Chapter 6

• Maleah's P.O.V.
• After I get out of the shower, I wrap a towel around my body and place a hair towel over my long violet auburn hair. I walk into my walk-in closet to pick out an outfit for dinner.
• I pick my favorite pantsuit—a jumpsuit with spaghetti straps and wide legs—and to top it off, it has a cardigan with lapels. I own this in three different colors, and I pick the light purple one for tonight's dinner, finishing it off with sand-colored, four-and-a-half-inch high-heeled shoes with an ankle strap.
• I place it on my bed before sitting down at my vanity table. I start by blow-drying my hair until most of the water is gone, then I pull my hair into a high ponytail before braiding it.
• I dry off the remainder of the water from my body and apply lotion to my entire body before putting on a lace thong and bra in the same color as my pantsuit. Once I am done putting on my underwear, I sit back down at my vanity table.
• I pick peach and brique as my eyeshadow colors and use black mascara. I choose a light peach-colored lip gloss.
• I slip into my jumpsuit as I hear a knock on the door. "I am almost done, Dad. I will be right down," I say as I put on my cardigan. I sit down to put on my shoes, and after closing the ankle straps, I get up to head down the stairs.
• My phone starts buzzing as I reach the door, and I look down to see I have gotten a message from Pauline. I read through the information she has found. Fortune is getting agitated the more I read, and I decide to leave it for what it is—I will analyze it in the morning.
• "Fortune, let's concentrate on tonight first. They will ask questions, and I know Alpha Max will always do what he needs to do to get answers. I doubt his Sons are any different," I tell her to make her calm down. We need to stay in control of our emotions, and once I am certain Fortune has calmed down enough, I walk out of my room.
• Dad is waiting at the bottom of the stairs, and I see the surprise in his eyes when he looks at my hair, but instead of saying something, he just smiles at me.
• We talk about my upcoming project; I have purchased a new boutique in the town of Albarr, and I have a lot to do when it comes to the inside of the boutique. Albarr is known for their wealthy inhabitants, and I know a boutique that carries my name will become a success, like every boutique I have bought in my career.
• The first boutique I bought was one my Mother would drag me to, in hopes that I would suddenly start wearing dresses, but it only resulted in my love for fashion becoming bigger.
• I talked to Dad about what I wanted to do, and when the funds from my inheritance came in, Dad helped me with purchasing the boutique. He supported me with my new endeavor. I changed the interior of the boutique, and I allowed Ariel, my Omega friend from our Pack, to sell her designs in the boutique—a way for her and her friends to have an extra income.
• It was after I purchased my eighth boutique that I decided to do a little more research into the designers that get to use my boutiques.
• About three months after reopening the boutique, I received a message from a client from one of my other boutiques, and I found out that the female who used my boutique wasn't the designer—she was forcing an Omega to hand it over to her.
• I asked Pauline to investigate for me and soon found out what she did was pretty despicable.
• She was forcing an Omega to design clothes and other Omegas to make the clothes before she would sell them in my boutique. She had been planning it for a long time, and when I reopened the boutique, she had more than enough clothing to put in my boutique, but I put a stop to her plans.
• Ever since then, I do a major background check before I allow someone to sell their designs in my boutique, and it has improved the lives of those designers and their employees.
• I have made a few changes for the use of my boutiques, and one of those changes is a contract every designer has to sign, but I never asked Ariel to sign one. I never asked her because she is the only one I know for sure designs the clothes herself. I have spent quite a few hours growing up with Ariel drawing in the kitchen of the Pack-house, and I loved every minute of it.
• Between the ages of eight and thirteen, I spent a huge amount of time in the Pack-house, but that might be a story about my life I will tell another time.
• Dad guides me up the steps to the Pack-house, and I feel the same excitement I felt as a child walking into the Pack-house—I doubt it will ever change. I can't wait to see Luna Elyse again; I have only had contact with her over the phone the past few years, and I haven't been home long enough to visit the Pack-house.
• I follow Dad up the stairs to the Alpha floor, and I wonder what kind of questions I will need to answer—one of them I already know. Why did I hide the fact that I have a Lycan? I know I will tell them the truth, and I know Dad, Alpha Max, and Luna Elyse will understand why I didn't tell anyone.
• I open the door to the Alpha floor, and I smile when I see the drawing I made for Luna Elyse when I was ten—a drawing of her sitting behind a desk and Alpha Max standing behind her as both of them look down at a file they were working on. I remember looking over at the desk from the small table I used to draw at, and both of them were engrossed in reading a file. I started drawing it in seconds to give it to Luna Elyse on her birthday a few weeks later.
• I step into the living room to hear a few gasps, and I get wrapped into two arms that feel so familiar. "Maleah, what are you doing here?" I hear Luna Elyse ask me as she squeezes me tight, and I chuckle as I wrap my arms around her and lift her off the floor. She squeals as I spin around once—I know she hates it when someone does that, as I remember her scolding Alpha Max for doing the same thing.
• "Maleah, could you put my Mate down before she decides to kick your ass for a chance?" I hear Alpha Max from my left, and as I put Luna Elyse down, I look into her eyes, winking at her before I turn toward Alpha Max.
• "I know you loved it every time she kicked your ass, no matter how much you complained," I say with a sweet smile on my face, and I hear everyone laughing their asses off while Alpha Max looks at me dumbfounded.
• "Okay, are you going to answer what you are doing here?" Elyse asks me, and I tell her I was ordered to show up for dinner, that there would be no excuses. She turns toward her Sons with a look in her eyes that would make the toughest Warrior crumble.
• "Luna Elyse, something happened when I got home, and I think your Sons just want to get a few answers. I know Dad would like some answers himself," I say.
• "What the fuck did that bitch do this time?" Luna Elyse growls.