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.

staff here didn’t know what to believe, especially with it being leaked

exclaimed as her

the news that she was to be instated as next in line to the throne, she wanted to make sure that Ann would never be

was turning into a perfectly orchestrated smear campaign, thanks to her father’s

why I was calling. Matteus was adamant that we find more evidence so that we can clear your name, so we continued hunting

took a deep breath as Ann paced impatiently

a little hunting, I suddenly remembered 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

froze as her heart

had weeded out the people in the small team that were working against her back then, she had encountered no

item that she could think of and had a specialist install two tiny spycams inside of it to capture the images of the culprits when they entered the office,

provided irrefutable proof of their sabotage and

the paperwieight ‘security dome’ as they had jokingly termed

Ann breathed, a little awestruck at

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

Adam with a triumphant smile

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

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

you have a copy of it?” Ann asked