Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

CHAPTER 26 It’s My Job

“No, thank you! I have to work!” Ann squeaked suddenly, shaking her head voraciously as she backed away.

Maeve roared at her furiously and Ann angrily shut her out as Adam watched her every

movement, as if he wanted to devour every inch of her. She was struggling to think straight under this amount of pressure.

“I can make my own way to work, Adam, I don’t want to inconvenience you,” Ann announced, trying and failing to keep the tremor from her voice.

Adam chuckled.

“It’s no inconvenience. I insist on being the one to take you to work. I won’t have my Luna wandering around with her arousal so easily recognized.” He answered firmly, almost possessively

Ann shuddered.

This was not how her morning was supposed to have started.

As Ann shut the car door behind her and she watched Adam speed off, she let out a sigh of relief.

The journey had been almost unbearable because of the sexual tension between them both.

itch and Ann had resigned herself to the fact that her wolf was insatiable and it was something that she was going to have to learn how to deal

Ann swiped her key

through the foyer and straight towards the elevator where she waited patiently for the elevator to arrive that would take her up to the 18th floor. Veritas Estates had flourished since she had taken her position

Her predecessor had focused only on commercial properties or acquiring failing

highly specialized properties, renovated to fit the needs of the wider supernatural community. Displaced packs and other shifters, new nests of Vampires or established nests that had been forced to move, there was a huge market for properties that had already been adapted to

properties that would be available in the coming months, they too, kept Ann aware of their need for locations and they shared a profitable

reached her floor and swiped

surprise and hurried over

expecting you in this early…if at all actually considering everything that’s happened recently…” Eva trailed off,

Ann chuckled.

know I’d rather be busy with something productive rather than moping about in my own

seriously and seemed to hesitate a little

it’s worth Ann, I think you deserve better… I always have. You’ve raised this failing department up to one of the most

color rise to her cheeks in embarrassment. She had never been

it’s

too and taken on completely inexperienced members of the packs who wouldn’t have ever stood a chance in the corporate

Ann laughed.

I’m too old to run

warmly