Erica
To my displeasure, my brother messaged me.
"Can Alice and I have tea with you and your Omega? -Daniel."
"My Omega has a name. -Erica."
"Stop getting angry, we don't want to fight, I've calmed down. -Daniel"
"Fine, 6:30PM tonight, 324 Eastwood Street, Ritten Parklands -Erica."
Goddamn it.
I told Jessica immediately what was happening and she seemed fine about it, now I was angry at her for not coming up with an excuse as to why we couldn't see them.
I calmed myself down as I sat in my car at work.
Breathing in and out slowly.
I hadn't talked to my brother since the night I found out about all the Omega and Alpha Clan stuff.
He messaged me throughout the day saying that he was sorry for getting angry, and that he only was jealous.
This made me want to see him less.
I asked Jessica to prepare tea, as I'd be home on the death knock of 6:30PM. Jessica really made good tea whenever Tyler and Rachel came around, so I left it to her to decide what we'd have.
I had a notification come through on my phone.
"Please don't yell at your brother tonight. -Mother"
Oh Jesus, now my mother was in on it.
"You're Father and I have discussed with both of them, they were given an ultimatum of leaving the family or staying -Mother."
Wait wait what.
"You really gave them that chance? -Erica."
"Your Father Loves you both, and wants nothing but happiness. -Mother."
"Thanks, I guess. -Erica."
I sat at work, for the rest of the day, regretting my decision on saying yes to Daniel and Alice.
I truly didn't want them to come over but I had to be nice, since my parents had allowed them to stay, provided they didn't act up about the decision.
"Erica." I heard from outside, then a knock at my door.
"Come in." I said.
"Erica, David wants to see you." Sarah told me as she walked in.
"Oh for fuck sakes!" I mumbled as I put my fist into a ball.
Here I was, in charge of the whole show, and he still wanted to talk to me still.
"Okay, send him up." I said with a smile to her.
"I'll go get him for you." Sarah told me as she left the room, shutting the door behind her.
David arrived at my office shortly after Sarah had left.
"David, what is it now?" I asked him rudely.
"The Lab Test for TEXRA-C31 has come back with good results." David informed me.
"Oh? That's good news." I said to him.
"It is good, the board of directors will be pleased with our work. This is going to help a lot of people suffering from chronic pain during the Rut/Heat Cycle." He told me.
"I know, thanks for this David, I mean it." I said to him, with a smile.
"Send me the files over when you get back to your work station and I'll review them and send them to upper management, so they can review also." I told him.
"No worries, Erica." David said as he exited the room.
I had tried to get this development approved months ago when David was in charge, It was only finally getting pushed through now since I had taken office, David hadn't put it immediately forward.
I suffer from the disease, so there's a reason why I wanted it done, I also know it's very common in Alpha Females.
The Alpha Female Body Simply cannot decide what gender it is during the seasons, so it leads to a build up of pain during the Rut Cycle Alpha Female's go through every season.
It's a rare experience for me, but it does happen, usually pain medication numbs the pain, but this drug will eradicate any pain felt.
This new drug will alleviate the effects of The Chronic Pain experienced during seasons. I breathed a sigh of relief... I sat for the rest of the day, reading through the document David had sent me.
I sent it to my higher ups and now it awaited official trial with a closed team of people, just in case there were any implications with the new drug, a secondary drug was also created to make the drug defunct in the host's body, like an anti-venom.
Jessica had no idea about this issue, I really felt embarrassed by it, I didn't even let her know that I had put my name down for the trial.
It'd be at least a week before some trial units were produced, so I had some time to think of a way to tell her about this issue I'd been having.
I packed my bag, turned off my computer and walked out of the building with Sarah and Yelena.
"How's Jessica? We haven't seen her in awhile." Yelena asked me.
"She's good, she's been super lately." I said to her.
"When are we getting the wedding invitations?" Sarah asked.
"I'd have to ask Jessica, I've been busy with my work lately, so I haven't had much to do with the wedding planning unfortunately." I told her with a soft smile, I had reminded myself that I hadn't been helping much with the planning, great! another thing to feel sorry about.
"You should take some time off, hang out and plan that wedding together." Yelena said to me.
"Yeah, but with TEXRA going into a possible trial period soon it might not be possible." I told her.
"Take the time off while you are on it?" Sarah said to me.
"That's what I plan to do, I signed up today for the trial, if it goes ahead." She said to me.
"You have these issues too?" I asked her.
"I do, I'm worse than most girls I know though, it's annoying, I'll be thankful when it's fully out." She said to me with a smile.
"I'll be thankful for you, Erica." Sarah continued.
"Look it's no worries, it's just good that I took over otherwise we were still going to be improving paracetamol for the next 100 years." I said with a laugh.
Sarah and Yelena both laughed as well.
"You're right, I'm just glad that more important things are taking priority now." Yelena said to me.
