Chosen Mate of the Beastmen Empire by Lewis Reed

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That ancient phone’s battery was shot–unplugged all night, it was teetering on dead. Before Nyx could get a word in, it beeped twice, screen went black, and shut off. The yelling cut out instantly. The huge suite fell into an awkward silence.

Lancet looked at Nyx, his face a mess of emotions. He knew he’d misjudged her. Feeling bad and wanting to fix it, he offered, “I’ll get you a better agent ASAP. If you want out of your company, I’ll set up a studio for you.”

“As for those threats, don’t sweat it,” he added. Truth was, he didn’t even know who this “Mr. Williams” was.

There were many Williams in business and politics, but none of them could flex in front of Seafarion. Trying to snatch someone from Seafarion, that Williams guy didn’t have the juice.

Nyx finished signing the confidentiality contract, grabbed her copy, and nodded at him. “Thanks for the help.”

A company that raised a pimp like her agent was obviously a cesspool–sticking around was pointless, and bailing meant a fat penalty fee. Someone cleaning up this mess for her would be ideal.

Before ditching the company, Nyx planned to swing by one last time–pack up her meager stuff from the shared dorm. Oracle Entertainment was a small outfit, run by some rich kid playing around. No business sense–just wanted to pick girls and party with other sleazy bigshots.

They had two semi–known stars propping it up–third–tier at best. The rest were nobodies, scraping by worse than streamers or influencers. No resources, no cash to break contracts–most artists saw no future, gave up, and holed up in the dorms, wasting away.

Nyx used to be one of them. Most faces in the apartment were familiar, and a few swarmed her the second she showed up. “Nyx! You’re back?”

“What went down yesterday? Mr. Haidt took you to see Mr. Williams?”

“Was it Hurricane Tech’s Mr. Williams? Isn’t he with Jane? Why’d he switch to you all of a sudden?”

The company was tiny–gossip spread like wildfire overnight.

Hurricane Tech’s Mr. Williams was a big–shot in Broskel, “dating” one of Oracle Entertainment’s stars, Jane Dorma. Dating, sure–but everyone knew it was a sugar–daddy deal. One after money, one after looks–hardly a stable relationship at all. So, Mr. Williams eyeing the younger, prettier Nyx wasn’t a shock.

“You stayed with Mr. Williams overnight?” someone asked, sizing her up, testing the waters.

Not all of them were ambitionless flops. Plenty were just stuck without a break, dreaming of snagging a rich backer to shoot to the top. If Nyx hooked Mr. Williams, she was about to replace Jane as the new star.

Nyx faced a mix of concern, curiosity, and jealousy from all sides and shook her head. “Nope.”

She looked so chill the jealous stares faded a bit. No point lying about something like that.

“Yeah, makes sense. If you’d landed Mr. Williams, Mr. Haidt wouldn’t be raging today.”

“So it didn’t work out? Mr. Williams met you and wasn’t impressed?”

“Oof.

“You didn’t piss him off, did you?”

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“Mr. Haidt’s been stomping around looking for you since morning, cursing up a storm–he’s pissed. Watch out later.”

They were chattering away when a door got shoved open hard, slamming the wall with a loud “bang.” Seeing the worn–out woman inside, the hallway went dead quiet.

J–Jane.”

them. Awkward as it was, after a beat, they forced out greetings. Jane didn’t bother glancing at them–just glared at

a young, gorgeous face–eighteen and fresh as hell. No wonder one photo had Mr. Williams hooked. She’d pulled every trick to

night, the company chat had been buzzing with gossip like flies.

on–everyone ready to kick her while she was down. She’d stayed up all night, too scared to leave her room, until Nyx–the one who’d stolen her

innocent, huh?” Jane sneered, sizing Nyx up. “Think I

her. Nyx’s legs were trembling a bit–had to have worked hard last night. She was all pure on the outside, but probably

satisfy Mr. Williams, huh?” she said.

but once he had her and the fantasy broke, he wasn’t happy. Thinking Nyx might’ve busted her ass all night

keep taunting when she spotted someone coming and dialed it

pimp–she didn’t want to cross

wasn’t there. He stormed in under everyone’s nervous stares, kicking up a

watch her get slapped silly, Mr. Haidt’s temper was

locked on them, tension thick as hell. Only Jane looked eager, not caring she’d been ignored–just wanted Nyx to crash and

and cracked her wrists. She sized up her current strength–turning this agent into the “Dead

Where’d you go last night?

kid

His tone was downright friendly–nicer than he’d ever

been set on teaching Nyx a lesson, but then Seafarion called him up personally–said Nyx got bought out, wasn’t

just pulled that out of

last night and didn’t come back–maybe stumbled into some big shot’s lap by dumb luck.

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mil cold for a girl after one night, either

way, it was enough to make Dylan tread carefully–she wasn’t a

playing the wind. He acted like he’d never cussed her out on the phone, pulling a concerned big–brother

at Dylan’s shamelessness–and at Lancet’s speed. He’d sorted her mess out that fast. She wondered if she should still beat up Dylan. She was here already–might as well.

punishment wouldn’t be harsh enough to cool her anger. Violence was bad, sure–but damn, it

her fists slowly, ready to swing, when someone

tripped over himself getting to Dylan, whispered something frantic in his car.

“What’d you

took off before Nyx’s fist could land–running like the devil was after him. Dylan came and went in a flash–everyone was clueless what happened. They turned to

you going?” someone asked.

empty. Nyx just tossed her odds and ends into a bag, rolled

packed while answering, “I’m out of the company, so I’m moving out.”

“You quit?”

The hallway erupted.

the

the biz? That cuts the fee,

Where

didn’t snag

they all doubted Nyx was

Williams, why was Dylan kissing her ass?”

him, who’d cover her

give her a place to

“They tried something illegal–I’m heading to report it later.”

looked like Mr.

into her head–Seafarion with his icy pretty–boy face, swirling a wine glass, dropping the classic CEO line. “The Williams Group is

stone–cold to giggling, bragging

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long, your head got messed up–happened all