Page 5 of Such a Shy Omega (His Alpha Desires #8)

Heath

By the time I got back to the club, members were arriving. Grant had told me there were several back doors and pointed out the one employees should use when the club was open.

Immediately, I was hit with the waves of energy.

I didn’t know if I would ever get used to the pulses of lust and passion this place thumped with.

I peeked into the main room where people were already taking their places in the stations.

The crack of a whip pierced my ears. There was danger and need brewing around every corner.

It was time to get to my booth.

And to work.

“There you are,” Grant said as I walked into the room.

The booth where we controlled the lighting and music was soundproof, so once the door was closed, I let out a sigh of relief.

I loved my job and was thankful the club hired me, but going from the quiet of the pack lands to here was overstimulating at times.

A lot of the time.

Our booth was behind a wall of glass. We could see the club down below and the DJ in front of us, but to any members, we were invisible. Just like I liked it.

“Am I late?” I asked.

“No. Not at all. But I wanted to teach you as much as possible before next week.”

Had I missed something?

“Next week?”

“Yeah. This is my last week. Didn’t anyone tell you?”

I shook my head. “They must’ve forgotten to tell me. Is someone taking over?”

Grant shook his head and patted the seat next to him. “Eventually, they will hire a new tech director, but they haven’t yet as far as I know. I wish I didn’t have to leave the club high and dry, but my omega is close to delivering our pups, and I’ve taken a remote job so I can work from home.”

“Oh, I understand. It’s great that you can stay home with your mate and pups.”

“I hope so.” Grant chuckled. “It will be a learning process, for sure. Anyway, let’s teach you everything you need to know or most of it anyway.”

We went to work and while Grant talked me through some things, I did most of the work on my own.

All of this was new to me but I was a fast learner.

Tell that to Ramsey. He’d always been so busy telling me how I was only meant to breed that he’d missed how smart I was.

He’d also convinced me I was stupid in the process.

An omega was meant for having babies and sweeping and wiping up after him.

That was to be my life with an alpha like Ramsey.

“Hear that?” Grant said, pushing the button that let us listen to the DJ and how his music changed. We could also hear if there was any upheaval so we could turn up all the bright lights.

“I do. He changed to some faster-paced techno.”

“That’s to rev up the crowd. Enhance their energy. So when the rhythm speeds up, how should we respond?”

I didn’t answer. Instead, I reached for the mixing desk. We had to match the energy of the club and the DJ. I had an idea. Maybe they would hate it. Maybe they would love it. One way to find out. Reading the crowd was one of the main components of being in the booth.

Instead of the purples and teals we usually had during the more passionate songs, I turned up the deep scarlet and tangerine lights. Widened the rays. Turned up the rotation of the lights to match the speed of the music.

“Oh, let’s see what you’ve got.” Grant clapped his hands and stood up, watching how the crowd responded. I did the same and bit down on my bottom lip to keep myself from smiling. No need to get smug. Not yet, anyway.

The lights illuminated the bar area and the rays glinted off the glasses and golden liquor.

“What do you think?”

“I think you’ve got a good sense for this. I can teach you everything you need to know about the control board and the mixing deck and which buttons are which, but I can’t teach reading the crowd. You’re really something.”

“Thank you.”

“In fact, I think I’ll go grab a drink. Want anything?”

“Oh.” I turned to him. “I don’t drink alcohol. Or I have never.”

“Something virgin, then? Cranberry juice?”

I chuckled. “Is this a test? There are no drinks allowed in the booth or while working at all. It’s a rule.”

He pointed at me. “See? I knew you were right for the job. I’ll be back in a minute.”

Grant left me to the booth and I tried not to let the pressure of that get to me.

I sat back down and listened to the music playing in the club. We had a local DJ tonight and he was really talented. I’d never been part of something like this. The list of things I’d yet to experience was longer than my shift tonight.

As long as my past didn’t catch up with me, I had a chance to experience and discover all those things and more.