Page 14 of The Alpha's Broken Oath

Alphas in Bracken City are as rare as finding diamonds in the sand, so to hear that the new boss is an Alpha takes everyone by surprise. I can almost hear their thoughts. An Alpha being the boss would mean everyone has no choice but to obey and submit because Alphas are generally intimidating beings.

The elevator doors part, and I move out quickly, heading to the finance department where I work as an assistant to the head of the department.

I barely make it to my manager’s office when Luka steps in my way, and Julie shows up out of nowhere, pulling me to her workstation.

“As much as I love running into you guys, my manager will kill me if I don’t make it to—”

“Your manager got fired,” Luka cuts me off with a smile.

Blood drains from my face, and my lungs almost collapse.

“What do you mean he got fired? His being fired means… I no longer have a job?

Julie, the calm one, the omega who befriended me on my first day here, puts her hand on my shoulder, giving me a placating smile. ” What Luka is trying to say is that every head of every department got fired.”

“Does this have to do with the new boss? Ashley was talking about it in the elevator, but I thought she was bluffing.”

Fuck. Ashley wasn’t lying at all.

Luka pushes back his hair, that brown-gelled hair he treats like his child, before he rolls his eyes, “Of course, Ashley knows about the new boss. That leech knows about every single guy, especially if said guy comes with dollar bills dripping from his pockets.”

My lungs only deflate further. What does a new boss mean for us assistants?

“You know him?” It seems I’m the only one who doesn’t.

“Nope. Heard of him today. And what I’ve heard tells me it’s either we are losing our jobs or getting a new ruthless boss. They are saying he has money practically leaking from his pockets. He’s a billionaire who’s investing in companies like ours for fun, and when he gets tired, he’ll toss all of us aside. I heard he acquired casinos as well as two of the largest shipping industries in Bracken City in a span of two years, and before you ask, he accomplished this by making sure his employees worked to the bone.”

I know how ruthless Alphas can be, and yet I still try to fight the rumor mill that is starting to make me weak in the knees, “I’m sure he’s not that bad, Luka.”

Luka’s mocking laughter follows, telling me he’s not yet finished.

“If that isn’t surprising enough, the new boss is apparently so handsome he has women like Ashley falling at his feet every day. The irony is that he rejects every single woman who approaches him. I’m calling it now. We should be prepared to say goodbye to our jobs.”

I can feel Julie’s smile and hear her statement before she even states it. “Maybe he’s a good Alpha. Come on, give the new guy the benefit of the doubt.”

I’m the one to crush her little statement, “No Alphas are good, Julie. Especially ones with power.”

I learned that the hard way, but I don’t tell my friends that. I’m almost recovering from the shock of how my work will be affected by all this when the only remaining manager in the building calls all of us so we can gather around and meet the new boss.

Julie, Luka, and everyone who works in Bracken Holdings stands at least ten feet away from the elevator. Rumors fly around about how cold the new billionaire is. Some whisper about how this new boss had won battles for his pack before he decided to venture into the clean world of business and money.

I’m shaking inwardly from what awaits me and my job.

I can feel my wolf stir inside me with the same fear.

And maybe that should have been my first clue that everything was about to change.

Maybe I should have relied on that instinct inside me that buzzed the minute I stood there with my friends, like sheep huddled together, waiting for the big bad wolf.

Because the minute the elevator doors open, revealing an expensive Brioni suit, a glinting Rolex on his wrist, and a six-foot-three man in said suit, the ground beneath my heels shakes.

“Oh Goddess, he looks like he fell from the heavens,” a woman I recognize from the printing room shrieks in a high-pitched voice.

“He’s so hot!” Ashley’s sickeningly sweet voice joins the bandwagon. Murmurs fly around within seconds like fireworks exploding after getting a whiff of fire.

My feet remain rooted to the ground as almost everyone moves to get closer to the new boss.

An almost too familiar scent, the one that appears in my nightmares and haunts me to no end, hangs so thickly in the air that I can almost feel my entire body getting covered in hives.

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