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I flee to the section we found the woman who helped me, Katie, and want to hug and squeeze her when I see her still placing products on the shelf.
“Oh, thank gods,” I say, nearly collapsing. “I…need help. I got away.”
“You ditched them? Good for you! Oh my gosh, so exciting! Okay, come on. I’ll hide you.”
Katie pulls me through the store, to the front, and enters some sort of hallway with signs clearly marked ‘employees only’. She pulls out a small device with letters and pictures on it and tells me she’s calling her brother for help, and I relax in the armchair wondering what happens next.
“Okay. He lives nearby and he’s on his way. We’re going to keep you safe, okay? Do you need anything? Are you thirsty?”
“No. No. I’m okay. Just…scared.”
“You’re going to be just fine.”
Katie looks a little nervous as we wait for her brother to show up, and a strange feeling sort of spreads through my stomach. Did I just make a colossal mistake?
“You know what? Maybe I should go back…they were a bit crazy, but I don’t think they meant to harm me…”
“No! Trust those instincts. They had bad news written all over them. How’d you get tangled up with them, anyway? You’re unclaimed, correct?”
There’s that word again. Claim. Claimed. Unclaimed. I’m so bloody sick of being asked questions I can’t answer. I just want to go back to the compound where everything made sense.
“At the restaurant, the girl that helped me get out, she said something about the police? And some sort of center I should go to?”
Katie nods. “Yes, we can do that if you want…although, it might overwhelm you more…you seem a bit skittish.”
“In truth, it’s been a very long couple of days, and I find myself having a hard time adjusting to my new situation.”
“I’m sure that’s understandable. Why don’t we go through the side exit, and we’ll get you away from them, okay?”
I nod and stand, having to force my feet through the door she goes through. I turn to see the main entrance of the store behind us, wondering when the alphas will notice I’m gone. Maybe they’ll decide I’m too much trouble and just leave me?
But then, why does the thought of them continuing home without me unsettle me even worse than the idea of being secreted away to their home with them?
“I think I made a mistake,” I try to say, turning to face Katie. There’s a door open at the end of the hall and Katie is talking to a male close to the size of the alphas, but with none of their appeal. I slowly step backwards, but his eyes meet mine and he gives me a cold smile.
Katie smiles at him and pats his arm before disappearing back into the break room and shutting the door. What?
“What’s a pretty little unclaimed omega doing out here on her own, I wonder?”
He stalks towards me and grabs me before I can find the sense to run again, his fingers pinching into my arms as his other hand goes over my mouth. His hot breath hits my ear as he pulls me out the side door, smelling of old ale and dirty socks. I want to vomit in my mouth. Now I really am terrified. What I felt before? Not fear.Thisis.
“Don’t you worry, little omega. We’ve got the perfect set up for you. My pack is going to go apeshit with our own omega to claim. The female betas bunking with us probably won’t be thrilled, but they’re used up anyway.”
I start struggling as he pulls me out the door, working towards the open door of a vehicle. His front is pressed against my back, his sex hard and insistent upon my backside, making cold sweat bead upon my forehead. I’ve never been in a situation where I felt unsafe sexually, even when I was with the other alphas. They made me feel curious. With this new situation to compare it to, I can recognize that I was intrigued, even. That couldn’t be farther from the gamut of emotions currently zipping through me.
I try to stomp on his foot as hard as I can and he stumbles, cursing. “You fucking bitch!” He slaps me, hard, across the face. “You’re going to fucking pay for that.” He forces me to bend over the back of his car and I’m fighting it, but his hand muffles my voice once more. He’s far too strong for me to have any effect on him. “What a dumb fucking omega thinking she gets a choice here.”
He begins to peel my pants down and I’m trying to do anything I can to avoid him, thrashing wildly as his bare skin and bare sex graze across my skin. I’m so bloody confused. Why would Katie say she’d help me, only to hand me off to someone so awful? I know I’m about to experience something I have no desire to be a part of. He pokes and prods at me, giving me a quick education on the mating between men and women, but suddenly he’s just gone.
I scramble away and pull my pants up, tripping in my haste to escape whatever new hell is about to be unleashed. Someone catches me and I scratch and claw and fight, but they force me to be still, to understand who’s now holding me.
The comforting scent of cinnamon washes over me as my legs buckle, James sweeping me up into his arms. The sound of fighting reverberates from behind us, and I have to see what’s happening. Kit is punching and completely assaulting this other man who was trying to hurt me, and though the other man seems to be attempting to fight back, he’s no match for Kit’s brawn or speed.
“You fucking touched what’s mine? Boy, you have no idea what you just did to yourself.” Colter pulls a black metal object from his pocket and an explosion happens as something shoots out of it, knocking off a piece of equipment that is attached near the top of the building. I flinch from the loud noise, curling further into James.
“It’s just a camera. Colter is destroying it before it sees who we are. Don’t need the police trying to find us for the justice we’re about to diligently hand out. Are you hurt? Fuck, you’re bleeding on your cheek.”
I peek at James’ face in the darkness, seeing his eyes harden as he eyes the scratch that I must have sustained when the other man threw me against his car, or maybe when I tripped trying to get away from him.
