Beauty and The Beta (Bailey) novel Chapter 18

Chapter 18 Asher

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The silence within the office was palpable. Awkward. I tried to keep myself occupied with some of the paperwork that lay upon my desk, but I found myself persistently checking the time. This appointment was due anytime now, and I truly did not want to be dealing with some randomer from out of pack.

Yes, it had been my choice to bring her here to interview her, but I am certain that the interview did not need three of us. The coffee in the mug upon my desk had not done what I needed in waking me up, nor making me feel better. Being polite and friendly was most certainly not. within my rhetoric today because of the amount of sleep I had managed…

“Does she have much experience?” Caleb suddenly interrupted the deafening silence.

I turn to look at my friend and shrug. “This is all your Dad’s suggestion,” I said, slightly too snappily, and I saw both Caleb and Eden glance at one another. That knowing look upon their faces. The look I tire of. One of sympathy. Pity. Concern. Like I was such a worry for them. Yet, strangely, I was still more than capable of being the Beta of the pack. Completing my role and many of the tasks of Caleb’s too, if I am not mistaken, to lessen his responsibilities to allow him the time to spend with his young son, and his heavily pregnant wife. But they seem to forget that when they have these moments of great concern…

“I think she is newly qualified from what your Dad said.” Eden adds, with a small smile. “Are you sure you are okay, Asher?” her voice seeps concern and care, which only further irritates me. Why do they have to treat me like I am damaged? Like I am a fragile piece of glassware or a ticking timebomb….

I looked toward her, raising my brows as I met her beautiful blue eyes. “Yes, Eden. I am fine. Think we covered this already. I am just tired.” I dismissed her. “Though if this girl is not here soon, her meeting will be canceled, we have better things to do than sit around and wait all day for her.”

Eden glanced at her husband and mate once more, before smiling a tight and uncomfortable smile. The sort of smile that was becoming more frequent around me. “She isn’t due for another ten minutes, Ash.”

Another ten minutes? So why are we all sitting here already? Ten minutes… And that is before we even have to start the interview? My brain will be ready to evaporate into nothingness by the time I am done today! Either that or simply explode. My limit for dealing with others was going to be have been far exceeded. To think I used to be one of the pack’s more sociable members would likely not be believed now…..

‘SECURITY ALERT! Rogues detected on the southern border!’ a mindlink suddenly came through from one of the pack warriors running border patrol, and I stood from my desk. There was no way I would be staying within the office now. I had other places I was needed.

“I will до and deal with that.” I told Caleb and Eden, knowing they too would have heard the security alert. An opportunity to deal with rogues is always a welcome prospect. Rogues are who took my mate. Sn*tched the life from her beautiful body. So now I take great pleasure in

watching the life being cnatched from them Seeing the life dein from their pune The fear and