Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate By A E Randell Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9 Urgent Matter

‘Don’t you miss your father? Does he speak with you at all?’ Ann asked hesitantly.

She felt a pang of pain and a soft whine, swiftly followed by a snarl of anger.

‘He is worse than your father. Constantly silent and never responds my to attempts to link with him. It’s as if he’s dead.” She snapped. ‘If that’s what he wants, then so be it. A shitty excuse for a father for both of us.’

Ann’s mouth set in a grim line as she focused on the road ahead. Just then her phone rang and the call transferred to the cars in the built infotainment system, linked with the onboard diagnostics HUD screen.

She touched the screen to accept and answered the call.

“Hello?”

“Ann, where are you?” the worried voice of her best friend came through loudly.

Ann flinched and quickly turned the volume down as she answered.

“I’m driving at the minute, is everything okay?”

I’m at work at the minute, but I finish in about an hour, do you

take me about an hour to get back anyway. You’re only

daemon. An unlikely tryst between a mid-level

and the daemon was not able to raise her in his realm as it was simply too dangerous, so she had been taken in by a children’s home that specialized

eager to leave work. She had

“Yeah, only because that asshole of a supervisor I have can’t get the formulas for the spreadsheets right. I swear if he fucks up one more…” Lexi sighed heavily, “Sorry, Ann, work is boring. I’ll see you for lunch and you can fill me in on

a spot to

to let off some steam and she could almost predict exactly the words of comfort

like plans

to herself. Maeve wasn’t

Lexi did. She found a table by the window so that she could people-watch and

weather hadn’t quite changed to the autumnal vibe that she loved so much, the rich smell of the milky chai

move in with a man she knew only by reputation and was going to be married to him for the next 5 years. Right now, she wanted the security that the feeling of home gave, and the memories that the smell of chai tea evoked within her were the closest that she

was acutely aware of the gaze of the cafe’s visitors on her. It was starting to make her feel a little uncomfortable when she saw Lexi jump out of a taxi through the window and hurry

quickly before landing on Ann, and her face split into a huge grin.

you order yet?!”

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