Page 41 of Monster. Me.

I let out a hiss. Yeah, I guess some of his pheromones remained on me. Oh, well.

"What the fuck are you mumbling about there? Mind your own business, jerks."

Wilhelm and Reed stop on either side of me, but it doesn’t intimidate me in the slightest. Okay… maybe I'm a bit arrogant, but I'm a cat, and it's part of our nature.

All I'd have to do is extend my claws and scratch their faces. That would kill any romantic interest real fast.

"Come on, don’t tell me our beloved Red Mug didn’t get to you. Unless he already took care of your ass," Wilhelm says.

"Fuck off, idiots. Nothing like that happened. The guy is being treated horribly here. Showing him a little compassion is something you could try too for a change."

Wilhelm snorts dismissively, but Reed frowns and scratches his chin.

From what I've figured out, Wilhelm is an orderly, but Reed seems to be an actual nurse, and apparently something I said caught his attention.

"Then how are you resisting his pheromones? Honestly, from the beginning, you haven't seemed affected by them at all," he asks suspiciously.

"I have blockers."

Reed bursts out laughing.

"No regular blocker works against his pheromones. They’re not that kind. To block them, somebody would have to start an entire production line and create a brand-new product specifically for him, and nobody’s doing that for one guy."

I hesitate. That’s actually interesting. Yes, I noticed it before, but I never really thought much about it. Maybe I should?

"Do they really boost libido that much? I've heard about that, but—"

"Boost? If only it were that simple. Take a good hit of his pheromones, and it becomes damn near impossible to resist. Either you jerk off or you fuck somebody. It’s that strong, and I’ve never seen anyone completely resist it."

Wilhelm chimes in. "Except betas, obviously."

"Yeah," Reed agrees. "Most of them feel little to nothing, or maybe just a mild effect if they have some hidden omega traits."

I snort.

"Then I don't understand why I don't smell anything as an alpha. I only take the regular Allure blockers they give everybody here, but that's it."

"That’s what has us wondering too," Reed says, narrowing his eyes. "Or maybe you're full of shit because you don't want us mentioning to Rupert that you’d enjoy the Red Mug’s twelve-incher?"

"You can mention whatever you want to him." And I shrug, quite amused.

"Twelve? I bet it’s even more," mutters Reed with a weird intensity, his nostrils still flaring.

I try to walk around them, but Wilhelm grabs my elbow.

His voice drops into a suggestive tone.

"You're the hottest varia here. You think we haven't noticed? It's not just us. A couple of other guys are jealous of Rupert too. We're exclusively into omegas, of course, but in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Better a pretty alpha than an ugly one."

I can feel my blood pressure rising. It’s almost the same thing I’ve heard from many alphas in my past I was interested in. Like, yeah, I’m into omegas only, but you’re so pretty I could make an exception, you know, just for a quick fuck… And the fact that even here, in a place where I’m undergoing hormone therapy to change my profile into an omega, it just follows me, and it really pisses me off.

"Wow! How gracious of you. I’m touched. It’s becoming painfully obvious that living in this facility has made you desperate, but I’m not anywhere near that level of desperation. And even if you were the last man on earth, you still wouldn’t entice me," I say as I yank my elbow free with enough force to nearly twist his wrist. "If you suck this badly at flirting, you’re probably bad at sucking in general, which makes your offer even less tempting."

"Don't play hard to get, sweetie. I've got a feeling you'd spread your ass cheeks for Red Mug without a second thought."

That does it.

Maybe I shouldn't react, but he deserves it for how he treats Fenn. My movement is faster than what most alphas can manage. They are known for their speed, but I'm on another level; my feline genes give me an extra boost. Before either of them can react, I punch Wilhelm square in the nose.