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Chapter 24
Julian’s POV
I returned to headquarters and went straight to my office. I buried myself in work, pouring over my documents in complete silence, distracting myself with the complex legality of the words.
Beta broke the silence as he brought my daily coffee, his question a cautious probe. “Alpha, what’s wrong p>
I sat in silence. Of course Beta could tell that something besides my usual moodiness was going on. He knew me too well.
Finally, I dropped my pen. “Amber has changed. A lot p>
Her appearance had changed, the bright gold of her hair bringing her features to life in a way that made her somehow even more
beautiful. Her aura was stronger, more like an Alpha.
Even her attitude had changed. She no longer immediately softened and compromised when she saw him angry, worried about
making him unhappy. Now, she boldly demanded to have her independence, accusing him of harassing her.
I stared at the coffee Beta had made for me. Amber had always cold-brewed my coffee for me the night before, making it exactly
the way I liked. She would bring it to me as I headed out the door for work, over ice so it would remain cold throughout the
morning.
Beta, though, just used the coffee machine. Amber’s absence these past five years had made life seem wobbly, unstable, like
sitting in a chair with a missing leg.
“Do you plan to go see her tomorrow?” Beta asked.
I shook my head. “Keep surveilling her house, Beta. I want daily reports of her comings and goings. I want to know where she
works p>
Over the coming while, Beta followed my instructions, but Amber always seemed to know she was being followed. She’d drive like a pro, always losing the tail Beta had assigned to her.
One day, I decided I’d do it myself. I’d taken to driving myself over the past five years, enjoying being in control of where I went, every stop and start on my terms, not a faceless driver’s. Nobody blinked an eye when I grabbed the key to the car myself.
I’d gone to her house and parked down the street, waiting for her to emerge, then waiting a few more seconds before following her
down the street.
We ended up at a large supermarket. I watched her walk inside,
She must be working at the supermarket, a low-level job that was so beneath a woman like her. Why did she still refuse to come home, where she could have all the comforts in the world provided to her?
I decided to acquire the supermarket chain myself.
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I’d taken to staying late at the office every night. I was avoiding Olivia. She was clingy, always upset at my inability to reciprocate her attempts at intimacy, and I no longer had any patience for it.
Olivia’s POV
“What?” Olivia said into the phone. “He’s working late again p>
“Yes, ma’am,” Beta responded. He refused to address Olivia as Luna until she’d been properly assigned the title.
“He hasn’t seen me for two weeks, since the last time I had an appointment at the hospital,” Oliva said, her voice rising higher and higher as she spoke. “If he’s going to avoid me like this, he could at least make better excuses p>
Beta began his usual apologies, explaining the Alpha’s busy work schedule. Olivia hung up the phone, fed up with the act.
That night, Olivia put on a sexy red lingerie set, pulling a trench coat on over top of it, and headed to the corporate building that housed Julian’s office. She would seduce him. She would make him want her.
She didn’t even make it inside.
“Sorry, ma’am,” the secretary said, blocking her path towards the elevators. “Alpha instructed me not to let anyone in. He’s in a very important meeting.
“I’ll wait,” Olivia replied, sitting down on a sleek bench in the large lobby.
She sat there for two hours, the cold metal uncomfortable under her thighs. She became more and more angry the longer she waited until finally she shoved past the secretary and to Julian’s office.
It was completely empty.
“He lied to me!” Olivia roared, her anger erupting into furious screams like angry red lava from a volcano.
Rage and panic mixed into a stormy cocktail inside Olivia. She couldn’t shake the fear that Julian had another woman besides her.
She sat down in Julian’s chair, behind his large, expensive Alpha’s desk, and pulled out her phone. She dialed her private investigator.
“I need you to look into the Alpha’s movements,” Oliva said.
“Miss Olivia, you want me to tail the Alpha? My livelihood would be threatened if I got caught,” her private investigator responded.
Olivia replied back with a sum that was too great for the private investigator to refuse. Reluctantly, he agreed, and Olivia hung up the phone, satisfied. She sat at the large desk, imagining possessing the immense power of taking meetings and running the pack, before sweeping out of the office.
Later, when Olivia was back at her house, the private investigator sent over a file with a full report, along with photographs. Julian hadn’t been working late. He hadn’t been working at all. Instead, he’d been lingering near a particular residential building.
Olivia flipped through the photos the investigator had provided, trying to make sense of the situation. She’d never thought Julian
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was smart enough to see through her advances. She’d thought all he wanted was a pretty thing to carry on his arm.
Then, she came to one photograph of a woman standing outside the house Julian had been near, unlocking her car. The woman’s
face was visible, uninhibited by any hat or sunglasses.
Olivia pressed her face closer to the screen, trying to make sure she was seeing clearly. Her eyes widened in disbelief.
The woman’s face – she could never forget that face.
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