Alpha Nocturne's Contracted Mate

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“Well, I knew that something wasn’t right as soon as it all kicked off. They had no business being there at all. So after everyone had left and we set about cleaning up, the guards that Alpha Nocturne left here for you, they offered to help me clean up. Matteus is lovely by the way, you know, the big sulky furball?”

Ann chuckled at Adam’s incredulous look as he mouthed silently back to her the words ‘Big, sulky, furball?! Accompanied by an elaborate hand gesture.

“Yes, go on,” Ann answered patiently.

She was used to Eva’s elaborate way of retelling events and actually found it quite endearing. It was a nice change sometimes from the rigid work environment, just to sit with a coffee and catch up on tales from her social life.

“Okay, well, there was a little patch of blood left on the carpet where Ada had curled up, and as gross as it sounds, Matteus was disgustingly interested in it. Even his colleague called him out on it, I was honestly a little too shocked to say anything, but I probably would have done it eventually. Anyway, it turned out, that the blood wasn’t actually blood!” She whispered in a shocked voice. “Yeah, I’m aware that it wasn’t real blood…” Ann replied a little more harshly than she had intended, but it didn’t faze Eva in the slightest.

attack her, but the rest of the staff

been leaked?!” Ann exclaimed as her face darkened with

thought bitterly to herself. Ada wanted maximum damage, and with the news that she was to be instated as next in line

was turning into a perfectly orchestrated smear campaign, thanks

I was calling. Matteus was adamant that we find more evidence so that we

as Ann paced impatiently backward and forwards. The suspense was

about the security dome we installed a few months ago. You know, the little camera that’s hidden inside the paperweight on your desk that you found after someone had deliberately wiped your files when you first took over. Do you remember?” Eva

froze as her heart

Before she had weeded out the people in the small team that were working against her back then, she had encountered no end of “glitches” that hampered her

to catch the culprit, she had found the most innocuous item that she could think of and had a specialist install two tiny spycams

it had provided irrefutable proof of their sabotage and firing

had occurred years ago and the paperwieight ‘security dome’ as they had jokingly termed it, had been a part of the decor for years, she had completely forgotten about

for it?” Ann breathed, a little awestruck

through it properly, but today’s date has a perfectly clear recording of Ada going absolutely banana’s in your office while

and turned to Adam with a triumphant smile

my goddess, Eva… you’re amazing…” Ann cackled loudly, the expression of confusion on Adam’s face just making her laugh

so pleased you’re happy about it. Not that I didn’t think you wouldn’t be… but… you

do you have a copy of it?” Ann