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She exhales, and her chest rises and falls roughly, but after a moment, she whirls and runs for the room.

Zaden glares at us. “Get up here and help me.”

I snort and climb the stairs leading the rest of the pack.

“I liked that vase,” I hear Mills murmur, and I smile grimly. Our omega is a typhoon.

Now, we just need to show her that she’s ours.

Chapter thirty-eight

Lia

I’m back here again,right where I want to be, right back here to face the inevitable pain again. My anger throbs inside me, driven by the yawning pain, but it’s getting buried by the heat that is turning my whole body into a live wire. I have two opposing wants and needs inside me, and I can’t find a way to reconcile either of them.

I storm into the nest, see the mattress, and remember vividly the scene that happened last time we were all in here. I rush to the desk and pick up a shoe that was somehow left behind. I turn and throw it.

It hits the wall, just missing Zaden’s head as he ducks.

“LIA!”

I snarl.

He steps towards me, but I step sideways, my whole body laser-focused on him.

“Lia, it’s going to be okay.”

“Get out.”

Zaden stops moving and stands up straight. “We both know you don’t want that.”

“GET OUT!” I howl.

I rush him and shove his chest, tears burning in my eyes. I’m so furious. So angry that I need him, that I ache so badly from needing him. I don’t want to. It’s not fair.

I shove at his chest.

“Get out!”

He grips my wrists and pulls them up, holding me firmly away from him. I look down, and I’m shocked to see furrows of bloody gouges. I hurt him, that’s the worst thing I’veever done. I let out a wail and tug myself free, racing to the bathroom and slamming the door.

“Lia, come out. It’s okay, Lia.”

I back away from the door, biting my own wrist to hold back the sobs. They aren’t mine. This is wrong.

There’s no way out of this bathroom. I get in the tub and squeeze myself into a ball.

The door creaks open, and I hear someone walking in, but then nothing. After a while, I peek and find the back of Ianto’s head on the other side of the bath. He’s leaning up against it, just sitting in silence.

“It hurts, doesn’t it?” he whispers. “When you think you’re not good enough to be with the people that you love.”

I scrunch tighter into the ball.

“The thing is, Lia, you’re in your heat, and you’re not thinking clearly. And why does forever have to be because someone smelled nice? Why can’t it be because you stormed into our party? It’s stupid to think that everything is the be all and end all. Things in life aren’t so black and white.”

“Because that’s the way it is. Scent matches are happily ever afters.”

“I don’t believe that. In fact, I believe that we can be together. I think we can work it out.” Ianto pauses. “Is it that important to you?”


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