Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games novel Chapter 28

Chapter 28

KYLE

I knew I was pouting like a two–year–old, hiding in my office eating my lunch. I hadn’t known the sting of rejection that would hit me when she turned down my offer to lunch. I placed a call to the cafeteria, asking for a bowl of the soup of the day. I suddenly wasn’t in the mood to eat.

Pacing back and forth in my office, I tried to get a grip on myself. Yesterday when I gave her the job I had been so excited to find her that I hadn’t really thought through what it would mean to work side by side with her when she refused to even acknowledge me in any way outside perfectly professional. Instead of soothing my wolf by, having her near, it made him more agitated, me too.

Last night when I sat at the edge the woods near her house and howled to her, I had expected her wolf to return in kind, but she had just stood there staring at me as if mesmerized before shuffling into her house. I had seen her through the window as she shed her clothes. I felt terrible watching as she walked from room to room, but I couldn’t take my eyes off her. She was so beautiful and so natural. But seeing her unclothed made it even worse seeing her every time I left my office today.

I had decided that no matter what it took, I would somehow manage to get some curtains or blinds up in her windows. Just the thought of any other wolf strolling by and seeing her like that made my head throb and my eye twitch as I bit back the surge of anger. Nudity wasn’t that big of a deal in the shifter world, yet I could not stand the thought of any other male seeing her like that.

Mine, I growled in unison with my wolf.

I wasn’t sure how long I could stand working so closely with her and not having her. I couldn’t just fire her, and I wouldn’t admit to Elise that I had made a big mistake in hiring her, or admit why I couldn’t work with Kelsey. It wasn’t like all the other assistants I had managed to quickly fire. But I couldn’t work with her when she continued to ignore me and our bond. It hurt too much.

I came up with a plan to work her so hard that she would quit on her own. Then maybe I could breathe again. Instantly the thought of not seeing her every day caused a stab of pain straight through my chest, but I brushed it aside. She had made it painfully clear she was not interested and I would have to learn to accept that.

After lunch, I called Kelsey into my office. I had her sit down and take dictation for two straight hours, then announced I needed the report before close of business and dismissed her. It had been wonderful and harder than I ever imagined having my mate so close and yet so distant.

Chapter 28

As soon as she settled into typing, I called her in and asked her for five different financial reports I didn’t really need but thought would help overwhelm her.

“Sure thing, Mr. Westin,” she said with a smile that made my heart thump louder in my chest

Ten minutes later, there was a quiet knock on my door.

“Come in,” I said as I hit the button on my desk allowing whoever it was to hear beyond the barrier that kept my room safe from even the most sensitive wolf ears, wondering who it could be. No one ever knocked on my door, but when it opened, her scent flooded me and I knew it was Kelsey.

“Here are those reports you asked for, Mr. Westin.” She looked me straight in the eye with a smirk as she set them on my desk and turned and walked away.