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Chapter one
Sapphire
Swallowing down a double dose of suppressants, I slip the bottle back into my purse quickly. I really shouldn’t be carrying them around in the prescription container, but I haven’t found time to switch them into an aspirin bottle and the labelled prescription container is safer in my purse than it would be in my bathroom cabinet, where my spare supply is already hidden away.
Paranoia hits the second I let the bottle drop out of my fingers. I should at least stash it inside the little zip-pocket to keep it safer. Sighing, I root through the seemingly bottomless purse. Ironically enough, I can’t find my pills now.
Shaking my head, I zip the purse shut.
If I can’t find it, no one else will find it.
Hah! That’s a Scarlett-ism if I ever heard one.
My reckless twin sister would take that kind of chance a million times over and never stop for a second to worry about the consequences.
I know it’ll bug me until I make sure my secret is as safe as possible. Which means I’m going into a drug store on the way to work to buy aspirin so I can ditch the prescription bottle into a public trash can and keep myself safe from being outed as an Omega at work, or by my on-again, off-again Beta boyfriend, Ben.
We’re on-again, for the record, and I’m not sure how I feel about that yet.
Breaking up every time he needs to go on a two or three-month long business trip is starting to make our relationship feel like a rollercoaster ride in the worst possible way. It’s like he pauses that ride while we’re upside down and leaves me there feeling lightheaded and clinging on for dear life until he comes back and starts everything back up again.
My heart can’t take much more of it, but I’m not sure I’m ready to stop the ride myself to get off and walk away. We’ve been together off and on for a few years now.
There’s a connection between us that feels too strong to deny.
“Hey,” he calls out.
I turn to see him leaning in the bedroom doorway wearing nothing more than a pair of boxer shorts and a lazy smile. He has seriously sexy come-to-bed eyes that he uses to get his own way, and right now his gaze is telling me he doesn’t care that I’m supposed to be at work.
“Where’s my kiss goodbye?” he asks, not moving a muscle from where he’s standing.
Alpha-leaning Betas are the demanding type.
I didn’t always think that was hot, believe me, but he makes me feel like it’s something I need.
Sometimes it’s sexy, and sometimes it’s annoying. This morning, I’m leaning more toward the latter.
He expects me to come back to him. He always expects me to do the legwork.
Because in his mind, he’s the Alpha, and I’m his Beta.
If only he knew.
Despite feeling a strong connection between us, and not being sure about stopping this ride, I’ve never been tempted to reveal my big secret, because no matter how close we seem to get, he always wants to pause our relationship when he’s gone.
He has no damn idea what he’s missing out on.
All over that one little maddening condition that he feels he has to make, every time he goes out of town, because he’s so damn Alpha he can’t handle feeling tied down.
I push a smile to the surface as I walk back toward my newly returned boyfriend, knowing the extra few minutes he’s pushing me for are all it’ll take to make me late for work.
Feeding his ego isn’t my favorite task, but part of me kind of likes it when he plays Alpha.
I stop in front of him, and he wraps an arm around me.
“Call in sick,” he tells me, as his searing gaze fixes on mine.
He’s already starting to smile, like he knows I’ll do what he’s asking, because I always do what he asks, even if he can’t ever seem to return that favor.
