Chapter Seven

I leave the office and head to the lunch area, Morgan sent a message to Riley telling him to make sure Lukas doesn't throw away his cup. I was on my way now to collect it, I was hoping Riley wouldn't still be upset with me when I get there. In my opinion, he didn't really have anything to be annoyed about. Brandon only joined me because Riley was asleep, that in no way shape or form means that Riley is being replaced. Once I reach the lunch hall, the loud voices and chaos just fill my ears, this is why I never come here! It's like these people have never seen food in their lives or have been deprived of it, they need to chill! I soon lock eyes with Toby who just looks me up and down, does he seriously have to check me out every time I walk in a room?! I mean I don't do that to him....much. I make my way over to their table, where Lukas was just having a great time chowing down his food, I see all the stress hasn't done anything to his appetite. "Are you here for lunch?" Riley asks standing up straight his arms still crossed, oh so this little lunch break hasn't calmed him down yet, maybe he needs a hug. "No, Morgan wants you to take the guys for a walk out the back, be careful to stay away from cameras" I say my eyes sneakily scanning the table, they soon land on the cup that Lukas picks up and takes a huge gulp of drink from, yes that's what I need! "I have to take them again, when did I become a wolf babysitter!" Riley exclaims causing my eyes to snap back over to him, when did he become so whinny about everything? "Don't take it up with me but the boss, now you better get a going before someone looks our way and gets intrigued about who these two are. Don't worry I'll clean your things away" I smile sweetly holding my hands behind my back, even though I knew too well that one thing on this table was not being thrown away. Riley just scoffs turning to walk away, Lukas gets up thanking me while following Riley. Toby on the other hand, rises quite slowly out of his chair watching me the entire time. He takes slow steps towards me but stands dangerously close, our bodies touch as he slowly walks by. I turn my head to the side trying to ignore what was happening, he lets out a little chuckle before going even slower. "You can try to ignore what you're feeling, but trust me that won't last forever. In the end, you'll be begging for me to take you" he whispers close to my face, his hot breath fanning my cheek as he spoke causing all those feelings to appear. He lets out a second chuckle before walking away, once his body was no longer against mine I began to miss it. Taylor pull yourself together! I turn my head towards the door, he was leaving the hall but very slowly sending me a smirk and wink. I roll my eyes turning my face to look at the table, out the corner of my eye I see him opening the door and leaving. This causes a sigh to leave my lips once I was alone, being around Toby is getting harder with each second. I make my way over to the table picking all the rubbish up but make sure that Lukas's cup was left intact, the only thing left sitting on the table in the end was the cup. I look around to make sure no one was watching me before pulling the evidence bag out my back pocket, I really didn't need someone to question me about this. I swiftly place the cup into the bag before hurriedly leaving the lunch hall, a place I was thankful to leave, being in there for even ten minutes is enough for me. I start my journey down the hall quite quickly, I also didn't need Toby or Lukas seeing me walk away with the cup. What kind of questions would follow? Probably some I couldn't answer. As I reach our block, Morgan was waiting outside who takes the cup from me and walks away, I guess my mini mission is over now, I didn't need that stress in my life anyway. My stomach rumbling tells me I haven't eaten yet, actually I haven't eaten since we picked Lukas and Toby up. "I was just gonna ask if you wanted to come for lunch, that rumble of your belly is telling it'll be a yes" Cooper's voice says from behind me, I smile turning around to look at him. I was hungry but it didn't feel right having dinner with another man who wasn't Toby, even if me and Cooper are nothing but friends. Why is Toby making me feel all these feelings?! Actually I know why. "That sounds great, but I have a lot of work to do and to be honest, having lunch is at the very bottom of my list" I smile beginning to walk down the hall, but my hand is taken from behind and I'm pulled back. "We can't have that, my mama always told me that you can't get any proper work done when you're hungry. Now I don't know about Morgan, but I would want my best agent at her best and besides, why are you turning down the chance to have some alone time with me?" He asks holding his hand to his heart, I let out a laugh while shaking my head, once again my stomach starts making whale noises. "Okay fine, but it can't be too long" I say pointing at him knowing how long he likes to take, he laughs putting his arms around my shoulders pulling me closer to him as he went. "Oh I never take too long, trust me baby" he winks leading me away to get some food, thankfully not at the dreaded lunch room. Cooper stuck to his word and made sure that we didn't take too long, he was now walking me back to our main office, even though I told him I'd be fine. But I have to be honest, it was actually really nice to just sit and talk about stuff that wasn't Richard. I always know when I'm around Cooper, we'll have a good time. I open the door to the main room where everyone was, Toby looking up straight away. "Where have you been, off getting another new partner?" Riley asks with his legs on the table, he's still really salty about that, I thought the fresh air would have helped him with his anger problems. "Oh you could call us that" Cooper says emerging from the doorway, he leans up against it smirking, I turn to look at Toby who I could tell was getting rather angry, he's being the possessive Alpha again. "We we're having-" I say trying to stop all the speculation that's going on right now, but Cooper cuts me off before I could finish my sentence. "No don't tell em, let's leave it up to their imaginations, we definitely did" he smirks which does make a smile form on my lips, I know what he's trying to make it seem like we did, which we definitely didn't do! "now I better get back to work, see you round sweet cheeks" he winks at me before leaving, I just laugh a little walking over to Brandon. Like always, he was sat alone typing away on his computer. That's just how he likes to work, which is the main reason he's never pulled away to do what we did today, it's easy to overlook him. I take my seat beside him where he opens a blank word document, before I could question him he starts to type. "The lab results came back, he's his son" He types quickly which just makes my eyes go wide, first that the results came back that quickly normally, they take maybe a week or two and second, Lukas is Richards son! "What?" I ask out loud than have to look around, maybe I shouldn't have said that out loud "nothing to see here, everyone get back to your lives" I say while Riley stands up from his chair, still looking rather annoyed. "I'm being kept out of the loop again, tell me!" He exclaims striding over to us, but before he could look Brandon shuts his laptop "oh the smart little boy wants to take my place, open the damn laptop before I smash you upside the head with it!" He shouts trying to get up in Brandon's face, he immediately looks over at me terrified. "Leave him alone, no one is trying to take your place" I say pushing Riley's chest back so he was away from Brandon, who wasn't on his seat long before he bolts over to where Lukas and Toby were sat. "Oh now little boys running away, move out of my way Taylor" he says looking me dead in the eyes, but he knew too well that he wasn't scaring me, I've dealt with scarier men in my time. "What are you gonna do if I don't?" I ask crossing my arms, we hadn't broke eye contact this entire time "I know you're not gonna do anything and if you did, you'd know what would happen" I say still not breaking the eye contact, I wasn't talking about the consequences he would receive from Morgan, he knew I could probably beat his ass. "What a child" I hear Toby mutter from behind me, this immediately gets Riley's attention where he looks up at Toby "you're a grown man acting like a child, if you were to lay a single hand on that girl in front of you, I would rip you apart limb from limb" Toby snarls from behind me, this does make my eyes go wide as I look up at Riley. I was really hoping he wouldn't put the pieces together, his brain soon starts to get working but he's stopped by another man talking. "You wouldn't have to, I would have already shot him in the face" Morgan says also from behind me, this has been taken way too far in my opinion. Riley looks behind me at all the angry men, before his eyes soon land on me. With a sad look, he turns and quickly leaves the room, I turn my head taking a look at Toby, his eyes were trained on me but he looks so angry. I sigh before running after Riley, I can't let him leave like that.