Middle Child Syndrome - Chapter 251

Chapter 251: Ch 251: A cause for concern
Someone was touching Rika’s forehead, and it felt nice. The cold had felt nice, and Rika cuddled harder against that hand.

“Are you awake? How do you feel now? Does it still hurt? Can you open your eyes and look at me once?”

The voice asked, and Rika almost hit that hand away in irritation before she decided to humour the speaker and open her eyes.

It felt… tricky to open her eyes, and Rika wanted to give up. But she decided to try one last time, and her eyes opened.

Emily’s face was the first thing Rika saw before memories of what happened flooded her mind.

Rika buried her face in her hands to hide the blush creeping up her face. After what she had just done, she could not look at the alpha.

“Are you finally awake, Rika? How do you feel? What about your body? Does anything hurt? I’m sorry for going a little harder on you than necessary. I was not able to control myself there during the end.”

Emily apologised, and she did sound sorry as well.

But Rika did not want her apology. Emily did not need to feel bad for something Rika wished to happen.

“It’s fine-!”

Rika’s voice cracked twice while speaking. Her throat also felt hoars, and it hurt to talk.

Hearing Rika speak in such a broken tone made Emily immediately look guilty. The alpha inside Emily felt delighted at having her omega in such a roughed-up state.

But her rational side felt guilty about what she had done.

“You should not speak for a while, Rika. You need to rest and recover. I’ll take you back home once you feel better. Your body is also back to normal now, so you don’t need to worry.”

Rika nodded, trusting Emily not to lie to her.

All the alpha pheromones Rika had inhaled made her feel much better. It was as if she could finally breathe and not feel pain.

“Yeah! Please take me home as soon as you can. I want to rest comfortably in my own space today.”

Emily bit her lip and forcefully held back the offer she wanted to give Rika. The poor omega was in no state to be dragged home by Emily.

Especially when Emily knew she would devour this poor omega in front of her if they were left alone.

When it was time to go home, Emily picked up Rika to help her.

Rika made the mistake of looking at Emily’s secretary, and the male omega glared at her with envious eyes. It was clear that he had a crush on Emily ever since he started working for her, but she had never reciprocated his feelings.

The secretary had never been impolite to Rika, but he made her feel uncomfortable when he looked at her like she was an obstacle he needed to overcome.

“You can head home for today. I will take Rika home alone, Noe.”

The secretary looked taken aback by this sudden order, and he could not help but glare at Rika for this outcome.

“I am afraid I cannot do that, Miss Emily! We have more meetings to attend after this. I must stay by your side the whole time to take notes.”

Noe sounded convincing enough not to make anyone question him. But Emil proved to be different.

She just rolled her eyes and snapped her finger in agitation.

“This is enough! I am not in a good mood today, so I am just heading back for now. I will contact you once I’m done escorting Rika back. She comes first for me.”

Emily declared, causing the secretary to look even angrier. At this rate, he was going to burst and cause enormous damage.

“I understand, miss! I will wait for you to contact me. Let me know if you need me to do anything for you.”

The man finally left, but not before he glared at Rika before leaving.

Rika felt herself breathing easier once the secretary was gone, and even Emily shook her head at her aide’s irrational behaviour.

“That man! *sigh* What am I going to do with him? He’s competent, so I don’t want to fire him, but he pulls this! It’s infuriating for me.”

Emily complained before Rika placed her hand on Emily’s arm to calm her down.

“It’s okay, Emily. Your secretary is just trying to adjust and keep doing good work. I’m sure it’s nothing serious.”

Rika tried to assure her alpha. She did not want to say that Emily’s secretary openly acted like this because he had a crush on Emily, and he did not like how close Rika was to her crush.

“Tsk, I know all that. But Noe can do a better job hiding his feelings from me, at least! I don’t care that he likes me, but he doesn’t have to make it everyone else’s business.”

Emily complained, and Rika could only shake her head.

She was not surprised that Emily knew about her secretary’s crush on her. After all, pheromones tell you a lot about a person.

But Rika felt giddy when her alpha assured her she had nothing to fear.

Rika felt much better when she went home that day, but dread crawled back once it was time to sleep.

She would need to report for work the following day, but Rika did not feel ready to head out.

Rika fell asleep before she knew it and headed toward her office. She needed to face the music, and Rika could only hope she would have a quiet day today.

However, with how things were going in her life, peace seemed like a myth Rika could not attain.

So, she was sure that something would go wrong today as well.

‘There’s no point in staying out here and waiting for something to happen. I should head inside now and get started at work. I ensured I arrived on time, so that should not be a cause for concern.’