Chapter 1

“What the bloody hell?” said an agitated Alice in a loud tone of voice.

I could feel my Alpha apearing for a second “would you just not shout at me? Please?”

Shane quickly added with a stunned face… “well for once I don´t blame her for reacting like this”

And Dana completed with an “I hear ya…”

Now I was smiling politely, regaining my calmed tone of voice “well it´s a decision I´ve fantasized with for a long time….”

And taking a deep breath and then releasing it “and it´s done already…” I said above a whisper, with all my “alpha-ness” desapearing somewhere…

Alice could not get rid of her amazed face… “do you want me to continue shouting at you? cause clearly that´s what you´re gonna get…” and in a loud tone again “what the fuck Porter?”

Alice´s face was for some reason amusing which made me show a hint of a smile… “yeap… more shouting at me…” I said.

And in her usual quiet and simple tone and expresion “well Bette… you´ve got balls… I´ll give you that… once again. So what made you reach this desicion?” Shane asked me.

“woa…. I need to slow down you know, I need room for myself for a change… after all this time I´ve realized that as much as I enjoy doing what I do is not actually my passion and I´ve never given myself some room to just be…” I could feel my disgusted expresion while I said this last bit…

“I…. I… need time and space and I´ve already gotten more job offers than I can start to analyze so…” 

I made a much needed pause….

“I can come back and start fresh any time I choose to…” my contemplating eyes towards the empty space that represented the center of the table.

And in the most sincere way possible Dana said “congratulations… I think it´s gonna do you a lot of good actually” and smiling at me widely she added “and I think I speak for everyone in this table when I say that you´ll always have us here for you whenever you´ll need us”.

“Yeah… well maybe not Alice for a while… but you know her… she´ll get over it” Shane joked realizing that Alice hadn´t spoke or made a move for more than 3 minutes on a road.