Olivia’s POV
Friday morning, I got a call from the garage. My car was ready.
After I picked it up, I remembered something. The jacket. I had promised to dry clean it and mail it back. But now it wasn’t with me anymore, thanks to `Ethan who threw it away from the window. I was nning to give him something simr to that jacket now.
I sat in the car, holding my phone for a second. Then I called Mike.
“Hi, Mike. This is Olivia speaking. The car’s fixed. I’ll send over the bill in a bit.”
He said okay, and we hung up.
I sent him the repair list and the amount. Then I sent another message: “Also, can I get your boss’s height and mea- surements? I want to return the jacket with matching pants. It came from a set, right?”
No reply.
Maybe he needed to check.
I didn’t overthink it. I had errands.
As I turned into the next intersection, my phone rang again. Finance manager.
“Ms. Olivia, do you have a minute? There are some numbers I need you to check.”
I turned around and headed to the office.
The moment I walked into the project department, my team surrounded me.
“Ma’am, are you okay now?”
“We heard about the ident. That guy in the Maybach didn’t hurt you, right?”
I smiled faintly. “No. It’s fine. All fixed.”
I didn’t tell them I was leaving. I felt guilty. They’d be handed to a new boss soon. Someone who didn’t know how we did things and they would have to adjust to this new boss, again.
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After talking to finance, I stayed in my office. Emails. Approvals. Budget sheets. I barely lifted my head until it was
afternoon.
Around 4:30, I opened a nk document and typed up my resignation letter. Printed it. Folded it.
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As I stood to stretch, I decided to get water. My head was buzzing a little from staring at the screen too long.
At the pantry, I heard voices.
“Did you hear? Someone from secretariat said Chole Windsor started today.”
“What?”
“Yeah. Alpha Ethan arranged it. She’s working in his office now.”
“Wait, are the Hawthorne and Windsor packs merging?”
“Don’t forget, Ms. Melton’s still dating Mr. Harrison.”
“What about Olivia then?”
Silence.
1 froze outside the doorway, my ss still empty.
Then the whispers came again.
“She’s been with him for years. Still, he brings someone else in.”
“Chole’s shameless.”
“Yeah. But, Ethan’s cold too.”
“And Olivia? Poor thing.”
I turned and walked back, holding my empty ss like I’d forgotten what I came for.
In my office, I sat down, leaning on the chair, and let those whispers spiral I had just heard. Ethan had brought Chole into the office, officially now. There was no way people were going to calm their thoughts. Nobody would.
I just knew at this point that I must leave this ce as soon as possible. The more I stay here, the more I fall prey to these thoughts.
I grabbed the letter and headed upstairs. Every step felt louder than usual.
Reed saw me and rushed over.
“Alpha’s in a meeting. Can you give this to me instead?”
I looked at him. He was nervous, almost panicking.
I nodded. “Sure.”
I turned, pretending to leave. But my wolf sense told me something was off.
There was another scenting from Ethan’s office. Perfume. A female scent I was getting too familiar with since a while. It would not be a hard guess at all.
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I spun around fast and shoved the door open before Reed could react.
A scream.
There, standing inside, was Chole. Wearing nothing but a bathrobe, half-leaning on Ethan’s back like she belonged
there.
The smile on Ethan’s face died instantly.
Reed turned away fast and covered his eyes like the scene burned him.
He cleared his throat. “Miss Chole was… sweating. She said she felt sticky after moving some files, so she took a quick shower.”
I blinked slowly at him.
He then added quickly, “I didn’t want you to misunderstand, that’s why I said Alpha Ethan was in a meeting.”
I looked at him for a second, then sighed. “Reed, with brains like yours, you’re seriously wasting your potential on desk work.”
I pushed past him.
Chole stood straighter as I entered the office, pulling her bathrobe tighter. “How dare you barge in here?” she snapped. “You’re just a manager, and you think you can storm into the CEO’s office like this? You’re fired.”
Yve growled in the back of my mind, ready to rip her apart.
Not yet, I told her.
I walked calmly to Ethan’s desk and ced the resignation letter down.
“I already told you I was resigning,” I said, keeping my voice steady. “I’ve got travel ns to prepare for. So, today’s myst day. I’ll drop byter to hand over the rest of my work.”
Ethan didn’t meet my eyes. “Fine,” he mumbled. “Do whatever you want.”
I nodded. “Great. I’ll leave you two to your meeting, then.”
I turned to walk out.
But just as I reached the doorway, Chole’s voice shrieked behind me.
“You should’ve done it long ago. Ethan doesn’t love you anymore-he loves me. We’ve spent plenty of nights-”
“Enough!” Ethan snapped.
I turned around.
“No, let her speak,” I said, walking back inside. “I want to hear exactly how shameless the Windsor pack’s daughter
can be.”
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I faced Chole. “Do you know what kind of woman destroys a rtionship like this? You. The desperate kind.”
I pointed to the door. “The fact that I could walk in like that? That’s proof. Proof of what the two of you really are.”
Chole lunged at me.
I didn’t move back. My hand flew without a second thought-smack.
Yve purred inside me. Good one.
Chole screamed and tried to w at me again, but I grabbed the edge of her robe and yanked. She gasped as the fabric tore loose. I pushed her head down and mmed her to the floor.
She shrieked, struggling under me.
Then, someone grabbed me from behind and yanked me back hard.
I lost my footing.
My lower back mmed against the sharp corner of the table.
A jolt of pain shot through me.