Middle Child Syndrome - Chapter 421

Chapter 421: Ch 421: Give them a chance
“Suzie, I think you are marrying a man who cares about you. Look at how much he is willing to pamper you. Don’t you feel comforted to know this?”

The omega looked at her father with a face that asked if he had asked her this question. But the excited expression on her father’s face told her that he was serious about asking her this question.

“I don’t know what is wrong with you! Why would you ask me this question? Just what part of his man looks like a decent person to you? Are you getting fooled by his good looks? If so, you are shallower than I expected, father.

He is just conning you! Ugh, I wouldn’t want this marriage if not for this bond! You don’t know what I-”

Suzie stopped speaking at that point. She did not know what else to say to her father that would prevent the truth of what had happened from spilling out.

Her father gave Suzie a look that said he did not understand what she meant. But he was willing to listen to her this time.

“Father, what about this jewelry? I think this will suit Suzie. What do you think?”

Henry chose that exact moment to show her father the jewelry he handled with care.

It was a beautiful pink necklace with an exotic look, but Suzie was not interested in it much. She was much more interested in the rare ruby she could see from the corner of her eyes.

Just as she reached for that necklace, someone else went for it and grabbed it.

Suzie was about to make a complaint when she froze. Her eyes met Rika’s familiar ones, and Suzie felt her tongue frozen in shock.

“You! What are you doing here? Are you even allowed in here?”

Suzie asked as she eyed Rika and then her frozen partner.

Her words stuck in her throat when her eyes met Rocxx’s frosty ones.

The older alpha looked at Suzie as if she had betrayed him and all his trust. But there had been nothing between the pair, to begin with.

“Suzie, what is taking you so long…you ran into Rika here, of all places? What a coincidence this is.”

Suzie looked at her father’s awkward expression and realized that it was not a prank he was playing on her. Rika was here on her own accord, and she looked uncomfortable as well.

As soon as Henry saw Rika, he recognized her as the person closest to the heir of the Steinz and Rodric families.

He instantly knew Rika was important and needed to secure her at any cost.

“Oh my! It is nice to meet you, miss. I am Suzie Goodwill’s fiancé, and my name is Henry. It is nice to meet you.”

The alpha reached for Rika’s hand, but she did not give it to him.

It irked Henry, and he forcefully tried to grab Rika’s hand, but she pulled it back.

She did not like how this alpha looked at her, her neck, or Suzie. She clenched her fist tightly before she grabbed her partner’s collar and pulled him toward her side.

“What do you think you are doing? Stop paying attention to her! You are my bond partner. Do you want to die-!”

Suzie did not want to feel this jealousy, but she thought she had no control over her emotions. Every time she looked at Rika, her feelings would burst.

“Calm down, Suzie. You are getting too emotional. You know that I was just joking around-”

“Is that why you left your scent on her? Don’t pretend as if I cannot smell that shit! You wanted to show me this, so that’s why you did this. I-”

“Rika, I think it is best if we go away now. I suddenly remembered that there is so much I need to do.”

Rocxx immediately interrupted with a hurt expression. He looked ready to cry, and Rika felt sorry for him.

He had genuinely cared for Suzie, but it felt like he was finally getting over her.

With this, Suzie had likely lost her last chance of redemption.

“Alright, we should get out now. And you…if you are mated, then you should pay attention to your partner. If you do something like this again, I will have no choice but to file a restraining order against you.”

Suzie warned the man before she quickly left.

She kept giving Henry an angry stare the whole time, but the man pretended he did not notice this until Rika was gone.

As soon as she left the store, Rika looked at Henry and placed her hand on his shoulder.

“It is fine! Suzie is not worth your tears or your rage. There is no need for you to feel guilty about it.”

Rika patted the man on the back, but he looked sullen.

“I genuinely liked her a lot. I knew Suzie was mean, but I thought she would come around. I just never expected her to-”

The man finally broke down, but he did not cry. Rika did not say anything to him but sat beside him to support him emotionally.

Finally, after an eternity, the man wiped his tears off and stood up. He finally seemed to have made up his mind about what he needed to do next.

“I am not going to wait for Suzie anymore. I will go out and start a new life. I have wasted enough time on things that I could not help.

Rika, you should also decide. I heard you no longer have your memories, so why don’t you start anew, too? You could never give Damian and Emily a chance to be a family with you because your past held you back.

But maybe you should give it a shot now. Who knows, you might come to like it.”

The man spoke these final words before he dropped Rika off.

Those words stuck a chord in Rika that she did not even know she had.

‘Give those two a chance, huh? I might as well do that.’