Ashley knocked on Bryan’s office door and heard a stern, “come in.” from inside.
So she walked inside the room and saw Bryan sitting on his seat going through the files and doing work.
Bryan gave her a glance and looked back down, Ashley pressed her lips together. When will the day come when her mate will only have eyes for her?
She sighed internally and went ahead, her mate’s ignorance was really hurting her, “Mr. Shaw, I have done everything you had asked me to.”
She said and Bryan looked at her and said, “alright keep the files here and then you can leave.”
Ashley smiled and nodded, she kept the file on the table before walking out of the room but not before giving a glance to Bryan.
And her sharp noticed that something was wrong.
Bryan’s shoulders were stiff, and he looked really tensed and worried.
She clenched her fist as she was tempted to ask Bryan what was wrong.
She wished that she can help Bryan with whatever was going on with him,
However, she couldn’t and she hated that.
But she closed her eyes and clenched her fists and said, “Baby steps Ashley Baby steps.”
She said as she walked out and saw Ava and the others waiting for her. She smiled at them, “my work is all done we can go now.”
Ahana and the others smiled and all of them went ahead, in the middle Sophy also joined and she was not at all happy when she saw Ashley over there.
Ashley just smiled at her and Sophy didn’t like that.
Recently, she noticed that something was odd about Ashley.
Before Ashley was rather friendly towards her and would always trust her words no matter what words.
Ashley would not even notice when Sophy would mock her but no Ashley was not only answering her back she was making life tough for her,
Sophy looked at her and thought, she has to do something about this.
“So Ashley, tell us something about yourself,” Anna asked.
Ashley can tell that everyone was still a little stiff around her so she gave them all a small smile and said, “I will pay for all the drinks and the food so order whatever you want, this party will be from my side!”
As soon as she had finished speaking Anna and the others rejoiced and had the brightest smiles and Ashley said, “what do you want to know about me?”
Mark spoke, “we already know that you are the boss’s daughter, but we had heard a lot of bad things about you but you don’t seem like that at all.”
Ashley smiled, “I know you all must have heard that I am arrogant and rude right?”
Anna and the others nodded while Ashley looked at Sophy and said, “wow, Sophy, you didn’t tell them that I am not like that?”
Sophy looked at her and the others also looked at her.
Cherry who was the naive one in the group said, “she never told us anything like that, in fact, today also when we thought about asking you out for drinks she said that you would tell us to get lost.”
Anna grabbed her hand and looked at her Cherry became quiet.
Ashley looked at Sophy whose face was pale and the table had gone quiet, “I didn’t know that you had also thought like that about me Sophy.
I thought you were my friend… you didn’t even try to clear my name?”
Sophy looked at her with wide eyes, ‘this fucking bitch how dare she!’ Sophy thought in her mind.
Ashley knew very well what she was thinking, Sophy was right if this was in Ashely’s past life but in this life she had changed and she was going to use Sophy’s tricks back on her.
Sophy coughed a little and didn’t know what to say, these people are going to believe what they are seeing and not what Sophy will tell them.
Ashley was rude and arrogant and Sophy has no idea why Ashley wasn’t acting like herself.
Sophy’s image must have suffered in the eye of these people, they must be thinking that Sophy is a liar and not a good friend, and all of this made her so angry that she wanted Ashley to be right here, right now!
Sophy gulped and said, “I was just… worried that you must be busy, you know you have a lot of responsibilities on your shoulders and you are suddenly pushed into a new world. So I was worried that you might get angry if you get disturbed.”
Ashley smiled, “I understand. Thank you for worrying about me so much.”
Sophy gave her a smile, but the atmosphere was still tense before Max changed the subject.
~~~
The drinking party was finally over and by the end of it, Anna and Cherry were really drunk.Ashley called a cab for everyone and sent them home.
And once they were all only she and Sophy, we left back.
It was awkward before Ashley’s phone rang and she saw that it was Rafael who was calling her.
She answered the call, and Sophy was looking at her.
Before it was her whom Rafael would always call, but now, it was this incompetent Ashley.
“Alright, we will talk once I am back.” She said as she came back and Sophy asked, “what was he saying.”
“Nothing. I am calling a cab. We should leave.” Ashley said.
Sophy clenched her fist as she had enough, “you know Ashley, you can tell me anything… I can help you.”
Ashley looked at her, “I know that I can tell you anything, Sophy, but I won’t, it is something that you should not concern yourself with… let me as the alpha and Rafael as the beta handle this.”
She made sure to remind Sophy that she had no position in the pack.
Sophy had enough, and she said, “oh yeah? Well, I was handling everything before you had your enlightenment, are you excluding me because you felt that your position was threatened?”
Ashley sighed, “so you finally showed your true colors huh… good it was getting boring to keep on pretending.”
Sophy looked at her with rage and Ashley turned to her and crossed her arms before her chest and moved closer to her, “Sophy, I will ay this once so listen and listen good, you will never be as good as me, you will never have what I have, you will never take what is mine no matter how hard you try.
I am giving you a chance to step back and don’t provoke me because if you did… I won’t hesitate to show you how cruel I can be.”
Sophy felt shivers run down her spine when she heard Ashley’s cold voice.
Ashley moved back with a gentle smile still on her face, she gave a pat on Sophy’s shoulder before walking to the cab.
“Council’s notice huh.”Ashley said as she leaned back in her seat with a cup of red wine in her hand and Rafael and Amber sitting there as well in front of her.The third in command, Jason, was there as well.Amber said, “it has been a while since the council has made contact with us, when dad was alive, the council often came to us for help.”Ashley took a sip from her wine, “of course, they would because dad was a kind soul who was always ready to help them no matter what.Whenever they want wherever they want.”Rafael said, ‘but they stopped ever since the previous Alpha died and you were never active so-”“So they thought that I was of no use,” Ashley spoke.Amber spoke,” the news of what you have done with those five packs has reached everywhere just as you wanted.”Ashley smiled, “that’s good then.”Rafael smiled and said, “people are talking about you, you really messed up those packs and their alphas’ the other packs and coven who were looking down at us are behaving now.I h
After the meeting was over Rafael was walking back to his room and was about to prepare a letter.Now that Ashley had pointed it out he also noticed that the council really treated the pack like their lap dog.He also remembered that before Ashley’s father had died he had agreed to protect several other packs and coven but he died before that and the covens were attacked and the council blamed it on Ashley’s father’s death.Rafael clenched his fist.Now that he thinks the council is actually stupid, people run after it because it is considered prestigious and all-powerful and whatnot.But in reality, the council depended on Ashley’s father for many things.And the reason why the council was considered so powerful was that it’s competitors that being the royal pure-blood alpha, refused to fight for power.So Ashley’s this move will show the council who needs who.This may invite conflict but this has to be doneRafael smiled as he thought about this. Ashley had really changed.“Rafael.
“We have a meeting today.” Bryan said to Ashley, “and I think you should attend it.”Ashley gave him a nod, “I will, but may I know what is the meeting about?”Bryan looked at her and smiled, “Well the meeting is important and it is with a client.”Ashley gave him a nod and walked ahead.The meeting was boring as always.But Ashley was paying attention to every detail, she saw the client who was an old bald man.Bryan had told her about him, he was a senior and highly respected person to be around and Bryan was trying hard to get a deal with him. His name was Vlad Nelson.Everyone was seated there and Sophy and her team were not there since they were not needed there.Ashley was here just to observe. Just to learn some things.But she felt someone’s gaze on her, and she turned to look at Vlad, the old man was staring at her.Ashley glared back at him.Vlad was looking at her with lust and sensuous gaze while Ashley was looking at him with anger and disgust.She was not someone who was
“ASHLEY!” Ava yelled as she barged into Ashley’s room.Ava looked mad, really mad, her eyes were red with rage and the way she yelled Ashley’s name almost the entire pack heard that.“What is it?” Ashley spoke to her, she still wasn’t calm and was still angry so her voice came out as rather cold and stern and Ava hated that Ashley was talking to her in such a ride way so she started to yell at her.“WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU! HOW CAN YOU BEHAVE LIKE THAT WITH BRYAN! DO YOU KNOW HOW ANGRY HE WAS!I WAS SHOCKED TO HEAR SUCH A CALM AND COMPOSED HUMAN TALKING LIKE THAT! HE TOLD YOU THAT THE CLIENT WAS IMPORTANT AND YET YOU FOUGHT WITH HIM!”Ashley sighed, “Will you just listen to me?”“SHUT UP! ARE YOU STILL GOING TO GIVE EXCUSES TO ME! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW EMBARASSED I WAS?!! WHY DO YOU LOVE TO MAKE ME FEEL SO ASHAMED WHY DO YOU MAKE MY LIFE SO TOUGH ASHLEY!I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE GOING TO CHANGE BUT NO YOU ARE STILL THE SAME OLD LITTLE BRAT! IT WAS MY FAULT THT I EVEN TRIED T
“So this is where he is huh?” Amber asked as she came out of the car and stared at the building, the building was beautifully decorated and the two ladies were also well dressed for the occasion of the party.Both were wearing black dressed that reached their knee, Ashley’s dress was sleeveless while Amber’s was not.Ashley’s hairs were open and she looked stunning in the light makeup that she had done while Amber had tied a bun.Ashley spoke, “according to Rafale, the mother fucker is attending a party here.”Amber looked at her and smirked, and Ashley smirked back at her before the two walked toward the entrance.The two sisters look stunning and the way they walked was confident when they reached the entrance the guard asked for their names and Ashley said, “Ashley Martin.”The guard searched through the name but didn’t find it, “sorry I can’t find your na-”He stopped when Ashely smiled and looked into his eyes. The guard seemed to have entered a trance as she said, “it is there.”
=After everything was done Bryan started to walk towards Ashley who looked at him and she knew that Bryan was coming towards her, but she just gave him a look and walked away from there.Giving Bryan a signal that she was not interested in talking to him and this hurt him.Normally Bryan does not care what others think about him but for some reason, he did not like that Ashley thought he was a supporter of such cheap people like Vlad.He was not. He had genuinely thought that Vlad was a good person and nothing more f he had known that he was such a scum he wouldn’t have let him enter his company at all.He watched Ashley leave and heaved a sigh of disappointment, as he stopped at his place and didn’t go after her.He thought that since he had yelled at her in the public, then he should apologize to her in public as well.So he called his assistant Chris ansa and asked him to arrange a meeting with the office employees tomorrow first thing in the morning and to delay the meeting that
The next day Bryan did as he had promised. He arranged a meeting with his staff and was about to address them. After they were all seated, he came in the front and said in a calm and gentle voice with a smile on his face, “regarding the incident that happened with Mr. Nelson a few days ago, I have no come to realize that I have, actually punished the victim instead of the culprit.” The staff looked at him and they somewhat understood what he meant, Vlad’s incident from that party had gone viral on the internet and now many other females who have been a victim of him had come out and confessed to him. Bryan said, “I apologize to the female staff of the company for making them feel uncomfortable and for being so distant, I am sorry that you felt that you are not safe in the company and that you can’t approach me, I am sorry for that. But I request you all to please make a report of any case of sexual harassment if you experience or see it I will investigate the matter thoroughly. Be
A day had already passed and Ashely was anxiously roaming around in her room.She knew that a huge storm was coming and she had to be prepared for that.But what she was worried about the most was Ava and the pack elders.These two were her two hurdles.If these two found out that she had rejected to help the council and the needy then they were surely going to get very mad and might even send a message on their own agreeing to help them.Ashley is still not that acting leader. It is her mother and the elders, and they can send the troops and warriors.And Ashley was not going to let that happen, she was not going to let a single member of her pack die for the council.If the elders and her mother went against her then she would have no choice but to use her power over them and suppress them and take over the pack by force.She didn’t really want to do that but if worse come to worse she will use anything method to save the lives of her pack.The pack soldier’s only duty is to protect