Chapter 4

Getting a job wasn't part of the plan for Alpha Brentwood when he left his pack to seek a Luna of his own choosing. But after finally finding his true Luna—his fated mate—he'd do anything to get close to her and for her to trust him.

Alpha Brentwood got a job at a car repair shop across the road from the gas station where his fated mate worked. With his sharp wolf sense, he could not only see her across the road from the large glass window and smell her, but he could also hear her melodious voice whenever she spoke to the customer, which always seemed to comfort his wolf.

Alpha Brentwood took his lunchtime early just to go across the road to meet his fated mate. He didn't even properly cleanse the oil and grease from his hands; he was so eager to be next to her.

The moment he walked through the door of the station and saw his fated mate behind the payment counter, attending to a customer, he had to restrain his wolf inside him to not bolt to her and imprint on her, right on the spot, that she was his.

He grabbed a tall bottle of water, took a chicken sandwich from the deli, and headed immediately to his fated mate to pay for them.

Alpha Brentwood was sad when his fated mate, whom he was solely here to see, barely took notice of him.

She was so focused on scanning his bottle of water and cashing his chicken sandwich.

Alpha Brentwood decided to start a conversation to get her attention.

"Thank you for helping me find an apartment," he said. "I'm Brentwood Henry, by the way," he added, introducing himself.

"No problem, Halsey," his fated mate responded brusquely.

"Your total is $8," she later then said.

Alpha Brentwood realized her eyes never raised to look at him while she spoke to him, not even when she took the cash from him, which made him believe that she was avoiding him, and her boyfriend must have been the reason for her doing so.

Alpha Brentwood saw an area in the station where he could eat and went there and sat down facing his fated mate.

He saw her glance at him as he did and went on to cash another customer.

Alpha Brentwood realized that it would not be easy to win over his fated mate, but he was a determined wolf and didn't intend to return to his pack without her and his daughter.

He watched her the entire time he ate, admiring how beautiful and delicate she was, and his wolf grew desperate for her to know who he was to her—his fated mate.

A female who looked about the same age as his fated mate came from a door at the back of the payment counter. Her face turned red with anger when she saw his fated mate.

"The female bathroom needs to be clean now," she told his fated mate after she was done with a customer.

"But that's my job; it's the janitor," Halsey, his fated mate, replied in her sweet voice that makes it difficult to know whether she's upset about doing so.

"She's not here, and now it's your job." The supervisor said in a commanding tone.

Halsey left her working station, and towards the back, soon she returned with a map and a bucket and exited the convenience store.

The sad look upon his fated mate's beautiful face made Alpha Brentwood want to make the supervisor pay, but again, he had to restrain his wolf.

The sight of the supervisor now made Alpha Brentwood so sick that he'd lost his appetite. He got out of his seat and went to the trash bin to discard his bottle of water and half-eaten sandwich.

Halsey's boyfriend, Brandon, came into the store, and as much as Alpha Brentwood wasn't pleased to see him, neither was he.

He stared at Alpha Brentwood angrily while he walked from the store.

"Where is Halsey?" Alpha Brentwood heard Brandon ask the supervisor from outside, thanks to his sharp hearing. 

"In the customer's bathroom, cleaning the mess, I command her to do. You don't want to go around there; the scent is unbearable," responded the supervisor with an evil laugh.

"Tell her to answer her phone when she's done," said Brandon.

"When will you realize that she isn't good enough for you, Brandon, and finally leave her to move in with me?" responds the supervisor.

Alpha Brentwood was soon aware that her fated mate boyfriend was cheating on her.

"I told you that I would not leave her while we were sleeping together, so either accept it or find someone else to be with," Brandon said angrily.

"Whatever, are you still coming to my apartment tonight?" she asked.

"You know I wouldn't miss it for the world."

It grieved Alpha Brentwood to know that his fated mate was being treated so horribly. If one of his kind had done so, they'd wish they had never been born. However, witnessing humans whom he could easily kill by breaking their necks with just two fingers was infuriating. His wolf inside was crawling to get out, hungry for their kill.

Alpha Brentwood had another plan, and that was to let his fated mate, Halsey, know about his cheating boyfriend. She then would break up with him, and he could gladly kill him and also make her supervisor suffer. There was no way he could ever let her go too without punishing her for bullying his fated mate.