He’s an Alpha She doesn’t Care novel Chapter 65

Jared

His attention was focused on Wynta and her drunken friend, who was half leaning on Wynta’s arm, holding herself up. She’d obviously had one too many drinks, but he did also recognize her as one of Wynta’s own team members. Though as he heard her name, he realized that was also the woman Dwane had just promoted to be a Marketing Supervisor, to replace the one they’d fired last week.

He heard the drunken slur about Wynta having a stalker and ignored it. He supposed that him turning up here, to her human friends; after all that went down today could be seen as that. Even as Wynta turned her eyes upon him, he’d been going to leave her alone tonight. Jared had, had no intention of going near Wynta at all, because he did understand that after today’s events and her rogue mentality being triggered.

Her having to come across that Beta from her old pack, along with all that had gone on inside her department, she actually did need her own space right now. She was used to being alone, dealing with things on her own, and likely she would also be annoyed at not being able to have that, if he just showed up. So he’d been going to leave her be, approach her again tomorrow, apologize properly.

He’d only come here tonight because Nolan and his unit had turned up and were likely to corner her, to try and take her with them. She was never going to go willingly. They now knew this from her conversation with Yale, that Beta. She had made herself plainly clear and in more ways than one.

That comment from Tallah about Dwane being dreamy, which Jared saw his Beta not only smile at but heard him chuckle softly as well. Only to hear her a moment later state that she wondered if he’d take her home.

Jared’s eyes moved right towards Dwane. A human was wanting him to take her home and Dwane’s smile broadened a little. Which told Jared that this human woman, Tallah. Was going to be the eyes in the marketing department, the one he’d nicknamed “Marketing Cutie.” His Beta looked more than happy with her words about him, and what she wanted.

“Do you mind Jared, if I take her back to the penthouse?” Dwane asked him, and it surprised Jared a little; Dwane wasn’t one to ask permission. He wondered if he only did it because of what he was seeing, how close she and Wynta actually looked to be.

It was nice for him to know that she had actually managed to make some friends in the office. If not, she’d likely be a lot more difficult to handle and he knew it.

“No,” he answered simply. “What you do in your free time is none of my business. She’s your marketing cutie, right?” he asked right back.

“Mm, Hmm.” Dwane nodded.

“May I make a single suggestion… don’t bed her while she’s drunk, she might see it as you’re taking advantage of her, or not recall it. You’re also now her direct manager… so.”

“I know all that, and I also know how to be a gentleman.” Dwane shook his head and rolled his eyes at Jared’s words, “We’re also not at the stage where I’m going to strip her naked either. I’m just enjoying flirting with her,” Dwane stated.

Jared nodded. He could believe that, because his Beta didn’t play with humans, it was likely unless she was his Mate, he wouldn’t have s*x with her at all. It was now only three weeks to the next full moon, not that long a wait.

He stepped up to Wynta and Tallah. “We’ll take you two home,” Jared offered.

“No, thank you, Mr Hayes,” Wynta stated, and she sounded a little on the cold and dismissive side.

“I’m afraid, I’m going to have to insist, Nolan, Yale and two others were just down the street waiting for you to come out of the restaurant.” He stated, using their names, so she now understood he knew who they were.

Her eyes didn’t move towards him as he expected them to, but too across the street as if she was thinking about something, and he watched her lips press together in a thin line, something she often did, he thought, symbolizing her annoyance with things.

“I understand that today was difficult for you,” Jared murmured. “I’m truly sorry about that

and I have tried to resolve that.”

“Good for you,” she muttered. “I’ll see Tallah home.” She told him as she pulled Tallah a little straighter against her.

“Then how about you let Dwane and I drive you together?” he offered once more.

Her eyes finally moved to his, and he knew she was debating it with herself. “I wasn’t intending on seeing you this evening, Wynta. I was going to give you space, and I wouldn’t be here, unless I thought it was necessary,” Jared told her.

“I’ll deal with my past, you don’t need to be involved with it. Please just stay out of it. I can handle myself, and Nolan as well,” she stated flatly.

He looked at her as she sat quietly looking out the window. “Do you want me to take you shopping? I’m not going into the office, and I’ve got this big car that things can fit into.”

“No,” she answered, “I can sort my needs out on my own,” she told him, and he heard the innuendo in her tone, she was teasing him now; so they were all good.

A smile touched his lips, “I’m certain you can… but wouldn’t it be better if I helped you out?” He couldn’t help but play right back.

“I’m positive I can do a better job on my own,” she returned without even looking at him, but there was a definite smile in her voice now.

He chuckled softly, “If you say so.”

It was a relatively quiet trip to her place after that, though there was a constant smile on his face, and he looked at her a few times. He could see she was amused by their wordplay, and she raised an eyebrow at him once and shook her head. She looked at Tallah sound asleep on Dwane’s lap, as he pulled the car up, and he knew she was debating with herself about if she should leave her human friend with wolves. “It’s likely she’s his human Mate, Dwane will do nothing to risk that if she is.” Jared stated softly, and her eyes finally moved to his a little wide.

But then she just nodded and got out of the car. He didn’t walk her to her door, just sat in the car and watched her go inside before driving away once more. He could see his team pulling up and getting out to watch her.

“You know, sometimes women just need a hug, Jared,” Dwane stated from the backseat.

“Yours certainly does.” He nodded. “Leave it alone, she’s used to being on her own, likely wants her space today.”

Dwane didn’t even attempt to wake Tallah, he just carried her all the way to his apartment and Jared keyed in the code for him and closed the door behind him. It was unusual for a human to just rub their face into a man’s chest like that. It was very much an otherworldly creature’s thing to do, a Mate thing to do in fact.

He returned to his apartment and thought about that, the noise she’d made, it was a chirping noise, and he was now racking his brain as to what kind of creature made that noise. He’d met quite a few different species in France, but he couldn’t recall any of them making that specific noise and, as far as he knew, she was human. He checked out her company profile and there was nothing otherworldly registered with her. It was odd.