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“You're right,” I agreed. “I’ll never understand you, an omega who would do something like that as though it was nothing. Tell me, was that from practice? Did you and all your omega friends fuck each other when no alphas were around?”
His jaw dropped in shock, and I stepped closer, lowering my voice.
“What about Alil? You too were always close. Is he sad now that he's been replaced?”
Apparently, I had finally gone too far, because Latif gasped and then spluttered and stammered, searching for words.
That was the moment that the bedroom door suddenly opened, exposing Blaine, who I hadn't even realized was home.
Judging by the cold fury in his clear blue gaze, I knew he had heard the whole conversation.
It didn't matter to me. The small man could do nothing to me but glare. How laughable that Latif had picked him when so many others would have had him. And to add to the insult, Blaine still wore human clothes.
“That's enough now,” he told me firmly, as though he could make me do anything. “Time to go.”
I glanced at Latif, who now looked anxiously between us.
“Don't worry, I'm leaving,” I informed Blaine coldly. “I won’t make you fight me—or should I say, I won’t make Latif fight me in your place.”
“Addy!” Latif chastised, but I was already walking back outside, heart racing at having said so much when I should not have.
The others had warned me to keep my mouth shut until it was time to act, but it would be soon now anyway. Everyone in Diwan, the council, the nassa who embraced all of this… they all deserved what was coming.
I couldn’t wait.
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ADDY
I reached the meeting place as the second sun dipped behind the horizon, casting the sky in solid gold.
It was not a nice place, really. The area surrounded a fountain with stone walls around it in a circle. The small park offered shade, seating and water, like most parks in the city of Diwan. This one was overgrown though, with hardy desert plants breaking through the bricks and separating the mosaic of tiles on the walkway. Dust and sand covered every surface.
There were better spots for friends to meet. But this one was isolated, and had a fire pit, so it suited us to sit in the dark, away from all while we schemed.
There were only four of us so far, but we knew the numbers would grow once we went public with our plans. There were bound to be other alphas who agreed with our beliefs and would want to join us; the New Order of Alphas. But for now, there four of us would make do.
The other three were already there when I entered.
Ossad, a pale alpha with soft pink hair, eyes and scales, was a beast. A specimen that would give the famed Saar and Eisa both a hard time if they ever came face to face with him—something that had been brought up as a potential reality when we first began our work. Fari was the smallest of us, with dark skin and shining yellow coloring. But his size was a nonissue. He was all cunning and brains. He always came up with the good plans of actions. In a war, he would be an absolute asset.
Then there was Kazm, the visionary. With a rare colorless condition, his white eyes seemed to see straight through me. It was easy to believe that his words came from a higher power—which was what he said, and what I truly believed. I would follow the alpha, no matter where he lead me.
Everything he said felt like absolute truth.
Ossad was bent over the fire pit, already stroking the flames to life. His long pink hair was tied back in a braid so it wouldn't hang too close to the flames as he worked.
The other two sat on the low benches nearby.
I went to the one nearest to them and sat down.
As the youngest member of the New Order of Alphas, I looked up to all three of my friends. They had sided with me when no one else had.
“I apologize for being so late,” I said, as I joined them.
“You are here,” Kazm said, “that is all that matters. You are not the type of alpha who would let us down.”
