WELCOMING THE GUESTS

DRAKE

"Alpha Drake, don't you think this is too much? I mean this has crossed the line. It never was supposed to be this way?" Efron argued, but Drake's decision remained unchanged. He had made up his mind to do what was on his mind.

He sent an invitation to the vampire king. This was because he want to understand this feeling he was having and why he always felt it around the vampire king. He needed to find out if he was the only one feeling that way or if Derek felt the same way as well.

He needed to be sure of his sexuality, and the reason he was feeling that way for no one but his mortal enemy.

Efron did not know why he was doing this, and he wasn't going to tell him either.

At least, not until he was sure of the reason why he was feeling that way.

Also, he heard about Derek having a modeling company just like his own. So, the reason for the invitation will be quite understandable for Derek, he guessed.

"This is pure madness! What will the others think if they knew you invited the enemy to the 10th anniversary of the company?"

"That shouldn't be a problem, Efron. Stop nagging like an old lady!"

Efron went wide in shock at what he just said.

"What?! I nag like an old lady?" Drake raised a brow, he knew he had gotten Efron good this time.

"Oh yes, you heard me. You nag like an old lady. Have you looked in the mirror recently? You are having wrinkles, for a guy's age."

Efron gasped in shock. He quickly took his hands up to his face to confirm what Drake had said.

Drake shook his head when he saw his beta truly like an old lady.

He needed to rethink how Efron became his beta in the first place.

While they were at it, his secretary, Naomi walked in, looking quite heavy. Drake went wide in shock when he saw her looking as if she would be put to bed any minute.

"Naomi, what happened to you?"

"Huh? Are you for real, Alpha Drake?" Naomi asked, carrying a white file. Naomi is his secretary and she had been working with him ever since the start of his company.

She is mated to his gamma and that's pretty much all he knows about Naomi.

"I can't believe you have no idea Naomi had been pregnant for months now," Efron stated

"Well, honestly, I had no idea she was pregnant."

"Of course, you wouldn't know because you are busy with work. Even when I brought files for you, it is difficult to see you raise your head to see my face at least, so is only right that you don't know," Naomi added with a smiling face.

Fuck! He hated how he felt at that moment. It seemed as though he had no idea about those working with him. And honestly, that was the truth.

"Here, I brought the agenda list for the day," she placed the file on his desk.

"Uhm, I have something to say, Alpha Drake."

"Please go ahead, Naomi."

"Well, the thing is, I'm not sure I will be able to last until the end of this month. I mean, my baby is on the way and I can't predict when exactly, but I know it will be within the month, and since I'm your only secretary, it will be quite a challenge. So, I'm thinking you should hire a new secretary before I'm gone so I can help her through some things."

"What? A new secretary now? Where the hell am I supposed to find a secretary?" Drake said aloud looking quite alarmed.

"Honestly, this is all my fault. I should have requested this before now. Maybe we would have found someone before now."

"How about me? I can work as Alpha Drake's secretary," Selene said as she walked into the office.

"No!" The three in the room uttered in response all at once.

"Why? Did you all have to reject me at once? Now I feel bad!" Selene hung her head low in a sad way.

"No one is rejecting you, sister, it's just that you can't do the work of a secretary." Efron tried to make his sister understand.

"But I can do it. If Naomi can, then why can't I?"

"Oh dear, you don't know what you are talking about at all. Are you sure you can bear the heat of being a secretary? Do you want to stop being famous only to be behind closed doors as a secretary?"

Naomi asked Selene

Selene silent for a while. She took her gaze upward as though she was thinking about what Naomi had said.

"Well, I do that, so long as I will be working for Alpha Drake, " she smiled in his direction, but Drake was quick enough to avert his gaze. There was no way in the world he would let her work as his secretary.

"No, you won't. Everyone knows you are easily tired and again you cannot work for Alpha Drake even if you are qualified?"

"Why not? Why do you hate me, brother?"

"I don't, you know the rules for a secretary working for the Alpha. Rule number one: no crushing in the Alpha. Well, we all know you do," Efron said with a chuckle.

"Damn it! I hate you, brother!" Selene stormed out of the room with her heels making a click-clack sound on the tiled floor.

Just then, Drake sighted Derek coming down from a flashy lexus with his assistant he saw with him the last time.

"Enough with the chit-chat. It's time for us to go welcome our guests. And Naomi, I will leave the job of finding a new secretary solely in your hands. You can order anyone to put the advert on our company's page. You will do the tutoring as well. Can you handle that?"

"Yes, of course, Alpha Drake, I can," Naomi replied with a cheeky smile.

Drake and Efron quickly went downstairs to welcome Derek. When they came down, the invitees were trooping into the building. Since he has only one important guest, he walked towards the direction of King Derek.

"It's good to see you honoured my invitation, King Derek."