A Mate for the Alpha and His Brothers

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Authors: Cara Adams
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didn’t have their own car might have booked the minivan to go shopping, but the van was needed for a job. Any other vehicle would do for the shopping expedition. But other times needs were very similar, and Amory had a set process he followed to ensure decision-making was fair.
    Favian and Brayden had now taken over management of that system, following the guidelines, making decisions as necessary. Amory would still be involved in case of a dispute they couldn’t resolve, but Brayden was certain almost every clash could be decided by logical and fair means.
    After they’d eaten, Brayden said, “Amory, Favian and I have the booking system licked. It’s time for you to off-load onto us another aspect of your work where your expertise is rarely needed.”
    Amory sighed and ran his hands through his hair. “I know. I have to delegate more, but it’s not easy to decide. Mostly I’m so busy I don’t even know what’s next. Everyone needs me.”
    Brayden was about to say something, telling Amory to man up and make a decision, when Elsie walked over to the counter and took the notepad she used for cooking menus and shopping lists. She flipped it upside down and opened to the back page.
    “We can help you. What do you spend your time doing?”
    “Huh?”
    “What do you do each day?”
    “What do you mean what do I do? I run a business. I manage staff and deal with clients and so on.”
    Elsie shook her head at him. “You need to be a lot more specific. We can help you highlight areas in your daily tasks where your expertise is not needed. Areas that one of your brothers could take from you. Now, tell me step by step what your day looks like.”
    Brayden hid a grin as Amory spoke and Elsie made notes. Ten minutes later, she’d filled the page and Amory had stopped taking.
    “Look at this. After businesses call you, you update spreadsheets about people’s needs from your notes. The same after dealing with e-mails, after reading messages from your department leaders, from all over the place. It’s always you updating these spreadsheets. Unless it’s something very secret, that’s a total waste of your time. When your managers don’t need your approval to buy things or to do things, they should be updating those spreadsheets themselves,” said Elsie.
    “She’s right,” said Favian.
    “Most of those messages from department heads are just a courtesy. You don’t need to know all the details. You already meet with the department heads each week. Anything you should know they can tell you then. If something’s urgent, they tell you in person anyway.” Brayden leaned back in his chair. Elsie had absolutely put her finger on an important way they could reduce Amory’s workload every single day.
    He looked at Amory, whose forehead was creased in a frown. Brayden remained silent. Amory would work it out.
    Finally he nodded. “You’re right. Most of what is said in the department meetings is stuff I already know. It’s more a matter of each department head reporting to each other than to me. Each one of them maintaining their own spreadsheets would work, and we’d all learn at the same time in the meetings, which would save everyone’s time.”
    “With the notes you make from phone calls and e-mails, you could put them aside, and Brayden or I could update the spreadsheets with those things once a day. Maybe you could leave them here in the kitchen each night when you come home, and we could do them first thing in the morning,” said Favian.
    Brayden nodded. “Or even whoever is babysitting you late at night could do it then. It might help keep us awake.”
    “We can do better than that. Those secretive government agencies won’t talk to anyone except you, but most of the shape-shifters who call us, either Brayden or I could deal with them and only pass the calls to you if they really are private,” added Favian.
    While they’d been talking, Elsie had been reading through her notes. “Do you trust your

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