QT: Against My Will

412 7.36 – Elera Mai Has A Female Lead Aura – War Of The Wickeds

Betas were basically like everyday humans. They could only mate with other betas because their bodies were not built to accommodate an alpha’s knot, so the probability of conceiving a non-beta child was very low. Because they could control their heat, getting anywhere close to hurting an omega would be met with great punishment.

Flipping her wavy long hair to the side, Elera Mai put on her sandals. Anyone could be pretty if they really tried, even a MOB character like her. Wearing a simple yellow dress with a white lily imprint, she decided only to wear mascara to enhance her yellowish-green eyes and boost her beauty with a shimmery lip gloss.

Why did she appear in this world? She was just a nameless character that never appeared in the book, not even as a cannon fodder. She didn’t remember that in her drunken stupor, she revealed something which she probably shouldn’t: something about always getting bored of her dates because the spark would fade away too fast; men only falling for her status and a pretty face; a high probability of dying as an old virgin, etcetera, etcetera.

(Because of that, a certain someone heeded to her wishes when his son’s truck accidentally killed her on the spot and his wife returned back from death – he put her into the body of a beta, giving her an exciting, non-boring challenge as an apology. This, she didn’t know.)

She was under an impression that she died while trying to save a child and switched a soul with the previous Elera Mai. When she first appeared in this world, a group of girls almost drowned her head inside the toilet bowl. They were jealous that a beta like her could have the beauty of an omega. She was glad she learned some self-defense in the past and quickly reversed the situation.

Due to her identity, the previous Elera Mai was often bullied by her peers from the F class. It was a face slap of the year when the current Elera Mai successfully joined the elite class – as a second ‘beta’ in history. She was an overachiever and a perfectionist in the past, so being at the bottom of the class wasn’t something that she would allow herself to be at.

Of course, this face-slap couldn’t compare to the face-slap when Silvia LeClére was utterly crushed by her twin during the combat classes.

Elera’s grandmother looked at her granddaughter curiously, “Are you going on a date? Such a beautiful girl, go and bring home a nice beta boyfriend!”

“Grandma! It’s just a school reunion!” Elera rolled her eyes, quickly leaving her house to attend the meeting place with her friends from middle school. She didn’t want to be the third wheel in Riley’s relationship since Victor no longer followed them around.

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It felt like their little group was slowly falling apart with Victor’s departure. Riley’s rejection changed him into Victor, who was no different from Victor in the novel. The fear he brought upon the campus with his unforgivable brutality towards Silvia LeClére brought shivers down her spine. The good kind.

Compared to before, Victor became much sexier in Elera’s eyes. After all, he wasn’t bullying Riley but the female lead since the time she poisoned Riley.

Elera didn’t want to go anywhere close to the perfect prince charming Nathaniel Hauxley. In her opinion, Victor Egerton was more of an embodiment of every girl’s fantasy – a blackened villain, who only had a soft spot for one person. She was lucky that Riley didn’t go the harem route like Silvia, or else, her chances of grabbing this man for herself would become too low.

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Meanwhile, Victor was sitting with his group of lackeys in one of the city’s posh bars. Most of his underlings were male betas or deltas (second in command to alphas=weaker alphas), who were more than excited to have their boss back.

The Egerton family was not only famous, they were feared because of their filthy dealings and evil deeds that made them extremely rich to a disgusting point. Victor Egerton was one of the most sought-after alphas. Despite being a notorious playboy, marriage proposals popped up on his doorstep as frequently as annoying ads on state television.

Different from Nathaniel Hauxley, where one had to crane their necks to be noticed by him, Victor would reach out his hand to pull the ‘chosen’ out of the crowd. The question remained whether for how long they could entertain him before he threw them away like a used rag doll.

Everyone knew, but none would give up on the thought of being his mate. Sadly, only the female lead could change his bad habits for the better by using her: one-of-a-kind, unique personality.

Victor scoffed at his role in the book as the girls flocked around him flirtatiously. Did he still have his own free will? It felt like no matter what he did, he would end up doing exactly what the book desired, or more like, what Riley desired. Everything was basically the same at its core, only Riley’s and Silvia’s positions reversed. He wouldn’t mind sharing Riley with Damon, but that demon was definitely not of the same opinion.

He glanced at the bar’s entrance and saw a beautiful girl. She was wearing a simple dress with natural makeup and seemed to have an appointment in this place. He knew who she was and just waited for the right time to make a move on her.

Victor took notice of her from the first time he spotted her. Elera Mai was among the characters that never appeared in the book, yet the impact she had on everyone around her wasn’t any less than the female lead he used to meet in the past. He felt a bit skeptical about her being from a commoners’ family. Otherwise, how could she carry such a high upbringing and aura?

Elera walked up towards her ex-classmates table, a bit surprised by the revelation that this wasn’t a school reunion but a blind date.

“Elera, it’s been such a long time,” One of the girls stood up to give her seat, wanting to find an excuse to get near Victor Egerton on the opposite side of the bar, “Here, let me introduce you to...”