Filed to story: The Billionaire Alpha’s Contract Lover by Caesar Erickson
When I saw Griffon again, it felt like a century had pased since I’d seen him.
I took a deep breath and turned on the computer. Just as I was about to sort out the handover documents, Elder Thorin called me.
I was stunned. He rarely wanted to see me. And when he did, he would inform Lila and have her send me up. Why would he call me himself?
I answered the phone quickly, confused as to why Elder Thorin was contacting me directly.
“Ms. Palmer, I’d like to see you in my office.” The elder’s voice was gentle, but even a human like me understood the unspoken command underlying every word the elder ever spoke. Even Alphas obeyed the elders-typically.
After giving the order, he hung up the phone, leaving no room for me to refuse or ask any questions.
C rap. I was pretty sure Griffon was up there, since I’d seen him on the private elevator. The last thing I wanted to do was see him, but if Elder Thorin wanted to see me, it must be important.
Ever since I had started working for the Midwest Packs Corporation, the Elder Thorin had always been friendly and kind to me, so I forced myself to his office. Even though I’d quit this job, I still wanted to be respectful of him and treat him. how he’d always treated me.
Many wolf-shifters weren’t kind to humans, and certainly not in a situation like this, where I was directly working with all of the packs.
I made my way to the private elevator, and the up to Elder
Thorin’s office, concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other and trying to keep my mind off who was likely in his office.
Just as I had expected, Griffon sat in Elder Thorin’s office talking to him.
And they were discussing the bidding of the Weston City project.
After what happened with the Starke pack, the Knight pack unexpectedly postponed the bidding for a few days.
As a result, the bidding had not begun yet, which meant that the Starke pack had never doubted the contract’s authenticity.
Moreover, Roman was injured and in a coma. He might not have time to hand over the fake contract to the Starke pack.
I was worried that when Roman woke up and discovered something wrong with the fake contract, he would come to me to get even. Had everything gone to plan, I would have never had to deal with the fallout from the fake contract.
Giving myself a men tal shake, I tried to shrug off all these thoughts about what might happen. This was all in the future. When Roman woke up, he would face many problems, the ake contract only being a small piece of what the Starke pack was currently dealing with.
He was going to have to figure out have to get his father, Alpha Starke, out of jail. And then there were all of the pack’s legal issues surrounding bribery and tax evasion…not to mention Roman’s own issues regarding his treatment of women.
And that was all if Roman himself wasn’t involved in the pack’s legal issues right alongside his father. For all I knew, they’d end up in silver together sharing a cell.
By the time he was done with the endless list of things he had to take care of, I’d probably be dead anyways. Even if he wanted to settle the score, he wouldn’t be able to.
I composed my thoughts and was about to knock on the door before walking into the room when I heard a few people talking about the Sterling pack in Wolverly Capital.
The blood drained from my face, and the young man from the past’s face came back to my mind.
I tried my best to control my emotions. I knocked on the open. door and asked respectfully, “Elder Thorin, you wanted me?”
Brooks put down the coffee cup and looked up at me. “Taya, you’re in charge of the welcoming of the Sterling pack, aren’t you?”
I nodded. “Yes, sir.”
Brooks glanced at his watch. “Please arrange dinner for this evening. You can book a high-end restaurant for six p.m., and I’d like for you to go to the airport to pick up Alpha Sterling.”
“Pick up Alpha Sterling?”
We worked with packs from all over the Midwest, and most of them made trips into MPC to handle business with other packs on neutral territory, or to arrange projects between packs. Many times, a pack wouldn’t have the labor force for new construction, roads, utilities, and the like, so they contracted other packs to do the work via MPC. We ensured everything was above-board and there were no side deals.
being made that might have a negative impact on other packs.
But the Sterling pack Alpha had never come in.
And now Mr. Thorin wanted me to pick him up…
I blurted out, “Elder Thorin, I’ve actually resigned from my position here. I’m here to hand over my work today. Perhaps it would be better to have someone else attend to Alpha Sterling and dinner?”
The three people sitting on the sofa looked at me.
I accidentally met Griffon’s deep gaze, and my broken, diseased heart skipped a beat.
I pretended nothing had happened, quickly looked away, and turned to stare at Elder Thorin.
I had no idea how old he actually was, but he looked to be around fifty in terms of human aging. Wolf shifters ag ed different, more slowly. I’d met wolves who were over a hundred and still looked like they were barely middle-aged in human years.
Elder Thorin always looked angry, with a hint of disdain on his face, and people either felt terrified, awed, or inspired by him. Of course, that might have something to do with the fact that he was a powerful elder.
But I’d never been afraid of Brooks. Most wouldn’t even dare to look into his eyes, but I did. Maybe because I was a human and didn’t feel the same pull to obey that wolves did.
For me, it was as if Brooks was my family somehow. He’d never made me feel anything other than cared for, like he was somehow watching out for me to make sure I was safe as the proverbial-and almost literal-lamb among wolves.
Now, I wondered if his treatment of me had all been because his daughter was abroad, he missed her, and I looked like her.
Brooks’s noble face gradually darkened after being looked at so directly by an asistant.
Taya looked a little like his daughter, and he was kinder to her than he was to others.
But right now, her stare was disrespectful in the presence of others.
Was it because she felt that he regarded her differently? Did she think that gave her room to behave so insolently?
How dare she challenge him in front of Griffon.
But he must maintain the demeanor of an elder. And he especially couldn’t lower himself to argue with a mere human.
Brooks maintained eye contract with Taya, and his wolf pawed at him, displeased with the show of disrespect from the girl. It seemed they were at an impase, with both Brooks and Taya refusing to look away.
Tara broke the tense moment by saying, “Taya, I’ve seen your resignation letter. I haven’t had time to approve it yet, so technically, you haven’t tendered your notice yet. Why don’t you complete the work asigned by Elder Thorin first and then talk to Lila about the handover?”
Tara’s words were very tactful, and it was clear she had chosen them carefully.
First, she’d reminded me that I still technically worked for the company and that I was still their employee. I still needed to follow my superior’s instructions.
Secondly, if I refused and made Elder Thorin lose face, I would have to do it even if I didn’t want to.
I understood what Tara meant, even though I didn’t like that she was right. I gave a deep men tal sigh that I hoped didn’t show on my face.
I had been too impulsive just now, and I had blurted out my thoughts without thinking them through as I would have done in the past.
In this case, it was not appropriate for me to refuse. It would make me look ungrateful and disrespectful, and it would show negatively on Elder Thorin for having someone like that on his staff.
I had no choice but to agree. Beside, this would be the last time I would do something like this at Midwest Packs
I gave a small nod, turned around, and walked out.
Brooks looked at Taya’s back, clenching his jaw as he watched her walk away. Then he looked at Griffon.
“Griffon, do you want to attend dinner tonight?”
When Brooks talked to Griffon, his tone was different than when he spoke to others. There was a level of deference there.
Griffon leaned back in the sofa, rested his forehead on one hand, and held his phone with the other. His eyes were fixed on the phone screen the whole time, without looking up at
Elder Thorin or Taya.
Seeing that Griffon didn’t say anything, Brooks thought that he didn’t want to go, so he quickly said, “Actually, never mind. We will mediate the conflict between the Sterling pack and MPC. As the organizer of this bidding, you should avoid arousing suspicion.”
The leaders of the Sterling pack felt that since Elder Thorin’s daughter had a close relationship with Griffon, Griffon would favor whatever the MPC wanted. The Sterling pack had secretly made trouble for the MPC to force them to withdraw from the bidding process.
Elder Brooks had been very specific in how he made
Brooks wanted Griffon to go to dinner. He wanted Griffon to mediate the issues between the Sterling pack and the Midwest Packs Corporation. Only if Griffon handled the situation and explained things would the Sterling pack conform.
With Griffon being the powerful Alpha he was, his word tended to be law, even over the elders. Otherwise, with Tara being the new CEO, smoothing things over with the Sterling pack would be her job, and Brooks new that it would be impossible for her to do-given the fact that her relationship with Griffon was the crux of the issue.
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