CHAPTER SIX

Third person’s POV

There as murmuring all over the office but one thing Adam hated was the noise it was causing. It’s not like there weren’t frequent gossips all over his company but this time around it seemed like everyone was in on the conversation except him.

He kept fighting back at the temptation to say something.

Slowly the murmurs began to increase.

He had left his door wide open because he needed cross ventilation between his door and the large windows that sat behind him but all of a sudden, he didn’t really mind shutting the door and managing the air the windows could bring in.

He continued typing on his laptop despite the external environmental stressor because one thing he wondered to himself was why their gossip for today couldn’t be ceased.

It kept going on.

From the moment he walked into the office, he met his secretary talking with some other of his staffs and even the cleaners. They had been whispering to themselves.

His presence had caused them to halt and send him their greetings which he responded to but wondered why the cluster.

Before he had even gone far enough, he heard them returning to whatever it is they were saying.

At this point it was irritating, he wasn’t one who liked gossip but it seemed like the entire office was filled with the recipe for today and he had no idea what he should do.

What manner of story couldn’t be exhausted during a twenty-four-hour cycle?

Even if the sun had fallen down to the earth or Armageddon had taken place on the next planet, he was quite sure that at some point they were supposed to get tired of the conversation.

Focusing on the contract he had to seal, he was still reading through their plans and proposals. It seemed like they really didn’t have much to offer to him or their propositions were drafted by a fifteen-year-old who got a B minus in business studies.

He didn’t want to waste his time on contracts that didn’t seem feasible to his business or prove they are of greater advantage, so immediately he shut the open document before him and quickly opened the next one.

He had a lot of them to go through and also had things to sign off seated on his table.

Then he also had a calendar to go through and information feedback to get from the technology department.

There was a whole lot to do today.

He stood from his seat and walked up to shut the door because at this point the noise was beginning to distract him.

When he shut the door, he took a deep sigh and noticed he still had his suit jacket on. He took it off and hung it on the coat rack that stood close to the door then walked back to his seat but before he sat down, he realized that he hadn’t opened the windows as he intended.

He looked to the air conditioners that stood at the two opposite ends of his wide office area and looked back to the windows, deliberating which was a safer and healthier option.

He decided to go for the air-conditioning.

It wasn’t healthier, he was aware but he needed the chill environment to work appropriately.

So, he picked up the remote on his table and switched the both conditioners on and takes his seat after.

Before he could have settled in once again, there was a knock on his door. He rolled his eyes in annoyance but said a “come in” anyway.

When the door opened up, it revealed his secretary.

She had a full bright smile on her face and a hand full of documents.

Adam and his secretary did have a relationship, not the kind you are thinking… but it definitely was beyond the normal.

He knew that they had a particular sort of closeness which he didn’t have with any other staff within his building.

When she dropped the files on his table, she turns around to keep going.

But then his curiosity got the best of him and he calls her back.

“What were you and your fellow cohorts discussing this morning?”

She turns around with a brighter smile like she was holding back some laughter this time “Cohorts?” she asked

“Yes” came Adam’s blunt reply.

“Discussing when exactly Adam? I have been indulging in conversations all through today”

“Did I employ you for conversations?”

“You are not answering the question sir”

“When I walked in this morning, you seemed to be quite busy on a topic”

“Oh…” she replies “That conversation”

“Yes Amber, that conversation”

“Well… turns out that the Alpha… or the future Alpha if I may correct myself, found his mate”

“That’s supposed to be good news for the pack or you guys expected to be his mate?”

“We have a chance at this point”

“I don’t quite understand your gist”

“I am yet to be done Adam, relaxxx….” She says, dragging her last word and causing the CEO to roll his eyes at her “his mate is a matrix and well… he doesn’t want such for his pack”

Where she was heading with the conversation caused him to squint his eyes but he listened closely to know if there was anything he was missing out on

“So, he rejected her” amber concludes.

The moment he heard this, he was crestfallen

“He rejected his mate?”

“Yes, as a matter of fact he rejected her in public. May I add there were a whole lot of eye witnesses to it”

“Does he want her to die off?”

“I believe so. She’s already a weak wolf in the first place so there was no point”

He personally knows what it felt like to not have a mate, talk more rejecting the one the moon goddess had given you.

At his age he thought he ought to have found one by now but surprising to him he hadn’t.

He had even given up and decided to focus on his business and whenever he eventually meets his mate, he would appreciate it.

But with the way time was ticking by him, he felt he was never going to meet one.

“Do you know this particular wolf he rejected?” he asked

“Oh yes… Athena”

“Athena? Why does the name sound so familiar? I know I’ve seen only one person with that name before. I think she went to our high school”

Yes, Amber and Adam had schooled together.

Amber smiled “Exactly… that’s the Athena”

“He rejected Athena?” Adam asked, recalling the image of the young lady in his head from years ago “Do you know why?”