My Ungrateful Shifter Auctioned Me Away—Now He’s Begging for My Return Chapter 10

My Ungrateful Shifter Auctioned Me Away—Now He’s Begging for My Return Chapter 10

The heavy rain lasted five straight days.

I simply stopped going out and stayed home with Silas.

On the afternoon the rain was finally about to stop, the droid completed its perimeter sweep.

[A fox is outside the gate. Vital signs are continuing to drop.]

[Looks like he’s about to kick the bucket.]

After reading the words on its display screen, I frowned.

“The black-market system terminated the bond contract, so Rowan no longer counts as my That means if he dies at my front door, I won’t be held responsible, right?”

A huge exclamation point appeared on the bot’s display.

shifter.

[No! If he dies on the property, I still have to clean him up! I don’t want to process biological waste!]

The bot demanded that I respect its human rights.

I had no choice.

I carried Rowan back inside. He could not even maintain his human form anymore.

I tossed him into the guest room, and when I turned to leave, his fox tail hooked around my arm.

He seemed to have regained a little consciousness. Broken, whimpering sounds slipped from his

throat.

I pulled my hand away.

After Dr. Mercer finished his assessment, he turned to me with a scowl, hanging a fresh IV bag.

“If you bought such a valuable shifter, you should take proper care of him.”

“What kind of guardian are you? This shifter has hypothermia, and there’s no food in his stomach

at all. It’s been storming for days. Did you throw him outside?”

He launched into a lecture that I silenced with a single look.

“This fox is not my shifter.”

I pointed at Silas. “This little lion is. Please give my lion a physical exam later too.”

Realizing he had blamed the wrong person, the doctor looked a little embarrassed. “All right.”

“Don’t take it personally, Miss Mercer. I just didn’t expect anyone to abandon a shifter with looks like this these days.”

“There’s nothing strange about it.”

I lowered my eyes to the fox lying on the bed, now much thinner than before.

“There are plenty of good-looking shifters. If one is disobedient and impossible to tame, of course

he’ll be abandoned.”

The fox trembled almost imperceptibly.

The doctor nodded along.

“True enough. Then is this fox a stray? Are you planning to take him in? If not, I can bring him back

to the clinic.”

I said, “Do whatever you want.”

Rowan finally could not hold back anymore and weakly opened his eyes.

“No.”

“Evelyn, you can’t do this to me.”

His voice was very faint.

“I’m really not dirty. I didn’t let Vivienne touch me. Everything on me has already been washed clean by the rain.”

I carelessly pulled the door open to leave. “I have Silas now.”

“That’s okay! I can be your shifter together with Silas!”

Rowan struggled to sit up, but the doctor hurriedly pressed him back down.

He tried to force the shift, his body flickering between man and beast in a grotesque display of

exhaustion.

Seeing that I was about to leave, Rowan finally begged.

“Guardian! Please don’t abandon me. I was wrong. I know I was wrong!”

I stopped.

The truth was, I didn’t feel the catharsis he expected. I hadn’t been waiting for an apology.

I had only suddenly remembered how, back when I treated him well, he was always arrogant and

took everything for granted.

Making him lower his head and apologize had been next to impossible.

Now that I did not want him anymore, he was the one offering me an apology.

So the mighty had fallen.

No one even had to break them.

They were already about to snap on their own.

Through the crack in the door, I looked at him without expression.

Then I left without looking back.