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Chapter 17 Bailey

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I got myself ready to leave the house, dressed smartly in a pair of high-waisted, wide-legged, black trousers. With a simple white tank top. My long dark hair I chose to tame, so the curls were manageable, and I clipped the sides back from my face. I slipped on a pair of simple black heels to finish my outfit, along with simple but stylish make-up too. I needed to make a good impression. I needed a job. There had still been no responses despite all the applications I had

sent out.

“You ready to go Bai?” My Dad called up the stairs, and I smiled. He was not wasting the opportunity to go and see his friend, former Alpha Isaak, again. After we had called the pack and requested an appointment to discuss the role of teacher in the pack, my Dad had messaged Alpha Isaak to let him know, and instantly he was invited to come along too. Personally, I think it was just my Dad’s way of coming along to keep an eye on me. Ever the protective father..

I have since learned the two of them had played football together in the inter-pack football squads many moons ago. Back when my Dad considered himself quite the footballer. Back when he could actually run around without feeling like he would collapse and have a heart attack. No, I shouldn’t be mean, my Dad was still in quite good shape for a guy his age. That came with being a Beta of the pack, I guess. He had no choice but to keep training and had to stay at peak fitness.

I picked up my bag from my bed with my qualifications as well as examples of some of my teaching styles I preferred. “Coming!” I called, slipping out of my bedroom. Only to be greeted by my older brother leaning on the doorframe of his bedroom door, with a dirty look upon his face. “I’d say good luck, but…” he paused. “Nope, I don’t want to. You will f**k it up, like you do everything else.” He says with a nasty laugh.

I rolled my eyes at him, sticking my middle finger up at him, before turning my back on him. before walking down the stairs to meet my Dad. “Come on Princess, let us get you to this meeting.” He smiles, as we move toward the door, and for once I am actually glad to spend time with my Dad, because he doesn’t seem to be on my case.

‘Good luck Bailey. I suddenly received a mindlink from Harley. I felt a warm feeling rush. through me. I was touched that he had even remembered my interview. The two of us had been for ice creams as planned the other afternoon, and had found plenty to laugh about as we caught up. He seemed quite an easy-going guy, and really friendly. He seemed quite interested in the fact I had done my degree and asked lots of questions about it.

We had seen each other a couple of times since, casually around pack. And chatted via text and call too. He had been really enthusiastic for me when I told him of my potential job interview, knowing how desperate I was to replace work. Though I don’t know if he realized how far away this pack was…

‘Thank you, Harley!’ I replied. ‘And thank you for remembering. I am just leaving now.”

“Aww, just in time then. I just woke up, so I am glad I caught you. You will smash it, sweet cheeks. He tells me and I hold back a little giggle, he keeps coming up with funny names to call me, knowing they will make me laugh. But my Dad being with me means it is not a good idea to be laughing, as I do not need to be explaining this to him….

“Thank you. I am with my Dad now, so I will speak to you later.! I told him, knowing it wouldn’t be

Chapter 17 Bailey

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long until my Dad were to notice my glazed eyes to signal I was mindlinking, and then he would be asking questions. Plus, I would soon lose the ability once we left the pack as we would be too far away from him for the link to work.

‘Okay Bai, see you soon. Drinks on me if you get the job!’ Harley tells me cheerfully before cutting the link.

I sit in the passenger seat of the car as my Dad is driving through the quiet roads of pack. Few people would be about at this time of day. We were setting of quite early as the meeting was scheduled for mid-morning, and we still had to get there yet. I was nervous, but I was excited too. I had been working toward this since I went away to study. This is everything I am wanting. I hope they like me and see the potential in me. I am a good teacher, I know I am…

I feel my mindlink cra ckling like someone is trying to get hold of me and I wonder if Harley is trying to reach me again, but suddenly a voice I did not want to hear comes through loud and clear, I especially did not want to be hearing his voice today of all days. Miles. ‘Where the f**k do you think you are going?”

I chose to try and ignore him, knowing we were coming toward the pack gates soon, so hopefully the pack link would be lost and he wouldn’t be able to continue mindlinking me. I go to put my block up, but as I do, he forces through again. ‘Don’t f**king ignore me Bailey. You were told you would stay within the pack. That you belonged to our pack. Yet you chose to apply for work away from the pack all the same? Go to your interview, or it will reflect badly on our pack, and you will not make us look bad. You cause us enough issues as it is. But you will not take that job. Do you hear me? Or I will replace ways to make you regret it.”

A cold chill spread across my body at his words. Why would anyone threaten something like that? As my Dad pulled the car out of the pack gates onto the road ready to drive to Autumn Valley Pack, I was beginning to doubt my decision now. Miles is not going to allow this. It seemed my brother had gone running to his friend after all and done exactly as I feared he would. And if they offered me the job I had so desperately wanted, Miles would make me regret it, and knowing him, I could only imagine what that could mean.