The Alphas Dilemma

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty

Emory’s pov

“Good day ma’am. How can I help you” an exquisite young-looking Russian lady who I presumed to be Gilbert's secretary greeted me immediately after I stepped my foot into the reception area.

“I’m here to see Gilbert, your boss. Is he in?”

“Yes, he is in but I’m afraid you cannot see him now”

“Why?”

“He is in a conference meeting and he is likely to finish soon. You can wait if you want to, but I wouldn’t advise that. I’d rather you go and come back.” She said sharply. She had the type of communication skills I wanted—sleek, polished, and native.

“Thanks for your advice, but there is nowhere else I’d rather be. So I'd rather wait. It's really important that I see him today… now” I said. The secretary or whatever position she occupied flashed me an apologetic smile but I'd been long in the game to see through the falsehood it held. turning, I smirked to myself, and took in my surrounding once more, while I searched for a convenient place to seat

“You can sit over there, ma’am,” the secretary said pointing at a nearby grey color seater, a bit far from other waiting chairs. I looked up at her one more time and I was captivated by her physique this time. She looked clean, professional, and highly intelligent. The manner which she used to discharge her duties was top-notch and her occupational ethics were one for the books. She possessed all I needed for a secretary. My face wandered a bit north on her body and I saw her name on a golden slate name tag and the top right corner of her baby blue chiffon blouse.

“Uh, secretary Anya… Russian translation for Anna right?”

“Yes, ma’am… you are correct... You called me?” she answered skeptically, probably surprised that I knew her name.

“Yes, I did. Your name is on your name tag.” I replied to her with a small but sincere smile. "I got it from there"

“Oh, yeah. Uh, I guess” she let out nervously.

“Can you keep a secret?” I asked as I leaned closer to her desk.

“Ma'am?” she asked in her light Russian accent, her saucer-like eyes, bulging out from their socket.

“I asked if you can keep a secret. A tiny little secret, just between the both of us?” I asked again.

“Yeah, I guess” she swung her head sideways, trying to check if our discussion was safe. She nodded discreetly towards the planted CCTV cameras on the ceiling corners. I only smile because the CCTV cameras in the waiting room were the first thing I captured upon entering.

“No, I need you to be sure. I don’t want you guessing. Do you understand?” I held her stare.

“Yes ma’am. I understand” she replied, nodding her head.

“Great! So tell me. Can you keep a secret?

“Yes, I can.” her expression was fixed now, and so was her gaze on mine. I knew she was sure of what she was saying. That's right. What I needed was stone-hearted not chicken-hearted people.

“Perfect. When is your lunch break? I’d like to take you out for lunch. We’ll discuss about our secret over lunch”

“We actually have lunch in the cafeteria. It is against company policy to have lunch outside the company’s premises. Perhaps after closing hours…”

“Perfect. Please, give me a call when you are done from work or send a text, whatever is comfortable for you. I’ll send my driver to pick you up. And don’t forget, it is a secret between the both of us, only.” I said for good measure, discreetly passing her my business card in such a way that the lurking security cameras wouldn’t catch. She collected the card and put it in her purse and the door opposite her table burst open to reveal Lucas. I fought the urge to snare and pounce on him. I looked at Anya and she was cool and collected like a judge before a heating process. Such prudence and intelligence. The minute my eyes landed on Jenny, I felt Goldie jump and groaned. I felt her narrow her head. Her need to come out and pounce on Lucas was so thick and strong that I took my eyes off him and took in calming breaths to calm her. If there was one thing I knew about my wolf it was that she was strong and very stubborn. She wouldn’t rest until she had done what she wanted. This is why the people back in Alessandro's pack feared her more than they feared me. Her need to dominate, control, subdue and wrestle was something else.

“Emory Salvatore” Lucas greeted with a slight bow of his head.

“Lucas,” I said, reciprocating his gesture.

“It’s been a while. You look heavenly” I looked up at him and I caught him examining my body in a not-so-subtle way. The son of a b***h had the guts to flick his tongue over his lips.

“Thank you” I replied with a Cheshire cat kind of simper. Putting more effort than necessary into my smile. “You don’t look bad yourself. Nice cologne”

“Oh stop with the flattery.”

“No jokes here Lucas, you really do look and smell good” okay, I'm a fat ass lair. The prick f*****g smelled awful. I'd been subduing the urge to gag. I could actually vomit.

“Thank you, Emory. However, I’ll advise you not to say it in the presence of Gilbert, no doubt he’ll use my wolf for dinner and barbeque if he hears you complimenting my look” Lucas said and we both laughed “Here to see the Alpha?” he added when our laughter died out

“Uhm yes. Just got back into town and I happened to be passing by the street so I decided to stop and say hi. "Yet, again another lie. This visit had been properly orchestrated by myself, Stephanie and Alex. It was my first plot to keep him locked between my fingers.

“That is so thoughtful of you. I hope one of these days you’ll consider stopping by to say hi to me” Lucas said flashing me a sick toothy grin. The dude didn't know how to woo a woman! f*****g loser—the only thing in that brick head of his, was to punish Omegas and f**k his supposed best friend's fiancee. Total douche!

“No biggie. I’ll be sure to include that in my to-do list.” I said with a smile.

“Or I can take you out to dinner. Whatever you want” he asked discreetly putting his fingers on the back of my palm. I leaned into his touch and bit my lower lip before flicking my tongue through the space between my lower and upper lips.

“Dinner sounds okay. I’ll let you know when I’m free” I said, drawing faint lines on the inside of his palm.

“Great. Pardon me but I’ll have to leave you to know. I have to quickly give this document to Gilbert. He needs it for an ongoing meeting” Lucas said apologetically. I didn't miss the look of regret on his face.

“Must be very important. Sorry for keeping you waiting.” I flashed a sympathetic smile.

“Not at all. Sure thing the document is important. But certainly, you are far more important than it ever will be”

“And now, it is you saying the flattery” I forced myself to blush.

“I’m speaking the truth and I’m sure the Alpha wouldn’t object to the fact. See you later pretty” Lucas said and threw me a wink, a wild smirk playing on his lips. I’d been sitting for exactly eight minutes, switching between flipping on the pages of a random magazine I took from Anya's desk and scrolling through my news feed on i********: and Twitter but it felt like hours. Twice I caught Anya staring at me with concern and awe latched on her face.

“This is crazy '' I muttered to myself subtly doing a once over at myself and my environment. Indeed this was crazy! If there was anything I hated it was being made to wait because the only emotion I felt when I waited was anger and right now I was beginning to get angry. Undeniably, I could qualify to act for the next part of angry birds or rather start a show called angry wolfs because right now, my wolf: Goldie was so f*****g angry I could hear her vibrate in my stomach.

“Please may I use your restroom?” I asked Anya.

“Yes. Walk straight through the hallway, take the turn after the first five doors, the last door by the right is the restroom for ladies”

That sounds like a lot of description. A crease formed on my forehead.

“Walk straight through the hallway, and then I should take a turn after the first five doors, walk a bit, the last door by my right, yeah”.

“Yeah” she replied with a nod of her head and a small smile. Oh, how much I liked her smile. "You might as well use the elevator if you wish"

"I'd rather walk. Thank you" I smiled.