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#Chapter 12: Reunion Misery
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A loud scraping jolted me out of my embarrassment. Cathy was scooting her chair away, looking unhappy. "Don't move too far, Cathy," I said, putting out a hand. There was no way I was going to let anyone sideline my friend, no matter how good he smelled. But oh, did he smell amazing. "Charles, there's room here!" A musical voice called from the next table. Jennifer had shifted around, and a half-dozen pairs of bright, beautiful eyes were smiling at the man next to me. "Come on, it's like old times at this table." She smiled a bewitching, teasing smile that made even me sit up straighter. Charles, however, seemed unaffected. He bowed slightly, but called to the table over the music, "I need to talk to my friend Elena, and to thank Cathy for this exquisite party." He sat down between us and turned his gaze to mine, making my stomach clench up. I felt stupid. I'd seen it everyday for the last week. Why didn't it get easier? "Are you enjoying yourself?" Charles asked, looking amused.
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He drew me back to the table where his old high school friends sat pretending not to watch us. "Sorry, everyone. I've got to take Elena away. But it's been a blast." He began to shake hands with all the males at the table. The females got up too, giving him quick, distant hugs and pecks on the cheek. Jennifer was the last to come up to us. She looked at him with pouty eyes, put a hand on his chest and moved in closer. "Why don't you stay a little longer? The dancing is just getting started. I remember you having good moves." Charles smiled politely. "I think not." "Then at least take this," she said, holding a small scrap of paper close to her cleavage where his eyes would have to take in every curve. To my surprise, he looked down at me instead. "Ready?" I nodded. Jennifer's eyes went to me and she frowned. "Surely you two aren't..." Charles looked at her and smiled. "Aren't what?" "It's just... I mean..." "It was good to see you, Jennifer," Charles said firmly, putting a han
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I was shocked into silence for the umpteenth time in the last few minutes. I'd always doubted Cathy's declaration that she loved my smell. I was sure she was just being kind. Was it possible she was telling the truth? Had I been wrong all these years? If Charles was telling the truth, the connection was beyond what most of us hoped for. An A+ match was rare in our society. The perfect S was so rare it was practically a myth. "This makes no sense," I said. I tried to picture our interactions during school, to remember if there was anything more than the casual hellos, than sitting next to each other in silence. There was no sign that I was an S to him. “How could you have no idea?" Charles frowned. "What do I smell like to you then?” “You smell wonderful, but I couldn’t tell you a grade.” “You don’t have a grading system?" Charles was shocked. "I thought you confessed to me in the parking lot because…” I shook my head. “I don’t have that ability." “Then this is a one-way S match
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I woke up early and immediately began working.My employee handbook lay open on my desk, my highlighter out. I knew there were company policies about quitting without notice, but my research and journalism skills kicked in and found the exact phrases I needed to get around them."... hostile work environment...," I included. "Acknowledge I forfeit unemployment compensation..."By the time I was done, I knew I had a strongly worded document that would convince HR to leave me alone. I CC'd Charles and sent it off, feeling a weight leave my shoulders as the computer's whooshing send-noise accompanied the disappearing email.I stood, stretched, and then made breakfast. I wanted to start my job search right away. I had a little savings, but I also didn't want to blow it all at once. The sooner I was on my path to my dreams the better.I was halfway through my steak and eggs when my phone dinged. I picked it up, thinking it was Cathy."You'll regret this, Elena," it read. My mouth went dry a
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"Stick to the point, please," I said to Charles. Charles straightened up and went over to the window, his arms still folded over his chest. "I'm not built for ethics, Elena. You ought to know that. Alphas have their own ways of dealing justice." He turned to face me. "I'm built to value results. Profits. Everything else is secondary." "Including people?" "You know it includes people. I know you see it as selfish, but if I go down, think of how many others will be affected." I didn't like this argument. It wasn't the only option, but Alphas had used it for generations, refusing to slacken their grip. "In order for me to be successful and help all my employees and my family and the economy, I need you to stop distracting me. To get you to stop distracting me, I need to be with you enough to be overfed." "You've explained this before," I said. This time it was my turn to cross my arms, though it felt like a defensive move on my part rather than the gesture of aggression it was for
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The interior of the department was not at all what I expected. There were the same types of cubicles, but various styles of music came spilling out in a cacophony of sound. And while the soundscape was active, there was almost no actual movement. I looked around and saw an office at the far end with glass walls. Inside a tired looking woman sat staring at something on her screen. I went in that direction. As I passed the cubicles I glanced right and left, smiling at people who looked up, startled away from their phones or online shopping at their computers. I certainly wasn't a good judge, but it appeared people were doing more recreational things than working. The woman in the glass office looked up and saw me, making eye contact and beckoning me inside. She stood up briefly, her vaguely smoky scent pleasant and mild. "Elena?" "Yes." "Welcome to Social Scene. I'm Sally Lugano, but most people call me Sal." She reached her hand over her desk and shook mine. "Charles says you w
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There was absolute silence in the office. Even the music stopped. I stood and smoothed my skirt, trying to hold up my head. There was nothing I could do. I had indeed agreed, and picking a fight with Jessica in front of everyone wouldn't have been smart. Still, I didn't expect Charles to make such a thing of it, to expose his private affairs to the employees. As I walked through the cubicles, I heard Stan whisper, "Not as clean-cut as we thought, eh? Guess you'll need a new nickname." He gave me a wink. The rest of the office erupted in a hiss of whispering and giggles. I turned and looked back, and they stopped for a split second until I turned around again. There wasn't anything I could do, so I thought I'd go with it. As I the doors of the elevator closed I glanced back out and waved. A small "Get 'em girl!" responded, and then the doors closed. "I can't believe you would do this to him," Jessica said into the tense atmosphere of the elevator. "You've undermined his authority
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I signed and kept my head tipped back, inviting him to kiss my neck. Charles obliged, working himself inside me with the magic he always seemed to conjure up, driving my excitement higher. My heels fumbled for a place to rest, and finally, I settled for wrapping my legs around him, gripping his hips with my thighs and locking us together.Charles groaned and pulled us as tightly together as possible. And I wouldn't let him go. This left his movements small but the pleasure intense.His rubbing quickly brought me to orgasm, and I tried not to make too much noise and call attention to what we were doing. I really didn't want to be held in contempt for defiling the judge's bench or some such.A moment later, Charles got his release. He stepped back and tided himself, allowing me to do the same.“Now,” he asked with a grin, “Are you ready to go outside and face your adoring public, my princess?”“As long as you're by my side, I can face anything,” I agreed, hopping off the judge's bench.
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I hadn't even caught my breath when Charles scooped me up in the hardest hug I'd ever gotten from him. It was so hard that it almost drove the remaining air from my lungs.The rest of that morning flew by as Charles and Gwen helped me to avoid questions I couldn't answer from the press while Theo, David, and the other four guards pushed a path through the paparazzi so we could navigate our way back to the safehouse.We decided it was better to stay there than go back to our apartment, yet, at least until we made sure that any of the king's remaining supporters were under control.Gwen wore a mysterious smile on her face for the rest of that night and into the following morning. But I couldn't get her to confess to what she was up to. We'd barely finished breakfast when someone knocked on the door.Gwen hurried to answer it and admitted two people who took my breath away. One of them was Cathy!Since I didn't know the other, I ran straight to Cathy, hugging her as tightly as I could. T
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I kissed Charles, and he pulled back, eyeing me. “Should we be careful or anything?” he asked. “You know, for the baby.”I shrugged. “It's not like I've been pregnant before, but I would guess not. The doctor didn't say anything about that.”“And you haven't even searched things like that online yet?”I shook my head. “How could I? I've been so busy, not to mention the fact that I'm trying to keep certain people from finding out.”“Then we'll go slow and be careful,” he said.His kisses came soft and gentle, and his caresses all over my body were the same. Keeping secrets from him had been a bad idea. Now that they were out in the open, just these small touches made the connection between us feel so much more real as if I had closed some invisible distance between the two of us.This drove me to smash our lips together, desperately seeking the rest of the connection that I hadn't even realized I'd been missing.He chuckled and pushed me back. “What happened to taking it easy?” he teas
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All of a sudden, a whisper of a breeze rippled through the courtroom and around my head, whispering reassurance in my ear. This breeze wrapped itself around me and then swirled out into the courtroom, where it produced an answering wind of murmuring whispers. Suddenly, everyone was shaking their heads, turning toward one another. Members of the jury shook their heads as if trying to clear them.Again, I heard a whisper in my ear, and I recognized the voice of the moon goddess. “Don't fear,” was all she said. And then her presence was gone. But the entire courtroom, everybody in the gallery, the jury, the judge, the lawyers, and even the king had all relaxed.The judge brought her gavel down and dismissed the jury to go deliberate. But this time, I wasn't frightened. The goddess had never steered me wrong yet. And she told me not to fear, that I needed to trust her and the fate surrounding her and me.I scurried out of the witness stand and back to my spot beside Mr. Wilcox. “What was
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When I exited the bathroom, the importance of the day hit me in full measure. Today I was going to court. What and God's name was I supposed to wear?Someone knocked on the door, and I wrapped my towel tighter. “In a few minutes,” I called.“Elena?” I recognized Gwen's voice. “I brought you a suit for today. May I come in?”“Yes,” I said.She opened the door and entered the bedroom.“I'm just fresh out of the shower.” I bit my lip, feeling foolish. As if she couldn't gather that by my wet hair. But I seem to need something to fill the silence.She held up a garment bag. “You'll want to look your best today,” she said.I let Gwen dress me, taking comfort in the fact that she knew her way around important functions as a luna. When she finished, she grabbed my face and gave my forehead a kiss.“Do exactly what the lawyers, Charles, and I tell you to,” she said. “I don't want you to leave my son a widower before he's even officially married.”I patted her hands, which still rested on my c
