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"Yeah, but who? We can't claim her if she’s serumed to another Alpha, Thane," Rhen argues as I peer down at her. "We need to find out who she belongs to."

"No! I am not handing her back to whoever she was running from. She wouldn't run for no reason," Raidon growls, glaring at Rhen.

"If she is running from someone, the moment your mother uploads her DNA in the database, we’ll know who it is," I tell him. "If she has serum in her system, it means she is registered."

"But to who?" Rhen asks.

I shrug, but something nags at me.

"Then what? We just hand her over?" Raidon asked incredulously. He’s right. If she is running, she must have had a good reason. I brush her hair from her face.

"Fuck, when her blood comes back, her pack will be alerted. They will come for her," Rhen says, sitting on the edge of the bed and dropping his head in his hands. Sadness at the thought of losing her bleeds through the bond. Guilt floods me, knowing I got their hopes up for a chance for another Omega only to lose her too.

"We won't lose her," I whisper before sinking my teeth into her neck. My teeth slide through her skin and muscle, and she wriggles, but I hold her in place. My pack has lost enough. We aren't losing her too. I will pay the price for marking an Omega that isn't ours. Because they can't take her now that she is marked.

No one will.

Chapter Sixty-Two

~Harlow~

Limbs wrap around limbs. It’s hard to determine where one body starts and another ends. I’m tangled amongst the sheets and surrounded by potent Alpha scents. Every part of their skin that brushes mine is tingling and itching, as if their touch is trying to delve through the layers of my skin and override all rational sense.

I say rational sense, because suffocating under their potency seems to be something I am struggling with as I try to replay the events that have me waking up in bed with the four Alphas. The soft, steady heartbeat beneath my ear tells me I am laying on someone. That someone is Thane, his masculine scent invading my senses and making my mouth water.

Turning my head, I find Rhen beside us, his face so close. His lips mere inches from mine, where his head rests on Thane's shoulder. I sit up and straddle Thane's waist; the heavy arm draped across my lower back slides off. Peering over, I find Raidon. He rolls onto his back, and I spot Leon beside him.

Blinking, I yawn and stretch my arms above my head. I notice I’m naked, and Thane is naked underneath me. Rhen moves as I do, and I feel hands move along my thighs. I notice the stinging on the skin of my neck. Thane squeezes my thighs while my fingertips trace the mark, which prickles and sends a shiver up my spine as I touch it.

"Don't freak out, Zara," Thane murmurs, his eyes half hooded from sleep as he peeks up at me.

Don't freak out? How could he say that?

"You're ours now. That isn't something to fear," he mumbles as his hands move higher, tracing over my waist and ribs, to the sides of my breasts, his touch calming the frantic beat of my heart, but it does nothing to alleviate the panic in my mind. Every possible scenario, crisis, and disaster flits through my head, knowing the trouble I am in. I can never run now, never leave, because Thane will eventually track me down, no matter where I go. His mark on my neck will ensure that.

Trapped.

I feel trapped, and terror washes over me in waves as I become obsessed with the thoughts rattling around in my head, banging loudly and screaming at me about the danger I am in now.

Only, those thoughts are dismissed when I feel teeth sink into my neck, next to Thane's mark. The sharp sting jolts me out of my tumultuous thoughts and shoves me with blinding speed back to the present. I feel the warmth of Raidon press against my back, his teeth embedded deeply in my neck, marking me and tying me to him just as strongly.

Movement beside me catches my attention as Raidon pulls his teeth from my skin, and I watch Rhen lean in. Thane's fingers tangle in his hair as he dips his head between my thighs. His breath sweeps over my skin before his tongue rolls over the inside of my thigh. Pain slices through my skin as his canines mark my flesh.

A loud moan leaves my lips as heat and sparks rush to the apex of my thighs, making my skin vibrate as he marks me so close to my core. My head rolls back onto Raidon's shoulder, where he kneels behind me. He pulls my head back, and his lips brushed mine, before Leon's scent overwhelms me.

"You're mine now, Omega," he purrs as his lips trace a line down the other side of my throat, which remains bare. I expect him to mark me there, but his lips travel down to my chest before he sinks his teeth into the side of my breast, making me hiss. The sensitive skin there stings the most, and tears prick my eyes when he marks me.

Great, well, there goes wearing a damn bra until that heals. Rhen pulls his teeth from my inner thigh, and Leon pulls his from my breast before his tongue traces the blood trail that cascades down my ribs to my hip. I feel light-headed, yet something writhes and coils within me as their bonds slowly sink deep within my veins, embedding and tainting my soul with theirs.

I always thought it odd how Alpha Packs worked.

All of them have bitten me at some point, especially Leon. He sinks his teeth into me every chance he gets. However, not once did Rhen's or Raidon's bite marks remain, healing quickly afterward. But since Thane marked me, my skin remains raised and tender, scarring as each marking heals excruciatingly slowly.

Their marks will remain because their Alpha claimed me, which is one thing I always found fascinating. It shows the strength of a bonded pack Alpha, how his influence over his mates overrides everything, including mate bonds. A sort of power and control I could never fathom being responsible for.

Glancing at Thane, his eyes scan my flesh, admiring his mates' marks tainting my skin. His eyes flicker, and his lips tug at the corners to almost a smile.

"Welcome to the pack," Thane purrs, sitting up with me still in his lap, his arm wrapped around my waist. He pulls me closer, his lips demanding as he kisses me. His tongue traces across the seam of my lips before forcing its way into my mouth.