Page 101 of Alpha’s Possession

~Thane~

Alpha Jake keeps looking at his phone throughout the meeting. He seems somewhat distracted, and I end up cutting the meeting short. He is getting on my nerves.

“We can do this another time. You are clearly distracted,” I tell him getting up from my seat.

“Sorry, I have something going on, but yes, we can go over the last of the details over the phone,” he tells me, and I nod. I want to leave early today anyway. I want to see if I can convince my mates to come home, or even just one of them. I can’t handle being in that damn house by myself. The quiet is driving me insane.

I walk Alpha Jake to the elevator when he pauses at Harlow’s old desk.

“What about your Omega? Why isn’t she in today?” he asks, and I growl, not liking him speaking of her.

“Did you know who she is?” I ask him. He was the other bidder, and from what I heard from Harlow, he knew her twin sister. That is, if she was telling the truth.

“No. What you mean?” he says.

I shake my head and motion for him to leave. “Safe travels,” I tell him.

He looks like he wants to say something, but I am already walking back to my office. On my way there, I hear my desk phone ring. Pushing my office door open, I move quickly to grab it before it rings out. Picking it up, I see it is Elaine.

“Hey, Elaine,” I answer the call.

“Well, finally, some good comes out of that wench,” Elaine tells me, and my brows furrow at her words.

“Pardon?”

“Harlow, some good did come from her, and now you can be done with her.”

“Elaine, I am not taking Sarah as an Omega,” I tell her.

“Oh, I know that you boys are too stubborn for that. I am talking about Harlow. She’s pregnant, Thane. I’ve got her test results in my hand. She is pregnant. So, you can get your pup—or fingers crossed she’s pregnant with more than one—then we can kill her. Problem solved: breed her and bury her,” Elaine tells me.

“Harlow is pregnant?” I ask her.

“Yes, did you not hear me? Is it a bad line?” she asks, mistaking my silence for a bad connection. “Hello?” she says after a few seconds.

“Okay,” I tell her.

“Okay. Thane, you need to get her home before she runs off and uses that baby against you. That is why I called you. We have already lost so much because of her. And I refuse to lose a grandchild too. At least some good has come out of this mess,” she says, and I swallow.

I hardly hear anything else she says after that. I hang up just as Rhen and Leon wander into my office, also wanting to leave early today.

“What’s wrong with you?” Leon asks, stealing my bottle of Coke off my desk. Opening it, he takes a sip of it.

“Harlow is pregnant,” I tell them, a little shocked by the information. Leon chokes on his next sip.

“She’s pregnant?” Rhen asks.

“Elaine just called me,” I tell them just as Raidon comes in. He stops, glancing around at us, feeling all our shock.

“So, is someone going to speak?” Raidon asks, peering at us.

“Harlow is pregnant,” Leon blurts out, yet despite this good news, they watch me warily, as if nervous about how I’ll react to this information.

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~Harlow~

I feel like throwing up. I glance at the clock as the time gets closer. I am on the verge of a panic attack in the small room attached to the functions room as the security helps set up the boxes we are expected to lay in.