Jared
His afternoon and evening had been spent looking into Nolan and his pack. While his own unit were all investigating what had gone on down on the 6th floor. He was just leaving them to it, seeing as he couldn’t be seen in the office at the moment they’d come and report to him what they found.
Jared had not known the name of the Alpha to Wynta’s home pack until today, when she’d stated it herself to that Beta, but now that he had it, he could search the Wolfen Council files for packs with Alphas that had that name. He knew the pack was in the eastern part of Wyoming, something she’d stated, by way of trying to tell them it was too far away to be concerned with.
Those two things helped to narrow the field down considerably and allowed him to search for that pack with just those two details. He put into the search criteria Alpha Peter, Wyoming, and there it was; The Blue Ridge pack, and one Alpha, Peter Holland. Having that man’s name had solved the issue in the blink of an eye.
He’d read up on that pack, it seemed nice enough on paper, but all packs did, so that really told him nothing. The man had not registered his heirs to the pack, so there was nothing about his son for Jared to look up, but knowing that boy’s last name and pack, he searched for him anyway, to see if he had attended Alpha College. That was all he needed to really start piecing things together if he went and when he went.
Jared saw that Alpha Nolan Holland attended Alpha College on time at 18. He noted the year, to see if that boy was the same age as Wynta. He accessed the company files and checked Wynta’s date of birth, just to be certain, and saw that Nolan was only a week older than Wynta herself. He looked at the registration date, checked on the full moon of that month of that year and shook his head, he’d been home for it.
So, what Wynta had stated was true; he’d not been in that pack when she’d left it. She’d rejected him, and he’d left the following morning, and she’d left after he’d gone off to Alpha College. Jared leaned back in his chair and shook his head slightly. He now knew there was more to it, that Alpha and his Beta had tried to get her into their bed between them. He wondered how that had come about? When had it happened? Right before the full moon or weeks before?
For Nolan to willingly accept her rejection, Jared didn’t think they’d ever been together, because sleeping with a she–wolf and then finding out she was your Mate; that usually came with a smile and acceptance, not a rejection, because it meant you were already attracted to them, liked them so it was a good thing, and Wynta was more than pretty, she was beautiful.
He wondered now if it had only been accepted by Nolan, because she knew everything he’d done was all an act of coercion. The full moon setting would have proved that Beta wasn’t her Mate, so to avoid her reporting what Yale and Nolan had done to Nolan’s own Mate. He’d just accepted her rejection. Even now, she held the trump card, would always hold it and could dump his ass in it, anytime she liked if he did something to harm her in the future.
But back then, if he’d refused to accept it, and claimed her, she’d still have had that knowledge, and that trump card. So if he cheated and caused her to suffer the pains of betrayal, she could just out him. Or had he accepted her rejection in the hope that she would up and leave the pack, so he and his Beta wouldn’t get found out? That no one would know they’d tried to coerce her. Coercion was against the wolfen law and punishable by pack law, reportable to the council even.
He mulled it all over and came to what he believed was the most likely reason: that Wynta would forever have something over Nolan and his Beta’s head. He wanted her gone from the pack so no one would know what he’d done. The question was how many others had he and his Beta done that to? Were they still doing it now to others they wanted in their bed and getting away with it?
He needed Wynta to sit down with him and tell him exactly what happened, so he could try and figure out just what this Alpha wanted from her. Why he wasn’t taking action against her, but was watching her and tracking her every move? Sent her flowers today, with an apology on them.
That brought him back to thinking about Wynta. She’d been really mad at him today, and now he sat there and debated with himself whether he should send Wynta apology flowers. If he did, where was he to send them? He didn’t want to send them to her office, that would likely just start more gossip. He thought about sending them to her apartment, and then realized she’d only have to bring them to the new apartment on Saturday when she moved in downstairs.
He hadn’t meant to turn her life into chaos at the office, so he would send flowers. He was scrolling through the local florists online to see what he wanted, and what he thought was appropriate. He’d have them delivered to her new apartment on Saturday.
He heard the apartment door chime as it unlocked, he’d given his unit the new code. He’d left it as Winter, it kind of made him smile every time he punched it in. They’d also thought it was funny, and Emerson had asked him why he’d not just changed it back.
He’d shrugged it off. “Let her have this one, she has to punch my name in every time she enters her apartment.” Had been all he’d said.
Dwane had shaken his head and smiled more than a little as he’d heard Jared’s response. Andy had walked off with a chuckle and got them all a drink. But it was his game to play, one he’d continued to play even today, because he’d already gone and changed the code on her new apartment this afternoon to his name.
He had also stepped inside and walked about in that one–bedroom apartment as well. It was larger and had actual designated rooms, it was easily five times the size of the place she lived in now. He’d smiled to himself as he’d walked into her very large bedroom and pressed a sticky note onto her bedroom wall. “I bought green silk ties for you,” was all it stated.
“You, Nolan Holland, may want to make your actual intent clear, or you might not like the response you’ll get in return.” He stated for that man to understand he wanted to know what his intent was.
His eyes moved to the restaurant as he heard a lot of laughing and there she was with her team. His eyes moved back to Nolan, “I suggest you call the company, and ask for a meeting with Edward Hayes, and let’s do this in a calm and reasonable way, where you don’t lose your head and, I assure you, you will. Father can be unforgiving, he also likes Wynta. She holds a spot in his heart, treats her like his own daughter.”
He saw anger cross that Alpha’s face and then he and his unit just got into their car and drove away.
“He’s unhappy now.” Dwane smiled.
“Hmm, but more food for thought was needed, I think. I also want him to declare his actual intent. He’s been here for four days, but hasn’t approached her specifically.”
“Your father treating her like a daughter?”
“That is what he wants, right?” Jared shrugged it off, “So not a lie, now that Alpha knows if he snatches her it won’t just be me coming for him, but the current Alpha and his unit as well.”
“I’d be willing to bet he has no idea that all the heirs to the pack have fully trained units either, “Dwane murmured.
“It’s very unlikely.” Jared nodded and returned his attention to Wynta.

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