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“Is she… dead?”
Did I want her to be?
“Far from it.” He took a step toward me, and I hadn’t realised how close he’d come until I felt the static prickle of his finger curling beneath my chin.
“Do you w-want to be fated to her?” I stammered, gut twisting at a question I may not want the answer to.
He smiled, and it was so, so captivating. “Hear this promise, Omega.” He shifted closer, voice a whisper in my ear. “There is no one in this world I would hold in deeper contempt than an Omega the universe tried to bind me to.”
“Oh…” I didn’t understand why he was telling me that. “It’s not… like that with me,” I whispered, uttering words that almost destroyed me to say. “I’m yours, n-not the other way around.”
He drew back, and my breath caught at his beauty again. I don’t know how I forgot every time I even blinked.
“Tell me, why is another of my guards dead?”
I swallowed as his gaze landed on the body. There was a lot of blood. I’d got a hold of his gun, first to ground him, but after that… I squeezed my eyes shut for, trying to drag back anything from that beautiful blur of memory—of the shattered glass, torn flesh. Ace’s ice-blue eyes traced each of the open wounds—the place where a face had once been.
“I assume he delivered the news.”
“…The stupid guard told me she was prettier—that you’d never want me—Bored already…” I fought the strangled wail that almost escaped. “But it w-won’t happen again,” I stammered, my breath tight in my chest.
I knew it was too late.
“Is that so?” Again, Ace’s gaze swept the room, and I was waiting for his fury. I could hear the unnerved voice of my father, an echo of the last time it had happened.
“What have you done?” My father had sounded afraid.
“Y-you said they were calling for money you d-didn’t owe.” He was always so stressed about it. Worrying they’d go further if he couldn’t pay up. They weren’t good people, or he wouldn’t be so scared.
I had all these instincts now, and I’d just wanted to protect them—to show them that they were mine, and maybe that was worth something…
My father had looked at the bodies again, and I could see how sick he been.
A sickness he turned on me next.
He’d abandoned me, saying the only way I could be safe was a place like Dan’s pack, with enough Alphas to keep me cowed. Enough to punish me for any hint of violent, unnatural urges. And so he’d left me to be kept like a misbehaved pet that they could use whenever they felt like it.
Ace… didn’t look sick, though. Just like he hadn’t when he’d visited to see what I’d done to Wyatt. As his eyes traced the gashes, wounds, and blood, I thought his pupils blew wider.
I tilted my head, exposing my neck, and I heard the faintest trace of a growl rumble in his chest.
Suddenly, my anxiety was gone.
Was he…pleasedwith me?
I think he was telling the truth. He hadn’t been with her, but seeing her heat must have affected him. Enough to makehim more open than usual; the razor-sharp control he always exercised; it wasn’t there anymore.
It was wrong, but I wanted to push that, desperate need to discover if he might want me a fraction as much as I wanted him.
“Use me, Alpha,” I whispered.
It had been weeks since I’d arrived here, falling further into obsession by the day, and finally, he drew close and his lips pressed to mine.
Present
“I’m yours. Not the other way around.”
That’s what I’d said.
