Slaved To The Alpha

He just looked at me with a smile and left. I guess I was too stressed earlier. Maybe that’s why everything was bugging me, and I’m a little more calm now compared to earlier. Hopefully, the cold air and the starry night would help me cool much faster.

“Oh, Grant, before I forget, don’t be too hard on yourself. You know that you can do so much more than being stressed out right now, right? Have you ever wondered that? If not, then I’m sure that you know now. I mean, you can do so much more than just be defeated by planning the Annual Pack Gathering. You felt so pitiful earlier when you were stressing out, so I couldn’t help but to just give you advice and encouragement.” He said in a sympathetic tone of voice. Now, I didn’t know if he was being sarcastic or if he was being serious, whatever the case, I wanted to thank him for encouraging me, but nothing came out of my mouth when I tried to speak. So instead, I just nodded, smiled, and walked.

Why did I do that? Maybe I was shocked? Because I wasn’t expecting those words to come out of him, or maybe I’m just not good at taking compliments and advice from others, even if it is Greco.

While I was walking away, I looked back once, and he was just staring at me like I had done something awful. He looked confused, but Greco was smiling, so maybe he understood me even though I didn’t say anything. “Get some rest!” He said as I walked away. Good thing he was quite understanding when it came to me. I’m usually open when the two of us just talk, and maybe something was off about me tonight.

No matter what it is, I won’t let this night go to waste since I haven’t gone outside since we started working on the preparations for the Annual pack gathering this morning. So who knows, maybe I’ll even get to see a hot babe or something much better.

I was on my way out of here, and it felt really good to just relax for once. I wasn’t worried about anything, no work, no problems for the rest of the night. I was only thinking about how the cold breeze outside would feel once I actually got there. How about Greco? I should’ve asked him earlier to accompany me, and the night could be quite dull if I’m all by myself. Really, I keep forgetting to enjoy the little things like hanging out with people I actually like.

The moment I opened the door, I felt the breeze come in as if the entire room was in a vacuum chamber. The atmosphere inside became colder. I should’ve done this earlier when I was stressing out about everything. Who knew that this was going to solve all of my problems earlier? We could’ve done so much more work earlier. I guess the heat was getting to us too. I really need to improve my leadership skills. I may be the one supervising them, but I am also responsible for the results of their work. If their work is not great, that could reflect on me too. Wait, why am I thinking all about this? I didn’t want to be here in the first place, and I was forced to come here. Why do I even care about the results of their work? I just want to get all of this over with, the stupid Annual Pack Gathering, and these tedious preparations for it. I hate it. I hate all of it, and I think working here is changing me. I don’t care about any of this stuff. It is weirding me out. I should really get out of here.

Grant’s POV

I was starting to think too much again. I felt like I was going insane because of so many things popping inside my head at once. I just sprinted out of there as fast as I could and just ran for the door.

The moment I got outside, I finally felt the cold breeze. Everything felt like it was going slow-mo. I felt free as if chains and shackles bound me on my feet. I felt lighter on my feet, and I don’t know how but I felt everything changing.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

It could be because there is a full moon? Or maybe because it was the first real break I had in hours, which was quite refreshing for me, I thought that it would be dull, but even if I am alone tonight, nothing could ruin the moment I’m having right now. I doubt that anything will happen tonight, though, since I’ll be alone here.

I just sat on the bench nearby and stared at the night sky for a couple of minutes. Surprisingly, this gave me a sense of relief. It made me feel safe and vulnerable at the same time. I don’t’ think that I had this feeling before, I felt that it would be more of a weird feeling in my chest, that I would just feel the cold breeze, but it was actually so much more than that. I never really thought that I would feel this weird sensation,

How have I never thought of doing this before? I never knew this would be what would make me calm, just a simple night with the cold breeze blowing all over, and I wanted to shout as loud as I could, but then I remembered that everyone was basically asleep at this point, so I just raised both of my hands up in the air, looked at the sky, and just smiled.

Everything felt like it was from a fairytale or a movie. It just felt magical, and I should do this more often, but… No, this should be an occasional night, when I really need it, that’s the time I should only do something like this.

It was about ten minutes since I went out, it started to get boring, the feeling of the magical night started fading fast, I didn’t want to lose just by sitting around. Instead, I just got up and started walking around. I never really admired how good the landscaping and the layout of their trees and plants were here, I thought everything was just dull, but I stood corrected.