The Wrong Alpha - A Twist Of Fate?
The Wrong Alpha – A Twist Of Fate? Chapter 67

It was Lilah’s first day helping in the office, literally a few days after visiting their pack. I was genuinely surprised Alpha Grayson had agreed to having her come work here but Jake did an amazing job of putting across a role as more an apprenticeship that she would learn serious business skill that would ultimately benefit their pack so Beta Trent, Lilah’s Dad had been interested immediately as he knew that would be a massive thing for Lilah’s CV for the future. And from what I could gather it had been him that had pushed for it, though it hadn’t taken much. And when Jake said to Beta Trent Indie had highly recommended Lilah, he was extremely happy, evidently proud of his daughter.

Indie had said Lilah was quite knowledgeable with business studies having covered it in high school, as well as computer studies too, plus we knew she had been helping her Dad and the Alpha out with office work at her pack prior to coming to here.

As Alpha I wasn’t short of money, the pack was self sufficient, having smaller businesses running within it that we also profited from. But I had decided I wanted my own businesses out of the pack too, like many of the other Alphas do. With the help of Jake and Dan I had set up the financial business and then Gabe and Manuel had helped with the smaller and newer property development business.

Both of these businesses worked outside of the packs, as it tended to be more profitable and have more contacts and less hassle working away from packs, though occasionally the two did overlap. I had a reliable and effective staff team, meaning I wasn’t always needed in the offices meant I could be at the pack most days to run it, and work via video calls and from my office at the pack house for business related issues when needed.

I only came to the office when there were big deals close to completion. Jake came in more often to monitor things, as did Manuel. However today we had all made the effort to come in knowing that it was Lilah’s first day. I wanted to show her how the business worked here, but my plan to be honest was to have her working more from the packhouse so she was with people that she knew with the option of going to the offices with myself, Jake or Manuel if we were going in.

I had given Lilah directions to the office and she was due any time, so I headed down the stairs to the main foyer of our office building to meet her. Our office block was a multi-storey office building, the majority of the upper floors used for the finance business, the first floor was our property development office, with a reception area in the foyer where I was able to sit and wait for Lilah to arrive.

I could see through looking the tinted window that the sun was shining outside, it seemed almost criminal to be sat in an office today, more like a day to be out enjoying the sun at the beach. I noticed a small, black jeep car pull into the car park. I watched as Lilah stepped from the car, dressed in a pair of skinny black trousers, a long white shirt, with a thick black belt around the middle which just accentuated how small her waist was and how curvy her h**s were, on her feet were a simple pair of black flat shoes.

I knew she, like Indie liked her chunky black boots so wearing such basic shoes must be a choice she hated, but I realise she’d done it in order to look more professional for coming to the office. Her long honey blond hair was twisted up into a sleek neat bun today, showing off every detail of her face as the sun shone down on her as she walked toward the office block. I realised there was a look of nervousness on her face. I’d have to make sure we put her at ease….

She walked through the main door, her big blue eyes darting around, clearly anxious,

“can I help you?” Rob at reception began to ask before I’d managed to reach her in time.

“its ok Rob, shes here to see me” I state, Lilah’s eyes settle on me, and she smiles that beautiful smile of hers.

“no worries boss, sorry” Rob states nodding in my direction.

“hey you” Lilah looks to me as she walks over, I can’t help but smile back.

“Good morning you.” I greet her “have you eaten?” I am not sure why I asked her that, as I don’t normally sort breakfast for my staff.

“I’m all good”

“ok, think the guys are up in my office as they came in to say hi. Then I’ll go over what you will be doing, is that ok?” I look to her as I go press the button to call the elevator.

“Knox, I am here to work, I will be fine, been doing office work plenty” she smiles.

We head into the elevator, going up to the eighth floor where my office is. I can’t help but watch her in the reflective surface of the elevator walls, she looks nervous. I have to fight the urge to give her a reassuring hug….not sure where that urge comes from… just know I don’t like seeing her struggling.

“was Alpha Grayson ok with you coming today?” I ask her.

She looks to me, a little surprised at my question, “hmm yeah, he is thinking of the benefit long term to the pack I think. Logan however doing his best to convince his Dad otherwise…” she looked to her feet.

We may have to work quicker than I thought to get her living on our pack and offer a transfer here if future Alpha arse Logan was looking to cause issues. The whole point of us offering the job here to Lilah is to help her replace a way out of the situation at the pack so that d**k causing issues could f**k it all up…..

The elevator pinged as we reached the eighth floor, I led the way down the corridor toward my office. This floor was purely offices for the higher ups – being myself, Jake, Dan, Gabe and Manuel, plus a conference room for when it was needed. I could see from here though the guys were all literally piled into my large office lounging across the table and chairs in there, awaiting our arrival. Even Indie had come today to give moral support to Lilah apparently, though from what I could gather she wasn’t the brightest business wise so I doubted shed be helping with any work!

“here we are sweet!” I lead Lilah into my office, my hand on her lower back.

“Lilah!” Indie shrieks, in a voice I swear was so high pitched every dog in a ten mile distance was aware of.

She runs to her best friend to give her a hug like she hasn’t seen her in forever. Lilah is smiling, she is clearly used to the high pitched wails of her friend, me however would need to adjust, or invest in earplugs and certainly needed a few more coffees to recover!

“Chica! How you doing?” Gabe grinned, he looked like he was contemplating a hug, but Indie had yet to let go of Lilah so he wouldn’t be able to get close to her yet, I chuckled.

The rest of the guys greeted her with heys and hellos, she said hello to everyone with a smile, while doing her best to escape the embrace of Indie.

“hey, You want a coffee angel?” Manuel asked, I did my hardest not to look at him with surprise, he didn’t normally speak to people like that other than family and close friends, was he becoming relaxed around her now too? I’d noticed it a few times with Indie where he’d called her angel or chica like Gabe does, but I assumed he felt more at ease with her with her being mated, but I was happy he felt at ease with Lilah too.

WHERE THAT COME FROM?! Jake linked me haha he obviously noted the same…

NOT A CLUE DUDE, BUT NOT GOING TO MAKE AN ISSUE OF IT, GLAD HE FEELS COMFORTABLE ROUND HER, BETTER FOR LILAH TOO…. I linked back.

“oohh coffee would be so good thanks, I was running bit late this morning” she smiled up at Manuel, he smiled shyly back. So she lied about breakfast then..

“how do you like it?” he asked.

“oohh Manuel!!” Gabe suddenly spoke, wiggling his eyebrows full of innuendo “I think he means your coffee Lilah, or I hope he does…”

I knew instantly what he was implying, I think the whole room did, Lilah giggled….

“definitely meant the coffee…” Manuel slapped his cousin round the back of his head with a laugh.

“just with a bit of milk please Manuel. And don’t worry I’ll replace a way to get back at Gabe” she grins.

“sure we can come up with a plan” he grins back. He walks from the room to make Lilah a drink, as we already had drinks made before she had arrived.

“right, you going to show me what I’m going to be doing?” Lilah looks to me.

“wow, keen much?” Jake laughs.

I go to sit in my chair behind my desk, signalling for her to come and sit in the chair I’ve pulled alongside mine so I can show her things on the computer when needed. I begin to explain the basics of the business, she sits watching me, taking in everything I am saying, nodding, asking what seem like completely sensible questions.

I’m impressed I have to say, as a lot of the information is quite complex. I go to show her the system on the computer she will be working with and I see her frown “don’t wory if you’re unsure of it to start with, Jake Dan or I will be around to help..” I say to her hoping to reassure her, as Manuel places a mug of coffee next to her at the desk.

“oh I’m not worried, I was just wondering if you had looked at different software?” she asked.

All eyes around the room were suddenly on her, Indie had a massive smile on her face, almost like a proud Mum.

“told you she was clever” I heard her whisper to Dan.

“why?” I question, the software we used was doing what we needed it to, it was one of the more up to date softwares in our country so I was puzzled by her statement quite honestly.

“just the one you are using, while I get is up to date, is still on the slower side when compared to the current ones being released in other countries right now that we can still access, they have a better work output too” she took her phone from her bag, clicked on the internet, typed something then showed me, I scanned what was on the screen s**t, she was right…. Ok this girl was good… she had been wasted in her Alphas office filing paperwork…

I saw Jake look to me, so I passed him the phone to look at. I could see his face change in surprise at what he was reading, he too clearly impressed at what Lilah knew. He passed the phone to Dan. And it was a literal repeat of mine and Jake’s reaction. Then I realised Lilah was sat awkwardly watching, looking like she was worried she had offended me. Why was she so scared of me?

We may have to work quicker than I thought to get her living on our pack and offer a transfer here if future Alpha arse Logan was looking to cause issues. The whole point of us offering the job here to Lilah is to help her replace a way out of the situation at the pack so that d**k causing issues could f**k it all up…..

“I think you are probably on to something sweet” I tell her ” I don’t think you’re going to be doing basic office stuff, I may be needing your help with other stuff if your knowledge is that good”

She smiled across at me and shook her head “I’m happy doing basic office stuff, I can input where needed if you need me to” yeah I don’t think that will be happening……

“how do you know about this software Del?” Dan asks “it hasn’t been available over here that long”

“just through business studies and computer studies, and through working for my Dad, I kept up to date with business news” she smiled awkwardly “I don’t know that much” I have a feeling she was being modest.

“you think it would take much to switch from current software to this?” Jake looked to me.

“I wouldn’t think so” I said.

“may mean you can reduce staff numbers too in the long term” Lilah states, I look to her again “they are developing features to the software that will be doing many of the tasks I imagine your staff will be doing as part of their processing, so if that is including into the software like planned then it will reduce time processing and therefore make staff work procedures more time effective and in the long term mean less staff should be needed” she shrugged almost apologetically at me.

“interesting..” Jake said “you clearly know your stuff Lilah” I saw her cheeks tinge with red as she shrugged, dismissing what she knew as not being much.

“I said she was good didn’t I?” Indie declared to the room, and in all fairness she had told us numerous times that Lilah was clever with computers and paperwork, but we just assumed she meant she was better than her because she didn’t want to work in the office herself. Now I think we all realise exactly what she meant!

“you did doll” Dan kissed her head.

“Jake, you want to look into this in more depth?” I ask him, “Lilah, you ok to help if he needs you to?” I ask.

“sure thing” Jake heads from my office “laters people”

Everyone else seems to get the message it is time to start getting some work done, and they make their reasons to leave.

“We’ll head down to check on staff hey Manuel?” Gabe says “see ya later chicas” he goes to give Lilah and Indie a hug.

“yeah, I got some papers to pick up from them down there anyway.” Manuel responds to his cousin ” See you later. Good luck in your new job hunni” he smiles to Lilah. “think you just proved you’re going to smash it”

Lilah smiled shyly at him. I don’t know why but I can see these two being good friends. Maybe because they’re both as shy as one another….

“I’m going to drop Indie back at home Knox, then I’ll come back ok?” Dan asks, I simply nod, looking through the files on my desk.

Indie and Lilah say their goodbyes. Then Lilah is straight back to the desk, moving her coffee mug to the side “right, what do you need me to do?” she smiles.

Wow she is keen, and confident.. to be fair I wasn’t sure what I wanted her to do now as what I had planned to give her to do seemed below her now knowing her knowledge, and also it seemed kind of pointless if we are going to completely change over software processing.

“erm…” I look to her awkwardly.

“I’m sorry by the way Knox for saying that about software in front of everyone, I maybe should have waited until it was just us….”

s**t had I made her think I was angry at her? How do I manage this?!

“no I’m glad you did sweet, gave us chance to see what you know, meant Jake and Dan can see the software info too, any other thoughts you have please bring them to me, I’m happy to listen to any ideas, I really am, Jake and Dan will be the same, we all work together running this business. Then Gabe and Manuel run the property one downstairs, though that is a little newer, I’m sure they’d happily talk you through that and be happy for feedback or ideas too”

“sounds good. So will I be working in the main offices?” she asks.

“erm, I kind of thought you could work in the offices up here with us guys, or back at the pack house with us so you’re with people you know….” She looked a bit surprised, but smiled and nodded.

“plus if you’re at the pack house you can still wear your boots” I tease her with a wink.

She looks up at me, her eyes making contact with mine, for a split second there is nothing in my vision but her blue eyes, then she laughs, that beautiful laugh of hers “how did you know? I was trying to look smart so went for flats, I so wanted to throw on my boots today” she grinned “didn’t really go with the outfit”

“seem I know you pretty well already sweet” I grin back.

“haha you wish” she stuck her tongue out at me.

Thing is though I think I did wish……