13: Mature Thoughts

FEYRE

“I’m not going anywhere, what are you talking about?” I ask him, sitting up and bringing my legs down. If he didn’t look like he was serious, I would have said he did that just to get me to bring my legs down from his desk.

“What do you mean, ‘what am I talking about?’ you’re going to be there for long, how do you want to work as a beta and a luna?” he gives me a look that suggests I’m crazy when he is literally the one spewing rubbish.

“It is just for a month!” I retort pointedly. Asher still gives me that look and I huff. “It is the deal I made with him, I get to come back and deal with my beta job because I’m not uprooting my life just for that asshole,” he opens his mouth and I already know he is about to argue so I don’t let him speak. “And besides, you can’t get a step-in beta. Jerry is busy with his gamma work. You can’t do this alone especially with all the plans we have for the new trainees. You need me here.”

I was born a beta. The role was tailor-made for me and he kn