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Wayne was rugged, with lines on his forehead and his long black hair tied into a bun. I couldn’t look away from his rough features and how his lips had a slant to them. He was clean-shaven, and his alpha scent of rain was so calming that it made me want to snuggle in his chest and absorb him.
Davy, on my other side, smelled like tangerine, which added a nice sharp contrast to Wayne’s smell on my left. I took a deep breath, inhaling, trying to be secretive about it.
“Are you okay, Ruby?” asked Wayne, looking at me. My face was hot, and I blamed it on the alpha pheromones all around me.
What the fuck was wrong with me today?I shouldn’t even be entertaining the thought of being with a pack.
“Yes, I’m okay,” I said, taking a bite of the baked fish. “I was just wondering if you’d like an omega who wanted to have a career in the future or start a business.”
“Ruby,” said my dad as he looked at me disapprovingly. Omegas were encouraged to stay at home, have babies, and take care of their packs.
That was life here on the Alpha Compound.
“Hmm, I don’t mind that,” said Wayne.
It was hard to believe that. Wayne was probably only saying this since he agreed to marry me years ago. I still didn’t even know how that came about, and I wondered why my parents would agree with this.Did they even know who this alpha was?
“Continue getting to know each other,” my dad announced, grabbing Julie’s hand so they could give us some privacy.
“You can stay,” I said weakly, trying to hold onto my anger to my family so I could resist the alphas.
“You should talk to them,” my dad said, and they left me alone with the alphas in the dining room under the sparkling chandelier lights.
“So tell me, Ruby. What did you want to be when you grew up?” whispered Wayne, and I couldn’t help but laugh. He was being silly, trying to disarm me, but I needed to be on guard.
I suddenly felt a pair of eyes watching me. Looking around, I noticed Jasper at the window, and goosebumps rose from my skin.
His blond hair was indistinguishable, and his dark blue eyes were intense as he saw me interacting with the alphas. My face started to heat up, and my heart thumped. I swallowed my drink nervously, wondering what he was thinking.
Tearing my gaze away from him, I turned my attention back to Wayne, Davy, and Rufus. If they saw Jasper, they would kill him. Alphas were highly territorial of their omegas, and I was promised to Wayne.
As the evening drew on, I looked back at the window to see that Jasper was gone. I started to feel upset about that, wondering if he knew there wasn’t a chance now. I could hardly breathe from anxiety after seeing him gone like that.
He probably hated me now.
Our attraction for each other was unspoken, but it was there. I knew it for sure now after seeing the look in Jasper’s eyes as he watched me through the glass.
“I don’t even know anymore,"I groaned over the phone to Carmen, kicking off my heels and collapsing onto the bed. It had been a hell of a day, and my thoughts were all over the place. “Wayne and his pack are... solid. They smell good too, for what it’s worth."
“Do you find them attractive?” Carmen asked, her voice laced withcuriosity.
“Davy’s definitely the most attractive,” I admitted. “The rest of them? Very alpha. Strong, assertive… all that.”
Carmen let out a low whistle. “Ooh, Jasper's not going to take this well.”
“I know,” I sighed. “But I need to make my own choices. I’m tired of feeling like I’m stuck between what he wants and what I need.”
“I get it,” Carmen said softly. “It’s exhausting when you can’t take control of your own life. I thought Tyler and I had a future until he rejected me.”
“Jasper was literally staring at me the entire time I was with the pack,” I said, still unsettled by the intensity of his gaze over dinner. Just thinking about it made my stomach knot up.
“Oh no,” Carmen said, and I could tell immediately she was hiding something.
I sat up quickly, the weight of the day catching up to me. “What did you do?” I demanded, gripping the phone tighter as the room’s darkness pressed in.
“I…I told Jasper you had feelings for him,” she confessed, her voice dropping to a whisper.
I groaned, sinking back into the pillows. “That was supposed to stay between us, Carmen. Seriously?”
