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I woke paralysed from a night terror to the faintest whisper of fabric across my bed sheets.
The scent of dark cream cardamom was out of place and agonisingly familiar.
I froze, keeping my eyes shut, shifting my hand, which was beneath my pillow, carefully searching for my knife.
She was here.
Ace’s other Omega.
Glade had come into my room while I slept.
I knew she rejected him during heats and hated it here, but Ace liked her more than me. Her claim to him rivalled mine because Glade was a mafia princess: regal and beautiful, from a family so much more worthy of Ace.
I dreaded every time her heat arrived, terrified that it would be the moment she finally took him from me. The time she finally said yes to his touch, knowing that after, he might not want me to even live here anymore.
Did she want me gone before that happened?
She wasn’t allowed in my room. It was a huge risk for her. Ace had forbidden her from seeing me without his say so, and the punishments he exacted on her for displeasing him were horrible.
In this place, we suffered so differently.
My mind.
Her body.
My hand hurt with how hard I clutched the knife.
It was a switchblade, and I’d have to be quick to get it out in time.
But then her low whisper swept me up like a soft blanket, stopping me in my tracks. “Happy birthday, Thistle.”
I tensed, shock clouding every spiralling thought.
My… birthday?
How did she know?
Her fingers tangled in mine, and she squeezed my hand tight as my mind scrambled to understand.
Had I mentioned it?
Maybe… maybe once. I didn’t say much when I was allowed to stand at Ace’s side, but there had been something. It was a while ago—I’d not known how to fill an awkward silence between us, so I’d mumbled something about it being my birthday.
But… she’d remembered?
And she’d risked Ace’s fury to come to me?
“Twins caught in a nightmare together.” She drew me closer until I was completely enveloped in her arms.
Twins?
We shared a birthday?
I mean… we couldn’t be twins, me and her, we were so different…
I swallowed, suddenly unable to focus on anything but her touch. She was wrong, too. This wasn’t a nightmare. I mean… for her it was, but I loved Ace.
He’d saved me, and this life, this was a dream. A paradise compared to where I’d come from.
