All Chapters of OFFSIDE MATE: REJECTED BY ONE ALPHA. CLAIMED BY ANOTHER.: Chapter 11

The gates opened and I saw it and I stopped talking.I had grown up in a Beta family home.My father had been proud of that house. Four bedrooms, proper grounds, the kind of home that said we are not wealthy but we are not nothing. I had thought it was large when I was small.Looking at this, I revised that opinion considerably.“Say something,” I told myself."It has a fountain," I said."Yes.""It's running.""It runs continuously.""That's—" I searched for the word. "Unnecessary.”I got no reply.He parked and got out and I got out and stood in the driveway. I looked up at the facade and then sideways at the east wing and then sideways the other way at the west wing and thought. Who needs this much building? I was not impressed.I was assessing.There was a difference.The front door opened before we reached it. A man appeared. Tall, silver-haired, dressed better than I had been at any point in the last three months, with the kind of face that had been carefully trained to expre