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Every step with Rodrick’s gun pressed to the back of my head was a descent into darkness.
Every step, I knew, was toward my damnation. We were heading down the hall toward the ballroom. We passed a window, and I couldn’t help looking out into the desert night. Silent, still freedom, with a thousand galaxies across the clear night sky.
Rodrick shoved me a step, the gun digging to my back.
Rogue and Thistle… they should be safe.
My mind flashed to the video, to Christina, but I shoved it back so I wouldn’t panic.
The main security feed was compromised, but the basement feeds were on a different system so the misfits never had to deal with Rogue if they didn’t want to. That meant Rogue and Thistle’s location remain secret.
Bella was here for me. They’d have no reason to look further, and I’d give them no reason to.
She waited in the huge ballroom, seated on an armchair that had been dragged to the centre of the room as if she was a queen.
Melodramatic cunt.
Her pack was here, too, all armed.
I counted six Alphas in the room, aside from Rodrick, but I knew she had nine in total. There were two at her side, and four more, each manning a door.
That was good, I think. She wouldn’t leave only two to scour the whole mansion. It was more likely they were waiting outside, or perhaps hadn’t come at all.
I caught the leer of Quinn Hayes as Rodrick shoved me into the room. He was in his thirties, one of the two brothers who’d been in her pack for long enough that he was familiar to me.
Rodrick shoved me right to the middle of the room, and the delight was palpable in his shitty faux leather scent as we stopped before her, the hard metal of his gun still painful against my back.
Bella looked her usual, vile self, with long, blonde hair perfectly straight, a red dress clinging to her curves. She picked at her cuticle with manicured nails as she looked up at me from where she sat.
I pulled myself together with every scrap of strength I had. I couldn’t give her more power.
“What thehellis this?”
Ruby red lips parted for a brilliant smile. “I’m tired of the games, Knox, Baby.”
“This ismyfucking home.”
She barely flinched. “Butyou’vegot some secrets that our mutual friends won’t be too pleased to find out.”
I kept my expression straight. “You’ve been following me?”
“Of course I have. You’re mine. Your taunts have gone too far.”
“Taunts?” I asked, voice incredulous.
“To steal an Omega from me with a bid like that?” she asked.
My mind scrambled to catch up with what she was saying.
Thistle.
She’d been one of the other parties bidding—not that she was the reason I’d joined in. Discovering Rogue’s scent match had wiped everything else from my mind.
“If you wanted to test me, Knox, you should have made sure your slate was a little less… incriminating. Did you see the video of that stupid Beta we made for you?” Her voice was deathly sweet. “When they showed me, I wasalmostdisappointed. They went all the way to LA for that little bitch to end it before they could have any fun. But luckily, itwasJacob and Victor.” Her eyes slid adoringly to one of the brutish Alphas standing at her side, hand reaching up to brush his arm affectionately. “They aren’t deterred by much, and the body was still warm.”
My stomach twisted, bile rising up my throat.
Again, I shoved away the few memories of Christina I had. How scared she was when she’d arrived. How she wouldn’t look me in the eye, or speak to me—writing down the city she wanted to go to on a piece of paper. She, like so many of the ones I ended up buying, had survived much worse than I could imagine.
