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“Thank you,” I whispered before ducking into the bathroom where I could let the hot water drown out my tears.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
In hindsight, I should have seen it coming.
I deserved the pain coming my way. The moment the doors to Church closed, Hunter was on me. My body staggered backward at the force of his punch. I grunted at the pain that spread across my face.
Yep. I deserved that.
“You fucking prick,” he hissed.
Cracking my neck, I righted myself, pasting a sneer on my face.
“That’s the only shot you get for free, brother.” I held a finger up in warning. “Next one won’t come cheap.”
“What the fuck was that, Wolf?” Hunter ignored my threat.
“She needed to learn her place,” I told him. “She’s an omega. We are the Alphas. Don’t think I didn’t see the reprimand you gave her by the truck.”
“We were alone, asshole,” he growled. “That was between me and her. You fucking dragged her in front of everyone and forced her to her knees. Do you know what that probably did to her? She knows she’s your mate, not one of the club girls.”
Hushed whispers swept through the room when he said mate. Fated mates were rare, and omegas even more so.
“Fuck, you’re lucky Lilah wasn’t here,” Bruiser snorted. “She would have torn you a new one.” I shot the man a glare.
“Mind your own mate,” I snarled. Bruiser chuckled.
“Oh, I do, prez.” He leaned back in his chair, eyes narrowed on me. “I would never treat her like that.”
“Lilah also happens to obey.”
“She’s also a beta,” Hunter pointed out.
“And Freya is an omega,” I rebutted.
“Who also happens to be an alpha.” That was one hell of a bomb for Hunter to drop. “She isn’t your typical sweet, darling omega. She has fire in her veins, brother, and once I tell you where she came from, you’re going to regret treating her like that.”
“We could hope,” Gunner muttered under his breath.
Fuck. I could see the disappointment shining in my brothers’ eyes as they stared me down. Damn, that little mate of mine pushed my buttons. It started in the safe house when she’d dared to stare me down. Then she opened her mouth on the porch, and I’d lost it. I had a hard time controlling my temper on the best of days, and today was not one of those.
More shipments of guns had gone missing. It was by sheer luck that my men had managed to get away with their lives. Once again, the perpetrators held no scent. They couldn’t be tracked once they disappeared. The only reason they had seen the ambush was due to a lookout drone we had following them. Wiz, our tech guru, had alerted them just in time. Otherwise, they would have been slaughtered.
“Omegas can’t be alphas,” I reminded Hunter. “She’s just being a brat.”
Hunter snorted and shook his head. “Why don’t we ask Doc?”
All eyes turned to Doc, who waited patiently in his seat, arms against his chest, one leg crossed over the other. His lips were turned up in an amused smile as he watched us bicker.
“You couldn’t just leave me out of it?” he teased and leaned forward to pick up his tablet. He swiped through some of the content before landing on what he’d been looking for. “Hunter’s right, Wolf. Freya isn’t just an omega. It took me a while to get the results put through, but once I found out she fully shifted, I had them prioritize her labs.”
He should have done that when I asked, but I wasn’t going to push it.
“Freya’s genetics show more alpha genes than omega. In fact, her omega genes are rather latent,” he told us. “I’d have to draw more blood to see if her latent omega genes have multiplied since her mating with Hunter. There isn’t much text on omegas since there haven’t been any in hundreds of years.”
“No one’s shifted in that long either.” I sighed. The woman was an anomaly wrapped in an enigma.
“That’s not true.” Hunter coughed awkwardly. “Apparently, there are more shifters like her. Sort of.”
