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.

I could just not get rid of!” I

Mrs.Henry sighs heavily.

are very lucky

before her

Mr.Ramos here,” she says, wiggling her eyebrows

how to keep a lady company.” Dakota smiles

you so much, Mrs.Henry, for looking

she smiles back as I turn towards

Talia?” She

towards her

“Yes?”

“Don’t forget that.”

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

you,” I whisper, pushing the door

forcing back my tears and putting

didn’t need to see

Gwen?” Kota asks as I set him down on the child

is on a trip,” I reply, strapping on

means it’s just you and me for a couple

me a cheeky

nuggets for dinner?” I smile at him as I pull out

“Maybe,” I grin.

voice comes

Talia,” I sigh, praying to

Sarah is out of town and I need

Dakota huffs in

a little man sitter,” I

you think you could love that

arrangements and I hop on the bike, Kota

the outskirts of

in his backpack and change out of my scrubs and into an all black

way in hell I was riding my bike

comes rushing into the

look! I did it all by myself,”

but laugh as I unbuckle his helmet

chirp, helping him back into

okay? So I need you

gives me a quick nod and I hand him an

down to the town

two coworkers

bartender.I pull up

ahead and knocks on the door while I tie up

chubby cheeks with kisses.She waves me inside and

hard at work over the stove.She is no

notices me admiring her beauty, blushing furiously and waving politely at

I’m being rude, I

Talia, Niki and Micah’s friend.” The

bad,

our friend Agnes.

Kota asks curiously, looking back

like

and I can’t help but burst out laughing at

DEAF and mute.It means she can’t hear you or speak,” I explain to him,

walk over to the woman

apart, using my fingers to sign my name.I slide my palms across each other,

I finish and

sign? Since when? What

‘’I am

I shrug.

work with a couple deaf patients and learned some basic

teach

and her son are staying with us until they can get their own place and they are both mute.We’ve just

son?” I ask, looking around for another

missed him,”

me tell you, HE’S HOT! LIKE HOT, HOT! Oh Talia, you should see him with

giggles like

be

and shake my head at

of it, ” I sigh, grabbing

watching Kota for me.You’re

calls out after me

over to the club in the middle of town, storing the bike in the racks directly behind the

MASQUE is a prestigious club where some of the town’s more prominent members liked

Why? Simple

The Dress Code.

had to wear a mask to hide their

your

No mask, no entrance.

The purpose was simple.

by the public and

for

personally loved trying to guess who

city council members were regulars and I

put on a plain black masquerade mask and grab my uniform, going straight to the changing

themes every week for practically every fetish, ranging from full body leather suits to sexy schoolgirl

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

completed the look and I touch up my makeup

moments like these that I really loved

all night, I