Chapter 54

Jeff

The morning sun touched my skin as I navigated through the familiar trail toward the Blackmoon office.

Today was another day, another chapter in the ongoing saga of Alpha Noah's unending incompetence. The weight of his irresponsibility was a burden I had grown accustomed to bearing, being the Beta and his right-hand man.

Yesterday, we were supposed to resolve a critical budget issue that had been lingering for weeks. I had painstakingly prepared the necessary data, organized the reports, and gathered all the required items for him to address the matter. Technically, he just needed to show up and sign some documents, a task I would have been happy to take care of on his behalf if not for the title that had been bestowed upon him. Sadly, there are tasks that only an alpha can handle.

But the call I received this morning shattered any hopes I had of thinking that our alpha would change. Noah had once again missed this important meeting, leaving me with yet another mess to clean up