Jenna’s face went from red to white, then a sickly green.
It was quite the show.
Finally, she stammered, “I’ll pay you back.”
I let my gaze travel over her worn–out jeans, then to Silas, who was clinging to her hand for dear life.
I scoffed.
“Silas is a high–maintenance creature. He’s used to the best of everything. What are you going to raise him on? And how exactly do you plan on paying me back?”
The System was screaming.
【Don’t you dare look down on her, villainess! Our FL is about to be claimed by the Graves family!)
[Once she’s back in the lap of luxury, she could crush this bitch with her pinky finger.]
I ignored the noise and looked at Silas, who was now chanting, “I want to go with Jenna.” I pulled out my phone and called the agency.
When Jenna was finally escorted out, the world fell silent.
Except for the sound of Silas, the damn fox, sobbing in the corner.
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“I want to be with Jenna. You can keep my body, but you’ll never have my heart. I hate you, Calla Rhimes.”
He was beautiful, even when he cried.
But I no longer felt that initial spark, that overwhelming desire I had when I first saw him, the one that made me want to take him home and cherish him.
Now, all I felt was disgust.
“Oh,” I said, and walked away.
I filed a complaint against Jenna.
And left her a scathing one–star review on the agency’s platform.
Unsurprisingly, she lost her high–paying job.
The System started a countdown for me.
[Six months until payback. The villainess is going to regret this.]
Regret?
That word wasn’t in my dictionary.
Great. That gave me six months to make their lives a living hell.
I moved Silas into the tiny, cramped staff room Jenna used to occupy.
He seemed to like it so much, after all.
I didn’t kick him out immediately, not because I was holding onto some fantasy of a redemption arc where he’d come crawling back.
It was purely because he was too expensive. I’d listed him online, but no one was buying.
Just throwing him out would be like gifting Jenna three hundred thousand dollars.
And I would never do that.
Silas’s grand suite was now empty.
Every time I walked past it, I’d sigh.
My feelings for him were complicated.
I had loved him. Adored him.
I gave him everything I had, everything I didn’t have, and everything I ever wanted for myself.
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But I never felt that because I paid for him, he owed me his soul.
If he had liked me, clung to me, that would have been wonderful.
If he didn’t, as long as he was well–behaved, that was fine too.
For a fleeting moment, I imagined his fluffy tail wagging in front of me.
But he’d never let me touch it.
If he had just been a little grateful, a little kinder…
If he had simply told me he loved Jenna, I might have even agreed to let them be together.
But Silas had no concept of gratitude.
My money and my heart had been a bad investment.
But there were plenty of other beastmen in the world.
So I bought a new one. A female fox beastman. I named her Annie.
She moved into the grand suite.
Annie was sweet and adorable.
