Chapter 5

*Rylee's POV*

"Alpha. You're here," Mr. Nathan appeared tense, as there was no one in the hallway before. The staff all feared him, so none of them came to rescue me from his torture. However, Mr. Nathan had been asking me out on a date for two years, hoping to make me his side chick. How shameless of him!

Alpha Malakai then strode up to meet me. He wore a brown shirt, black slacks, and black shoes. His arms looked so well-built, and part of his shirt button at the top was open, revealing his well-toned chest.

"Alpha, good morning. I wasn't expecting to see you," Mr. Nathan tried to pretend like he was disciplining me, as he appeared so tense. He moved away from me as Alpha Malakai came to meet me lying on the floor.

Alpha Malakai then crouched in front of me and reached out his right hand to touch my face. My eyes widened in shock by his closeness, including most of the staff that arrived on this floor for their work.

"Are you alright?" Alpha Malakai asked, his deep voice snapping me back to reality and I looked at his deep blue eyes in shock, wondering how could he squat in front of a lowly Omega like me?

"Yeah, I'm fine, Alpha. I'm alright," I spluttered, as I wasn't expecting to see him.

Alpha Malakai then offered me his right hand and helped me stand up on my feet. I was intoxicated by his rich cedarwood scent. But, I collided with his firm chest, and his masculine scent of cedarwood filled my nose again, as his warm hands wrapped around my waist in a warm hug, and I recalled perceiving this scent last night.

*Was the man Alpha Malakai Preston?* No way. I hastily moved away from him to create a distance between us.

"Thank you, Alpha... I have to go now," I said and stepped back to pick up my black polythene bag of clothes from the ground. The elevator door unlocked, and Elizabeth arrived at the same time as Nash.

"Oh my goodness! Rylee! Thank God that you're alright! I was calling you, and yet no response!" Elizabeth exclaimed, as she rushed up to wrap me in a hug. Alpha Malakai stood aside, looking at us, and the staff and cleaners greeted him when they noticed his presence. "Good morning, Alpha."

Nash also came out of the elevator and greeted his uncle, "Uncle, good morning."

Alpha Malakai looked at Nash and nodded. He didn't utter a word and left us, entering the elevator.

"Are you alright, Rylee? What was my uncle doing here?" Nash asked, walking past the crowd of hoteliers who were stunned by the scene they had just witnessed. Some of them muttered, "How can Alpha Malakai care for a lowly Omega like her?" Some of my female colleagues glared at me, as they desired to be Alpha Malakai's woman. Well, little did they know that I had no idea what had happened.

"Rylee, we're not done yet. You know what to do if you need the hotel CCTV footage to know the man you hooked up with," Mr. Nathan said, as he dusted his shirt, smirked at me and walked away. However, Beta Fabian stepped out of the elevator and ordered, "Nathan! You are summoned to Alpha Malakai's office."

Beta Fabian wore a black shirt, black trousers with perfectly polished black shoes. He looked at me with his intense yellow eyes as I met his gaze, but he went back into the elevator as Mr. Nathan tensed up and walked up to meet him.

"What did I do wrong, Beta?" Mr. Nathan asked as he approached Beta Fabian in the elevator, before they went in, ascending to the top floor.

"You will find out when you meet Alpha Malakai," Beta Fabian muttered, before the elevator shut, and I wondered if Alpha Malakai had summoned Mr. Nathan because of me. However, I smiled as I felt the warmth in my heart, crept up my cheeks, making me blush.

"Rylee!" Nash yelled my name as he grasped my arms and turned me to face him. I rolled my eyes at him and looked at his face, as he looked so worried. His handsome face now disgusted me, remembering how he had proposed to Bella Harvey the previous night. The memory came flooding back in my heart and made my heart hurt.

I tried not to cry, knowing that I had nothing to lose, only that I had wasted five good years of my life loving Nash Cameron. I came from an Omega family. After I lost my parents at the age of five, I grew up in the pack's orphanage home with my young brother, Levi.

Levi was a year old when we lost our parents. It was a tragic incident, as there were rogue attacks in the underdeveloped town in the Shadow Moon Pack.

After that night, Alpha Oliver came to visit the affected homes, and my brother and I were taken into the orphanage.

I went to free school at the pack's high school, but I wanted my younger brother to further his education as a doctor, because I was four years older than him. I recalled that night our parents hid us in the wardrobe, so that we wouldn't be attacked by the rogues.

Levi is all I have as a family, and he was very intelligent. After my graduation from high school, I came to the pack hotel, as it was one of the biggest hotels in this pack. It was controlled by Alpha Oliver Preston, whom was Alpha Malakai's father.

Alpha Oliver had three daughters and a son, and Alpha Malakai was the last-born child of his parents. Though he controlled this hotel and several other businesses in our pack, Malakai was known as a bad boy Alpha, and that's because he has no mate. He hosts different women for fun, and he was very unfriendly to approach.

I was still wondering why Alpha Malakai was kind to me this morning. But I knew that a man like Alpha Malakai cannot have anything to do with a poor, working-class Omega like me.

"Rylee!" Nash yelled my name to snap me out of my trance.

"What is it, Nash? You are mated to Bella Harvey, and you should be concerned about how your new mate would feel when she sees you holding another woman's arms," I rebuked Nash for his actions of holding onto my arms firmly. We are no longer lovers from the moment he went down on his knees and proposed to another she-wolf.

"Rylee, you haven't answered my questions yet. What happened between you and my uncle, and who was the man you mated with last night?" Nash demanded, and Elizabeth tried to come in between us to separate us.