REPRESSED.

Adoras pov.

I took a long deep breath when the meeting finally resumed and all the attention was no longer on me. my heart was in involuntary jitters and I could feel myself slowly losing my composure just from sitting beside this man, goddess .... It had been too long, so long since I'd heard his voice or felt his presence.

\I managed to hear only bits and pieces of what was being said as my mind was in a haze that I almost didn't hear my name being called out.

"Yes Mr. Barrington," I answered with a small smile on my face, turning all my attention to him now. Barrington was amongst our bosses, He was well in his late fifties or early sixties, and always had a small smile on his face whenever we met, which was rarely, seeing as my work was always on the field.

He was fully on staring at me, his deep green eyes twinkling under the light in the room, his dark grey hair was pulled in a tight bun making his face look longer, as some loose strands fell lazily on his face, his usual smile was now replaced with a frown on his still handsome face, and his face was scrunched up in obvious anger as his fingers tapped lazily on the table.

"You have nothing to report on your ongoing case, is that right miss Adora?" He asked in a formal but cold tone, still maintaining eye contact, pursing his lips tightly together, and if I didn't know any better I would say he was interrogating me, I felt irritated by his question, and the fact that he had to put me in the spotlight, when Tony and I had discussed with him in full length about the unfortunate occurrence at alpha Daniels place, I breathed calmly, reminding myself that I already had one complex problem to take care of, and I didn't need to create another one, especially not in a room full of people.

"No sir, as my partner and I already informed you, we would need more than rotten bodies with absolutely no trace of DNA in them in order to even declare our case open, which in would require more time and patience than any other case we've ever had to work on, why sir, is there going to be a problem? or is it already one?" I asked, successfully hiding my irritation from him and everyone else at the table with the sweet fake smile that was plastered on my face.

He returned my smile with one of his own, "There's none yet as far as I know, I wanted to inform you both," He said gesturing to Tony and I, before continuing "That Mr. Nicholai here will now be taking over your case as your supervisor, you report to him first before reaching out to us, he will be leading the case from now and both you and Tony will be reporting to him, given his position as the alpha king would grant you access to as much information as possible and the authority to work with people how you see fit, compliance from them equals to work easier from you, We believe Alpha Derek Nicholai here would be a great and valuable addition to your team."

I was chocking roughly by the time he was done, what the heck did he mean that we would be working under Derek now, WSA was filled with trained professionals who were really good at their work and we therefore never asked for help from outside, ever, I wasn't buying this helpful and valuable bullshit that had just come out of Barrington's mouth, and what the heck had Derek even proposed, I felt a warm hand rub my back slowly as another offered me bottled water, which I chugged down quickly, like the thirsty animal that I was before I said my thank yous.

"Do we have a problem Adora." Barrington asked, genuine concern laced in his voice, I nodded my head no, of course we had a fucking problem you dimwit, why else would I choke on my own saliva just after you're done speaking, I was just unlucky that my problem was more personal than it was professional.

"What you're saying is that a man who lives two continents away, will now be our temporary boss, until who knows when? How are we even supposed to communicate, especially on a job like this? Cellphones and other trackable devices are out of question, unless you are trying to suggest.....?

"I am not trying to suggest Adora, both you and Tony will be leaving to stay at the alpha's place in two days' time, pack whatever you need since we do not know how long this job will take, but till then, you will be moving to stay at Mr. Nicholai's place, just until the case is closed." He finished in a tone of finality after rudely cutting me off.

"Well, I wish you would have informed us earlier sir, some of us hate surprises." I seethed at him, no longer trying to hide how pissed I was at him,

"We only made the decision earlier this morning, I apologize for catching you off guard, the agency will compensate you for all the troubles caused, the both of you are our best agents Adora, and we wouldn't be doing this if we didn't think it was a good idea, I am especially trusting you both to do your best, do not let us down, and it better be sooner."

I began to feel suffocated being in this room, my head was spinning and my mind was in shambles, I needed to breathe, asap.

"If you will please excuse me," I muttered as I picked up my stationary and quickly headed for the door, I went straight to my office, ensuring I locked my door, before I sank on the couch near me as I tried to keep my emotions in check, all this was just too much all at once, My head was filled with different scenarios of how this could go, and I was still trying to process the fact that Derek was here, and he was now my boss.

A lot of emotions hit me at once, anger, pride, fear, and even a little bit of happiness, all these were things that I couldn't control, he hadn't bothered to ever show up to me in the past, so why now? Were the murders really that big of a deal to have the alpha king himself come to take over the case, or was it something else, did he know I worked here or was he just as surprised as I was when he saw me, Oh, come on Adora, of course he fucking knew, he was the alpha of alpha's after all, he knew everything about everyone alive or dead, but most importantly what would this mean for us, how were we just supposed to work together?

This was exactly what I had spent years running away from, but it had found me instead, and for the first time, I didn't what to do, run some more? face it? Ignore it? I was helpless, I felt .... defeated.

The knock on my door startled me, I chose to ignore it, wanting some space for myself but they just kept going and going, and eventually I had to get it, and so with a huge frown on my face, I unlocked the door, ready to unleash some of my anger on whoever it was.

"Derek!?"I exclaimed at the man standing outside my door, before closing it loudly on his face and going back to my couch, I absolutely had no patience to deal with this right now, nor was I in the right space of mind to do so, not today satan, not to fucking day.