The Proposal

Damien shook his head as he chuckled, “Are you always this compassionate to people you’ve just met?” 

“Well, I can also easily tell if they're telling the truth or not,” confessed the girl genius as she ate a piece of salmon sashimi that she handled with her dainty fingers instead of her chopsticks. “Call it a gift, that saved my hide many times over in my life.”

“You don’t know how to use chopsticks?” the unknown Alpha asked as he picked up a piece of seared scallop and unagi roll with the restaurant’s provided enamel-coated chopsticks.

“Excuse me, I happen to know you can eat sushi or sashimi with your hands just like how actual Italians do it in their own country when it comes to spaghetti!” Freya countered indignantly complete with a cute toss of her head and an adorable pout. 

Damien couldn’t help but feel fuzzy all over with his unknowing mate’s endearing reactions, and Thorne felt the same way…

She’s such a far cry from Elena, even in the looks department, Thorne. I mean it’s already obvious with her IQ and impressive intellect. Then there’s her very thoughtful and caring personality. I think I just the lottery with her…

Don’t mention that bitch in the same breath as her, D. That whore is not even worthy of gazing at our mate from afar. She would definitely be a worthy mate for us and Luna for our pack. I’m also extremely ecstatic that you’ve honored and fulfilled your promise to me to never see that red-haired nympho once we’ve found our mate.

Well, if there is one thing you can expect from me wolf, is I always fulfill my word. Besides, you know that Elena means nothing to me but my Freya is everything, even more than our own lives. Earl’s fiancé might try to seduce

me again, even throw a fit while naked in front of us and I would not give a rat’s ass about her ever again!

Hey, Damien. Freya is telling you something important…

The muscular Alpha then focused on what his unknowing Luna was saying.

“… so I was thinking we could visit my mom after eating since I heard you haven’t seen your since you were a kid. I was thinking that you could consider her your surrogate mom. Her nursing home is just an hour from here, you know.

Damien was so overwhelmed at what his mate was saying that he remained speechless for a whole minute before clarifying what he just heard, “So are you saying that you’re willing to offer your mom to share with me because of my childhood loss?”

“Well, yeah. After all, I’ve always wanted a big brother and I know that your younger sister was stillborn. I’m basically offering you two birds with one stone!” Freya declared with an enthused girlish grin. “That is, IF you want it, Damien…”

A brother, huh?

He huffed indignantly to himself. Well, the offer is tempting and quite unselfish for you to give, my lovely admirable mate but I’ll consider this as a temporary arrangement since it is YOU I truly want

and not just as a sister!

“Alright, since I’ve already requested Moriah to clear this day for you, I think we can easily arrange to do your request to see your mother after lunch.”

“YES!” exclaimed Freya with the required instantaneous fist pump. “I’ll text my Mom to expect us at her nursing home. She is so excited to meet you, Damien. And that was after I told her about you so I know that she’ll be thrilled about you going there with me to visit her later.”

The good-looking Alpha’s sudden manly laugh sent chills running up and down the genius lady’s spine, “Just how many people have you talked to already about me, Freya?” he asked as he folded his large brawny arms on his wide muscular chest that was impressively stretching his black Italian suit in just the right places

She raised one hand and extended a finger for every name she rattled on, “There’s Mom, like I told you already. There’s Miles as you now know. My best friend Gaby then Moriah who was the first employee at GSD that complained to me about… Speaking of, how come you’re so critical of her? Maybe I could help.”

Damien rolls his almost silvery grey eyes in exasperation and deeply sighs before replying, “That woman is so disorganized and messy. It shows in her work, her clothes and she’s always late, mentioning some such excuses that actually are believable but could have been avoidable if she was time-conscious, strict and disciplined with herself.”

Freya suddenly changed her pose to a cross-legged version of ‘The Thinker’ as she began to speak, “I think I can fix her up, Damien. Just let her spend a day with me when you can spare her.”

The young internet mogul stared at his treasured star employee incredulously, “You’re willing to do that for me? Aren’t you busy with your pet project and your work at GSD?”

The feminine engineer programmer gave him an impish smile before answering, “Well, technically I’m not just helping you but indirectly the whole company, as well. While directly assisting with Moriah, which in turn assists you to work faster and more efficiently so everybody wins. Besides, I already have uploaded and installed HISS on every computer on our Beta testing floor. I’m just waiting for their final feedback and yours as well, since you told me that you’ll be installing it on your laptop.”

Heh, you forgot to do that, human…

Shut up, wolf. I was just trying to avoid progressing too fast with our mate. As you well know, she is intent on pushing forward with her anti-virus program at the swiftest pace possible while I’m taking it slow in wooing her or she might reject us as her mate, which I cannot allow. I’ll just text Moriah to install HISS on my least powerful laptop then I’ll hack the program’s digital to reflect its installation date to a week from today.

Ugh, you and your digital genius, Damien. Just make sure you don’t lose our mate and you won’t hear a thing from me…