Alicia’s POV
I collapsed on the couch breathing heavily, and kicked off my shoes letting them fall wherever
“Alicia is that you?” Mom called out from her bedroom, yes I’m 23 and still living with my parents, don’t judge me.
“Yes it’s me mom”, I let out a big sigh as she walked into the living room,
“Looks like you guys had plenty of fun after we left”, she smirked at me
“Well, what do you expect I mean after April left for her honeymoon and then you left… with the bride and mother of the bride gone we really had no other choice but to drink, oh!…I’m going to feel this tomorrow”, I hissed supporting my now throbbing head in my palms
To tell you the truth I wasn’t drinking only because I was happy that my little sister found her mate and had a mating ceremony before I did, I am happy for her believe me, but I was also drinking because I was like an old spinster at my own sister’s wedding with everyone asking me when my mating ceremony is going to be, I mean how can I have a mating ceremony without a mate? Ja, so that’s why I drank everyone under the table
“My poor baby”, mom patted me on the head, “I’ll make you some coffee, I nodded, and my head banged like a drum, I laid down on the couch and fished my phone out of my purse
“Aaaahh!, I got it” I jumped up screaming forgetting about my head, but it quickly brought me back down, I hissed and cradled it in my palms, mom rushed in looking nervous
“What the hell is going on?” She snapped
“I got it, here look”, I said handing her my phone and laying back on the couch as she read the email out loud
“Congratulations we are pleased to inform you that you have been selected for the position of foreign correspondent for the Keng Company… What?... I didn’t know you applied for this, congrats honey”, she said kneeling down next to me and kissing me on the head, she slowly stroked my golden-brown hair removing the pins I had keeping it in place
“Keng Company…where is this place? I’ve never heard of it”, her question made me tense up, because it was far away and I’m not talking about a long commute, I looked at her missing her already, I took a deep breath and answered
“Korea, South Korea”, she stopped stroking my hair and her face flashed white
“Mom, are you okay?” She shook her head furiously, stood up and started pacing up and down making me nauseous
“Mom, please stop that you’re making me dizzy”, she didn’t stop, she looked at me and put her hands on her hips breathing heavily
“Are you telling me that I’m losing both of my daughters in one day?” She looked like she was having a heart attack and with my headache I couldn’t stand up to comfort her
“You’re not losing me, mom”, I groaned out a whine
“How the hell did you get that job anyway, It’s not like you flew to Korea for the interview”, she stopped pacing and looked back at me, “wait, did you?”
“No mom, I interviewed through zoom”, she scoffed at me and rushed to her room screaming
“Brandon, you need to come out here now!”
“Why?” Dad groaned from the other side of the door; I could hear the exhaustion in his voice
“Why? I'll tell you why, your daughter has decided to move to another continent that’s why…”
She continued screaming at dad and I held my head in my hands rushing to my room,
I couldn’t do this right now; I will have to talk to her in the morning when she has calmed down and had time to process everything.
***
I got off the plane feeling exhausted, and I took my phone off flight mode and saw twenty missed calls from mom, I groaned and called her back, she had calmed down a bit but when the time came for me to leave she freaked out on me again, April face timed me every day from her honeymoon, she cried each time saying I'm abandoning her. So dramatic.
“Hi mom, yeah I just landed, yes I will be safe, okay mom my taxi is here…call you later”
I hung up and got in the taxi, I took my phone out and researched again on the company, I was amazed President Keng built this company from the ground up, he started it when he was seventeen, he is twenty-nine now, the article said that he is the youngest president of a global company ever, I kept gasping with every line I read
“This guy is incredible”
“And to top it off he is hot as hell”, my wolf growled deep within me after being quiet and acting possum for the past five years