There was an all-staff office memo waiting for Sue the next day when she logged into her computer.
“Crap.”Sue read the email, cringing and hoping that no one knew it was because of her. It seemed that the HR lady was even keener than Sue had originally thought. The office relations seminar was happening that afternoon.The guy at the desk opposite her, who she had spoken to briefly yesterday, looked over at her.“You get the email?”Sue shrugged, trying to play it cool. “Yeah. Sucks, right?”“You have no idea, newbie.”“Sue Andrew,” Sue told her.“Jake Miller. We had one of these last year, too. It was awful,” Jake told her. “Not only do we have to sit there and listen while she tells us what is and isn’t appropriate conduct for the workplace, but we also have to act out these insane scenarios she dreams up.”“What, like the ‘no means no’ workshops we had to do in high school? Which, by the way, were totally redundant for me.”Jake smirked. “Oh yeah, I remember doing those. I had to pretend to be a guy at a party who had urges and was pressuring his girlfriend into going all the way. I was way too shy back then to pressure anyone to do anything.”The two of them shared a smile.“So I guess this one will be all about keeping things professional at work?” Sue asked.“Oh yeah, totally. Don’t be surprised if you get roped into acting out a scenario where you compliment a guy on his outfit in two different ways while the rest of us tried to hold our laughter,”Jake told Sue, making her giggle.Sue went back to her computer screen, smiling to herself over the fact that maybe she had just made her very first work friend. She felt a little better about facing it all now.* * * *When Sue walked into the board room where the seminar was being held, she saw Knight and Leslie West sitting off to the side. Right away, they both looked at her and she found herself trying to suppress a shudder. She quickly took a seat next to Jake in the front row, as the chairs in the back had already been claimed. With the table pushed all the way to the back, the room seemed far bigger.“Ms. Andrew and...” HR Lady looked around the room but came back to the person sitting next to Sue. “Mr. Miller. Why don’t you come up here and get us started.”Sue felt her veins suddenly flood with ice water. This was the very last thing she wanted to be doing, especially in front of all these people. Maybe if she had been working there a little longer, and had made a few more friends, then it wouldn’t be so awful. As she followed Jake up to the front, she caught Sarah’s sympathetic gaze from the back of the room. She studiously made sure not to look back over at Knight.“Very good,” HR Lady said with a smile once the two of them were front-and-center. “Okay, we’re going to start off with a little roleplay.”There were several groans from the crowd and even some snickers. No doubt they came from the people who liked to see others humiliate themselves.“Mr. Miller, you’re going to pretend that you’re romantically interested in Ms. Andrew and that you want to ask her out on a date. Can you demonstrate to us the appropriate way to go about doing that?”Jake raised his eyebrows at Sue and shrugged. “Sure. Um. Hey there, Sue, how’s it going?”Jake was either overacting on purpose or he was naturally really bad at it. Sue managed to suppress a smile at it. “I’m good, thanks, how’re you?”“Great. Would you like to go out with me sometime?Before Sue could answer, HR Lady interrupted them. “Okay, good. Now, Ms. Andrew, I want you to tell him, kindly but firmly, that you’re not interested.”Sue nodded and turned back to face Jake. “Thank you for your offer, but I’m not interested.”“Come on,” Jake said in a purposefully whiney voice. “My older brother told me you can’t get pregnant if I pull out early.”There were several chuckles throughout the crowd, and Sue couldn’t help but join in with them. Even though, she can feel her ears burning.HR Lady coughed loudly into her hand and shot Jake a dirty look. “Mr. Miller, if you aren’t going to take this seriously then I must ask you to sit back down.”Jake smirked at Sue, clearly happy that he no longer had to act out this charade. The sneak knew exactly what he was doing.“Mr. West,” HR Lady said with a big smile on her face, “I’m sure that a professional like yourself can show them how it’s done.”Sue froze. She turned slowly to look at Knight and saw that the man was glaring hard at the floor. Finally, he stood up and made his way to the front. No one dared make any jokes, or even any sounds, as he walked by.He came to stand right in front of Sue and the two of them made eye contact. It was clear that Knight was pissed off at her for putting them all in this situation to begin with.“Okay, this time I would like Ms. Andrew to have a turn,” HR Lady said.“What? You want me to what now?”“Engage in what you deem to be appropriate workplace flirtation.”Oh god, Sue thought as her eyes traveled over Knight West’s perfect face. Kill me now.She had no idea what to say. She wasn’t particularly good at flirting in a real situation, let alone a made-up one. She pushed her glasses up her nose and tried to focus on something to compliment Knight on.Don’t mention his body, Sue’s mind helpfully provided. That’s too sexual. Not his lips or his sexy nose. Since when can noses be sexy? Huh. Okay, he’s looking at me weird. How long have I been staring at him? Say something. Anything. His eyes are nice. Compliment his eyes. No, that’s way too personal.“You have nice eyebrows,” Sue practically shouted.Said eyebrows rose at her outburst.“Really? That’s how you flirt?”Sue quickly swallowed her embarrassment and decided to commit to her terrible taste in chat-up lines. “They’re shapely eyebrows, thick and well manicured. Do you wax them?”There were several sounds of laughter coming from their audience. Knight West looked beyond fed-up. He sighed deeply before he responded. “No, I do not wax my eyebrows.”“Oh.” She looked over at Barbra, or whatever her name was, waiting for her to say something. Even the HR lady was looking at her like she was total weirdo. With her eyes, she silently begged her for help. She seemed to cotton on and nodded at her.“Okay, thank you both. Why don’t we get onto the PowerPoint presentation I’ve prepared for you all?”There was another round of groans. Sue spared Knight another glance but the werewolf was already walking back to where his cousin was sitting, biting her lip in an attempt not to laugh.As Sue made her way back to her seat, she honestly wished that the ground would open up and swallow her whole, to save her from another bout of humiliation............Sue tried to spend the rest of the day burying herself in work. It seemed to her that everyone in the office knew who she was now. As she got on with her work, every so often she would hear the sound of laughter escape from Jake, and when he turned to look at her, Jake would simply shake his head, still laughing, and say, “eyebrows.” She didn’t know why it was still so funny to her new friend. It was nearing the end of the day when she got an email alert. She opened it reluctantly, hoping that she wasn’t once again being called down to Human Resources. She released a tense breath when she saw that it was from Sarah. To: andrew.s@fangandclaw.comFrom: murphy.s@fangandclaw.comCake and coffee? *****This right here was why she loved her. She quickly typed out a reply telling her that she would meet her outside in an hour. By the time she met her, it was raining a very fine, misty rain, the kind that she hated. As she walked through the lobby, she grumbled to herself. Luckily, there
On Sue’s third day at her new work, she made sure to leave her apartment early, seeing as she was biking to work. It felt good to be getting some fresh air so early in the morning, and in her mind, it totally canceled out the cake she had eaten the day before, even though her ride to work was less than half an hour.It was a beautiful morning to be out on her bike and she actually started to feel better about everything. She was sure that she had just exaggerated Knight West’s annoyance to her in her head and that she hadn’t screwed up too badly by sending Sarah that email and then proceeding to humiliate him and his perfect eyebrows in front of all of his employees. She was sure that deep, deep, deep down, Knight had a sense of humor. Sarah claimed to like the guy, but that could have been just because she wanted to fit in with Jared’s family and was secretly lying to herself. That, or the man’s high cheekbones, chiseled jaw and olive skin had mesmerized her so much t
After the disastrous start to the day, things started looking up for Sue. She started doing research on werewolf-only hotels, reading reviews of them online and seeing what humans had to say about them. There was the usual hate-filled crap from humans who had never even stayed there but wanted the world to know how much they hated werewolves.Once werewolves came out, so to speak, they were automatically banned from most hotels. It was hard for Sue to really understand it. She had grown up with werewolf neighbors down the street and werewolf kids in her school. Things had certainly changed. By law, humans and wolves were equal, but in truth, there were always people on both sides who hated the other, who thought that they were better. Hatred tended to spread like a disease, infecting people far too commonly.She was so engrossed in her research that she was startled when Sarah came up behind her and peered over her shoulder.“Whatcha doing?”She jumped high
It actually annoyed Knight that he hadn’t been able to stop thinking about Sue all day long. The accident hadn’t been his fault. It wasn’t that he felt guilty about it, exactly, but he still felt off for some reason. Sue had been injured. Knight had smelt the blood, however minor, from her skinned knee. He hadn’t been around humans a great deal, but he knew they were more fragile than wolves.As the day wore on, he found himself wanting to check up on Sue more and more. It was really starting to bother him that some reckless, annoying human, who smelled incredible, was in his thoughts so much.By the time five o’clock came around, Knight had resigned himself to what he was about to do. It felt inevitable that his feet would take him to the bullpen.Some of the people in the office noticed him and instantly straightened up, trying to look like they were doing more work than they actually were. It was a common thing. Sue was at a des
It was so strange for Sue to see Knight West standing in a Howlers. Although it was well known that the West pack, and more specifically the West family, owned the chain of restaurants, Sue didn’t think they actually ate there. Knight seemed more like a guy who enjoyed a nicely pressed tablecloth and napkins that weren’t made from scratchy paper.The restaurant wasn’t particularly busy, but they stood by the podium anyway, waiting for someone to come and seat them. Sue didn’t really know what to make of it all. Knight West offering her a ride home was one thing, but to ask her out of the blue for dinner was something else entirely. She tried really hard not to read too much into it. They were either two people who suddenly realized they were in need of sustenance so they decided to eat together, on a strange date where at least one of them had no idea what was going on, or Knight wanted to get Sue alone somewhere so they could talk about the whole email
It’s a bad idea, Evan told himself as he parked his car outside of Sue’s apartment. It’s a monumentally stupid idea.There was obviously a mutual attraction between the two of them. Throughout dinner, the scent of Sue’s arousal had gotten stronger and stronger, resting in Knight’s nose and making him heady.“So, thanks for the ride,” Sue said, looking a little unsure, “and for dinner.”Knight didn’t respond to her in words. The good thing about dating a fellow wolf was the fact that they always knew when the other wanted them. If Sue could just smell Knight’s own desire then they could skip straight to the good part.When Sue made no move to exit the car, Knight rolled his eyes and grabbed the back of her head before pulling her in and taking her mouth in a searing kiss. Sue let out a surprised, muffled moan before she responded to the kiss. Sue’s hand gripped onto Knight’s tie, pulling on it a little as though t
He said it as though he had only just thought so, that it wasn’t until this very moment that he really saw Sue. Sue swallowed thickly and licked her lips. She didn’t know if she was allowed to ask questions. She didn’t know how this was supposed to work at all. She lay there patiently, waiting for Knight to do something.For Knight, the waiting seemed to be a part of it. He smiled down at Sue, the look of pride back in his eyes.“I’m going to make you feel like I’m the first person to ever touch your body,” Knight promised her. The thing was that Sue believed him. “Condom?”Sue swallowed and looked over to her nightstand. Knight reached over easily and opened the drawer, pulling out a box.She watched as Knight, scooted down his body. The werewolf’s hands ran down along Sue’s flanks, making her shudder. Sue’s breath hitched in anticipation, and then Knight gripped her thighs and pushed them back so that Sue's already wet hole was on full
Sue’s breath caught in her throat as she scrambled to follow Knight’s instructions. Her legs felt a little shaky and her arms had a slight burn in them, but she was able to support herself on her hands and knees.Knight stroked a large hand down over Sue’s back as he got behind her. “You have no idea how good you smell.”“Tell me,” Sue asked as she waited, desperate to feel Knight’s cock slide into her.“You smell like sex and a bakery,” Knight told her, chuckling to himself as he said it. “Even before this, when we first met, you smelled incredible. I wanted to launch myself across that room and mount you right there in front of everyone. Sink my teeth into your neck and pin you down.”Sue whimpered, letting him know how much she liked the idea of that. “Fuck. I thought you hated me, that I annoyed you by coming in late and then interrupting.”Knight leaned over her and placed a kiss between h