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Even if she can’t use her time spent here as a reference, she’ll figure it out.
She always does.
She scribbles her name at the bottom of the paper and pushes it towards Tabitha.
“It’s a shame to lose you,” Tabitha adds as she meets Audrey’s gaze. “You were my best assistant.”
Audrey nods. “I know.” There’s no arrogance behind her agreement, it’s simply the truth—she put in more hours than anyone else at the lab and was behind more studies than any of her peers.
Shewasthe best assistant. Her work was her life, and now she’s signing it away.
Internally, she’s terrified out of her mind, but she keeps herself as level-headed as possible while dealing with Tabitha.
She doesn’t want the older Beta woman to extort her weakness and try to get her to stay even after she signed the NDA.
“I’ll need your keycard as well,” Tabitha adds. “Now, please.”
The lie falls from Audrey’s lips before she can stop it.
“I forgot it at home,” she mutters.
She’sneverleft her card at home. Ever. It’s sitting in the small black purse that’s slung over her shoulder, but Tabitha doesn’t know that.
The older woman scoffs and rolls her eyes. “Fine. I’ll have to have security deactivate it, then.”
Audrey nods. “Is there anything else you need from me?” The strength is back in her voice, fueled by the white lie she’s told.
Tabitha doesn’t knoweverything.Tabitha isn’talwaysright.
“No, there’s nothing I need from you. Have a nice life, Audrey. It’s a shame it had to end this way.”
Audrey keeps her back straight and her head held high as she walks out of the office.
It isn’t until she enters her car that her careful mask cracks and a tear slides down her cheek.
* * *
School,then work, has always been her top priority. Without productivity or goals, she becomes restless.
Which is why she can’t stay unemployed for long.
It’s the first time she’s done something so…emotion-based, instead of logic-based. She didn’t even make a pros and cons list before she quit.
She simply typed up her resignation after a week of being plagued by nightmares.
Alphas present after they turn eighteen. And, as rare and powerful as they are, they’re then placed in the special Alpha military branch.
She doesn’t envy them. From what she’s seen and heard, it’s nothing but years of discipline and training.
When a boy named Connor showed signs of presenting at such a young age, Audrey was horrified.
Tabitha didn’t consider it a tragedy, despite Connor’s mother’s emails and pleas to anyone who would listen.
People in Audrey’s field wereexcited.
According to the reports, they ripped Connor away from his mother in the middle of the night.
And Tabitha rejoiced at the thought of the new research opportunities.
