By Zephyria 
Amidst an atmosphere of self-loathing and futility, a woman lifting dumbbells for arm exercises opened her mouth with a nonchalant expression.
“I guess the great Miller Family made a huge donation. How can we stop that? The opponent is Miller.”
“Damn it, goddamn it!”
Another man cursed roughly. Everyone was in a terrible mood due to this unreasonable measure, but as she said, there was nothing they could do separately. All they could do was lift the equipment faster than usual or spew out curses as a pointless vent.
“On the contrary, it means we’ll get something in return, so there will be some benefit to us. Like the facilities getting better, or the equipment changing.”
At another woman’s comforting words, everyone frowned and muttered small curses.
“Anyway, the conclusion is the same. The situation is pretty shitty right now.”
Everyone agreed with someone’s clear conclusion. Then another colleague offered an opinion.
“Now that it’s come to this, how about we give him a hot welcome?”
At that moment, they looked at each other. At first, they had bewildered expressions. But soon, realizing what ‘hot welcome’ meant, their faces took on strange smiles. Of course, it was a completely different story from the ‘pleasant welcome party’ that the Station Chief was talking about.
Maybe it could be even more enjoyable than that.
Words of agreement began to come out one by one.
“Oh, right. He’s a person from the great Miller Family, we can’t just let it go.”
“Let’s give him a warm welcome, with a burning heart.”
“He’s definitely a Dominant Alpha, right? Because he’s from the Miller Family.”
“We should check out what that great Pheromone is like.”
Their eyes, making ominous chuckling sounds, blazed with animosity towards Miller, whom they had not even met yet. We won’t let you get away with this, Miller!
Thanks to that, they were burning with fighting spirit and working out their muscles diligently here and there, when suddenly one person turned his head and asked.
“By the way, where’s Dane?”
“Huh?”
The team members, belatedly realizing the absence of their colleague, looked around with bewildered faces, and Ezra replied.
“He’s at the police station, said he’d be a little late.”
The surprised colleagues widened their eyes and repeated his words.
“Police station?”
“Police station? Why?”
When a completely unexpected word came up, everyone’s eyes widened and they poured out questions all at once. As the colleagues made the same expressions and asked the same questions, Ezra answered with a bewildered face.
“That’s…”
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“Dane Striker, sign here.”
Dane, receiving the document handed over by the police officer with an expressionless face, scribbled his signature in the blank space. The police officer, who immediately retrieved the paper, continued in a nonchalant manner.
“If the investigation proceeds, we will contact you accordingly. In the meantime, you must never visit the victim. Keep that in mind.”
He recited a few things to keep in mind, but Dane, even though it was his own business, yawned, clearly showing a reluctant expression as if he had no interest at all. The lawyer, seeing the police officer’s temple throbbing with veins at that bad attitude, hurriedly smiled and soothed him.
“Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of him. Thank you for your hard work, then we’ll be going…”
After giving a mumbled greeting, he hurriedly pushed Dane’s back and left the police station. The lawyer, who came out chasing after Dane who had gone out ahead, finally let out a sigh of relief and complained.
“Everything else is fine, but don’t sleep with married women.”
It was the role of the fire station’s legal advisor to solve legal problems for firefighters, but he only felt rewarded when solving problems related to his work, and getting involved in such adultery cases was considered a chore.
“She said she was single.”
But Dane was still annoyed and insisted on his innocence.
“I hate getting into trouble too. But how was I supposed to know her husband would suddenly come in? He wouldn’t listen to me and was just jumping around, so I just hit him once to calm him down.”
“That’s why you hit him, from his point of view, Dane is the intruder!”
Looking down at the lawyer who was urging him again in a slightly excited tone, Dane clenched his fist.
“Because it was noisy.”
At the cynical remark, the lawyer flinched and closed his mouth for the first time. As Dane looked forward again and lowered his hand, the lawyer walked alongside him, watching his mood. He seemed to be looking for the right timing to speak, but the wait was not long.
“I know that having one-night stands with women you meet at bars is routine for you. But why did you follow that woman to her house? Didn’t you say you never stay out overnight? What about Darling?”
This bastard, how does he know so much about me?
As Dane frowned and looked down, the lawyer continued as if he had seen through his mind.
“The Station Chief told me very earnestly to get Dane Striker out as soon as possible if anything happened to him. He even said that the cat he’s raising can’t see or hear? And it’s old too. If something happens to Dane, it won’t be easy to adopt it out, so it’s very difficult if you cause trouble like this. Have some more responsibility!”
“Haa.”
Of course, he has plenty of it. Even now, he’s feeling an enormous sense of guilt about Darling, who must be waiting alone because he unexpectedly stayed out overnight.
“Okay, I’ll refrain from it for a while.”
As he sighed and swept back his hair, the lawyer finally nodded.
“I’ll trust you. Then I’ll take care of this. Are you going to go to work like this?”
“No, I have to stop by home first. I have to feed Darling…”
Dane, glancing at the watch on his wrist, was roughly calculating the time when the lawyer opened his car door first and said.
“Get in, I’ll take you.”
Dane readily opened the passenger seat door and got into the car. The lawyer, who had been staring blankly at Dane, who had quickly sat in the seat before him, suppressed his rising anger and silently sat in the driver’s seat.
“Oh, by the way, did you hear? That the Second son of the Miller family is coming to the station today.”
“What?”
At the lawyer’s words as he started the car, Dane frowned and asked briefly. The lawyer concentrated on driving and answered casually.
“I heard he’s going to work as a firefighter. For the next year. So I heard he’s starting work this afternoon.”
“……Huh.”
Dane still didn’t say anything special. He just let out an absurd sigh as if he was dumbfounded.
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Ominous.
The Fire Chief felt a chilling shiver run down his spine for some reason, and looked at the man’s neat face sitting across the desk.
As expected of Ashley Miller’s son, his beauty was remarkable. It was well known that the appearance of Dominant Alphas was outstanding, but seeing it with his own eyes, he was momentarily stunned. Especially those purple eyes were so mysterious that he was mesmerized. It was like looking into the universe. Added to that, with the subtly floating sweet Pheromone scent, he felt completely unreal, as if he was dreaming. Because of that, even when Grayson Miller greeted him and asked for a handshake, the Station Chief just stared blankly at his face for a few seconds.
Grayson, who had arrived 15 minutes earlier than the promised time, had been sitting on the waiting room chair without any complaints until it was time. Even after finally entering the office and facing each other, the man still just smiled and gave a formal greeting. As if such a trivial wait was nothing.
So far, his attitude had been impeccable. He was extremely polite and didn’t say unnecessary things. Above all, his appearance was so excellent. The Station Chief clearly saw that his secretary was also mesmerized and couldn’t take her eyes off him. At this rate, even though he had come to this position by using a shortcut, he had a hopeful observation that if time passed appropriately, he would be somewhat integrated, and then the fierce atmosphere would subside.
Even though he knew the staff’s opposition well.