pull the other person away from his throat. But no matter what he did, that grip did not lighten.

‘T-This strength is inhuman. I will die at this rate. I need to find a way to make this man let go of me right now.’

“Y-You! Who are you, and what do you want? Let go of me now.”

Zhu Li tried to dominate the space with his pheromones, but the other person matched his pressure with his own.

The dominant alpha was not letting go, and Zhu Li feared this would surely damage his vocal cords.

“Where is Rika? What did you do to her? You better answer me truthfully, or I can make this your last day.”

The voice asked, but it was not calm. The dark tone in the speaker’s voice made Zhu Li shiver in fear.

He had never felt such goosebumps before in his life. But this time, he was sure that he would die in an instant if the alpha in front of him wanted him to.

That was how dangerous the situation had gotten for him.