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.

lewd suggestions for scratching that itch and Ann had resigned herself to the fact that her wolf was insatiable and it was

was still seething when she entered the company headquarters. Ann swiped her key card 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

on for a profit. Her predecessor had focused only on commercial properties or acquiring failing businesses before stripping them down and selling their

for 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

them know in advance of any properties that would be available in the coming months, they too, kept Ann

reached her floor and swiped

in surprise and hurried

at all actually considering everything that’s happened recently…”

Ann chuckled.

happens to us all, Eva. Besides, you know I’d rather be

and seemed to hesitate a

you deserve better… I always have. You’ve raised this failing department up to one of the most

her cheeks in embarrassment. She had never been good at

Eva… it’s my

your workers are taken care of too and taken on completely inexperienced members of the packs who

Ann laughed.

how I feel about that. The circumstances of your birth shouldn’t limit what you can achieve. By the time I’m too old to run this, I hope that I’ll have children who share the

smiled warmly