He’s an Alpha She doesn’t Care novel Chapter 17

Jared

He left Wynta in her hospital room to get used to the idea that she would be going with him whether she liked it or not. His father was not wrong about her at all. Jared could now see why she was so very difficult to bring into the pack as his father wanted.

She actually didn’t want to be brought to the pack, she had some aversion to pack life that likely needed to be addressed before it could happen. But that raised eyebrow at his comment of her being washed away in flood water. He understood that; she’d not been washed away from the pack, she had actually turned and walked away from it, after he’d left her standing out there.

She’d taken everything that had happened that day involving him, combined with that perfectly timed text message, which he didn’t think she’d lied about. As he didn’t want to pick. her up, or take her into the pack himself.

He had come across as very rude, arrogant and likely selfish in her eyes, he’d also broken into her apartment as she’d stated. But that had been solely because he’d not wanted to waste any time, and he’d needed to know if she’d found her own way to the Luna Ceremony or just decided not to attend it.

So yes, it was an overstep by himself, and he’d invaded her private space, regardless of how very small it was. He’d entered a rogue she–wolf’s home under the Alpha mentality that he could do whatever he pleased and not be punished for it. Though he’d not known she was rogue at the time. But he had a feeling that wouldn’t matter to Wynta.

He was willing to bet what she’d repeated to him had been the exact wording of that text as well. To which she’d had no reason not to believe it was him, and he’d then put her out of his car as well. He’d done nothing but show her disrespect from the moment she’d laid eyes upon him. She might be a rogue, but she was still employed by his father and that man was trying to bring her in.

Every single one of his actions spoke volumes to her, and she’d actually told him right to his face exactly what she thought of him before getting out of his car. She believed he would never show her respect and didn’t care for what she thought.

She was going to be a proverbial nightmare for him to bring into the pack, as he knew his father wanted her to be, to allow initiation. Hell, he wasn’t even allowed inside the pack at the moment unless he brought her in with him. Wasn’t allowed to leave the pack until she was initiated either.

Despite his age and not currently living inside the pack, his father was still his Alpha and he did have to answer to him and follow his orders, if he wanted to retain the position of a pack heir. If he gave up the title he could just walk away, but he’d worked damned hard to create more wealth for himself, for the pack.

Had gone off and done what none of his three brothers had done, established a new and prosperous company in another part of the world that created more wealth for the pack. Proved just by doing that alone that he was capable of running and expanding the pack, growing it.

He walked down the hall with Dwane to step completely away from where she could hear them talk. She didn’t have wolfen senses, or at least he didn’t think so. It was hard to tell with the wolf–less, some had better senses than a human, but some had no wolfen senses at all;

It was just a matter of bloodline mostly.

“Where is Gordon?” he asked.

“Gone off to speak with Wynta’s doctor, I believe. You’re thinking Lotti sent Wynta that text, aren’t you?” Dwane asked right back.

“It’s entirely possible, though, if Lotti deleted it, and Wynta’s phone is water logged and unusable.” He shook his head.

“One text isn’t going to see it as she did anything detrimental to Wynta, and really was it?”

The answer was no, and he knew it, it just told her he wasn’t coming to get her was all. Nothing malicious or that would have seen harm come to Wynta in anyway.

“Though now that I’m thinking it might have been Lotti,” Dwane mused. “When you called and told me you were running late, Lotti was in that room with me. I was with the family… so she knew you were running late, so it kind of does fit with your theory. But again, why do it?” Dwane shook his head. “You don’t even live in the pack, so I don’t think it’s about attaching herself to you.”

“She doesn’t like Wynta, I do know that much, went on about her stealing the job she was supposed to get, then told me her name was Morgan. I queried it, and she stated Morgan was what she preferred to be called.”

“Right, so trying to get you and Wynta to not get along. Using small simple things,” Dwane huffed. “Though how did she get Wynta’s number? And as for Wynta stealing her job in marketing, that’s not possible. She doesn’t have a degree or any experience to my knowledge. Is just playing at being a spoiled little rich girl that gets an allowance from my father is all.”

“I said as much. She countered with she was to learn on the job.”

“Unlikely…, but let’s say that was the case, to be promoted to Marketing Supervisor in just four years of starting an internship where no experience is had. She’d just be a runner for the marketing team she was appointed to, it would be a two–year internship, maybe more, she’d be allowed to sit in on meetings and put forward ideas, contribute but not make decisions or lead that team.

“Then, when hired properly, she’d still be at the bottom, for at least one year as an actual member of the marketing team before she could apply for promotion of any kind, and it wouldn’t be to be a supervisor. There is no way she could go from the newest member of a marketing team to their supervisor in just 12 months. Likely without going and doing an actual degree, she’d never make it off the marketing floor, and into her own office.” Dwane shook his head.

He would also know, it was his department within the company they ran in France. “So it’s as I thought in the car. It is just that Lotti is jealous of Wynta. The question is why… I can’t see them running into each other at the office or in the same social circle.”

“Definitely not the same social circle and Lotti doesn’t have a job at the head office, doesn’t work at all.” Dwane confirmed.

“So, how did those two come across each other, and get to a point where Lotti is jealous of Wynta. So much so she would do this and state those things?” he mused aloud for his Beta to hear and think about as well.

“That is likely the very question that needs answering.” Dwane nodded.

“That and who text Wynta about my not picking her up, or if it was Lotti that did that, how did she get Wynta’s phone number?” He was sitting there thinking about that himself now. “It has to be another in the company for the wording of it.”

“So, you’re thinking? It is Lotti then.”

“It does all fit, with what she did to have me pick her up and told me in that car… but then again, everyone knows the rules of ascension, so I’m not likely to take her as my partner, so I doubt it’s about that,” he frowned. There was no rhyme or reason to her actions that he could find.

“It is odd… I think more investigation is needed.”

“Agreed, and seeing as I have a feeling it’s not going to be easy to bring Wynta into the company officially, we’ll have time to conduct one, quietly without Lotti knowing about it, to see what it is that woman is after.”

“Likely so, but the company in France can’t run itself, Jared.”

“Mm, I’ll have to send Ethan or Colby over to Europe to sit in my stead, until I can return. I can’t send Lance, who would have been my preference, being that he’s the youngest, and holds the most degrees of my three brothers, and he speaks the language as well. But with him now first in line, he’ll play that card with father.”

“Yes, he’ll likely play it off as you’re trying to get rid of him. But will Ethan or Colby go?” Dwane looked at him, and he could see that he didn’t think they would.

“Father will have to make them, if he refuses to send us back. Those two have never been over there. They could well find wives over there.” He sighed. “Could well see them happy and loved up, then have a family and be on that line to ascension even before Lance is. Seeing he’s the youngest. It will probably be good for them to go for a few months.”

“A few months?” Dwane snorted. “Your father has been working on Wynta Morgan for five years. It’s likely going to be more than a few months.”

Jared huffed himself now as he realized his Beta was likely to be right, she already didn’t like. him, and he was going to have to work on that first, build some sort of rapport with the she–wolf, before he could even get her to willingly set foot inside the pack’s actual territory.

“Do you think this is all just my father’s plan, a way to bring me home for good maybe?” he asked after a moment’s thought. His father was not happy about him living so far away all the time and often asked when he was going to come home.

“Anything is possible, but for Wynta to go to these lengths to help him, I don’t see it. She nearly died.” Dwane shook his head no. “I simply think your father knows Wynta very well, and has learned she is as stubborn as you are.”

He could only agree with that statement, “Alright, let’s just get her into Cedar Rapid hospital today before we try anything else, one step at a time is how this will likely go.”