Chapter 5 Unexpected surprise

Lake:

Three days had passed since I last saw that lady.

I had planned to reject her as soon as she woke up, but it seemed the universe had different plans.

By the time I was done with my morning workout, I returned to my room.

However, when I slid the glass doors of my room open, my eyes scanned it. She was nowhere to be found. I stepped into the room, closed the door and headed straight towards the bathroom. I knocked first, no response. Then, I pushed the door open, there was no one in there.

Where had she gone?

Just when I was wanting to reject her and get everything over with. Now, I had lost her!

I shrugged it off and headed to my office. I had barely reached my office when I caught sight of Jessika, my first blind date.

She broke out into a wide smile on sight of me. "Hi.. um, Lake. I-"

"Alpha Lake." I cut in. She was in no place to address me by my name. She did seem surprised, but soon swallowed her humiliation.

"Oh, okay.. Alpha Lake, I just wanted to ask you out on another date. A different place, if you do not mind."

I watched her lips move. Her solemn speech bored me out of my mind. "No."

I moved to brush past her, but she was faster, and blocked my path. Security guards saw this and rose to their feet.

The audacity.

"Come on, Lake.. I mean, Alpha Lake, I really, really like you. Let's just get to know each other, it'll be worth your while, please."

I did not utter a word. She was not worth my words, nor my golden silence, but she had to receive one. I gestured to my guards to evacuate her from my office premises. She was seized by the hands before she understood what my looking away from her had meant.

She was a gorgeous woman, to be fair, but not one I could rule a pack with. She was not only very disrespectful but also self-centered and the latter only reminded me of my mother. Jessika had mentioned wanting attention, like my mother had hungered for it. Her desires had caused her to abandon me. Something I would never forgive, nor forget.

Such an unpleasant encounter had thrown me into a bad mood. Instead of heading to my office, I walked into the office of my personal assistant, Neil.

He rose up to his feet instantly, bowing in courtesy.

"Sit."

He obeyed immediately.

"Were you able to trace that lady?" I asked briskly, refusing to beat around the bush.

Neil swallowed hard before replying, "I'm sorry, Alpha. We couldn't find her..."

Humph! Nothing was going my way today.

I took a deep breath to calm my temper and then changed the subject. "How about the recruitment of the strippers? How is it coming along?"

"There have been a lot of applications and few interviews. We are almost at our target. It's taking a little more time because we're trying to select the best."

I listened to him speak, moving towards where he sat.

He stuck his eyes into his monitor. I stood beside him and leaned in to take a look.

"Any problems?"

"Many of them lack professionalism and others lack experience. Most have a questionable background. There was one who applied yesterday, a mechanic." He spoke again.

I frowned and straightened my stance.

" Didn't you specify the gender? Only females?"

I noticed him stare at me with faint amusement in his eyes. There was nothing funny about this piece of information.

"I did, the mechanic is female, Alpha."

I tucked my hands into my pocket. Now, I was interested.

"Show me."

He typed away on his keyboard and turned to look at me. I leaned in to take a closer look.

JoJo Wyatt.

Well, this was interesting. I was looking into familiar green eyes and her fiery flame of red hair.

Fate just couldn't help itself, could it? This mechanic was the lady I was looking for.

"Did you reject it already?"

"No, boss." He answered promptly and I continued,

"Accept her application. She got the job."

He hesitated for a while, then my gaze landed on him. He jerked up and clicked the select icon.

"Done boss."

The fact that she was also a mechanic piqued my interest.

"I want a full background report on her, first thing today."

"Copy, boss." He replied curtly.

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Two hours later, Neil came into my office.

"Greetings, Alpha Lake." He bowed in respect and started. "I got the background report of JoJo Wyatt."

I nodded and took the file from him. I skimmed through the text quickly, growing more intrigued the more I read.

It turned out that JoJo Wyatt and her entire family had been exiled from their pack. They did not have their wolves anymore. My eyes widened when I read this piece of information. Because she had lost her wolf, she couldn't tell that I was her mate.

I did not know how to describe my complicated feelings. Even though I had planned to reject her, I somehow felt uncomfortable with this whole situation.

I kept reading and found out that she had been working several part-time jobs because she was in a heavy debt. Her mother, who had been in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage for eight years, had amassed huge medical bills.

I read it all in cold silence. Finally I slammed the file shut and slid it across my table.

Neil looked at me quietly, waiting for my next instruction.

I tapped my fingers against the table, sitting in eerie silence.

"You know what to do when she becomes part of the agency." I spoke, breaking the deadlock of silence, while looking straight into Neil's eyes.

Neil immediately understood that I was telling him to clear the girl's debt. It was something that we did for all our strippers. But then he seemed to be hesitant, his eyes darting around the room awkwardly.

It took him a while to gather his bearings.

Eventually, he plucked up the courage and said, "But she owes... a lot of money..."

"I know. Just do as I say, Neil," I answered and dismissed him with a wave of my hand.