Chapter Seven – Friendly Boss.
Pure Silver Moon Pack
They were all in a line, the whole pack, bowing their heads as the Alpha passed them. Nathan peered at his mother and saw her not bowing.
He did the same, sticking his head up, his mother saw him and frowned, mind linking to him to bow but he acted stubborn.
The Alpha got to him, and stayed in front of him. Nathan felt the aura so he looked down but didn’t bow.
“Did you miss me?” the Alpha asked, towering at him. His mother smiled.
Nathan shook his head, “No, I never did”.
“Then why are you making your presence known now?”.
Nathan scoffed, “My presence would always be known, whether you acknowledge it or not” he pouted, folding his hands.
Some pack members laughed at his behavior. The Alpha looked him tiredly rolling eyes, “Now, bow before me or you won’t get your gift”.
Everyone chuckled seeing Nathan making two bows at a go. His mother, Mrs. Squeal shook her head, amusingly. That was always her children’s energy.
“Yeah, that’s Luciana's little boy” the Alpha smiled, pushing her hair backwards.
She turned to her pack, her smile wiping off, “I’d be having a meeting for an announcement!”, she bellowed, commanding attention, “Every wolf should be present. Clear?!”.
“Yes, Alpha!” they all chorused. Nathan moved from her due to her strong aura. She smirked before going into the house.
“You stubborn thing. Your sister would squat you one day!” Nathan's mother rubbed his head. He took her hand away and eyed the Beta.
“How’s father in Europe?” Nathan asked him looking upwards.
The Beta didn’t meet his eyes and responded, “Good” he excused himself to the house.
“My competition is back. He’s now competing for my sister’s attention” Nathan huffed to himself. His mother rubbed her temples? Did this child of hers ever grew up?
“Your sister is an Alpha. Try having some... you know, strong aura”.
“I’m not a wolf, where would I get the strong aura from?”.
“You are the CEO of the most respected company. How do you handle your employees?”.
“Well I do well but Luciana doesn’t give me my way. She makes policies and policies when the company is mine”.
His mother stayed quiet, “That’s the point you’re trying to make to her? Like this?”.
“Yes, I won’t be growing up if you guys won’t let me have responsibilities in peace and won’t respect my own policies!” he stomped off.
Mrs. Squeal gasped, rubbing her legs that where hurting hence making her not to bow, “You heard him, didn’t you, Luciana?”.
Her daughter, Alpha Luciana, walked out from the back of the door, “Yes, but my policies remain. He’s just becoming stubborn”.
The Beta appeared behind his Alpha, “Alpha, should I do a background check on the human secretary he brought?”.
Mrs. Squeal frowned at her daughter, gesturing she shouldn’t permit that. Alpha Luciana ignored her gaze and nodded to her Beta.
“Well, I have two kids that don’t listen to me now” Mrs. Squeal sighed. Luciana patted her head with a smirk, before leaving with her Beta.
Stephanie’s house
She knocked on the door for the third time. She heard Macy's little feet shuffling towards the door. She opened up and stared angrily at Stephanie.
“Um… hi. I’ve been knocking here. Did I wake you up?” Stephanie asked, picking her up, and resting her on the shoulders.
“Your friend is tiring! So tiring! And Lucy and I are mad at you for telling him to come and help in mom’s cooking! It was our turn to help mommy!”.
Stephanie dropped the little girl and pinched her, “Are you half asleep? What are you saying? What friend did I invite here?”.
Macy rubbed the area she was pinched sleepily, “What?” she yawned, “Your friend, Nathan. He said you told him to come here and help mom while waiting for you”.
Stephanie didn’t hear the rest of her narration and sped to the living room. She quietly knocked on the kitchen when she heard sounds coming from there.
“Hmmm, yes, that’s how you do it. Wow, what a smart young man” she heard her mum say as she opened the kitchen door.
“Oh, Stephanie, your friend Nathan is here, coming in” her mum smiled at her. Nathan turned to Stephanie and passed a wink.
“Oh, Mrs. Ernest, where should I drop the chopped carrots?” he asked her mother, the woman rushed to him and helped him place them in a bowl.
Stephanie just watched them shocked and angered. Her fists were balled and she wanted to throw them.
“I also hear he’s the own who helped you find the job. Stephanie you told me you found the job through an ad” her mother raised a brow.
“Well, um.. the thing..” she sighed, could she just beat this naughty CEO now.
“Actually, I’m her boss. CEO of the Pure Silver Company. I did ask for a secretary through an ad but accepted her in cos we’re friends”.
Mrs. Ernest, nodded wide mouth, “What a good friend. Stephanie has been without a job for long! And Pure Silver Company! Really!”.
She dragged her cooking utensils from him, “You shouldn’t be helping me in my kitchen with your status”.
Stephanie wanted to face palm and bury her head under the ground but she sucked it in. Her mother could be very embarrassing.
“Mom, yeah, my boss shouldn’t be in your kitchen. No matter how friendly we are” she pulled Nathan gently from the kitchen stand.
“Let's talk outside, sir” she forced the words out, holding back her hands from reaching his face. Nathan bowed at her mother and left with her.
Stephanie saw Macy already asleep on the couch, she sighed, carrying her up to her own room.
Turning she saw Nathan following behind her.
“What-what are you doing here?”.
“You said to follow you”.
“Yes, not here. I meant outside kitchen”.
“We are is outside the kitchen”.
Finally face palming, Stephanie pulled him with her down the stairs. He followed slowly so she let him go and dashed down.
How did she get into all this again? Yes, she wanted a job and had to ask Facebook friend as she was becoming desperate.
Now, she had an annoying boss, a naughty friend, and her mom got a kitchen help.
Nathan smirked watching her stomp down the stairs.
She looked adorable, running her hands through her hair and biting her lips, trying to avoid screaming at him. Not like he’d mind, he came here to cool off, with her.
His expression changed when he noticed a rubber ball that was at the last step. He was sure she’d miss it and slip.
He was still at the first stairway so he jumped all the way down to the fourth stairway, where she was, and pulled her back, using his leg to push the ball away.
“Watch your steps, Unicorn head” he scolded.
The young lady froze, looking up the height he landed from and then at Nathan. Did he jump that and survived? What kind of reflex was that?
She stared at the ball he pushed that rolled away slightly, she’d have lost some teeth now.
Nathan was glad she was impressed, “There, I saved your life” he smirked.
“Yeah, you must be a really good athlete. You don’t seem like you even did anything”.
He smiled again on seeing her openly confessing she’s impressed.
“Its inborn. And you owe me. So I’m asking that we be friends”.
“So we weren’t friends?” Stephanie eyed him.
Nathan froze. “You told your sister you didn’t have any friend name Nathan…”.
“You heard my sister and I conversation. From the kitchen?”.
Nathan gasped, “Again, my talent, and good looks are inborn”.
Stephanie wouldn’t have been awestruck if he had left it at talents but good looks? She scoffed at their obviousness. He was good looking.
“So what is my friendly boss doing here?”.
Nathan cleared his throat, she finally asked, he sat on a couch, “We have a meeting”.
“Here? At my house?”. Nathan nodded.
“Don’t tell me it’s part of what I signed” Stephanie sighed. She rolled her eyes when Nathan nodded again.
“What are we discussing about then?” she enquired.
Nathan kept a smug grin, staring at her.
Stephanie frowned, “What are we discussing? And it better be something work related and not lewd or I so swear to kick you out of my house!”.