The Alpha boss and the PA

The charm offensive

David POV

I had paid attention to everything about Alissa this time around and when I smiled at her I could hear her heartbeat speed up. That had to mean she was at least physically attracted to me, right? I could work with that… Unless it was fear or discomfort that made her heart race. Maybe she thought I was a creep. Either way I would have to put in some effort to polish up the image she had of me.

Luckily I had gotten her to agree to come to the meeting with me. To be fair, that wasn’t the most romantic outing, but it was a start. And the meeting was across town so we would have to drive there. A moment where it was just the two of us in an enclosed space neither of us could escape. The mere thought of sitting that close to her made me a little giddy. I mean my wolf mostly of course. Still… I was willing to admit that she did things to me and that I was excited to explore that, but only to an extent. I still had every intention of breaking the mate bond sooner rather than later.

*

“Ready to go?” I asked. Alissa looked up at me with a slight frown on her face. It was finally 2 o’clock and time to leave for the meeting. I spent most of my day planning out conversations we would have in the car and getting coffee so that I could steal a glimpse of Alissa sitting behind her desk. Now I was hyped up. Which might or might not have a little something to do with the fact that I drank entirely too much caffeine. Either way I was ready to hit the road. So why was she frowning at me like that?

“Actually something came up. I think I might have to skip.”

“No, you can’t bail!” Oh crap, did I say that out loud? I sounded like a whiny child that wasn’t getting a new toy. I should really reduce the amount of coffee trips if it made me just blurt out things like this. Okay think David… what would be a plausible reason she could not bail? Suddenly it hit me.

“I mean, I already told the client you would join me. It would look unprofessional to show up by myself now.” A complete lie since I hadn’t informed the client about a thing. I would have to fix that before we got there or I would come across as a complete liar and a weirdo. And I was only one of those things.

“Oh… Well I don’t want to come across as unprofessional…” she frowned at her computer. “I suppose this could wait until we get back.”

“I am sure it can.” I lied smoothly. I had no idea what she was doing that was so urgent and I didn’t particularly care. “So I’ll let you pack your things and powder your nose, if you need to, and I’ll go grab the car and meet you at the front entrance.”

I rushed out the door before she could say anything else that would derail my plans for a semi-romantic car ride. Not to mention the fact that I needed the time to call the client without her overhearing me. I fished my phone out of my back pocket as I sprinted down the stairs and started to dial the clients number. My charm offensive was off to a bit of a stressful start.

*

“So… tell me about yourself. Any siblings?” Siblings… I asked about siblings. What was wrong with me? This was not the smooth conversation I had practiced in my head all frigging day. Though I suppose it could be worse. I could have asked her about her favorite s****l position like my wolf suggested…

“Uhm, no, no siblings. Only child.” She said while shooting me a suspicious glance from the corner of her eyes. “You? A brother maybe?”

“Nope. Single child as well. But I grew up with lots of other kids around, so I didn’t really miss having siblings. Still… I would want to have more than one child if the goddess grants me that.” Now I was talking about how many pups I wanted. I needed to abort this line of conversation immediately.

“Goddess?” She stopped throwing me glances and instead focused her full attention on me. Great, that got her to snap out of her cold demeanor. Except that was the one topic I could not get into with her. The goddess would lead to werewolves and the supernatural world and she couldn’t know about any of that. It was far too dangerous. I would have to be more careful with my words around her from now on. Which was going to be challenging because I felt very comfortable around her, despite her trying her best to play ice queen and my awkward attempts to woo her.

“Yeah, why not? Why do people always assume that the one deity looking out for us is a God and not a Goddess?” I challenged.

“I suppose…” she drawled. She refocused her attention on the road and fell quiet again.

We had made it to the towns city center which meant the drive was about halfway done. I was pondering how to salvage this conversation. This was crazy when you thought about it. I mean she was my mate and she wasn’t responding to the bond at all. Which just proved my point that having a human mate was problematic. If she were a wolf I would have just claimed ‘mate’, she would have done the same and things would have progressed from there. None of this awkwardness, none of this wooing and none of this self-doubt that I felt creeping in. I was an Alpha of a very strong pack that was respected in the wide area surrounding it and CEO of an equally respectable company and here I was rambling like a teenager on a first date. But human or no, she was still my mate. Which had to mean that she was connected to me. So maybe I had to stop trying to force this and let it take a more natural course.

The sun started to come out from behind the clouds that had hung in the sky all day and I found myself slightly blinded while driving. I remembered that I had a pair of sunglasses in the dashboard and I reached out to open it. At that same moment Alissa moved her legs and my hand accidentally brushed against her upper leg. I heard her heartrate increase and a very faint smell of arousal filled the air. So she was into me! Physically anyway. My wolf howled in my head that I had to pull over and mate with her, but I went for grabbing my sunglasses instead.

“We are almost there,” I told her. And that was true in more than one way. If I couldn’t get her to play along by being charming, then I would just have to take a more physical approach to ignite the spark, since she was clearly not immune to that.