Middle Child Syndrome - Chapter 292

Chapter 292: Ch 292: Don’t look at what is mine
“Damian Rodric, I need a favor from you. Tell me if you have any problem with what I am asking. I don’t like to beat around the bush.”

Rika tugged Damian’s hair hard to pull his head down.

It was a little tricky for Rika to be able to tug Damian’s head down, so she had to struggle with high heels. Ultimately, Damian had to tug himself down to make this possible for Rika.

The alpha was enjoying this rough treatment more than Rika expected him to. It also made Rika feel weird, but she decided not to overthink it.

She would instead focus on what was happening in front of her.

The place had gone quiet at Rika’s actions, and she understood that it was because she had made a daring action.

No one else had ever tugged at Damian’s hair before. Rika knew that much with certainty.

Damian was not forgiving herself and could be downright vicious when he wanted to be. So, Rika would not be surprised to hear that Damian killed a person or two in his life already for such a trivial reason.

“O-Oi! Do you have a death wish or something? What do you think you are doing? Let go of our boss right now-”

Rika looked at the complaining man with her glaring eyes, which instantly made him back down.

No one wanted to argue with someone with Damian Rodric’s head in such a clutch hold. And the dominant alpha’s lack of reaction also made people double-think about crossing Rika.

“Damian, I asked you a question. If you are not going to answer me, then you are useless. So, you better speak now.”

Rika grabbed Damian’s face when she let go of his hair. It made Damian look like a fish, but he also looked far too happy to be humiliated.

“Boss! This is it! You are dead meat.”

One of the alphas who saw this scene could not take it anymore. He charged toward Rika with everything he had, but Damian noticed that man and decided to grab Rika’s wrist before turning her behind his back and intercepting that attack.

“What are you doing? Can’t you say that I am conversing with my dear one? Looks like you want to die.”

Damian asked, not wasting any time breaking the attacker’s wrist.

The poor alpha cried out in pain, but Damian had no sympathy for him. It was Rika who ultimately stepped forward to save that man.

“Damian, let’s go to a private room and talk. I don’t think your men would appreciate us talking out here like this.”

Rika spoke suddenly, making people remember she was also a part of this conversation.

Damian was the only one who did not look and started to hear Rika speak up.

“Alright! If that’s what you want, then this is what we will do. You all heard her. We will talk alone, so you had better refrain from trying to listen. Old man, make sure these people keep themselves in line.”

The one Damian was addressing was his father’s (now his) secretary.

Rika had seen that old alpha a few times around the Rodric mansion and knew that the old man knew her identity. The old man here also proves that Damian is the new family head.

She bowed slightly to the man before her, and the older alpha bowed back.

That took everyone aback to see.

Seeing Damian say and do what he wanted was one thing. But to see their previous boss’s secretary recognize Rika and bow to her was another.

It solidified her identity as a high-ranking person they all needed to be careful of.

“Wow! I knew that Rika was someone of high status, but I never realized how high of a family she was from! Wait, then, does that mean she is actually-! Fuck! Now I feel so stupid.”

A long time ago, Rika had told Shamal and everyone that she was from one of the four mafia families’ main branches, but they had just shrugged her words off.

After all, Rika was a beta, and none of the prominent families had beta. It had been an easy assumption to make.

But now Shamal was unsure if that had been such an ‘easy’ assumption. The more he thought about it, the more he wanted to reject the idea of Rika being affiliated with the Goodwill family.

It just did not make sense in his mind.

But it must make enough sense because the impossible seemed to be becoming possible.

Everyone tensed at the way Damian Rodric looked at them. He looked ready to tear anyone apart at a moment’s notice.

He also looked incredibly grumpy to see people staring at Rika so openly.

“Let’s get going now. I also think we should have our discussion in a side room now. I don’t like how these people look at you, Rika.”

Damian closed his arms around Rika’s shoulder as he glared at everyone else in a warning. He warned everyone to stay away from Rika if they wanted to live.

Rika noticed the sudden shift in Damian’s mood and knew she needed to get him out before he killed someone.

“Fine! Let’s go ahead and get you back to the back room. And you all, stop looking at what is mine if you want to live!”

People looked shocked to hear Damian talking. He was one to speak a little.

Not only was he letting Rika walk all over him, but he was defending her and making sure people did not bother her.

It was more than a miracle! It was something that should have never happened.

Rika and Damian disappeared behind closed doors soon enough, and someone cursed out loud!

“Fuck! We will all die once Emily Steinz hears about this. Isn’t this an affair? And with a no-name beta? We need to do something.”

It did not take long for the rumors to spread inside their community. And by the end of the day, the rumors about what happened spread across all fractions of the mafia.

No one knew Rika’s name or face, but they all knew that a ‘black-haired, short female beta’ was causing all this trouble.