Beauty and The Beta (Bailey)

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Chapter 40 Asher + Leaving my office for the night, planning on going to the gym, despite it being almost midnight, I heard footsteps up ahead of me, and I couldn’t help but wonder who would be in the packhouse at that time of night. The packhouse is always abandoned about an hour after dinner has finished, with everyone returning to their homes for the night. And the place becomes my lonely hideout. A place where I am free to roam in the darkness and silence. Not caring for anyone else. Though, tonight, I worked a little later than usual as there was a backlog of paperwork with Caleb having to stay with Eden and take care of her. She was truly struggling with this pregnancy. I was thinking this baby would not be long until it decided to make its appearance and arrive in our crazy little world. At least then, I suppose, it would stop making its mother suffer… well, then it would just be causing both its mother and father to suffer sleepless nights…ah, the joys of children! packhouse I listened carefully for the noise of the footsteps once more, wondering who they would be at this late hour, and could feel Zion pushing forward too, feeling unsettled at someone being in the when they shouldn’t be. He is rippling beneath my skin, ready to push forward and shift should the need present itself. The sound of someone here had him on edge as much as it did me…… protect me I increased the speed of my own steps, to turn the corner, to walk straight into Eden, and nearly backwards as I almost bounced off her pregnancy bump. “Ooff!” she mumbled, stumbling backward herself. I quickly went to steady myself and go to help her. but she had already leant against the wall, her breathing quite rapid as she held her belly. “S**t Asher!” she snapped now, sounding far from impressed with me. Though I could hear the fear within her voice, so I think the snapping was more because I had scared her. “What are you doing in here at this time of night, Eden?” I asked her, completely puzzled. She should be home in bed by now surely? “You should be at home!” I had to say I was more than a little concerned at the fact to get here she had to have walked across the pack on her own in the dark

me to be in a good mood at this time of night when I want to be asleep she grumbled. G. Chapter