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She huffs. “Great Mother might have been a bit heavy handed with her punishments sometimes, but we never committed the same error twice. Discipline is necessary to create a true-willed person.”
“She’ll die for harming you,” Kit tells her.
“What?!”Calai nearly screams.
I glare at Kit, because he’s going to scare her off before we even get to the good parts. Well, not that she’d get anywhere, but it’d be nice to not have to pretend like we all get along.
“Name one instance that you earned a punishment, and describe what she did to correct the behavior,” Kit challenges.
Calai crosses her arms over her chest, huffing. “I don’t owe you anything.”
“Not yet you don’t, but once you’re in my bed? That’s a different story.”
“You are vile and…and…and…ugh!”
I bite back a smile. Then, thinking better of it, I let that baby rip. “Careful there, mischief. You might earn a punishment fromus.”
She looks at me again, and I can feel her studying the half-smile still plastered onto my face. I begin whistling, declaring this conversation more or less over.
Eventually she carefully brings her hands to me, hovering her palms over my chest until she gets the nerve to touch me. She seems to be mapping out my muscles, and at my hum of approval, she learns the texture of my prickly facial hair that I haven’t been allowed to shave since in captivity.
“Your bodies are so different than mine. I still don’t understand what you are if you’re not a bride of our beloved one.”
I scoff. “We’re 100% alpha male, sweetheart. That means that where you’re soft, we’re hard. When you need, we provide.”
“What else does it mean?”
“It means the three of us form what we call a pack- we’re a family. We live together and will be mates together. Mates to you, occasionally to each other.”
“I’ve heard that word, but no one in the compound could claim that. Is that like what Eln and I were?”
“Mm. It’s stronger than that.”
“How?”
“We mate for life, for starters. Our biology drives us to seek out the perfect female, to find the scent that drives us wild. We see her and we have to possess her or die trying.”
If that intimidates her, she does a damn good job of not showing it. “And we’ll…be intimate?”
“Oh baby, you have no idea.”
“You’re killing me over there. I think it’s my turn. I want to hold the pretty omega too.”
I brush a kiss against Calai’s forehead before passing her off to Colter, enjoying the way she acts like she hates being passed around. She can tell us she’s not a doll to be passed around, but I very much like the idea of her being our toy.
“Great Mother must be frantic about me right about now,” she muses, staring off into the tree canopy.
“She sort of is, but not in the way I think you mean,” I say. “She talked a lot in front of my cage because she clearly didn’t think I’d be getting out of there. She’s not some benevolent leader that stays up all night worrying over the fate of her charges.
“She had already worked on replacing you and was planning on sending another omega to me so she could complete her goal of getting one of you pregnant.”
I enjoy the hell out of the way her eyes fill with jealousy, though I’m sure she doesn’t understand yet why she feels it. It soothes my inner beast a bit, because if she’s heating up like this, then there’s got to be some sort of connection to us already.
“She sent you someone else? Did you touch her?” Calai demands.
I decide to play this out for a minute and be an asshole, because I need to know how deep her feelings run. How strongly she wants us, even if she insists she doesn’t.
“And if I did? I don’t remember her name, but she was at that ceremony with you when I first saw you.”
