Alpha Nocurne's Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 86 Security Dome

“Wait, what? Hold on Eva, what do you mean?”

Ann shook her head in disbelief as she pushed away from the glasspanel that Adam had pressed her against only moments earlier.

“Well, I knew that something wasn’t right as soon as it all kicked off. They had no business being there at all. So after everyone had left and we set about cleaning up, the guards that Alpha Nocturne left here for you, they offered to help me clean up. Matteus is lovely by the way, you know, the big sulky furball?”

Ann chuckled at Adam’s incredulous look as he mouthed silently back to her the words ‘Big, sulky, furball?! Accompanied by an elaborate hand gesture.

“Yes, go on,” Ann answered patiently.

She was used to Eva’s elaborate way of retelling events and actually found it quite endearing. It was a nice change sometimes from the rigid work environment, just to sit with a coffee and catch up on tales from her social life.

“Okay, well, there was a little patch of blood left on the carpet where Ada had curled up, and as gross as it sounds, Matteus was disgustingly interested in it. Even his colleague called him out on it, I was honestly a little too shocked to say anything, but I probably would have done it eventually. Anyway, it turned out, that the blood wasn’t actually blood!” She whispered in a shocked voice. “Yeah, I’m aware that it wasn’t real blood…” Ann replied a little more harshly than she had intended, but it didn’t faze Eva in the slightest.

“Of course, because you already know you didn’t attack her, but the rest of the staff here didn’t know what to believe, especially with it being leaked to the press already..”

exclaimed as her

herself. Ada wanted maximum damage, and with the news that she was to be instated as next in line to the throne, she wanted to make sure that Ann would never be

perfectly orchestrated smear campaign, thanks to her

why I was calling. Matteus was adamant that we find more evidence so that we can

Ann paced impatiently

hunting, I suddenly remembered about the security dome we installed a few months ago. You know, the little camera that’s hidden inside the paperweight on your desk that you found after someone had deliberately wiped your

froze as her heart

the small team that were working against her back then, she had encountered no end of “glitches” that hampered her efforts to make

culprit, she had found the most innocuous item that she could think of and had a specialist install two tiny spycams inside of it to capture the images of

then it had provided irrefutable proof of their

it had occurred years ago and the paperwieight ‘security dome’ as they had jokingly termed it, had been a part of the decor for years,

active for it?” Ann breathed, a little awestruck at Eva for having thought

going to have to spend some time going through it properly, but today’s date

and turned to Adam with a triumphant smile on

Oh my goddess, Eva… you’re amazing…” Ann cackled loudly, the expression of confusion on Adam’s face

happy about it. Not that I didn’t think you wouldn’t be… but… you know…” She trailed off

do you have a copy of it?” Ann asked