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They spent that week at work in the office, drove in together and went home together. She
was, he thought, happy to be going to work, sitting at her desk working and being a part of the company; she liked working, he thought.
He managed to contain himself during office hours, after Monday, mostly because she’d told
him ‘no‘ to lunch in his office if it was just the two of them. Monday’s lunch had gotten a little
hot and heavy on his couch in his office, and they’d both needed a shower before going back
to work.
To his full amusement, she’d had to sit out there at her desk that afternoon panty–less, and
every time he’d walked by her that afternoon he’d smiled right at her, or winked. He couldn’t
help himself and going home that night had seen him pull her right into her bed to have her
again. They’d missed dinner with everyone and ended up having a very late dinner just the two
of them in her apartment.
It didn’t stop him sitting with her for lunch every day in the office cafeteria or kissing the hell
out of her at one point at her desk, though that kiss had meant to be a simple soft kiss that
lingered a little, but she’d sighed softly and looked right up at him. There had been something
in that look, that had him just kissing the hell out of her a second later.
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If her desk phone hadn’t rung he’d likely have taken it further and pulled her into his office.
Instead, he’d pulled himself together and gone back to his own desk. The woman, it seemed,
could drive him completely crazy, he now realised. In this past week along she’d made him
happy, annoyed and jealous.
Any male employee that had stood at her desk to talk to her had gotten his undivided attention, and if they lingered longer than they should or longer than he thought they needed
to be there, he’d gotten up and walked out there to see what that man wanted. How he was
looking at Harmony.
It was nothing at all. She’d simply made friends within the pack or with the other humans that worked here in the office, was all. But she was still unclaimed and unmarked, and it bugged
the hell out of him.
Then she’d gone off on Thursday morning to have morning tea on another floor, and she’d come back chatting and laughing with a couple of the other secretaries, and he’d been
standing at her desk watching her, annoyed that she’d not had her coffee with him that day.
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It hadn’t gone unnoticed and though she’d raised an eyebrow at him, the one she–wolf among the group of five women had apologised “Sorry Garrett.” And she’d ushered the others away
back to their desks.
Harmony had looked at his annoyed expression as she’d purposely walked to her desk to sit
down, without having to go passed him. “Yes, Garrett?” had come from her as she’d picked up
her headset and put it on. All secretary, he’d thought, and his eyes had narrowed on her. She
hadn’t backed down from him and held his gaze unwavering.
“You had coffee with someone else,” he’d stated.
“Yes, a dozen of us had coffee and cake down on the 7th floor. Paige got engaged last night
and wanted to share the news of how the proposal went down.”
He’d racked his brain for an employee named Paige and realised it was a man, and not a girl,
but as he had stood there thinking about it, she’d gone on, “Are you going to be dictating who I
can and can’t socialise with?” and though she was smiling at him there was something in the
inflection of her voice that belied it wasn’t real.
“Of course not,” he’d murmured. He was just used to having meals and breaks with her was
all. He enjoyed that part of his day here in the office, because he didn’t always sit at his desk,
was off in meetings or on other floors and didn’t get to see her all the time.
“Good.” She’d stated and turned away from him. “I have work to do.” She’d stated, effectively
dismissing him, her boss. He’d never had a secretary do that before. That was new for him
and a part of him had wanted to tell her it was inappropriate to do so. But he had a feeling it
would start their first argument as a couple, if he did.
“I’d like to be informed next time, when you leave your desk like that, he’d half muttered and walked away.
To his annoyance, every time she’d stepped away from his desk after that, she’d hit the intercom button, to tell him she was stepping away from her desk, even if his office door had been closed, and he was in a meeting. If he wasn’t in his office, she’d texted him, “Garrett, I’m stepping away from my desk.” Then followed that up with where she was going, who she was going to speak with and approximated how long she would be gone from her desk.
Ryan had snickered. “Oh, I see you managed to tick her off.” As she’d used the intercom to tell him she was going to the cafeteria for lunch early.
He’d sighed as he’d heard her heels click away down the hall, he’d clearly overstepped and that
jealous, possessive side of him had been seen by her and she’d not really liked it. He’d even
gone out there at 3pm and apologised. He couldn’t take the constant interruptions to his day
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anymore.
Though it had not stopped her at all, and on the drive home from the office she’d stated, “How was your day?”
“Frustratingly annoying.” Had rolled out of him without much thought, and she’d actually smiled and nodded.
“I’m certain it was. I don’t like you wanting to know my every move, it shows a lack of trust.”
“I trust you, and I don’t need to know your every move.” He sighed.
“That is not how it felt: you were annoyed that you didn’t know where I was. If you don’t trust me then…” she’d trailed off, and he knew instantly he was on thin ice.
“It’s not that,” he sighed. He’d simply been jealous of her spending time with others was all; without him. “Honestly, Harmony, I find myself…jealous of other men around you,” he murmured, telling her the truth. “I’m sorry if it came across as my not trusting you. I do trust you,” he told her.
“I understand you’ve not dated properly in a long time, Garrett. But I need to be able to go out with my friends at times without you. You don’t think much of being right next to me all the time, but when at work you are their boss, and not everyone wants to socialise with their boss all the time.”
“I’m your boyfriend as well, Harmony,” he’d countered.
“I’m not talking about me, I am referring to the other employees, she elaborated.
He’d looked right at her and frowned, his pack would enjoy him being included in their social circle.
“That, right there,” Harmony stated, pointing to his expression. “Says a lot.”
“I’m quite friendly and likable. Funny at times as well,” he told her.
“Yes, but you’re still their boss, and so they can’t be themselves around you. Not truly,” she stated.
And only then did he realise she was likely talking about other humans in the office. There was an order to their world as much as there was to the wolfen world. The social classes he knew were separated as much as employees by their position in the working world.
“I’ll refrain, and you’ll not tell me your every move tomorrow, yes.”
“Agreed,” she’d stated with a simple nod of her head, but then she’d also waved him off when
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they’d gotten back to the packhouse and walked away from him. “I’ve got Pilates, I’ll catch you
later.”
He’d nearly snarled out loud. This was he now realised, was their actual first fight. There had
been no yelling, but he understood as he watched her walk away from him, up to her
apartment. He’d banged into his office himself, annoyed with himself, he’d created that mess
and ticked her off.
Ryan and the boys had all laughed at him, and he’d snapped at them, “shut it.”
“Oh come on Garrett, it’s quite funny,” Ryan snorted.
“She put you right in your place and politely so, all day long, not once did I hear annoyance in
her voice, a friendly smile along with her words of telling you where she was going.” Wyatt
chuckled.
“Imagine Garrett,” Ryan stated, “if you weren’t in the office, how do you think she would have
gotten her point across to you?”
That made him frown, because he didn’t actually know, and as he looked at each of them, he
realised they were all still smiling, likely been there themselves once, at the beginning of their
own relationships. He knew Ryan had to have been because he couldn’t charm his own Mate.
“She’d have slammed the door in your face, and likely told you where to go,” Wyatt snorted.”
She’s got a potty mouth, if I recall correctly from the day you met her, she has a really good
vocabulary, then she’d have avoided you all day in her annoyance.”
He’d sighed, “I have explained why.”
“Jealous.” They all snorted.
“Is it that obvious?” he muttered.
They had all burst out laughing. “It was today.” They were all fully amused, it seemed. And by him having gotten in trouble, he had no one to blame for it bar himself. He just sighed. It likely
wasn’t often that he was ever seen to be in trouble, and so it amused them that their own
Alpha had been chastised and dismissed, and he couldn’t do anything about it.
He had to suck it up and deal with it, because he’d been in the wrong, been possessive and demanding to know where she was, and all over her not having a cup of coffee with him. He
had been completely out of line.
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