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I frowned.Icould see it though—how she might have fit at his side. If he had missed that,hewas a fool.
“He never said it, but there was a mistake because Ace is like… special, right?”
I shrugged. “He was… something.”
“I’m… different from him. There was a mix-up, and we both knew it, so he kept me around, but I wasn’t ever really supposed to be there.”
“How are you different from him?”
“Well…” The shading she was doing across the top of the page was getting more intense. “You know how there are different kinds of Omegas?”
I cocked my head, about to say no, but she seemed so nervous, eyes flickering to me. “I haven’t heard of that,” I said slowly.
“Well, there are,” she said in a rush. “Like there are the good ones who have all the right instincts and know what they’re doing, and then there are theotherkind. Like uh, like me.”
“What’s the difference?”
“Not good for much, you know? Just good for balancing Alphas but not like… long term or bonding.”
“I don’t think that’s real—” I cut off as she looked up at me sharply, pencil balled in her fist.
“It’s real. I couldn’t even be with an Alpha without it hurting before. That’s not right. And Dan said it’s ‘cause if it hurts for me, it feels better for them and I’m good for nothing else. And he’s right that my instincts are all wrong for an Omega.”
I paused, trying to formulate my thoughts around that.Whothe fuck was Dan?
“What’s wrong with your instincts?”
“I’m always too… much. Want too much. I should be sweet, not angry. Alphas are supposed to claim me, not the other way around, but I just can’t help it no matter what I do. He was right. Even Ace hated it when I got possessive over him.”
That, I wanted to say, was because Ace probably saw it as a threat.
The war she waged against herself, trying to battle that claim she so desperately wanted to make of me. It was one of the most beautiful things in the world.
Something warned me against arguing, though. Her scent had shifted in the air—so much more anxious that I’d felt it. A cord stretched so tight the smallest breath would snap it in two.
Nothing she said was true, but I think for her… maybe it had to be. For now. It was, I thought, the structure holding up what remained of her sanity.
I ached to deconstruct it and catch her when she fell, but I couldn’t.
Not like this, anyway.
Not when I hadn’t proven I was better than any other Alpha in her life.
“Who is Dan?” I asked, instead.
“He was the lead of the pack that kept me before Ace.”
“Kept you?”
“Well, I did some really bad things, and my dad didn’t want me anymore, so he… he needed me out of his hair. He gave me to Dan’s pack. Told them to keep me away from my instincts. They owned a shitty club and made me pretend I was there because I wanted to be.”
“Did they bond you?” I asked. I’d only ever noticed one bite mark on her neck. It was faint and tucked away beneath where her hair fell.
“No. Wasn’t good for nothing like that, but he made me say it though—that I was theirs—if the cops ever showed up.”
That sounded… Well, it sounded worse than what I’d pictured with Ace.
“How did you get out?”
