Claimed by My Ruthless Alpha Boss

Chapter 3

Dominic POV

Here.

I swear, fate has the strangest sense of humor.

I’ve been all over the world looking for my mate. I spent a year traveling throughout Europe, ran with the wolf packs in South America, visited China, and even spent a few months traveling from pack to pack in North Africa. And those were just the places I set up camp. Over the years, I’ve spent time in every country, met hundreds probably thousands of shifters, and to no avail.

Being a businessman at heart, I decided to outsource the problem of finding my mate by signing up for a shifter dating agency, Love Bites. They were unable to find a match, but they told me it could be because she hasn’t come of age yet. I f*****g hope so, otherwise the alternative is…

I can’t even think of it. If my mate doesn’t exist, that could mean she was taken from me before we even had a chance to meet. That thought haunts me sometimes late at night when I long to be curled around my mate.

And then, as soon as I’ve decided to give up hope, she shows up here.

How long has she worked for me? It couldn’t have been too long. I would have smelled her sweet cotton-candy scent in the halls or elevator before today if she had been here.

Part of me still wonders if maybe I imagined the whole thing. Has my loneliness manifested itself into full-on apparitions? But no, I couldn’t possibly conjure up the way she made me feel like every part of me was sparking to life, including my long-dormant c**k. No mirage could make me as painfully hard as she did.

My mate. The words still feel foreign to me. Where has she been? Why hasn’t anyone been able to locate her before? How much time have we wasted not being together?

I sensed when she walked up behind me, but I paid her no mind at first. One look, and I noticed just how small she was, especially standing next to a big brute like me. The woman isn’t one of us, not part of the pack here at Alpha Cybersecurity. I tend to stay away from humans. I find them confusing. I never expected to be mated to one, though. Now I wish I would have been better socialized.

All shifters know how mating works, but having a human mate may make things more difficult, especially if I break it to her the wrong way. She won’t know to give in to the pull, won’t understand the force of fated mates until I can explain it to her without sounding like a total creep.

Although, surely she felt the mating pull and won’t be able to deny me. Once I find the right words, winning her over will take no time at all. I’ll mark her, we’ll seal our bond in the most intimate way possible, and then we can spend the rest of our lives learning more about each other. I’ll tell her all about shifters and anything she wants to know about our history. Just as soon as I’ve bred a few pups into her.

When the tiny woman stepped onto the elevator and I caught her scent, I knew. My wolf had gone crazy inside of me, clawing and biting to try to get out and claim her. I don’t think she noticed the growl that escaped, though I know she saw me break the damn elevator button. My overeager wolf was lunging forward, and I had to use all of my brute strength to push him back. I would have scared the s**t out of her if I shifted while in an elevator.

My heart jerked painfully in my chest when my mate stepped out of the elevator and onto the third floor. My wolf whined and pawed at me, and I tried my best to calm him down. I had wanted nothing more than to grab her, drag her back inside, and take her up to the top floor with me where we would have some more privacy. I wanted to rub her against me, get my scent all over her so every other male knew to stay far away. I wanted to sink my teeth into that delicate skin and bind her to me forever.

God, I longed to show my mate how much pleasure I could bring her with my fingers, teeth, and tongue, then blow her mind all over again when I thrust inside her tight little cunt.

Unfortunately, none of that happened.

I own and am CEO of Alpha Cybersecurity, and there are quite a few humans working for me who would be shocked to learn that their boss is also a wolf shifter. I need to go about this the right way, and something tells me the right way doesn’t include mauling her within five seconds of first seeing her. Soon, though. Once the mating moon hits, we’ll both be so desperate for each other, none of the details will matter.

I step off the elevator on the top floor and stalk into my office. My two friends, Archer and Stryker, are there waiting for me. We try to have lunch together a few times a week. Archer is the CEO of Full Moon Real Estate Developing, and Stryker is the CEO of Leader of the Pack Advertising. Both of their buildings are next to mine and border the forest behind. They’re also alphas of their own packs, although we all get along well together.

“I’ve found her,” I announce as I take a seat behind my desk, and they both raise an eyebrow at me.