The Alpha Contract by Eliot Grayson

Author:Eliot Grayson [Grayson, Eliot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Smoking Teacup Books
Published: 2022-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Come Here

After a decent night’s sleep—more than decent, really, I slept better than I had in months or maybe years—I was able to shake off whatever maudlin, self-pitying bullshit I’d allowed myself to wallow in the night before, the result of too much anxiety and adrenaline. Dimitri had knocked Jerry’s socks off. My father wouldn’t be able to force us to break the bond now that we had that old martinet’s approval. Mates were for life, after all.

I’d have to deal with that later, when Dimitri and I did eventually break the bond after I got my position as CEO. But Jerry had to be pushing seventy. He’d have to retire at some point, dammit. We’d make it work.

As I poured my coffee, I found myself actually whistling. It promised to be a beautiful sunny day, and that lifted my spirits even though I’d be spending most of it locked up in a conference room with my sales team.

Fuck it, maybe I’d shift and go for a run after work. Maybe Dimitri would want to join me, and we could check out the waterfall I’d found a ways up in the foothills. I didn’t like going all the way out there on my own because of my balance and eyesight issues. In my wolf form, those things weren’t much better, although my enhanced hearing and sense of smell compensated a bit. And if I stumbled and sprained or broke something, I’d be in trouble. I might not heal fast enough if I’d fallen down a cliff or into water.

But Dimitri wouldn’t let anything happen to me. And it might be fun.

Well, maybe not today—I’d probably have to work late. But soon. As soon as I could get up the courage to ask Dimitri if he wanted to.

He prowled into the kitchen as I was leaning against the counter and sipping my coffee, scrolling through my email on my phone to get a preview of what kinds of crap would be landing on me the second I walked into the office.

I had to laugh when I got a good look at him. In the warm golden glow of the early-morning sun streaming through the kitchen’s wide bay window, he redefined seedy: unshaven, boxers crooked, T-shirt on inside-out, overlong hair sticking up wildly in gravity-defying directions.

“Ungh,” he said, making a beeline for the coffee. I had to practically jump out of the way to avoid being run over.

“You know, you don’t have to get up every morning when I go to work,” I said—and I actually meant it, much to my own surprise. I’d always hated it when people slept in. It seemed so lazy. And it made me bitter and jealous, if I were being totally honest. Early rising had been one of my requirements for a mate when I’d made a list a few years back. (With bullet points, obviously, and I made a mental note to find it and burn it before Dimitri ran across it by accident.) Of course, Dimitri wasn’t my real mate, so maybe that made all the difference.

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