I was officially a lobby agent at Greenvile, and a part of me felt excited. Leo brought me a tray that had a chest badge with my name engraved on it, a journal that had my name also engraved on it and a pen, meant to be tucked in my chest pocket.I fixed it all on and I was good to go. I followed him down to where-heavens-know because he had instructed me to follow, claiming that the whole of team 2 were waiting for me. We finally got there, and it turned out to be Karima's office. The meeting started as soon as we got there, with Leo going to where Karima was."Good morning everyone." Karima started. "For our new team members, I am Karima and here is my co-team lead, Leo." She paused and gave Leo room to make any further statements of introduction.He made some corporate gestures. I guess some people eventually made it past that training, and I felt bad that I did not get to experience the last phase of the training."So, you new members will get a manual from me, on how things h
I left the dressing room with Leo and headed to the first floor. "We are sorry for just arriving, Mira was stuck with preparing for her assignment." Leo said to Karima before I could even say anything. He defended me quite well there.The rest of the team were already around and so we had to be on two straight lines and then walked out the moment a convoy arrived at the entrance of the resort.I swallowed so hard, to totally suppress my anxiety and it was working. "I can do this." I muttered quietly to myself as the climax moment was here.One of the guys stationed at the entrance of the resort opened the door so the VVIP guest could step out and I stepped closer to the door, ready to welcome him. Leo had mentioned to me earlier that we all used to get a profiling on our guests to know the kind of person they were but Karima did not do this time around. The reason, he too could not explain.Either way, I trusted my long period of rehearsals to not fail me. I was meant to bow at nin
I later got his profile and I diligently went through it on the computer in my allocated space. It was a general office for the team but her spaces were demarcated well. Only the team leads, Karima and Leo, had their own special offices.My space wasn't bad actually. It was well furnished and we had a kitchen room where we could eat lunch, make instant coffee and tea, too. Leo forwarded the VVIP guest's profile to me and I was quick to go through it.Jordan Reign, 30, he barely talks-prefers to listen and observe, that was very obvious at our first meeting. He prefers a perfectly quiet environment, loves nature...and I guessed that was why his suite was openly facing the ocean, with green trees around, it was also stated that he was cranky and short-tempered.He loved absolute order and efficiency, cigars, and classical music. His dislikes stated noise and disorder, unnecessary attention, I guessed he preferred staying in the shadows. He hated it when people talked too much, we had t
While Karima was out, I played so vigorously on the piano in her apartment. I had been on it for hours and I did not plan to stop anytime soon. At some point, I relaxed my finger muscles and played a solemn piece I had always played right from my learning days. I knew how to play it best! And so that was what I planned to play for Jordan Reign.After an extra hour of rehearsing, I took my fingers off the piano. If I stayed any more minute, my fingers could become stiff and eventually mess up the real performance. I glanced at the time and saw that it was 2 at midnight. I sighed gently and I looked around, standing up from the bench I sat on. My body was almost numb. It was my first time staying this long at her apartment, being there even. Her apartment's theme was a bit plainer than mine and I guessed she had a bland taste, but everything there was luxurious.I walked to her kitchen to get a glass of water as I was dehydrated, then as I gulped down the natural liquid, I heard some
I was woken up in the morning by Karima's call. I swear, if she had not called me at that time, I would have gotten late for work. Apparently, she was back at her apartment to prepare for the day. Immediately the call ended, I walked into the shower and had a warm bath, then I put on casual wears with sneakers then waited patiently for her to be done.I would have gone up to her unit but the trauma I had the previous day was real, funny enough so I just waited on my floor. She reached out to me when she was done and we headed down to Greenville Resort together. "Are you well prepared for this?" She asked and I nodded.. "I am." I replied amidst my various thoughts. Ugh... there was a whole lot on my mind but I was not losing it yet. The stuff with Karima's music box bothered me, combined with my unsettled tummy out of the nervousness towards playing for our dear VVIP guest.It was even the way Karima was selling me out. I had not worked in any organization before but she was sure
"He wants me to play again for him by 7 tonight." I said to Karima as we headed to the office. Midway, we met Maria, the female lead of the team one, the one that did not like Karima. Some way, I had found out about her name and some details from some of my teammates' discussion.Again, she had that contemptuous look when she saw us coming and this time around, she stopped to speak. "Here goes the so-called Iron woman, who gets everything done." Maria said in a mocking manner and a smirk appeared on Karima's face. She did not even spare Maria a glance and just walked past her, I did the same too, feeling funnily sorry for her.What the heck was that non-verbal, punchy response Karima gave her?The look on Maria's face was killing, like the other day I had met her. Jealousy and anger were written all over her bodly.She obviously hated the fact that most guests preferred Karima's services and by default, services from our team to Maria's team, even though they were the first team.It
The other guest was Harrison Louis, a government official, a VVIP guest too and from the discussions between others that I overheard, it turned out the guest were initially meant for team one, Maria's team. But they made a mistake during one of their services and the guest angrily requested for another team to serve him. "I even heard Karima was not going to accept it." One of them chipped in."Of course, it's wrong for her to. It's more like handing over a leftover, but she had to take it just for the guest's sake." Another replied. As we headed to the man's room with three of my senior colleagues and Rowland, I remained quiet throughout.We got to the floor where the man's suite was, only to see so many guards there, securing. I wrinkled my brows, was this really necessary? They had us all scanned with a machine before we were allowed in.I just watched calmly, to learn. I was the type that gained mastery just by observing, it was my wiring. "The agents are here already, sir." On
I was shocked when he walked in. Why was he here? What was he looking for? It seemed like he came for trouble but he was actually calmer than anyone in that space. Harrison seemed to recognize him too, but he was not dazed by him."Yes, how may I help you...Mr...Reign?" He raised his voice immediately. As if he had not heard anyone speak, Jordan walked towards us and sent a dreadful stare at Karima, she immediately took her face down."3PM, that was the instruction." He let out calmly but in annoyance. "I am sorry, sir. There's been a bit of a situation."He moved his gaze away from her and to me, then he just stared. In return, I moved my own eyes to Karima, questioning her non-verbally about what was going on. 3PM? What was supposed to happen then?"You were supposed to play for him by 3, plans changed." She mentioned and an 'o' escaped my lips. I realized he was still staring at me and I took my eyes down immediately. "Join me up there in ten minutes. I don't care about what h
"The time is getting nearer, you need to return." I totally deafened my ears to these words, I did not want to hear them at all.Apart from the fact that I had this fear in my heart, of what my family would say to a child that had absconded from home for years, I also was not ready to leave behind this life I had been living already. UhI was slowly conforming to the normal human life and I wanted to remain like that. Karima and Madison had been trying to talk me into returning to my father's pack but I was never listening. After Jordan got back to his feet, he vanished for a while again, as a normal person now, but no day passed by without me thinking about him. He was on my mind every now and end and at some point, thinking properly without the thought of him intruding seemed almost impossible.Madison had just given me a piece of the same advice she had given me over and all over again. I respected her so much, fine but on that particular issue, I wanted to go against her. I wal
"Wake up, Mira!" I heard a voice yell faintly. "We have to wake her!" Another shouted.The voices became clearer eventually and I felt a sharp pain pierce through me as I tried to open my eyes. I had to keep it closed for a while, and ppp then I opened them again.Taking a bit of time to scan around for where I was, I just knew we were still at Annatoria's place. They were all standing around me, Karima, Maddie, Kai, the priestess and her people.They had me sit up on the bed, leaning my back against the headboard. I felt like I had just gotten called back from death, I was still in that regalia I wore earlier.Someone brought me a glass of water and I drank it, then felt relieved."Did it work? How's he now?" I raised my brows, asking about Jordan first.None of them gave me an answer. My heart started beat so fast, it did not work? Had Jordan gone beserk already?"Someone say something!" I blurted out."Actually, we... succeeded in touching his core, it's all thanks to you, Lady Kie
"I will do it.""Milady!" Karima and Madison yelled at the same time. They were probably not expecting me to make a decision right away. I expected that much from Karima but from Madison, it was least expected."We can't leave him that way. It started with me anyway, so it had to end with me." I concluded assertively, not giving them the chance to speak. I turned to Annatoria immediately, she was the one I had business with so I was just going to focus on her.Annatoria heeded to me instead and she led me up to the third floor, where the Celestia room was. Karima and Madison just had to stay back. I would be lying big time if I had said I did not feel unsure of myself at some point in time.The 'what ifs' in my mind almost overwhelmed me but I succeeded in taking over. Before we went to the Celestia room, Annatoria had some of the ladies around who I guessed to be her domestic workers, she had them take me into a changing room.They helped take off my clothes and had me change into a
A week has passed since the incident, I got days off work to rest and tend to myself very well. We had left Jordan to the old lady Annatoria, one of the wisest priestesses in the wolf world. Though aged, she lived in a body of a lady in her twenties, very young but powerful.I insisted on going with them to her place, since Jordan had been put asleep with some strange potion that Madison knew about. She seemed to know a lot about him, any way.I was expecting a small hut filled with smoke from concoctions and sacred furnishings, but rather, we drove towards a mansion at the outskirts of Beatle City. A fucking mansion!After getting through some guards, we got into the main building where Annatoria was waiting. We had no idea she would be waiting but she was, actually.As soon as I walked in, she bowed at ninety degrees immediately. "You are welcome to my humble abode." She said warmly, in an honouring manner.I was confused and lost, I turned to Karims and Madison swiftly with a quest
It was a total mess in my apartment that night. I literally felt like I was going to die because it was already late, and after working for hours I could not even get rest and had to get into a combat with a blood-hungry mysterious guy.Apparently, Kai was delayed downstairs by some unforseen occurrences. He got tricked by some super intelligent informants about his family and that had him on the hook. When he found out it was all an orchestrated prank to delay him, it was already too late as I had already had it out with Jordan to some extent.But the issue there was the fact that we did not know who tried to stop him back there. Jordan was not the type to pull that kind of thing and I was pretty sure we all could attest to it. Karima and Madison were beings attended to medically. Kai had called a wolf doctor that was trusted and he came over to Karima's apartment where we all relocated to. "Let him attend to you first." The divine sisters insisted but I was more stubborn. "You ar
The drive back home was very quiet. And again I had questions just brewing in my mind without answers, I did not plan to keep them to myself for any longer though. Getting to the apartment, we noticed all lights were turned off. "Turn on the lights please." I said, referring to Karima because we were still outside. I did not hear anything from her and there was no result, as lightening. "Karima, please--" I suddenly heard the switch sound and the lights were on the next split second.The sight I saw was so terrifying! "Karima!" I yelled out of fear, seeing her wimping on the floor. I bent down and tried to examine her, wondering what could have happened to her within that short moment we had just entered. Then it came to my mind, then who switched on the lights? Without thinking any further, I knew there was someone in that apartment. As I walked in further, I started to perceive that familiar cologne. *He is here.* My ears stretched at the realization and before I could say 'J
The dots started to connect by default, as I traced down the bloodlines. Even though my memory about my initial self was getting vague already, I could remember the man that would never cease to bring out laughter out of my father asides my mother and me.They were best of friends. Mr. Callum had actually refused to take over his father's throne at their pack, but rather went fully into the business world, leaving the throne to his younger sibling. So, Travis was his son.. hm. "You seem like you know him." He pointed out and my body jerked a Little. "Of course, I do, very well at that.""Oh well, that's very much expected but i was acting on his orders to being you here."...So the whole Greenville thing was not a coincidence but an orchestration? I thought as I headed towards the elevator, so I could join Karima and the rest on the ground floor. I had just left Travis's office.I pressed the button gently and waited patiently for the elevator doors to open as I got lost in thoug
I closed my eyes for half a second there and opened them again to be sure I was seeing the right person. It was him, and he was staring back at me, as if saying "Got you by surprise?"That dude was sitting right there in a black tux.There was this grumpy look he had on, and it also looked like he was enjoying the sight. "Mira." I heard Karima whisper from where she was, watching me. Immediately, I got jolted out of my thoughts and then I took my eyes off him."Once again, you are welcome, all." I said, forcing a very broad smile. "I am Mira, your host's representative for today." I continued as I analyzed every seat with my eyes, then I noticed one of them was empty. Who was it again this time?Just when I was thinking that, Travis walked into the room. My eyes beamed when I saw him, he smiled when he saw me too and I just nodded gently. It was so good to see him there. "So the first thing on agenda is the introduction of every guest here." I announced and as I did the reading o
It was an exclusive party but according to Karima, who seemed to know almost everything about Greenville resort, even beyond the normal team lead duties now, I had to be wearing a party dress too and not the uniform."A party dress? But I am going there to work." I objected, not welcoming the idea of wearing something flashy and pretty for the event. "That's the requirements, Milady." She insisted and I sighed. "But I don't even have a dress." I tried to leverage on that until she called Kai in.He walked in with a cloth hanger that had about three dresses hung on it. I furrowed my brows immediately, feeling stunned. "You told him...to go get me a dress? That's... surprising." I could not find the perfect word to use."It took a whole lot of persuasion before he agreed to go. He never wants to leave your side." Madison, who had been quiet all the while chipped in. They decided to have me wear the Emerald green dress amongst others and then Madison styled my hair. She was almost go