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.

company headquarters. Ann swiped

waited patiently for the elevator to arrive that would take her up to the

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

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

would be available in the coming months, they too, kept Ann

as it reached her floor and swiped her keycard

up in surprise and hurried over to greet her

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

Ann chuckled.

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

seemed

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

her cheeks in embarra*s*sment. She had never been good at taking

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

Ann laughed.

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

warmly

for you Ann. You deserve better than what

topic of gossip,” Ann answered cooly, with