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“I’d like to speak to Oberon.” I said.
They shared looks. But it was Tod who spoke. “Uncle Oberon. Just because he forced me to have a bath don’t mean he’s a wrong’un.”
“I would never think a bath should sentence any man to perdition. Now. Polly will put you to bed. And Puck has some jobs to do.” They shared a look. Puck’s smile came back and when he caught me looking, he raised his eyebrows as if daring me to ask.
And suddenly, Oberon and I were left alone in a room which now felt too small for my liking.
“Kneel.”
What did I say to that? Hells, what did I do? I remained standing.
“Very well.” He pushed his chair back and crossed one leg over another. “Jude. You are in a precarious position. If I kick you out, you are penniless, friendless, and unable to support yourself.” He raised his hand thinking to forestall my protest, not knowing I had nothing to say. “You are clever enough to know Polly’s people won’t lend you a hand. But, if you come to me. Kneel at my feet. Stay close to Polly. Learn. And perhaps in time she will grow used to you again. And from there, you’ll gain her forgiveness.”
“I haven’t deserved her forgiveness. And how the hell did you know what I wanted to talk about.”
“Your face is exquisitely expressive. You watched her, us with such longing my heart, I swear, nearly broke.”
“Get on with it.” Goddess, I was the fool to think Oberon would treat me with any… what? Care? He owed me nothing.
“Bossy britches. Did fucking Puck finally give you a knot?” When I refused to react, he began tapping his thigh. “Stay. And I want to make something of you. Where you take your place as an alpha. In the Hell, of course. And at her side as you were before. An equal. A mate. More than just a lover to our queen.”
He painted such a picture that I could not imagine a tale stranger than the reality I found myself in.
“Come and kneel by me. I shall tell you.”
It was easy to thoughtlessly drop down beside him. Looking up at a face so much older, that had seen so much, and had built his empire through hard work. What did I know? Maybe submitting like a dog to him would solve my problems. “Oberon—”
“Shush.” He brushed his thumb over my lips and I caught a faint whiff of something I recognised but could not place. Then I knew—Polly’s slick. He’d had his fingers on her. “Good boy. Suck.”
I jerked away, too stunned to fully understand what I had smelled. He didn’t appear to realise I could smell her on him. Surely he would have taunted me, not just literally rubbed it under my nose. “I’m not like that.”
“Like what?”
“Your pet.” He sighed and leant back into his chair. Looking him over, I flushed to see the outline of his hard cock. “This turns you on?”
“I like to see what I can get people to do,” he said through half-lidded eyes. “You and Polly will be my greatest achievement. Now, go and entertain—”
“She isn’t what you think,” I argued. “I have no right to say this but I know her best. The woman, the omega you profess to desire. Leave her be.”
“No. She is a magnificent omega.” He watched me as if he could read my thoughts—not that I had any. “Fear not, I don’t seek to break her. Just, uh, open doors for her. But you are cautious. Stay here. Kneeling. For the rest of the night. Think it over.” He stood, patting me on the shoulder as he passed. Each candle was snuffed out. And still I hadn’t moved. A tumble of thoughts. I was no great thinker. Polly would have a quick retort. Puck would act. What was I? “We can talk more tomorrow, pup.”
The snick of the door closing, was the moment I realised that for the first night since I’d come here, I was not bound. The door was not locked. I could come and go as I pleased. I could tear Polly away from this place and make see that I was sorry. Too many possibilities and not enough of me to go around.
He wouldn’t know if I lay down. But I would not, no matter how tired I became, for I wanted to prove to him, to myself that I could stay on my knees all night.
19
Polly
Iwoke as soon as London began to stir. The night watchman’s final call would herald the drunken alphas and betas leaving the Hell and stumbling back to their beds, perhaps to a neglected omega left in their nest. My teeth hurt from grinding when I thought about of those omegas. Anger at their treatment. Fury with myself for assuming I knew best when time and again my sisters proved my own instincts were not universally felt.
And goddess, what had I been thinking when I let Oberon kneel before me and eat my cunt as if it was his last meal?
I buried my face into pillows and let out a shout. “Foolish, girl for coming back. You could have dropped the child off and returned. Your people would have followed and it would have all been a good laugh.”
And why had I stayed? The ridiculous omega need to have a haven. I liked my bed in this cage. It wasn’t my bed with Jude, but I could never return there. The bedroom in Omega House was just that, a bedroom with none of the security an omega craved.
I dressed with special care. My life here changed last night when Puck had told me I had free reign of the residency now. The only restriction on my movements? Not to go into the Hell when it was open to guests. And all the more fool them to think I’d risk being near so many alphas. I did not trust myself not to kill them all.
