Maximus's brown eyes is fixed into Samantha's eyes as he let go of the question, causing silence to drop all around. He didn't flinch as he showed no reason to take his eyes off Samantha.
In a few seconds of silence, faint whispers began to dominate the surroundings, from the press—from the employees that are witnessing the scene.
From what they can see, Maximus is clearly mad at Samantha, something that made the secretary secretly turned up the corner of her mouth.
There, the secretary nodded quickly, desperately, and shed tears in front of Maximus to make everything more believable. "Yes, Alpha! Glad you came right in time. Otherwise you might not have seen what Miss Carpenter's behavior really is!”
Samantha didn’t manage to speak anymore as she didn’t take her eyes off Maximus.
She
