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.

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

out in irritation and was still seething when she entered the company headquarters. Ann swiped her key card and nodded to the ladies at the reception desk as

the elevator where she waited patiently for the elevator to arrive that would take her up to the 18th floor. Veritas

Her predecessor had

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

managed to form a close relationship with the Vampire Council and let them know in advance of any properties that would be available in the coming months, they too, kept Ann aware of their need for

it reached her floor and

surprise and hurried over to greet

you?! I wasn’t expecting you in this early…if at all actually considering everything

Ann chuckled.

know I’d rather be busy with something

at her seriously and seemed to

think you deserve better… I always have. You’ve raised this failing department up to one of the most successful and most profitable under the Veritas Brand…

in embarrassment. She

Eva… it’s

of too and taken on completely inexperienced

Ann laughed.

to run this, I hope that I’ll have children who share the

warmly