The Silent Alpha (Natalia)
Chapter 8
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.
whom I could just not get rid
Mrs.Henry sighs heavily.
are very
says sternly before her grin gives her
here,” she says,
knows how to keep a lady
for
smiles back as I
She
turn towards
“Yes?”
“Don’t forget that.”
keep my tears in.It was my biggest fear to fail Kota.He deserved the world
pushing the door open with my
bike racks, forcing back my tears and putting on a smile for my little
didn’t need to see his
Kota asks as I set him down on the child
love, is on a trip,” I reply, strapping on his
it’s just you and me for a couple
gives me a
have chicken nuggets for dinner?” I smile at him as I pull out my phone and dial Niki’s
“Maybe,” I grin.
voice comes
praying to whatever
tonight? Sarah is out of town and I need a
Dakota huffs
I need a little
could love that boy to
bike, Kota stretching out
pedal to the outskirts of Poulsbo, I finally
Kota’s things in his backpack and change out of my scrubs and into an all black outfit.I would change into my uniform
I was riding my bike
into the living, his
all by myself,” he
but laugh as I unbuckle his helmet and put it on the
I chirp, helping him back
So I need you to behave.Can you
and I hand him an
down to the town center where Niki and
two coworkers from
waitress like me and Micah a bartender.I pull up
skips ahead and knocks on the door while I tie up the bike.How’s my cute little
cheeks with kisses.She waves me inside and closes
into the small kitchen to see a tiny woman hard at work over the stove.She is no more than 5 feet tall, with long dirty blonde hair
me admiring her beauty,
I wave
Talia, Niki and Micah’s friend.” The woman smiles and nods but says
my bad, babe,” Niki
is our friend Agnes. She’s
asks curiously, looking back
like a ghost
help but
you or speak,” I explain to him, ruffling up his
the woman and point to
as I hook my two thumbs together 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 finally point
brighten up as I finish and I
how to sign? Since when? What
just said ‘’I am Talia.Nice to
I shrug.
patients and learned
have to teach
with us until they can get their own place and they are both mute.We’ve just been writing to each
I ask, looking around for another
missed him,”
girl, let me tell you, HE’S HOT! LIKE HOT, HOT! Oh Talia, you should see him
giggles like
it, Tal.Don’t be using
and shake my
I sigh, grabbing
Kota for me.You’re a
calls out after
the club in the middle of town, storing the bike in
some of the town’s more prominent members liked
Why? Simple
The Dress Code.
wear a mask to hide their identity.It
flamboyant your
No mask, no entrance.
The purpose was simple.
without fear of being judged by the public
win-win for everyone and it
personally loved trying to guess who was who under
tips and drinks that were ordered, I knew some of the city council members were regulars and I could only assume police officers, doctors, teachers, and others frequented
uniform, going straight to the changing room
practically every fetish, ranging from full body leather suits
and white choker, a piece of black fabric
look and
like these that
preparing myself to fight off drunkards all night, I
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