4 Days Later
Amber's POV: -
My peaceful sleep was rudely interrupted by an extremely loud and annoying alarm. I had never realized just how loud it was! I did not bother to open my eyes, I only extended my arm over the right side of the bed and started to search for my phone. I had nearly covered the entirety of my small bed so I was sure it could not be far away from my reach now. When I had finally found it I turned it off immediately, deciding to sleep for a few more minutes. But then my phone rang again, this time it was not an alarm.
"Ugh… why can't I just sleep?"
Cracking open one of my eyes, I noticed that Mia was calling me.
"What?" My voice was mixed with irritation. We used to see each other daily, so why did she need to call me early in the morning?
"What do you mean, what?? Open the door and let me in."
As soon as she talked about opening the door I cut the call and noticed that it was most definitely not the morning. It was the f*****g afternoon! I threw my blanket off me then made my way to the door. As expected she was impatiently waiting for me in front of the door with her arms crossed over her chest. She was wearing a bell sleeve top that had a deeply cut neck which was giving a good view of her cleavage. A pair of white shorts matched perfectly with the pink top. Her makeup was light and it proved that she had gone to the market.
"You could have rung the bell," I rolled my eyes moving away from the door as I yawned.
"I stopped making that useless attempt years ago," she taunted, making her way inside the room and closing the main door behind her. No matter how many times anyone rings the bell I never bothered to actually answer it. Mia learnt long ago not to ring the bell so she always just calls me. She earned a narrowed eyed look from me but as always ignored me as she entered the kitchen with the food that she brought with her.
"Go take a quick shower, I'm very hungry," She announced as I was already brushing my teeth. I peeked into the kitchen when my nose caught a whiff of the amazing mouth watering delicious smell of Philly cheese steak. It was my favorite!
"Wait for me I will be back," grabbing a towel I hastily entered the bathroom, after having a fast shower when I entered the room the food was already placed on our plates.
"Oh my god I am starving," I immediately grabbed my plate and started to eat without bothering to put on any clothes. I had only a towel wrapped around my body as I took a seat at the table opposite Mia. We both started to eat.
"Most of the time you don’t eat any breakfast. Why are you such a lazy ass? It is not good to skip breakfast," her lecture began like it always did. Then again I just nodded my head and continued eating without any argument. I really was a lazy ass. This rental house had a small room and kitchen, bathroom. The kitchen had only a little fridge where I always kept packed food. I never bother to cook anything for myself so there was nothing like vegetables and fruit in my kitchen. I always used to buy my food from the stalls or a cheap restaurant. When it was a weekend, Mia and I used to have lunch at either my home or hers. But for the last four days she had been bringing lunch for me continuously as I had not been going to the hotel since I had resigned.
"Did you know that I am not having fun in that hotel job any more? Everything seems lifeless without you. Your presence used to generate liveliness and enthusiasm among all the working waiters and waitresses, but in your absence everyone has become discouraged. Everyone is missing you but I am dying. I don't want to work there anymore," Mia complained like a child, it was what she had done for the past four days. She started to shed fake tears that made me roll my eyes.
"Really? You are planning to leave your job?" I raised my eyebrow looking at her up to down, that was when she stopped the drama.
"No I will not or I would die due to starvation,” She exclaimed. I laughed at her theatrics.
“That job is very precious to me, I am not lucky enough to be given a golden opportunity from a rich Alpha like you were. But I am serious, I am really missing you Amber," she gave me a warm side hug, her words were sincere.
"I am missing all of you but I thought you were the one who suggested that I accept Alpha Oscar’s offer," I raised my eyebrow.
"That f*****g jerk Alpha!" She frowned.
"I thought that the job would be easy but now I understand why the f**k no one could bring his son back! His f*****g son is a big asshole!" She began to release her frustration on her food, stabbing it with her spoon, while cursing wildly.
"Have mercy on that poor food, it did nothing to you," I let out a loud laugh.
"But I am deadly serious Amber. You have resigned from a decent job only to bring Alpha Oscar’s son back but in these four days you could not smoke him out. Now I have totally lost all hope. I know it is too late but I am regretting that I even suggested that you accept his offer."
Amber was disappointed with herself. The very next day I had signed a contract with Alpha Oscar and returned it to Beta Luis. He was waiting for me in the same restaurant we had met the previous night. He explained everything to me once again so that the task will be well defined for me. He gave me the address of Sebastian's office and a few other details that I needed to know. At the end he handed over to me a large suitcase that had been filled with a considerable amount of money.It would blow anyone’s mind.
I flat out refused him. He was quite shocked and wanted to know the reason behind it. The only answer I could give him for my refusal was written in the contract. According to the contract, if I failed in my mission or I broke the contract in any way then I had to return all the money that had been given to me. I asked them to remove that clause as the future was uncertain. I was at a loss due to the work I was doing for them, I had to give up my hotel job but they were not ready to remove the clause. So I refused to take any money from them, I wanted to have my share when I succeeded in my mission. But I also forced them to add a clause where they had to pay me the same salary that I was able to earn from my hotel job. I was ready to take the same money as the hotel had paid me, but they also could not take it back from me because it was my remuneration even if I failed to bring Sebastian back to the pack.
I started to work on my plan from that day onward, but when I went to Sebastain’s office the receptionist asked for my details like I was a terrorist. She even reviewed my ID, after that she informed me that Sebastian was not in his office. I had to leave the building, the following day when I arrived there she told me that he had gone to a business meeting in another city. The third today she gave me the lame excuse that he was in Brazil but I had clearly spotted his car in the parking lot. Beta Lewis had already told me his license number plate. On the fourth day, which was yesterday, when I arrived the receptionist said that he was in a meeting with the shareholders.
I wanted to slap her across the face right there as she had been continuously lying to me but I was determined that I would wait for him no matter how long it was going to take. I would sit in the waiting area. Too many people were passing by me and I had no idea what was going on inside the main part of the building. It was not like I had access to the internal part of the building, rather I was in a hallway that was not even the 1% of the big building. I spent my seven hours sitting there but Sebastian never came out. I had noticed the receptionist fixing her make-up before she was ready to leave.
I quickly stopped her, inquiring about Sebastian. She then informed me that he had left the office half an hour ago but I had never seen him. I was not ready to believe in her lie but came to learn that he had left the building from another exit. I wanted to kill that woman who intentionally did not inform me of his departure. In these four days I came to understand that if I wanted to meet him then I would need to find another way. In the presence of that b***h woman I could not meet him in this lifetime, I had no extra time to waste in this hide and seek game.
"Don't worry when I accepted this job I had made up my mind. I only would only accept success, to achieve it I would do anything. Today I will meet him under any circumstances," I explained to sad Mia.
"But how? That rich asshole is not easy to get a hold, he is a slipper sucker. You have not even caught a glimpse of his face. They will not let you anywhere near his office. Don't tell me that you are going to turn into a superwoman and fly into his office now. In other words you have lost,"
Her declaration really provoked me. I have lost this round, but never the game, it triggered my mind. I placed my spoon back on the plate.
"I never lost any game. Yes, I admit that my opponent is aware of my intentions. He knows I am trying to meet him and I strongly suspect he is intentionally ignoring me. If he has decided to play dirty then he will come out of it the filthiest. Today will be the day he will meet Amber Harper!" I vow, getting up from the table.
"Wow. Sometimes you scare me. Are you sure you are a lone wolf and not Alpha blood? Your words just gave me the chills, your confidence could break the enemy's will power," She commended. I rolled my eyes at her rubbish as she continued eating and talking. She also finished my food as I had no intention to eat it anymore.
"What is your next plan? How will you catch him?" Mia asked, getting up from the table and coming next to me where I was trying to pick out what to wear this evening.
"I will catch him at his place," I declared with a confident smile.
"At his place? Where?" She questioned but I did not reply. I had already planned out everything, where to catch that big bad Alpha.
"Wear this," Mia pulled out a revealing dress.
"You must be kidding," I made a disgusted face.
"No I am not," she said, giving the dress to me. It was a halter top with a strapless bra. I had no problem with this dress but this helter top was transparent. Now I also remember that she was the one who brought it for me when we both decided to go clubbing with our other friends. I flatly refused her and she created drama but I still refused. I ended up wearing my normal dress that night instead but right now she was again trying to convince me.
"I am not going to seduce him," I replied, putting it back in my wardrobe.
"Honestly it is like a game of seduction. If you could succeed in seducing him then he would follow you around like a dog," she claimed with a chuckle, looking confident with whatever she was saying. I took a deep breath giving a second thought to her words. My intention was definitely not to seduce him. There was only my benefit in this work, that's it but I also did not know what kind of man he was.
"I don't think it is even going to happen as I will never seduce him, he would never consider lusting over a lone wolf like me," I replied but she gave me an evil smile.
"Who knows what your future holds? Maybe your wrong and this evening you will be hooked up with the big, bad, mysterious Alpha, who would never let you walk out of his clutches ever," Mia exclaimed and I could see that she was assuming erotic and dirty things. I gave her an irritating smile.
"Stop daydreaming girl! It is never going to happen," I brushed her off and started to make my way towards my bed.
"Beware, Amber. No one has seen the future, maybe you will end up, undressed by the Alpha," She commented. I stopped in my tracks but did not look back at her. My hand immediately went to my heart. Her words really affected me badly at the same time since I had woken up I had been feeling something different. It was not a good feeling. My wolf had also not talked to me today. Everything was feeling strange…