Aidan’s POV
I decided to tell my mom over dinner about the good news.
During Dinner~
‘I’ve got exciting news to tell you’ I said practically radiating with joy. My mom stopped eating giving me her full attention. ‘Well don’t keep me in suspense’ my mom said.
‘I found my mate’.
‘You did?’
‘Yeah’ I responded.
‘Well it was about time she showed up. Well honey who is she? Why isn’t she here? When will she be coming? Oh thank you goddess, there’s so much to do we have to meet her and her family too, is she from the pack? No that’s very unlikely you’ve met with everyone. Then she has to be from another pack, maybe a visiting one? We’ll have to request everyone together to introduce the new addition to the pack. We’re going to have to make plans for the wedding and—Mom!’ I called snapping her out of her trance.
‘There’s a problem isn’t there? *Gasp* she didn’t reject you did she?’ my mom’s faced etched with worry. ‘No she didn’t she doesn’t even know I’m her mate’ I said.
‘Don’t tell me’.
‘Yes mom she is a human’.
‘Oh baby, that’s not going to be easy to bring her to this side’.
‘I just have to charm her, I’ll make her mine before I tell her about my secret’ I said determined.
‘Yes that’s a good idea, you do that’ my mom agreed with me.
‘I just hope she comes soon’
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The next day at work, I arrived at work the same time as Steven.
‘Wow you’re here early’ Steven said with that smirk I hate so much.
‘Aren’t I always?’ I said walking in.
He snorted.
On entering the building my eyes landed on Rosé immediately. She was smiling and laughing, her smile must be the most beautiful smile in the whole world. I was so enchanted by her that I didn’t noticed her company. Looking to whom she was speaking with, I saw a girl and the guy from yesterday. He whispered something in her ear that made her giggle.
I could feel my wolf he was as angry as me at that moment. Steven sensed what was going on but before he could drag me away I was already at her desk.
They stopped talking and turned to look at me. ‘Good morning sir’ the guy and girl talking to Rosé spoke at the same time. Rosé looked at them confused she probably didn’t know who I was. Anyway I didn’t return their greeting. I looked at the man that’s getting on my nerves.
‘I would prefer if you’ll keep your gossiping till your lunch break or after work hours. I don’t pay you to slack off’. I said in an intimidating tone.
‘Yes sir’ they both said scared. It worked.
‘Go back to your work stations’ I ordered.
‘Yes sir’ they said and scrambled away.
Now it was just me and her.
‘Um, excuse me, I don’t want to offend you or anything but may I ask what position you hold in this organization?’
I could sense the nervousness in her voice; did I come off as too intimidating? I can’t have her scared of me.
I cleared my throat. ‘I am the chief executive officer of this organization’. I could see when the realization hit her face.
‘I am so sorry sir’ she said.
‘It’s alright I know you just started working here so you probably have almost no knowledge of your superiors’. I said making my voice as soft as I can so she’ll be less intimidated.
‘I’ll make to tell Wayne to do a proper orientation of everything you need to know’.
‘Thank you sir’
‘You could thank me by having lunch with me’ I said awaiting her response.
Rosé’s POV
Did I hear him correctly, why would he want to have lunch with me?
‘I don’t mean to be rude but why lunch? If you don’t mind me asking’
He looked taken aback.
‘Well I do like to get to know my staff. If it’s not too much to ask’ he said. Normally I reject such invitations but I felt a bit happy when he asked. Wait happy? Why on earth will I be happy?
‘I would say yes but I’m already having lunch with some of my colleagues’ and by colleagues I meant josh and Wendy, Josh introduced me to Wendy when he came by my desk this morning. Apparently they work together. She’s really nice and I think we’ll hit it off. She even invited me to have lunch with them.
‘Alright then’
‘Aidan’ someone said walking up to us, ‘we’ve got a lot of work to do come on’ he said leading Aidan to an elevator.
‘Bye for now’ he said then left.
I felt a little bit down I wonder why? Anyways after working for hours lunch time came. Lacy came up to my desk, ‘Hey’ she said.
‘Hi’ I replied back. ‘Go ahead and take your break’ she said.
‘Thanks’, ‘Wait, which way is to the cafeteria? I asked glad I remembered this time.
‘First floor, it’s basically the first room you’ll notice’.
‘Okay thanks’.
Now I understand what she meant, when I got there it was the room facing me, the doors were open I could see other workers eating, and chatting. I walked in, grabbing a tray joining the line of people. After I got my food, the challenge of where to sit came in. I was looking for Josh and Wendy when I heard my name being called. It was Wendy.
‘Hey guys’ I said sitting down. ‘Hi’, ‘Sup’. They greeted me back.
‘So what did he say?’ Wendy asked
‘Who’ I asked
‘Mr. Aidan of course, I saw him talking to you after we left, you’re not in any trouble are you? She asked worriedly.
‘No we only talked a little’ I said taking a bite of my food.
‘Talked? Talked how?’ Josh asked this time.
‘Well, I was still a little confused by who he was so I asked him and he introduced himself, said something about the manager giving me a proper orientation and oh then he invited me to lunch’ I said continuing eating while they both stared at me.
‘What?’
‘You serious he invited you to have lunch with him?’ Josh asked
‘Yup’
‘Then what are you doing here’ Wendy asked me
‘Well I couldn’t go’
‘Why on earth couldn’t you?’
‘What do you mean why? I already planned to eat with you guys I couldn’t just ditch you’
‘I would’ Wendy said.
‘Ouch’ Josh said clutching his chest.
‘Rosé, the Aidan Walker invited you to have lunch with him, do you know how many girls would kill to be in your shoes right now?’ ‘Come-on it was just lunch, it’s no big deal’.
‘Well, well, well what do we have here?’ a voice called out behind me when I turned around I couldn’t believe my eyes. Regina? What was she doing here?
I turned my face towards my food, praying she didn’t recognize me.
‘I’ll be damned, if it isn’t sweet Rosé’. Curses, I thought.
‘Who would have thought we end up in the same workplace?’ she had a creepy smile on her like a venomous snake.
I just ignored her trying to eat my lunch
‘What? You’re not going to say anything to your bestie?’
‘You’re best friends?’ Josh asked surprised
‘Oh yeah we go way back during junior year in college don’t we?’ she turned to me.
‘But during senior year we broke apart’ she said with a sad face. She was really a good actress.
‘Why? What separated you guys’ Wendy asked.
‘We’ll let’s just say it involved a guy, not much to get into’ she said dismissively. Well obviously she couldn’t openly admit to being a lying whore.
‘But since we’ve met like this it must be fate, let’s be friends again. I’ve missed you’.
‘You’ve got some nerve’ I said getting annoyed. I didn’t realize how loud I was, the whole cafeteria went quiet all eyes on our table.
‘Excuse me’ I got up and left, Josh and Wendy were calling after me but I didn’t care I just wanted to be alone at that moment. Of all the workplaces she just happened to work here, what was her problem anyway, friends? Ha! Even if they paid me I wouldn’t still be friends with her. I was too trusting back in college and she was always nice to me but it was all an act. My eyes watered a little, her sleeping with my boyfriend was not what angered me the most. Her betrayal, that’s what hurt me the most.
‘Ow’ I said as my butt hit the floor I hit something hard. Looking up my eyes met with the familiar bluish green color.
I got up quickly, muttered a sorry and try to move pass him but he held my arm.
‘Are you ok?’ he asked worriedly.
‘I am fine’. My voice cracked a little. Shit.
He placed his thumb under my chin. I felt that strange electric feeling again I wanted to shy away from it but it felt kind of comforting.
He saw my teary eyes and I swore I saw his eyes turn a darker shade, he looked pissed off but why would he be pissed off? Was it me? Was it because I bumped into him again?
‘Who made you cry?’ he asked no more like demanded.
‘It’s nothing’ I said trying to wipe the tears away. He held my hand stopping me.
‘Tell me’ he demanded again. ‘It’s nothing’ I repeated ‘I’m fine’. I walked away he didn’t stop me this time. I looked back at him he was already looking at me I turned back around and walked away.
Aidan’s POVI sat I my office lost in thoughts. Who dared to hurt my Rosé? Whoever it was should count them lucky she didn’t tell me their name. He never wanted to see her sad again.‘You should have seen her face’ a voice broke his thoughts, it was his assistant’s.‘Too bad she ran out of the room, but she can’t hide from me forever since we are working in the same building now’. Really, couldn’t she just do her job instead of gossiping?‘She just recently started working here right?’ the other voice asked.‘Yeah she’s the receptionist’. Regina said, wait receptionist? Were they talking about Rosé?‘Did something happen between you two?‘Why do you ask?’‘Because you talk about her like your enemies’‘That’s because we kinda are. She stole my boyfriend back in college and ever since
I went back in the house and saw Adam addressing our parents. ‘I have an announcement to make’. Everyone turned their attention towards him. ‘It’s regarding the marriage proposal. I won’t do it’. Paul stood up angry. ‘You will do no such thing boy’. Paul said. ‘Did Rosé do something?’ my dad asked glaring in my direction. ‘Why? What happened?’ Melody asked. ‘Can I just finish please?’ Everyone kept quiet for him to continue. ‘Before I say anything else Rosé had nothing to do with this it was entirely my decision’ he continued. ‘Yes I want to cancel it but that’s only because I want to win her heart first. I like her and I want her to marry me because she loves me not by anything else’. He said that last part while smirking at me. A high pitch scream was heard from Melody. ‘I’m so proud of you. You’ve never taken initiative like this before’ she said while squeezing Adam in a hug. ‘She must really be special then’. ‘You ha
‘His personal assistant’ Regina exclaimed holding a box. Oh yeah she was clearing her desk.‘You never appointed me as your personal assistant’.‘Because you weren’t qualified for it, in any case all these idle chats are wasting a lot of my time back to work. Rosé settle in and come into my office’. Aidan said walking away. I was following him when Regina grabbed my arm.‘So what did you have to do to get this? Did you sleep with him?’ She asked.‘Oh please don’t lump me in with you’.‘It’s amazing that you got to him before me but if you think you’ve won by getting me demoted you’ve got another thing coming. Watch your back Carter’. Did she really just threaten me? Oh hell no.‘I didn’t do anything to get you demoted let’s get that out of the way. You earned that yourself if only you were less horny and more dedicat
‘It would be a waste to go back home now so why don’t we have dinner ourselves?’ Aidan asked.I wanted to say yes because I haven’t eaten anything since lunch. Work hours ended at 5:00 by the time I came home and got ready I didn’t have enough time to eat.‘I’d love to but I didn’t think I’ll need my credit card so I didn’t bring it’. I said. I was going to put off my hunger till after the meeting.‘Don’t worry about that I’ll take care of the bill’.‘No I couldn’t’.‘It’s no problem. I insist’. He pressed on.‘You don’t have to I’m not even hungry’. My stomach betrayed me by growling but there was music playing so he probably didn’t hear it.‘Your belly says otherwise. Waiter!’ he called one passing by. Wait how on earth did he hear my stomach growling? I couldn’
Aidan’s POV‘What?’ I asked.‘Alex, she said I was your mate. What did she mean?’ Rosé repeated. I heard her the first time but I was trying to come up with an explanation. Alex ooh she is in so much trouble when I get back.‘Well?’ Rosé asked again.‘She...uh….she probably meant friend or something, my sister often says a lot of things who knows what she meant’. I said hoping it was convince her to drop it.‘Oh, ok’ she said.Thank God she bought it.‘Rosé?’ I saw a woman coming out of her house, it’s probably her mother. Rosé got out of the car and I followed suit. Immediately Rosé was within her reach the woman hugged her.‘I’m sorry I didn’t call but I’m fine mom truly’. Rosé said.‘Your dad and I were so worried we even called the cops’. Her mo
Aidan’s POVI drove Alex to the mall. I wonder why I even agreed to it she basically dragged me all over the place looking for the perfect outfit for a party. After a while she finally found it.‘Perfect’ she said holding up two shopping bags ‘now all it remains is to find the perfect jewelry to go with it’.‘You’re not done?’ I was tired of following her everywhere. I’ll never agree to drive her again.‘Nope let’s try the other shop’ Alex said walking away. I just followed her.Thankfully she didn’t take too long to find the right one and soon we were on our way out. ‘Aidan could you help me with this bag?’ she said holding up one of her shopping bags. ‘No’ I said simply. ‘Pwease’ she said giving me her best puppy dog eyes.‘I won’t fall for that again’. ‘Come on’ she whined. I walked out of the ent
‘They’ve found them’ my dad said looking at me.‘Where are they?’ I asked the man that brought the news.‘They were hiding in an abandoned building in the forest east of here. Some of our men are already engaged in the fight but the Rogues prove to be stronger than we thought and we’re being pushed back ’. The messenger said.‘Can you take us there?’ my father asked.‘Yes Alpha’‘Aidan’ dad called out to me ‘send in the upper ranks to back up our men and wipe out those damn rogues except for the leader’.‘I’m going too’.‘Let them handle this Aidan’ my dad said.‘This is either Dante or his men we’re dealing with and knowing him he’s always got a trick up his sleeve. Let me go father’ he was still hesitant. ‘I’ll be fine and we don’t have a lot of time’.
‘Ok I know it seems crazy but I’m a werewolf’. Aidan said.‘That’s impossible werewolves are a myth they don’t exist’ I said.‘Rosé you saw my transformation, what other proof do you need?’ I sat down on my chair.‘But you…I just…’ sigh. ‘This is a lot to take in’.‘So does this mean you’ll see me differently now, are you scared of me?’ he said still with the same hurt expression and it pained me.‘No of course not’ I stood up ‘I mean this is insane and all but it won’t change my view of you. Nothing can change the fact that I…’‘That... What?’‘That I’ll still see you as Aidan Walker, my boss…nothing will change that not even you being a werewolf’. That was close I almost confessed. ‘It’s just… I have so many questions’.