Alpha Nocurne's Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

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 s*e*xual tension between them both.

Maeve had made things even more difficult with her lewd suggestions for scratching that 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 with.

her out in irritation and was still seething when she entered the company headquarters. Ann swiped her

and straight towards the elevator where she waited patiently for the elevator to arrive that would take her up to the

them, before selling them on for a profit. Her predecessor had focused only on commercial properties or acquiring failing businesses before s*tri*pping them down

the needs of the wider supernatural community. Displaced packs and other shifters, new nests of Vampires or established nests that had

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 locations and they shared a profitable

the elevator as it reached her floor and swiped her keycard at the secure

a*s*sistant Eva, looked up in surprise

this early …if at all actually considering everything

Ann chuckled.

rather be

looked at her seriously and seemed to hesitate a little before

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

to her cheeks in embarra*s*sment. She had never been good at taking compliments. “Really Eva…

your workers are taken care of too and taken on completely inexperienced members of the packs who wouldn’t

Ann laughed.

birth shouldn’t limit what you can achieve. By the time I’m too old to run this,

smiled warmly at

too much for you Ann. You deserve better than what that rotten step -family

aware that my life was such a hot topic of gossip,” Ann answered cooly, with a single eyebrow