The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

Chapter 8: First Sight

***Natalia***

Fk! F**k!

“KE V scream internally as I clock out and race out of the clinic.I’m going to be late!”

“Talia, wait!” Travis calls out as I rush past him in the parking lot.

Travis is a tall man with rippling muscles trying to break through his scrubs, with tan skin and the sexiest tattoos on his arms and chest.

He is the cute radiology tech every girl was pinning over.

But like every sexy man, he’s trouble; a known playboy who had all the girls in the clinic wrapped around his finger and for good reason too.

The man knew how to bend you over a desk and make you his slut.

“Sorry, Travis, but I’m late for picking up Dakota!” I call out breathlessly as I scramble to the bike racks.

“Doesn’t Sarah usually pick him up?” he chuckles as he trots over and watches me put on my helmet.

“Yes, but she’s out of town visiting family for a few days which means I have to pick him up,” I smile impatiently, unlocking the bike.

She was actually on business with some werewolves but I was not about to tell Travis that was running from her ex, a dragon King hellbent on dragging her back to his kingdom.

Being on the run, she and I both changed our names.

She was Sarah Davis while I was Talia Ramos.

“Well how about I give you a ride to the daycare center,” he says, giving me his mischievous grin.

“And then maybe we can talk about you going to dinner with me tomorrow night? Say 7 o’clock?”

I have to physically restrain myself from reaching over and smacking him over the head with my bike lock.

Travis and I had fooled around a few times before but I had always made it clear that this was just a business transaction.

No feelings, just a good f**k.That was the deal.

“Travis,” I sigh, closing my eyes and taking a deep breath.

“We have a good thing.Don’t ruin it, please.I’m not looking for anything else,” I shrug unapologetically.

“I’m not interested ina relationship.”

“Oh come on Talia,” he smirks.

“You know I’m crazy about you…Look I know I have a reputation but I’m not lying.You’re amazing …different from every other girl in this God forsaken town I frown at him.Does he take me for an i***t? He is literally a walking red flag! “

“Travis, stop it.I’m not interested.”

“I could take care of you and Dakota,”

He murmurs, his finger grazing my arms and I shiver in annoyance.

“If you let me.Don’t you want Dakota to have a dad?” anyone to take care of me.

Dakota and I were just fine on our own.

Kota didn’t need a father.He had me…

“I’m sorry, Travis but I really have to go,” I shrug, pushing past him and climbing on the bike.

“will you at least think about it?” He shouts as I pedal away and I fail to respond.

Oh Talia….

I mutter to myself.

What the f**k did you get yourself into? I push aside my thoughts about Travis and try to figure out what to do with Dakota while I’m working my shift at The Masque.

The only other people I know are Micah and Niki…

.Does Niki work tonight? f**k i can’t remember.

I arrive at the daycare center, the parking lot completely empty by now.

I curse Mrs.Freedman, my last patient, for talking her head off during her visit, and hurry into the building.

Through the large glass window, I peer into the classroom and see my little boy hard at work on a coloring book, his little red backpack already on his shoulders.

My heart skips a beat as I watch him color, his eyes furrowed in concentration and his little brown curls hanging low over his forehead.

Sensing my stare, Kota looks up at me and smiles with excitement, closing his book and jumping out of his seat.

I rush into the classroom and get down on my knees, spreading my arms out wide to receive him.

He collides right into me, nearly “Mommy, what are you doing here?”He giggles excitedly.

“Where’s aunty Gwen?”

I push back his curls from his face and stare into his beautiful big eyes.

They were unlike the eyes of any other, one eye being a gorgeous shade of cerulean and the other being the envy of chocolate with swirls of brown and amber.

Heterchromia wasn’t all that common and my Kota’s eyes were the talk of the town when he was first born.He was the little blue and brown eyed boy everyone loved.

I hear footsteps behind me and smile apologetically at the frowning teacher.

a patient today whom I

Mrs.Henry sighs heavily.

very

before her

she says, wiggling

knows how to keep a lady company.”

for looking after

she smiles back as I turn

Talia?” She calls

towards

“Yes?”

“Don’t forget that.”

to keep my tears in.It was my biggest fear to fail Kota.He deserved the world and I

whisper, pushing the door open with

down to the bike racks, forcing back my tears and putting

to see

as I set him down on the

love, is on a trip,” I reply, strapping on his

it’s just you and me for a couple of

me a cheeky

him as I pull out my phone and

“Maybe,” I grin.

Niki’s voice

praying to whatever Gods exist

tonight? Sarah is out

a baby!” Dakota

little man sitter,” I

think you could love that boy

make arrangements and I hop on the bike, Kota stretching out his arms to feel the wind

the outskirts of Poulsbo,

pack Kota’s things in his backpack and change out of my scrubs and into an all black

was no way in hell I was riding my

rushing into the living, his

it all by

can’t help but laugh as I unbuckle his helmet and put it on the right

go,” I chirp, helping him back

to Niki and Micah’s tonight, okay? So I

and I hand

pedal down to the town

two coworkers

waitress like me and Micah a bartender.I pull up to their apartment

door while I tie up the bike.How’s my cute little

as she showers his chubby cheeks with kisses.She waves me inside and closes the door

and I look over into the small kitchen to see a tiny woman hard at work over the stove.She is no more than 5

admiring her beauty, blushing furiously and

rude, I

Niki and Micah’s friend.” The woman smiles

bad, babe,”

our friend Agnes. She’s deaf and

asks curiously,

look like a ghost

help but

she can’t hear you or speak,” I explain to him, ruffling

over to the

and pull them apart, using my fingers to sign my name.I slide my palms across each other, then bring my two pointer fingers together and

up as I finish and I

Since when?

just said ‘’I am Talia.Nice to

I shrug.

with a couple deaf patients and learned some basic signs to make them

to teach me,” Niki

can get their own place and they

where’s the son?” I ask, looking around for another

missed him,”

Talia, you should see him with Agnes.It’s the most adorable thing ever.He’s so sweet and did I mention that

giggles like a

call dibs! I mean it, Tal.Don’t be using your Latina charm on

roll my eyes and shake my

I sigh, grabbing my

Kota

out after me as

middle of town, storing the bike in the racks directly behind

of the town’s more

Why? Simple

The Dress Code.

the building had to wear a mask to hide their

your

No mask, no entrance.

The purpose was simple.

come and go as they pleased without fear of being judged by the public and the staff, specifically the dancers, could work without being

for everyone and

loved trying to guess who was who under all the

ordered, I knew some of the city council members were regulars and I could only assume

my uniform, going straight to the changing room and exchanging my black top and jeans for a

for practically every fetish, ranging from

black bralette, a lacy black and white choker, a piece of

garter belt, stockings, and heels completed the look and I touch

moments like these that I really loved the mask

preparing myself to fight off drunkards all night, I walk