Claiming the Alpha by Alicia Montgomery

Author:Alicia Montgomery [Montgomery, Alicia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Adrianna had never been so exhausted in her entire life. The call came in shortly after midnight. It was a good thing she’d been tossing and turning for hours when her phone rang, but she didn’t expect to be brought out of bed in such a panic.

Sometime after midnight, a gas line exploded in the kitchen of Muccino’s in D.C., just as the crew was cleaning up for the evening. Four workers had died and half a dozen more hurt. Her mother and uncle Dante were both in Rome, so she was the only one who could go there to deal with the crisis.

The plane was fueled and ready in record time, and she made it to D.C. in the wee hours of the morning. It was a good thing she and her family had good relations with Senator Gerald Burns, the Alpha of Virginia and D.C, so she was able to come and go into the territory without having to ask for permission to enter. The senator even had a car ready to pick her up and bring her into the city.

There was no time to wallow in pain or soothe her aching heart because she was the face of the company now; she had to be strong for her employees and their families. There were press statements to approve, news interviews to schedule, calls to take and field, and more important, employees to visit in the hospital and grieving families to console. Compared to their suffering, the pain in her heart at Darius’s rejection couldn’t come close. Besides, it was her own damn fault for letting her feelings get too deep when it was obvious he was only after one thing this whole time.

“Ms. Anderson?”

She looked up at Joan Miller, the manager of the D.C. Muccino’s branch. The middle-aged woman looked worse for wear, but she imagined she looked pretty similar herself. “You should go home, Joan.”

“I will if you will,” she said.

She gave her a weak smile. “I’m almost done, I swear.”

“Do you want me to walk you to your hotel?”

“I’m fine. Now go. Your kids are waiting for you,” she urged.

“All right, but be careful,” Joan warned. “It’s pretty slippery out there.”

“I will.”

The fire department had closed down the entire building where the restaurant was located so she didn’t have an office, but the PR company they hired, Emerson Communications, offered one of their conference rooms as a temporary office and headquarters while they managed this crisis.

It wasn’t very late, probably only after eight o’clock in the evening, but it was already dark, and snow had begun to fall again. Also, she realized that she hadn’t slept in over twenty-four hours, and she was dead tired. Emerson Communications had booked her a hotel suite nearby, so it would be a quick walk and then she could collapse into bed and put this day behind her.

She shut down her laptop, packed up her things and grabbed her coat, then made her way outside. The Meridien D.C. Hotel was on the same block, and she was glad it was only a short walk.

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