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

she entered the company headquarters. Ann swiped her key card and nodded to the

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

renovating them, before selling them on for a profit. Her predecessor had focused only on commercial properties or acquiring failing businesses

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

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

out of the elevator as it reached her floor and swiped her

surprise and hurried over to greet

considering everything

Ann chuckled.

us all, Eva. Besides, you know I’d rather be busy with something productive rather than moping about in

seriously and seemed to

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

rise to her cheeks in embarrassment. She had never

Eva… it’s

that. You’ve made sure that your workers are taken care of too and taken on completely inexperienced members of the packs who

Ann laughed.

to run this, I hope that I’ll have children who share the same ethics as I do, otherwise, I’ll put one of

warmly