CHAPTER 16

Autumn's POV

It was evening, and I was still trying to strategize on what to do in order to make these people hate me a lot. All of a sudden, I had a knock on my door. I went out to open it, and it was one of the maids who have always been rude to me.

Let me guess—since they sent a rude maid again, she must be here to call me for dinner. But she's not someone I can't deal with. After all, I have dealt with her colleague, who is now fawning on Agatha for me. Isn't that such a wonderful thing?

I opened the door, waiting to hear what she would say. But she didn't say anything.

So I got a little bit frustrated and spoke first.

"What do you want? You knocked on my door and you're just standing there like a statue. Can I help you?"

She shook her head.

I expected her to be arrogant and insult me, but she wasn't even doing any of that at all. That is a bit confusing, though. I thought she would actually be rude to me. Since when does she look like she's scared of me?

"I'm here to call you for dinner. I was told to get you," she said, her voice sounding shaky.

I shook my head.

"I'm not interested in that dinner. You can go. Besides, why are you acting like I'm going to kill you? It's not as if you haven't bullied me before. Now you're acting as if I'm the bad person here."

She quickly went on her knees, to my surprise.

"Please, young mistress. I was wrong. Forgive me for everything I've done. Please don't report me to the Alphas."

I looked at her in surprise.

I see where this is going. No wonder she's acting like she's going to die if she comes close to me. So this is all because of the Alphas—or whatever she thinks it is. I should have known. One of the maids would still end up revealing everything I did. But shouldn't they just join hands together to bully me? Why are they so scared now? Why are they acting like I've been favoured again?

"I'm not interested in your apology. You can do whatever you want with your life. Please just stand up and get away from me," I said and went inside, shutting the door.

I know the so-called Alphas would not let me have it because I disrespected them. So I looked around my room and found a baseball bat. Can you believe it? Agatha was actually hiding a baseball bat in this room and I ended up carrying it. Now I want to see what she's going to do with it. For now, I need to use it.

I stood right behind the door with the baseball bat in my hands, waiting for them to swing in so that I can also use it to swing them out.

Just like I expected, they came as fast as they could, which was very funny to me because I didn't think they would be coming here to show their anger so soon. Are they really leaving their dinner just to show me that they are mad at me?

The first person to rush inside was Adonis, and I didn't waste time in swinging the baseball bat at his face. It made me laugh the moment he fell to the ground. His other brothers also followed him, and I wanted to swing it at them, but they were fast enough to dodge. It made me mad that they were able to predict my attack, but it's fun enough to know that I have done it to one of them.

"What is wrong with you, Autumn? Why would you do that to your uncle?" Knox asked me, but I only laughed at him.

"What do you think is happening, you idiot? You call yourselves great Alphas, yet you can't even dodge a sneak attack from me. Alphas, my foot!" I mocked them, expecting them to get mad at me.

Just looking at the looks on their faces scared me a little bit. I know I'm going to be in pain once they throw me into the dungeon, but this is for my future. A little bit of pain is nothing compared to what I've gone through in my past life. I'm willing to do all of this just so I can survive. Even if I'm going to die, I still won't regret it.

"We called you to come down to eat dinner with us. Because you couldn't come, we came to check on you—to see if you were fine—and this is how you welcome us?" Dante yelled at me.

I shook my head. "I told you not to come into my room without asking. Even if this is your house, it's still my room. Since you refuse to let me go, you should respect my privacy."

They looked like they didn't understand what I was saying, so I continued.

"You think this place is your room where you can go and come as you please? As long as you don't want to let me go, I am not going to give it to you easily either." I made sure I said that to them again.

Adonis moved closer to me. "That's okay. You should come down for dinner."

But it sounded ridiculous to my ears. I pulled my hand away from him.

"Don't you understand what I said to you before? I feel disgusted eating with you people. You never even cared about what I've eaten for the past… how many months or years now, and now you suddenly act like you care? Do you think I'm stupid and I'm going to accept this nonsense?"

It made me so angry that they were acting all nice and protective when they've never even really cared about me. What's the essence of all this when everything I've been doing so far is trying to please them, but nothing good has ever come out of it? I even died in my past life just to save them. I did a lot of things to help them, even after they ignored me. Yet, they never looked my way.

Now, in this life, I'm trying to get away from them, and they suddenly become nice? I'm supposed to believe all of this nonsense?

"Why do you keep doing this, Autumn? I know you are mad at us, but you should try to understand things between us," Dante replied.

I scoffed. "I said I can't eat with you. Besides, I already have an eating disorder. What else do you want from me?"

They didn't say anything else, and I opened the door.

"Look at this. I'm going to swing it on your faces once again, and you won't be able to dodge it. Now get the hell out of my room!" I pointed towards the door, waving the bat at them so that they could go out.

Because they didn't walk fast enough, I made sure to push all three of them out of my room and lock the door.

"How stupid. They want me to come down and eat dinner with them, and Agatha is their baby girl. They shouldn't pretend like they know me at all."

But why does it feel feel painful to do this? Maybe because the old autumn has a lot of grudges that she can't let go, that is why I'm still unhappy with them. But everything I've done so far is for them to banish me and punish me yet they are not doing anything.

I should start the plan to win their reputation as soon as possible. It's almost about time for them to be discovered that I'm their mate.

"Autumn... Get your ass down out here right now!" Adonis suddenly shouted that it scared me.

Wait a minute, didn't he already leave? Why is he back?