All Chapters of My Beta's Betrayal, My Alpha's Obsession: Chapter 31 - Chapter 33

CharisseThe day of my debut has finally arrived. I’m going to meet the Crimson Crest pack as the future wife of their Alpha, and the newly appointed COO of the Crimson Crest Empire. I was checking the soft fabric of my scarlet gown in the full length mirror of my bedroom when the door knocked. “I’ll get it.” Betty stepped out….…only for Far Far Away to enter the room. I scoffed in disbelief and pretended that I didn’t see him—my version of staying far away. But a chiseled Alpha looking twice as handsome—and thrice as smoldering—in midnight-blue zapped all the ideas to dust, and I was left with nothing except doing more unnecessary checks on the bodice of my gown, trying hard to ignore the heat from his quiet commanding gaze burning my back. “I didn’t pick that,” he finally said. I swallowed my response. Remembering my purse, I picked it up and made for the door, not giving him a second of attention. And, to my delight, he caught my wrist. The flutters in my stomach went wil

CharisseThe Crimson Crest estate isn’t a city state, according to Wikipedia’s—and the Crimson Crest patriach’s—definition. But I begged to differ. It’s big enough to have its own roadmap, and it has its own urbanscape, so it might as well be a city state. I had been naive. The hundreds of businesses are but a fraction of the empire, just as this piece of land, the size of Seoul, is but a fragment of the pack’s ownership. I’ve always known the scale and magnitude of Crimson Crest’s affluence and influence. Then, when I became Dorian’s secretary, I was given a panoramic view of that ocean of richness and power. Now, I’m in that ocean. The real sense of its immensity is entirely different. Dinner is in the main ballroom of the main building, which makes it the main event of the night, and monumental to the pack, and I understand that ever since I stepped off the plane. But the gravity of that significance didn’t sink in until I got out of the limousine and an army of men in black s