It felt odd, but good that she had his care, his muscle beside her, but at the moment she couldn’t necessarily allow him to go all Alpha on every designation that came to the shop. That just wouldn’t be good for business and wasn’t an attribute she truly wanted from him always.
If Ben was going to stay, he needed a job. One he could focus on without scaring her business away.
“Hello? Is Kayla here?” The man calls from the lobby again, the lobby door slamming shut as he spoke. “It’s been an hour,” he added.
“Yes! I’m here,” she calls back, situating herself with her coveralls, forgetting her socks but managing to pull her boots along with her. Her afterthought requested that her Alpha help her out, “Ben, can you get me some socks?”
“Ben?” the man asks just loud enough for her to hear
