Jaxen POV
It was late. Everybody else on my floor had gone home. I was still at my desk, staring at contracts I couldn't focus on. My wolf had been pacing all night. I didn't know why yet.
Someone knocked. Just once.
I smelled her before she said anything.
Charlotte. Nervous sweat. Her heart was beating fast.
I'd been in a bad mood all day. People around here know to stay out of my way when I'm like that.
"Alpha." She came in with some papers held to her chest, not looking at me.
"I need you to sign this."
I didn't even look at the file.
"Cut off the funding to Liliana Ashford's company. All of it. Tonight."
She didn't ask why, which was smart, because I would not have explained it. I'd been paying that woman's bills, and all I got back was nine missed calls after I told her
