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“Let’s move,” Maddox roars, sprinting out of an alley. It spurs the rest of us into action, climbing into the car with our injured omega and barreling toward the hospital.
Chapter 36: In which I recover from my trials
The world is full of darkness, with only flashes of lights and watery sound. Like I’m at the bottom of the ocean, trying my hardest to reach the surface.
Someone is shouting nearby.
Loud bangs and the world trembles.
Something warm and hard wraps around me, and then it’s gone.
Softness presses to my mouth, my cheek, my forehead.
And then there’s the incessant beeping.
More raised voices.
I want to tell them to be quiet. I’m trying to sleep, but I’m too exhausted to even try. My lids won’t lift and neither will my voice.
The darkness of the ocean is the only constant.
“Sir, you can’t do that.” The voice is frazzled and frustrated. More pleading than demanding.
“The fuck I can’t. This is my omega. She needs me right fucking here.” The second voice makes my chest warm, my heart ache. I need them.
“I’m not denying that having her alphas close will be beneficial for her, but you don’t have to get naked to-Sir, put your pants back on this instant.” Hands carefully lift me and then cool air flows over my skin. “No, don’t take off her- I’ll call security.”
“I fucking dare you,” the second voice snarls, pure menace dripping from it. “I dare you to take me away from her.” Silence, then, “Yeah, that’s what I fucking thought. Get the fuck out of here. No one gets to see Cherrybomb naked except for my pack.”
A moment later, I hear a door close, and the warmth over me lifts before it’s replaced by a smooth, hard, hot body sliding, bare skin against bare skin, next to me. An arm wraps around my stomach and pulls me closer, while a face nuzzles into my neck. “I’m here, Cherrybomb,” he murmurs. “I’m right here with you. Always be.”
The scent of a boozy beach reaches me, and I shift, trying to get closer. But there’s something on my arm that snags me and pulls me back when I try to turn into him. A little mewl sounds from my chest that has him tensing, then holding me tighter. A hand comes up to cup my face, thumb brushing my bottom lip. “That’s it, Cherrybomb. Come back to us. Come back to me. Please, we need you.”
“Swift?” I whisper. Or more like breath since barely any sound comes out.
“Yeah.” His voice is choked. “Yeah, Cherrybomb, it’s me. Can you open those fucking gorgeous eyes of yours for me? I need to see them like I need air in my lungs.”
It’s a struggle and takes far, far too long for the seemingly simple task. I was expecting to wince, to squint against bright lights, seeing as how I should be in the hospital, but the room we’re in is dim, filled with low lighting. Not completely dark.
My white blond alpha is propped on an elbow, leaning over me, smiling like a loon. “There my girl is. Hi, baby,” he croons.
“Hi.” Again, my voice is hardly more than a whisper, and I already feel exhausted from uttering it. Also, I’m so fucking thirsty.
I part my lips again to ask for water, but the door slams open. “She’s awake?” Luca demands, rounding the bed. “You said you’d call as soon as-Are you naked? Is she fucking naked?”
I realize with a start that I am in fact naked, and so is Swift.
“She needed skin to skin contact.” Swift is completely unrepentant. “Though I might have to carve out the eyes of that male nurse. He refused to look away while I stripped her.”
A choked sound leaves me, and I’m not sure if it’s a protest or a laugh, but then there’s Luca, bending over the side of the bed Swift isn’t on. His big calloused palm slides over my cheek before he bends and does the same with his face, scent marking me, before his lips press to every inch of skin he can reach.
He pulls back and meets my gaze, a tremulous smile on his lips. “Hi, Vixen.”
I try to return his smile, but I’m not sure I manage. “Hi, Luca.”
He presses a fervent kiss against my forehead, murmuring against it, “oh, fuck baby, you don’t know how good it is to hear your voice.”
“Water?” I croak out, because even though I want to return the sentiment that it’s nice to see them too, I’m having a hard time voicing anything.
