The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 121

Fiona

I was alone in my office preparing some final notes right before the morning meeting when I received another text from my fiancé.

Alexander: How are things going over there so far? You have an idea yet of what time I should expect you back tonight?

king over my options

workaholism and take care of myself at some point.

by five, so he and I could have dinner together.

-plus hours, two days in a row. Not in the shape I was in right now.

could try.

learned about the problems with the project.

of the group was out the door. “I couldn’t have gotten back to the client so quickly without your help last night. Thank you for staying so late here with me.”

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alified to work directly with this client, you’re all in the know about the project already, and I trust each one of you to make good decisions.”

apt attention. I could tell they were pleased with the specific compliments I was paying them.

s enough to butter them up for what

d personal lives, and this is a last-minute request. But if you agree to do a few hours of overtime tonight, a

ly realized that they cared.

ce room for the next three hours. The front desk secretary found us there and took our lu

work just fine. There was plenty of space for us all to work on our laptops and keep our takeout containers tidy and separate. But this day I found the situation absolutely deplorable.

, and I was clean out of appetite or any desire to ever put food in my mouth again.

to be eating. I envied their appetites. They continued to

a toilet just in the nick of time.

I heaved. When I was sure I was empty I cleaned myself up and made a beeline for my office.

ou feel dead tired on a dime. I shuffled out one pill and downed it with some water. And then rested in my desk chair for one minute only, before I forced myself to stand and walk back down

Alexander

n the gym instead of the field.

were done.

uys fighting a grimace as I paced back and forth at the front of the group, scanning their faces, reading the

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out into the damp shade of the pine forest.

me down into the earth, daring me not to give way underneath it—that was a good feeling for me. I loved it. I thrived under pressure, and this was as literal and direct pressure as you can get. A hundred pounds of pressure that I had to fight with full awareness with every single step I took over the rough terrain of the forest.

ders.

h the thickest, densest part of the forest, uphill most of the way, for three hours.

n rehydrated with water from their packs. I had them replace the lost weight with stones collected from

aining field, I called the King Pack to a halt.

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nd Jacob. Stay behind. Everyone else, you’re dismissed.”

o men with whom I needed to intervene. The ones that supposedly wound up beating each other in public

nants I trusted to assist with training new recruits. Kayden and I had both been quite surprised to learn that he’d been involved in the incident.

wo men I had interviewed months ago regarding that letter from Fiona’s father that he and another soldier delivered to me, after allegedly stumbling upon it on the palace grounds.

pair. “Refill your water and then get your packs back on. March that same trail we all just walked together