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.

Mrs.Henry.I had a patient today whom I could just not

Mrs.Henry sighs heavily.

are very lucky

before her grin gives her

here,” she says, wiggling her

around and knows how to keep a lady company.” Dakota

Mrs.Henry, for looking after

as I turn towards

She calls

towards her

“Yes?”

“Don’t forget that.”

to fail Kota.He deserved the world

you,” I whisper, pushing the door open

my tears and putting on a smile for my little

to see his mommy

asks as I

is on a trip,” I

just you and me for

me

at him as I pull out my phone

“Maybe,” I grin.

Niki’s voice comes

praying to whatever Gods exist that she wasn’t working

Kota tonight? Sarah is

not a baby!” Dakota huffs in

I need a little man sitter,” I

you think you could love that

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

a quick pedal to the outskirts of Poulsbo, I finally make it to

things in his backpack and change out of my scrubs and into

way in hell I was riding my bike

the living, his helmet

I did it all by

but laugh as I unbuckle his helmet and

chirp, helping him

and Micah’s tonight, okay? So I need you

quick nod and I

the town

are two coworkers from

a bartender.I pull up to their

while I tie up the

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

over into the small kitchen to see a tiny woman hard at work over the stove.She is

notices me admiring her beauty, blushing furiously and

rude, I wave back and

Micah’s friend.” The woman smiles

bad, babe,” Niki

our friend Agnes. She’s deaf and

asks curiously, looking back

doesn’t look like a ghost to

I can’t help but burst out

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

over to the

hook my two thumbs together and pull them apart, using my fingers to sign my name.I slide my palms across each

eyes brighten up as I finish and I hear

sign? Since when? What did you

just said ‘’I am Talia.Nice to meet

I shrug.

work with a couple deaf patients and learned

to teach

with us until they can get their own place and they are both mute.We’ve just been writing to each other to get

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

just missed

Talia, you should see him

giggles like

I mean it, Tal.Don’t be using your

and

it, ” I sigh, grabbing

Kota for me.You’re a

calls out after me as

to the club in the middle of town, storing the bike in the racks

club where some of the town’s more

Why? Simple

The Dress Code.

building had to wear a mask to hide

flamboyant your local

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

for

who was who under all

drinks that were ordered, I knew some of the city council members were regulars and I could

black masquerade mask and grab my uniform, going straight to the changing room and exchanging my black top and jeans for

ranging from full

choker, a piece of black fabric I barely considered a skirt, and a small

stockings, and heels completed the look and I touch up my makeup in

was moments like these that I really

fight off drunkards all night, I walk out to