Chapter 98

The buff bodyguard refused to budge, nor did he seem inclined to talk with her either. His responses were curt and short, which showed that the man was too impatient to talk with her. Inez, too, was running out of patience. She saw that the bodyguard was not paying attention to what she was doing and took a step forward but

"And where are you going?" The man questioned as he tied the ribbon that was in front of the door.

Seeing that the man was refusing to let her inside, Inez started to grow frustrated. She spoke to the person in a low voice, "Listen, I came here from a really far away territory. I just want to enjoy the special beer that is sold exclusively in this pub alone. Why don t we come to a common ground?" She asked as she took out a fifty-dollar bill from her pocket and showed it to the buff bodyguard.

However, the bodyguard simply glanced at her and didn t take the dollar bill from her hand.

When Inez saw that it was not working, she gritted her teeth and took out a hundred-dollar bill. The only one that she had, as she had not been paid for treating Selene yet. She said to the man, "Fine, here, take it. But just remember that this is my entire month s grocery bill. If I die of starvation, then it will be your fault."

And though she had handed her entire fortune to the man, that guard didn t take the bill in her hands, which made her wonder what was making the guard stop her from entering the pub.

She decided to drop her bribing tactic and questioned the man, "Umm, Mister Bodyguard. Can you let me know why you are stopping me from entering the pub? Is it because I don t look like I can afford to dine and drink here?" She then said to him, "You see, I can at least afford a beer that I came here for." Inez hoped that her persuasive words would win the heart of the man.

The buff man finally turned to look at her as if he was offended by her words. Like he never looked down at people regarding their fortune or wealth. His thick lips parted, and he replied, "No humans allowed. It is dangerous."

Inez was simply speechless when she heard the response of the bear shifter; she knew and had thought of many reasons for the man to stop her, but she never thought that the bear shifter had mistaken her for a human.

She shook her head and said in a hurry, "No! I am not a human. Look carefully; I am a shifter; it s just that I am a latent and you can t sense it."

"Still dangerous," said the bear shifter, as latents were no different than humans in his eyes.

Inez pursed her lips. Even though she understood the worries of the bear shifter, she still felt a bit stifled when she heard the bear shifter say that she was just as weak as the humans.

Gathering herself, she said to the man, "You are mistaken. Even though I am latent, it doesn t mean that I cannot take care of myself. There is a huge gap between a latent and a human." as she spoke, she unsheathed her claws and showed them to the bear shifter. "You see this? I can still fight. And I am just as quick and agile as any other shifter; I just cannot shift into my wolf form."

"There are a lot of misconceptions," she continued, explaining to the bear shifter who continued to stare at her. "When it comes to latent. But we are not as weak as other shifters make us out to be; we can fight just fine, and even if we cannot win, we have enough strength to run and escape from dangerous situations." She felt her throat go dry and then said to the man, "Are you convinced or should I continue speaking?"

The man didn t speak, and Inez grew restless, thinking that the man was not willing to listen to her. Just as she was wondering whether or not she should just drop the idea of going inside the pub through the front door and try to sneak inside through the back door, the man held his hand in front of him. noveldrama

Inez heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that the man truly understood what she was trying to explain. She handed him a twenty-dollar bill, which was the entry fee for this pub and said, "Thank you. You are really a nice man." Though he was a bit bad with his words, he truly cared for those who came to the pub.

Just because he thought that she was a human, he stopped her from entering.

It meant that he cared for the lives of humans and latents. Much better than many of the shifters who looked down on the two.

Fortunately, Inez knew how to change her scent and make it smell more shifter-like instead of siren-like. Her mother, being an omega-submissive female, had a really weak scent, and even though Inez had inherited her blood, her father must have been a really powerful siren, for Inez smelt like a siren for the majority of her younger years when she was not given the teachings on how to control her scent.

And her mother, who was worried about this blasphemous taint being known by others, sent her to her grandmother and only brought her back when she learnt how to control her scent.

If not, the bear shifter would have sensed that she was a siren, and that would have been totally disastrous. Inez knew that if he did find out her real identity, he wouldn t have treated her this politely. Now that she was settling the matter of her kind , Inez heaved a sigh of relief and entered the pub to find out more about the identity of the man who had once been together with her mother.