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Bryce took another sip of coffee from the mug in his hand while staring at the screen of his desktop. The breeze blew by and the numerous papers that were scattered on his desk began to fly to the floor but he paid them no heed. Bryce had never been an organized man, which was why he seriously needed a good secretary. Some weeks ago, he fired his last secretary, Maria and so were a couple of others before her.Maria was a young and sexy lady who applied to work as his secretary some days after his last secretary had tried to seduce him. He was frustrated at the time as he was quite unable to understand what was with all those women.All of them believed they could seduce him. He had heard a few of them discuss how he was a cold man. Yet, they all hoped they could get into his mind and make him fall for them. After all, the Romano family was prestigious and influential in the city. Being married to him meant they would be entitled to boundless wealth.But Bruce only felt that they wer
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Flashback continues~Bryce raced his mind to the last day he was at his office, he wondered whether his assistant had forgotten to lock his office door.He was certain that his door was locked before he left. He had even witnessed when his assistant locked the door after he had walked out of the office with his suitcase. He peeped into his office and was shocked at his disorganized his desk was.He never left his desk untidy before every weekend. The cleaner would have sorted out everything and cleaned it up Friday evening.He opened the door fully and he immediately noticed the shape of wet footsteps imprinted on the tiles.Someone had been in his office.Suddenly, he heard the sound of an object crashing and turned to his left where the sound seemed to come from. There was nothing, but his shelf also with scattered books.Bryce walked stealthily towards the shelf while roaming his eyes around his office. Just when he bent low to pick up the book that had fallen, he felt the sudden r
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‘’So tell me, how did you feel when you met a high school friend after a long time.’’ Bryce rested his arm on the desk and palmed his face, taking a relaxing position and ready to listen to his talkative younger sister.‘’You should know her. You were in senior year when she joined the school.’’ Sophie asked, squinting her eyes in the process.‘’You know that I was a reserved boy back in school. I barely even knew you.’’ He laughed. And, it was meant to be a joke.A knock was heard on Bryce's door, just before Sophie was about to make her next statement.‘’Come in,’’ Bryce ordered, still looking at his sister expecting her to speak.‘’Mr. Bryce, a letter just came in from the ministry of transport. It has to do with the business proposal you shared earlier this month with the minister."’ Said the lady who should be in her early 30s and dressed in a corporate black gown with her pixie-styled hair. She walked briskly and dropped the file on the office desk just a few feet away from wher
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Bryce's phone which was lying on the couch beside him, let out a beeping sound at that moment, disrupting their discussion.He picked it up and checked what it was. It was a text message. His gaze skimmed over it swiftly and as he did so, there was a change in his expression. But, it was soon masked by his usual indifference and calmness.‘’I’ll read this after we are done.’’ Bryce put off his phone and dropped it on his desk. Then, he clasped his palms on the table.‘’I don’t get to see my loving sister every day, you know.’’ He added, causing her to giggle.‘’I’ll be coming more frequently from today."Bryce immediately raised a brow. "Nevermind. Don't. If you come here frequently, it means you have a hidden motive."Sophie immediately leaked a laugh and she shook her head. "Always be sincere, brother."‘’When you met Tessa at the shopping mall, how did you feel? Did you feel happy or sad since you said she knowingly or unknowingly did things to you?" Bryce asked, as he leaned onto
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Bryce walked back to his desk, trying to sort his documents into his suitcase and shelf so he could get back to work. He would have called for the help of the cleaner, but it was either he felt too lazy to send for her. Or he just wanted to be alone in his office.Bryce's phone makes a sound, but this time not with a beep but with a ringtone. NF's Outro blared through the phone's speaker filling the office. Who could be calling him during his work hours of the day?He picked up his phone and was glad at who got his phone ringing, It was his friend, Jack.Bryce had been expecting his call for some days.Jack had surely called back to give him feedback on the search that had been performed on their rival pack.Some days ago, Bryce got back from a stressful day at work. The day was one of his worse with the entire workload he had on his desk and little assistance as his secretary had just been fired. Although, preparation for a new one was being made.He needed to cool off his mind. So,
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‘’Good afternoon Alpha,’’ Jones answered the moment the call rang once. He spoke in a hoarse voice as though he had just suffered from a series of severe coughs.‘’Why do you sound so rough?’’ Bryce asked, not being able to ignore the fact that his friend was sounding bad.‘It's nothing, serious sir. Just a little cold that got into me.’’‘’You know that you have easily got cold. Why did you go out in the cold weather?" Bryce reprimanded? It was evident from the frown on his face that he was worried.Jones leaked a small laugh and shook his head. "It's nothing. I was just out late last night and I had left my cardigan at home.’’‘’It's okay. So what is the update?’’ Bryce finally asked.‘’I ran a check in the pack, just as you ordered. But I could not find anything serious on the wolf you had encountered.’’‘’What do you mean by that?’’ Bryce dropped the papers he had in his hand, on top of his desk, and took a comfortable position on his chair.‘’I mobilized some of the pack soldiers
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‘’I know."‘’I need to go now. I just received an important mail. But make sure you run more checks on that Luna. We need to find out what and why she is in our pack." Bryce said before ending the call.Bryce switched to his desktop, to check the mall that he had just received.‘Dear sir, the university of Handsburge would love to invite you for a meeting to discuss the housing proposal. If you are interested, please do well to click on the accept button just below this text. Thank you, management.'‘’Wow. Something exciting for the day!’’ Bryce exclaimed, while immediately clicking on the accept button. His company had been chasing a business deal with his ex-university for years. And after so much denial, he had finally been invited for a meeting, which would mean that if the outcome was successful, he would end up signing a contract worth billions.Bryce's smile was interrupted by the impromptu knock on his door.‘’Come in’’ He replied roughly, slightly annoyed at who would disrupt
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"An online interview is not something to freak out about right?"Tessa asked no one in particular while signing into the online interview that she had been invited into.Luckily for her, it was stated that it was not a visual or audio interview, it was just a series of questions that she would need to pick the right answers and text into the provided space within a period.‘Nothing can go wrong Tessa convinced herself with trembling fingers.‘’Good day Mrs. Tessa." A voice from her phone uttered, just after got signed into the interview, causing her to freak out and almost jumped from her chair.‘‘I thought this was not audio, only text?" Tessa asked inwardly while putting on the earphones which she had luckily packed into her box before leaving the mansion.‘’Good afternoon.’’ Tessa tried to control her slurring tongue. She had never been on a live audio interview before. What the hell could she expect?‘’I would be asking you some series of questions, which is required for you to ty
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“Ma, I am on my way to the office” Tessa cut through her statement.“Who told you are still needed in the company, you big bag of worthlessness!” Candice scolded.Tessa felt the strong urge to stretch her hands through her phone screen and slap Candice.She had never in her life felt insulted before. She compared her life in her pack as a Luna, and imagined what would have been done to Candice or anyone who could ever dare to insult her.Torture, would have become her second name.“I am on my way.” Tessa replied. It was all she could think of as a reply.Tessa took a deep breath, stared at the digits on her table, and was nearly tempted to pick it up and call Chris.“No” Tessa yelled at her self, and summoned up the courage to stand up from the couch.She held onto the wall to avoid from falling down and strolled to her room.Her room was surprisingly still in it’s messy state, the state it had been when she was jumping on her bed after receiving the acceptance mail.Tessa pulled out
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The journey back to her house seemed like the longest she had ever experienced, but she still could not compare it to how long her journey was while relocating.Tessa sat in the back seat of the tinted Toyota car. The fact that it was tinted got her thinking wildly.Why would he even have a tinted car if he was not sent by Chris?No, anybody could have a tinted car, but she felt like he had something up his sleeves.“I love Adele's music, I hope you do,” Chris said in more of a statement after he had played a song on the diskette.Tessa loved Adele, she loved her song, and he just had to play the one that she loved most, but at the moment, she hated Adele.She hated her for being loved by Chris, the unusually nice stranger.“How far am I from my house?” Tessa asked. She did not want to ask, but hearing Chris sing along to her favorite song got her pissed off.She wanted to sing along, and give the hand movement, just like she always did when she was with her ex-husband, but she could
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‘’Just get out’’ She managed to raise her voice slightly while avoiding his gaze.‘’Nurse!’’ Tessa tried screaming, surprisingly, just as though the nurse was waiting for her yell, a female busty lady in a white gown walked swiftly into the room.‘’Who is this man’’ She managed the stretch out her fingers.‘’Please do not stress yourself too much, the baby…’‘’I am asking who this guy is, and why is he here, get him out’’ Tessa yelled in a low-sounding tone.‘’Sir, but I thought you knew her, he is your friend and neighbor’’ the nurse turned towards Chris, who all the while, was leaning on the wall with his face in his palm.‘’Yes, I am her neighbor.’’‘’Please can you kindly leave the room, we do not want anything that will stress our patient’’ The nurse kindly requested.‘’Maybe, she just cannot recall who you are’’ the nurse whispered in his ear when they were both at the door, hoping that Tessa would not be able to hear them, but who were they kidding, she could still hear their f
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Tessa held onto her knee, feeling a hot liquid seeping into her fingers and rolling into her palm. It has been a long time since she last felt such physical pain.As a normal wolf, Tessa expected that the pain she felt from hitting the edge of the bed would be long gone after a short period, but it only seemed to get worse.She limped from the floor and into the bathroom, where she sprinkled some droplet of water on her now bloody wound.She wondered what could be wrong with her body, maybe, just maybe, she was experiencing some pregnancy stuff, but then, she could vividly recall when her friend was pregnant and she had mistakenly fallen from a staircase, it did not take up to a minute for her to get from the floor and behave like nothing ever happened. The pain was long gone. Why the hell was her case different?‘’Ahha!’’ Tessa could no longer hold in the pain.she had heard cases of pregnant ladies finding it hard to heal, but really, she could not experience such, she was a wolf.W
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"Who are you?" He yelled into the shadows, just when the person was about to come into the light.“I am the one you love the most, I am your greatest nightmare, I am your weakness, I am your strength”.“Speak not in parables and get straight to the point, I am not afraid...”“Ahha!”Bryce screamed at the stinging pain of a came that just landed on his back.“Speak...” He was interrupted by another stinging pain.He tried his best to hold in the scream. He was sure that the cane could not be a normal one, it had to have spikes of silver branches He felt weaker with each stroke.“Do not talk when I talk the female voice said calmly, as though she could not feel the pain from Bryce's screams.“You thought you could end me. I will be back”.The pain on his back, covered up for every previous pain he could ever felt in his life. If it was a normal cane, he probably would not have screamed that much, but the silver strings just had to be his weakness even as an Alpha.He tried moving from t
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Candice walked into Bryce office, after the two interviewers had ended their meeting with him.‘’So!’’ Candice placed her hand on Bryce desk casually.‘’How was your interview with the no experience candidate?’’ She asked.Candice gave a sarcastic chuckle, which was not intended to be loud but eventually came out as so.Bryce lifted his head from his desktop where he was reviewing the replied of the candidates, and glared at Candice.‘’Her interview was 0kay’’ He replied in an indifferent tone and got back to his key pad.‘’I really prayed for it to be a success. Do you know that when I was coming to your office, I spotted her by the corridor, she had that sober look on her face.’’ Candice laughed. She knew that she was overstepping her boundaries, but she equally hated the girl from first sight and gossiping her would be her only revenge mode.‘Okay’’ Bryce repeated the first reply.‘’ can’t you see how low quality she is for our business, do you want her to ruin it for us. I am sure
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After Tessa was in the room with Chris, just as expected he lashed out on her."Why did you leave the room?" Chris asked in a calm tone, lowering his head after he had transformed back to his human form.Tessa felt like she was shaking and he would read her fear, but he was not supposed to be scared, she was the Luna."Why did you leave the room when the Alpha ordered you to stay in it." Chris yelled, finally lifting his head and staring at her, Tessa could see the visible bruise that appeared on the side of his face, it would heal eventually, but the pain from it still ached her heart.It was the first time Chris had referred to himself as the Alpha when being with Tessa, she should have known that he would continue referring to himself as that, long after that event had ended."I could not feel your pain and leave you suffer alone by the way the gathering was meant for peace and not to be a starting point for war." Tessa took her Stan."I hope you saw the evil nature in that man c
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"Are you married?" Bruce asked again, with much more courage in his tone after remembering that there is nothing suspicious or wrong with his question.Tessa opened her mouth to say a word, then shut them back as though she was scared. A second later, she laid out the bomb."No, I am divorced." Tessa was really shocked at his question, from her research, she knew that the asked question could be asked in most cases, but it was not a popular question and she did not expect it.She tried her best to maintain a normal confused gaze. Since she stepped into the interviewing room, she had forced herself to give a straight face as though she did not know Bruce, although he knew him. She knew all of Chris friends and villains because of the way Chris would always tell her of his plans to eradicate and bless them, and he had liked to talk about the bed deeds of Bryce and how he would slay him and his pack one day.Bryce was now sure that. She was indeed Chris's husband and it was her look ali
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Bryce stared back at Tessa. Unlike Tessa who was trying to lower her head and act like it was normal to get interviewed by a rival to her pack, Bryce maintained his stare without hiding it. She walked over to the table and dropped her document on the desk, exposing the side of her neck which was not covered by her waist-length hair.‘’Come in, and take a seat.’’ Monica, one of the interviewers who had a strict expression on her face and was selected from the disciplinary section of the company said roughly to Tessa after she had greeted them.Bryce knew that the other interviewers could not sense the fear that roamed around Tessa. He seemed to be able to feel her fear and shivers. He wondered if it was because of the interview, or because he was the CEO of the company she had applied for.‘’From your document, we can see that you are 25 years old and you go by the name Tessa Stone.’’ Another female at the right hand of Bryce said while adjusting the bridge of her narrow-looking glas
