A Beauty In An All-Male Alpha Academy-Chapter 305: Is Eliza Special?

"So you think someone betrayed your... our family?" Angela asked, her eyes moving from her aunt to her father. They both nodded. Her chest tightened as fear settled deep inside her. Betrayal was everywhere now...it could be from friends or family. "What are we going to do?" she asked softly.

"You don’t have to do anything, my dear," Marcus said, looking at her with pain in his eyes. He never wanted his daughter to be in danger. It broke his heart that she was. "We will handle it."

"I don’t want to be left out of this," she said with a frown. They couldn’t treat her like a child anymore. She deserved to know every step they took. "Don’t push me aside, please."

"No dear," her aunt said gently with a smile. "You already have so much to deal with right now. There’s a long list of things you have to achieve, remember?"

Angela sighed and nodded. It was true. She had goals for the semester. She wanted to stop the discrimination and maltreatment of students in the academy. She needed to find her mother’s killers. She had to help the boys who were affected by Dr. Dylan’s experiment. And lastly, she had to stop Renn from leaving the academy.

"We’ll keep you informed at every step, okay?" Marcus said, trying to reassure her. He would do anything she wanted as long as it didn’t put her in danger.

"Okay," Angela replied, folding her arms across her chest. She hadn’t gone upstairs since she came back. The bad news had ruined her mood and stopped her from doing anything else.

"You said Mr. Slade was missing? Why? How?" Bellezza asked, confusion written all over her face.

Angela swallowed hard. This was the hard part—the truth that involved her mates. Her father’s curious eyes made her even more nervous. "It happened about a month ago," she began quietly. "Mr. Slade was threatening me, so Kaito kidnapped him. He was supposed to send him far away from the academy, but later he found out the man knew too much. Mr. Slade was not the boss of the hospital, but his brother was behind everything. We were still deciding what to do with him when we found out he escaped last night."

"That’s too much," Marcus said, looking at his sister. "You see why I was so worried about her?"

"We knew she would face problems, but not this serious," Bellezza said as she pulled Angela into her arms. "We didn’t know that part of the prophecy got leaked. I’m sorry you had to go through all this. You and your mates."

"And my friends," Angela whispered, resting her head against her aunt, who gently rubbed her back.

"Let’s not forget about the woman Kaito spoke of," Seraphina reminded them in case they had forgotten about Eliza.

Bellezza’s brows furrowed as she looked at them. "Which woman?" she asked.

"Eliza... the one that works for you," Angela managed to say as she tightened her hands together. She could already see the look on her father’s face. He wasn’t pleased at all.

"Why did you bring her up? What did she do?" he asked, his tone sharp.

"We kidnapped her to find out more about you," Angela stuttered, watching his expression darken even more. She felt her aunt slowly break away from the hug and walk over to Marcus. Bellezza held his arm gently, trying to calm him before his anger took over.

"Oh, mother, give me patience," Marcus muttered under his breath, his hand trembling as he tried to hold himself back. If the one saying this wasn’t his daughter, things would have turned ugly already.

"Calm down, brother," Bellezza said softly, patting his back and forcing a small smile to ease the tension. "She must have had her reasons."

"The only reason I’m calm right now is because of you," Marcus said, his voice tight as he looked at his daughter. "Call the boys and tell them to bring her to me before evening. I don’t want a single scratch on her hair."

"I’ll let them know," Angela said quietly, surprised at how he reacted. Was Eliza that important to him? She was only his servant, right? Why was he so angry about her being kidnapped? Or was her father just too kind to want anyone hurt, even a servant? Angela didn’t know what it meant, but she would find out.

Marcus turned and went upstairs, leaving the rest of them in silence. Bellezza stayed behind, her face filled with concern as she turned to Angela. "Forgive your father," she said gently. "He has always had a temper. Please don’t take it to heart, okay?"

"He sounded a bit too rough for my liking," Hailey said, leaning back on the couch. "But we are the ones at fault, so I can’t really blame him."

"I just didn’t get the reaction I was expecting," Angela said with a shrug, her eyes still fixed on the stairs where he had gone. "I thought he’d be angry because I didn’t trust him, but his anger was for something else... for Eliza."

Bellezza didn’t respond. Instead, she smiled faintly and changed the topic. "Should we go shopping together?" she asked, trying to lighten the mood.

"Yes... I don’t like the atmosphere at all," Seraphina said, taking a deep breath before standing up from the couch. "Are we going to the mall?"

"Yes, dear," Bellezza smiled as she held Angela’s hand. "Let’s go and get ready."

They all went upstairs to get ready. Angela wore a floral pink gown and applied some makeup to cover her face. She didn’t want anyone from the academy to recognize her. Seraphina wore blue jeans that fitted her curvy body with a sky-blue crop top. Hailey chose a dark green gown from Angela’s wardrobe.

Renn and Stakes joined them outside. When Bellezza came out, she came with Marcus. He was going with them. Angela didn’t say a word to him as they all got into the van and drove out of the villa. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

When they arrived at the mall, Marcus noticed how quiet she was. He could feel the distance between them and it hurt him. He didn’t want his daughter to be scared of him, so he walked closer and spoke softly.

"I was just surprised. Eliza is more special than I thought," Angela said.

Marcus sighed as he looked around. Many eyes were on them. Of course, he understood why. The Malynsters, who were hardly seen in public, were out shopping in a mall.

"Come here, sweetheart," Marcus said as he took her hand while they walked into the mall to join the others. "Sorry for ealier. Eliza is one of your uncle’s former lovers. Even though they are no longer together because she betrayed him many times, he still wouldn’t want anyone to hurt her."

"Really?" Angela asked in surprise. Her heart skipped, but she silently thanked the moon goddess that her mates didn’t torture Eliza the way they did to Mr. Slade.

"Yes, my dear," her father nodded. "Eliza should be returned before my brother finds out. We are not in good terms, and I don’t want him to come after you."

"Okay. I will send them a text," Angela said softly, slipping her hand into her purse.