Chapter Thirty Six: Disaster Looming

"What is keeping him so long?" Nora tapped on the screen of her phone, checking the time on it. She sat on the bench in the waiting area, tapping her feet restlessly against the ground. She fidgeted, suspecting that Canaan had caught on to her ploy; that was why he was avoiding her. Her head whipped to the side when she sensed Mark approaching. She itched to leap to her feet and ask if she had received the permission to meet him. Did he hate her now? He had been avoiding her a lot these days. It scared Nora that she would lose him. She had gone the extra mile to secure him as hers; she couldn't let him leave her. "Mark," she said in a calm voice albeit within her was a turmoil. Mark stopped before her. "My apologies for keeping you waiting, Ms. Nora. I had to go in and check if Alpha Canaan was in the office. I didn't find him there, but I was held down by a call from one of our clients before I could come back to report that to you." "I know Canaan is in there. He doesn't wa