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“We’re not leaving you. Ever.”
I whined, perfume exploding around us. That explained why I was perfuming even while asleep. “It’s not time for my heat,” I whispered. “I don’t know why this is happening.”
Cade laughed. “I don’t care how. I’m glad it did.”
“I’m guessing it was the beach,” Vaughn said. “Your instincts were just as high as mine, and last night when you defended us to Angela, it pushed you over the edge. It can happen.”
Omegas had at least one heat per year, but we could have more. He wasn’t wrong. My Omega had been just below the surface for days. It wouldn’t have taken much, and that bitch pushed exactly the right buttons.
A new wave of heat and nausea rolled over me, far stronger. No wonder I felt hungover. An unexpected heat like this could make you feel completely different, and it was coming on fast. Pain gripped my gut suddenly, constricting because I was empty and I needed to be filled with a knot. Right now.
My hands fluttered on Joel’s shoulders. “It hurts. Please.”
Rowan stood beside us. “We have a nest at our house. It’s not far, but it will still take a little time to get there.”
“I have one here,” I managed, letting my head brace against Joel. “It’s probably dusty as hell, but?—”
No, that wasn’t right. After I moved in with Beau, my mother asked if she could repurpose it because it had a good view and nice natural light. It was now her office. “No, I think it’s gone now.”
“Okay, baby girl.” Hawk was already moving. “We’ll get you to ours. I think your parents are in the breakfast room. I’ll tell Ellie and your parents what’s happening so they don’t think we’re kidnapping you. And I’ll ask for some extra things for the nest.”
No, he couldn’t.
I struggled to my feet, nearly falling into his arms in the process. Panic ripped through me, made all the hotter by the burn writhing under my skin. He couldn’t go. He couldn’t leave. I couldn’t take it again.
“Please,” I begged. “Don’t go.”
Hawk leaned in and kissed my forehead. “I’m not going anywhere, baby girl. I promise. All I’m doing is going to get some things to make sure you’re comfortable.”
“No.” I barely recognized the strangled, high-pitched voice coming out of me. I clung to him. “Don’t leave me, Alpha. Please. Please don’t go. I’ll do whatever you want. Just please don’t leave me.”
“Isolde.” Hawk stared at me, horror on his face. “Why would you?—”
His face transformed into anger so sharp it stole my breath. “Did he leave you while you were in heat?”
Tears welled in my eyes, my hands fisting his shirt. I didn’t like to think about it. It still hurt after all this time. “Don’t go,” I whispered.
“I’m going to fucking kill him.”
Arms came around me and lifted me. Sandalwood and vanilla with a touch of deeper sex and sweat. Cade. He smelled sogood. I turned into his hold, pressing my face into his neck.
“I’m not leaving you, baby girl,” Hawk said. “Not even for a second. We’re all going together. I’ll take care of this, okay?”
I nodded into Cade’s neck. Low words floated around me, but they were all here and I wassafe. Cade was safe. They were here, and they were mine.
Voices echoing drew me back to the world through a swell of rising temperature and perfume. The waves were growing sharper.
I hadn’t even noticed we were moving until I heard the door slam open ahead of us, and Hawk’s voice slicing through the breakfast room. “You left her alone while she wasin heat?”
Vaughn pushed open the door in time for me to see Hawk pull Beau out of his chair by his collar and hit him in the face. I cringed into Cade, the sound of the hit violent… and satisfying.
The table erupted, people moving to pull Hawk off Beau, but it barely worked. Hawk kept hitting him. “You fucking worthless excuse of an Alpha, leaving an Omega alone when she needed you.” Another punch.
A whine slipped out of me. I wanted Hawk with me. Closer. I loved this, but it could come later.
“Elliot,” Cade said, and it was the only thing that got through. Hawk’s head whipped up, eyes finding mine. He was across the room to us in seconds, leaving Beau on the floor, groaning. Angela was screaming something, but I didn’t care. I noticed it was the bridal party, but no one else. My parents, Ellie, and Warren weren’t in sight.
My Alpha kissed me and we were moving out of the house and to their car.
