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She smiles up at me and squeezes my hand. “You better not.”

The elevator doors open and we walk into the lobby of our office.

“Hey Jax,” the receptionist greets us.

“Hey Lily,” I say, giving her a wave. “This is Olivia, my fated mate.”

“Hey, nice to meet you,” Liv says giving Lily a small nod.

“It’s nice to meet you too, I’m glad you’re all up and about,” Lily says. She seems to notice the questioning glance that Olivia sends me. “Oh, just to give you a heads up, the entire office knows about how Jax stormed out of the warehouse with you in his arms demanding for an ambulance for you.”

“What?” Liv asks, looking up at me.

“It wasn’t that dramatic,” I say, rubbing the back of my neck.

“Oh, it totally was,” Lily says, unhelpfully. “I don’t think the agency has ever seen Jax that serious about something.”

“Wow,” Olivia says, smiling up at me. “Well, that’s cool.”

“Yeah,” Lily says. “Anyways, people are waiting for you in conference room 3, I assume Jax can show you the way?”

“Oh I got it,” I say. “See you later!”

Olivia follows along as I lead her further into the office.

“She seems sweet,” She says.

“Yeah, she’s pretty cool. She won’t stop giving me shit though, I don’t know why she had to go tell you that.”

“I don’t think what she said was a bad thing,” She says slowly, a blush creeping up on her cheeks. “Your protectiveness makes you even hotter.”

I smile down at her. “So you think I’m hot, huh?”

“Shut up,” She says, pushing her hand in my face.

“Fine, fine,” I laugh. “We’re here,” I say, stopping outside the conference room door. “You ready?”

“Yeah,” She says, squeezing my hand.

When I open the door to the conference room, I see there are four other alphas: Brandon, the captain of the operation, and two police officers.

Olivia squeezes my hand even tighter when she sees the four other alphas in the room, but I make sure to keep close to her so she knows I’m not going to leave her alone.

“Hey guys, this is Olivia Miller,” I say. I start pointing out all the other people in the room to her. “And Olivia, this is Brandon, my partner. That’s the captain for the rescue operation, and these are the police officers here for the interview.”

Her knuckles are white with how tightly she’s holding onto my hand. I don’t mind. I just wish I could take away all the stress she’s feeling.

“Nice to meet you, Ms. Miller,” One of the police officers says. “I’m Officer Parker and this is my partner Officer Ballard.”

“Hey,” She says, nodding at them.

“Why don’t you take a seat,” Officer Parker says, nodding to the other chairs at the conference table.

She looks up at me and I just swing one of the chairs next to the one they nodded to for her to sit at and smile up at her as I take a seat. She follows me and sits, still nervously clutching my hand.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen her this nervous before. I mean, I get it, with all she’s been through.

“Excuse me, Jax,” My captain says. “But this interview is just for Ms. Miller.”