The Alpha boss and the PA

The mission

Sarah POV

“Thank  you for coming and you’ll hear from us,” I say as I shake the woman’s hand and lead her out of the office. I have kind of already forgotten her name. It’s not that her resume wasn’t up to par, it’s just that I wasn’t feeling it.

I sit down with a sigh and look at my list. I have interviewed 5 candidates to fill my position temporarily and none of them were quite ‘it’. There was this guy in his late twenties who was kind of okay, but I had a strong feeling that the man and David would butt heads in about 5 seconds. It wasn’t easy working for David you know… He was fair and just and all that, but he was also demanding and dominant and just… well… very Alpha.

It had taken me a lot to get him to agree to me hiring a replacement. First I had to get him to agree to a trial week without me. That went surprisingly smooth. But then I had to make sure that the week would be a disaster. I had gone around most of the departments and I had to bribe, smile, threaten, glare and flirt until they agreed to flood the PA inbox with e-mails and make useless calls to the office. It sounds bad, but it really was for the best. David already worked way to hard. He needed to spend a little less time in the office and a little more time socializing. Maybe if he got out a bit more he would meet a nice person to settle down with. Who knows, maybe he would finally even find his mate and experience the happiness I had found when I had met my mate.

I remembered it like it was yesterday. The moment I had smelled Jack’s delicious scent was the moment I would never forget. It had been at the harvest festival that my pack and Jack’s pack always organized together. I hadn’t wanted to go because I felt tired, but my girlfriends persuaded me to come anyway. I’d be forever grateful to them for that. What if I hadn’t gone and I had missed my chance to meet Jack? What if I had missed that magical moment when I looked into his beautiful blue eyes and heard him growl ‘mine’ before kissing me? I shuddered at the mere thought of having to miss him in my life. And now we were going to expand our family with a pup. Life was good. And I wanted the same thing for David.

David claimed he didn’t want a mate. That it would only distract him from his job of running the company and running the pack. Nonsense of course. The moon goddess was no fool. She would match David up with somebody that would ease his workload and help him relax outside of work. Not somebody that would be a burden to him. I just can’t understand why he won’t understand that.

So really, the fact that I had to resort to cheating in the trial week was all his own fault. It was like the whole ‘office-chair-debate’ of last year really. The chairs had been worn out and David had spent so much time in his chair in his office that there was zero lumbar support left in the darned thing. He had started to complain about back pain and started muttering things about replacing his mattress. As if that was the problem. As if that man spent enough time in his bed to even properly féél his mattress. Ugh. It had taken weeks of persuading him before he finally replaced the office chairs muttering something about taxes or whatever.

But I hadn’t had time for weeks of pestering him this time, so cheating was the only alternative. It really was for his own good.

A minor bump in my otherwise brilliant plan was the fact that I had yet to find anybody that would fit the job. I had sent out word through the usual pack-grapevine that I was looking for someone and word had spread to neighboring packs. Just to make sure I wouldn’t exclude possible perfect candidates I had also hung up flyers in public places in town to attract some humans. But so far only 6 people had responded. The first five were wolfs from other packs and none of them perfect. And now I only had 1 name left on my list. Alissa Hayworth. She was 22 years old, human as far as I could tell, and only worked as a PA for 1,5 years at another company. It didn’t look very promising…

I glanced up at the ceiling and shot the moon goddess a quick, silent prayer. Please let me find David a PA so he won’t work even more than he already is doing now. Please let me help him get out more and find the mate you have put somewhere out there for him. Please guide me in guiding him to happiness!

I got up to open the door for my final candidate. I see her sitting in the hallway. She sees me too and gives me a friendly smile. She’s young and pretty. She has strawberry blonde hair down to her shoulders and pale skin. She is wearing a nice light blue kneelength skirt with a white blouse on top. Very clean and professional. But still… rather young, rather inexperienced…

‘Hire her!’

‘Bella? Why are you getting involved in this? This is business stuff, not wolf stuff.’

‘No, this is wolf stuff and you need to hire her.’

‘We haven’t even spoken to her yet and on paper she isn’t great for the job. She is young and only has 1,5 years…’

‘HIRE HER. HIRE HER. HIRE HER!!!!’

‘ALRIGHT, will  you calm down?? What has gotten into you??  Why do you want me to hire her so badly?’

‘Because I say so. Now hire her and then let’s go for a run. We haven’t gone for a run in a while.’

Clearly my wolf has gone insane. But I have to admit my interest was piqued…. And I suppose I DID just pray to the moon goddess for guidance. Maybe this was it. Maybe this Alissa was somehow the answer?

I realize I have just been weirdly staring at the girl for a while. She must think I am insane.

“Alissa? Please come on in!” I say to her with a smile.