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“I mean that this was inevitable, omega. We were never going to live happily ever after. You knew that.”
My beautiful girl opens her mouth and then closes it again. I can see the internal struggle there; the battle between the part of her that knows I’m right, and the part that wants to follow her heart. It’s adorable, how easy she is to read. It’s also heart-breaking.
“You have an opportunity at the mansion. You’ll find your true pack there.”
“But I found them,” she says in a trembling voice. “Reese, I found you and Arlo.”
My stomach churns as her words hit me deep in my soul. With a shuddering breath, I realize what needs to be done. It’s going to break me, but it’s worth it if it means saving them both.
Chapter Eighteen
~Haven~
“...I found you and Arlo,” I say, offering up my heart on a plate.
And in response, Reese lets out a cold, odd laugh. A chill runs down my spine. I stare at him, eyes wide. The change in his countenance is like nothing I’ve ever seen. Instead of my big, thoughtful, tender alpha, there’s a stranger with cold, dead eyes looking back at me with a disgusted look on his face.
“Haven, come on. I was trying to be gentle, but what did you really think was going to happen here? That the three of us would become a pack? Arlo is an omega. He can’t make a pack even if he wanted to. You need an alpha for that. And as for me, I’m feral for a reason. I’ll fuck anything that moves. You don’t want that in a packmate, I’m sure.”
Tears well up in my eyes. “I would be ok with you having other partners, if it was really what you wanted,” I offer, though the words feel false on my tongue.
Reese’s face hardens even further.
“That’s a lie, and we both know it. And don’t start crying,” he adds. “I’m doing you a favor, telling you about this now, instead of letting you think something might happen. Go now. Find someone who will actually love you. Because that will never be me.”
Bile fills my throat. I shake my head. “I don’t believe it. You’re doing this because you don’t think you deserve happiness, Reese, but you’re wrong.”
“I’m doing this because I want you to understand the truth,” Reese says in a rough voice. “I want you to understand that once you walk out that door, I’ll never think about you again.”
“What about everything we just…?”
He rolls his eyes like I’m an idiot. “It’s all a fantasy, omega. Part of the package. The network paid me to fuck you, remember?”
“Part of the package,” I repeat, shaking my head. “I don’t believe it.”
“Well believe this,” Reese says, leaning close. “You’re barely an omega, Haven. You smell good, no getting around that, and that cunt is tighter than anything I’ve ever fucked before, but you’re never going to be enough for me. You’re never going to be right.”
“What are you trying to say, Reese?” I ask, trying to block off my heart from what I fear is coming.
Reese shrugs. “It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but, Haven, come on. You didn’t really think you and I would be a thing, long-term, right? No offense, but you’re just… kind of pathetic.”
The word rolls toward me like a tank. Impenetrable. Unstoppable.Pathetic. I feel it ram into me with the weight of steel. I step back, agony wrecking me. “Take it back,” I whisper.
“No,” Reese growls. “I’m sorry, but you deserve the truth. I tried to be gentle about it, but you had to push. So now you know.”
Feeling numb, I nod at him, and turn toward the kitchen door. I bite back a sob as I walk out of the kitchen. I wait in the living room for a moment, half expecting him to run out after me, or for Arlo to appear from his room and see me crumbling. Nothing happens.
I go into my bathroom and clean up. As I stand in the shower, crying, the rest of Reese’s seed leaks out of me, reminding me of how everything seemed so right such a short time ago.
I get dressed in my own clothes; a frumpy gray tee-shirt and a pair of ratty jeans. They’re my disappearing clothes; the ones I wear when I don’t want anyone to notice me. Usually I find it comforting, but not today.
When I emerge from my room, there’s no one in the living room. I assume Arlo and Reese are packing their stuff. I walk through the kitchen and out onto the back porch, taking a moment to breathe before Derek finds me.
My heart is aching. Fucking aching. I’m not sure how I can be this heartbroken when I barely know Arlo or Reese, but I am. It feels like my whole world is falling apart.
“Haven?”
I spin around, surprised to see Char tucked against the side of the house.
