"I will give you the same nominal every week if you wanted to stay in the pack house. You can work there and take care of the alpha."
"He can kill me!"
He had tried once and she was lucky enough he failed.
The money was tempting, but when Fenja remembered the killing intent in alpha Jaxon's eyes that night, this made her shuddered in fear.
No matter how much money she got, it would be useless if she died. Who could guarantee his violence personality wouldn't come to the surface.
"No… I don't think I can take the offer."
"Are you sure?"
***
"Why do I choose this…?" Fenja mumbled, as she packed her things. She only needed a simple backpack to gather all of her belongings from this small apartment. "What if I didn't come out alive from that house?"
At first, Fenja didn't want to stay in the pack house for obvious reason, but the money…
Moreover, if she stayed there, she didn't need to think of paying rent and food. She could eat meat as much as she wanted.
"Yeah, eat meat and then you will become a meat in that alpha's hand."
Fenja grumbled, she walked out of her small flat. At the parking lot, there was a car that had been waiting for her.
She hugged her backpack. There were only a few pair of clothes that she owned, because she didn't have the luxury to buy a lot of them, or else, she would go hungry for days.
"Is it everything?"
The driver named Alex tilted his head, thinking there was another bag that Fenja brought with her aside from her backpack, but there was nothing.
He was so young, probably only one or two years older than Fenja.
"Yes."
Alex then opened the car door and Fenja climbed inside, she declined Alex's offer to put her bag somewhere else.
During the car ride, Fenja stared at the capital city from the car window and felt a little bit forlorn, somehow, this city was very crowded, there were a lot of people more than the people in her former pack, but it was so lonely to be here.
All of them didn't know each other and they always looked busy. People would look at you weirdly if you started a conversation with them.
Or, they would look tired, too tired to even help each other.
How funny this city was.
Fenja missed the quietness in her pack and how people interacted with each other. Shifter was a social creature, thus it was rather hard for Fenja to live alone in her small flat and talked to herself all the time.
Probably, that was one of the reasons why she decided to go ahead with Jack's offer and lived in the pack house. At the very least, she could talk to Jack. There would be another shifter in the pack house too, right? Like their warriors or anyone… another omega for an example.
However, Fenja was quick to learn that aside from the alpha and Jack, there was no one there.
They would hire someone to clean the house, but aside from that, there was no one. The warrior would be out of the house, they would guard the area around the house, but not inside, since the houses that surrounded the pack house, belonged to the alpha.
Those houses where the warriors stayed.
This was a shocking news for Fenja.
"You will stay in this room," Jack said.
He gave her a quick tour to a certain area that she might visit frequently, such as kitchen or garden, or the library. "If you need something, you can call me." He provided her with a cellphone.
"Oh, thank you," Fenja said politely, hiding her disappointment. "May I know where is the alpha?"
Jack said she was only allowed to interact with the alpha during dinner, where she would accompany him to eat.
Jack would be there too, so it was relatively safe for both of them, just in case, the alpha's violence personality came to the surface.
This was what Jack and alpha Jaxon agreed to, because he wanted to be with Fenja, but at the same time, he didn't trust himself.
But, at the very least, he knew she was nearby and was not living in the rickety building that looked like it was going to collapse.
"The alpha is away for a business meeting, but he will return next week. You can use this time to adjust in the pack house. You can also familiarize yourself to the area around here, but never entered the alpha's main bedroom in the third floor. Whatever happened, don't go there."
After saying that, Jack left Fenja to unpack her things.
This room was very spacious, she felt like she just won a jackpot for actually living in this kind of room. Jack said her bedroom was being prepared and this was only temporary, but she thought it was more than enough.
"Oh, this is so nice!" Fenja jumped on her comfortable bed and hugged her fluffy pillows. "Oh, this is so great!" She was happy for the first time after she came to this city.
And because she was still very tired, soon she fell asleep on her new bed.
The area around her bedroom, she didn't smell that cigar and cinnamon scent, probably because the alpha had never been in this part of the house.
This room smelled like citrus…
***
"Shayne, are you avoiding Nadia again?" Rachel came to see her son and voiced out her unhappiness because of the way he treated Nadia. It had been a week since what happened and Shayne had been avoiding Nadia.
However, he realized he couldn't do that, because he would go to the capital city with her. If it was not for the reason he wanted to look for Fenja, he wouldn't have gone with Nadia.
He wanted Nadia to apologize for what they had done. That was a mistake and Shayne understood how hurt Fenja was. Therefore, he needed to bring Nadia, then his mate could see the sincerity of their apology.