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 her key card and nodded to the ladies at the reception desk as

elevator to arrive that would take her up to the 18th floor. Veritas Estates had flourished since she had taken her position at the

in buying run-down and derelict properties and renovating them, before selling them on for a profit. Her predecessor had

to fit the needs of the wider supernatural community. Displaced packs and other shifters, new nests of Vampires or established nests that had been f0rced to move, there was a huge market for properties that had already been adapted to suit their needs, and

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

elevator as it reached her floor and

Eva, looked up in surprise

wasn’t expecting you in this early …if at all actually considering everything that’s happened recently…”

Ann chuckled.

rather be busy with something productive rather

looked at her seriously and seemed

of the most successful and most profitable under the Veritas Brand… you should be proud of yourself. It was no easy

cheeks in embarra*s*sment. She had never been

that. You’ve made sure that your workers are taken care of too and taken on completely inexperienced members of the packs who wouldn’t have ever stood a chance in the corporate world

Ann laughed.

By the time I’m too old to run this, I hope that I’ll have children who share the same ethics as I do, otherwise, I’ll

smiled warmly

doesn’t mess things up too much for you Ann. You

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