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.

resigned herself to the fact that

seething when she entered the company headquarters. Ann swiped her key card and nodded to the ladies at the reception desk as they greeted her

elevator to arrive that would take her

before selling them on for a profit. Her predecessor had focused only on commercial

Ann had seen the potential 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 a huge market for properties that had already been adapted to suit their needs, and often they were willing to pay

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

it reached her floor and swiped her

looked up in surprise and hurried over to greet

early…if at all actually considering everything that’s happened recently…” Eva trailed off, her

Ann chuckled.

be busy with something

looked at her seriously and seemed

up to one of the most successful and most profitable under the Veritas Brand… you should be proud of yourself. It

her cheeks in embarrassment. She had never been good at

Eva… it’s my

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

Ann laughed.

I’m too old to run this, I hope that I’ll have children who share

smiled warmly at