Chapter 137

Jasper I stared at the quarterly reports spread across my desk,the numbers blurring before my eyes. Three weeks. It had been three goddamn weeks since Freya walked out,and Stone Lake was crumbling beneath my fingers like wet sand. "Alpha,the Henderson contract needs your signature immediately." My new assistant—what was his name again? Mark? Mike?—hovered anxiously in the doorway,clutching a folder that should have been organized,vetted,and summarized days ago. "Put it with the others," I growled,gesturing to the mounting pile on the corner of my desk. My wolf,Leon,paced restlessly inside me,unsettled and irritable since Freya's departure. The assistant's eyes widened. "But sir,the deadline is—" "I said put it with the others!" The force of my Alpha voice made the young wolf flinch and scurry to obey,nearly tripping over himself in his haste to escape my office. The moment the door closed,I dropped my head into my hands. This was the third meeting I'd missed this week alone. The financ