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“Wow,” he smirks. “Awfully mouthy for a girl without a big scary alpha to protect her.”
I glare at him. “He needs medicine,” I say. “If you want him to live—”
“Gideon wants him to live,” he interrupts. “I don’t give a damn. As far as I’m concerned, you’ll adapt better to being mine if he’s dead.”
I move between Abel and Javi, as much as it scares me to get close to the other man. My claws come out when I face him, and I bare my teeth to show my sharp canines.
“I’m not gonna do anything,” Abel snorts. “Why would I bother when he’s clearly on his way out?”
I want to cut him—to make him bleed. It’s a strange, foreign thought, but it nearly overrides my survival instinct. I hang onto my composure by a thread, staying completely still.
Have to protect Javi.
Have to protect myself.
“You’re wanted in the kitchens,” Abel says. “You need to come with me.”
“Javi shouldn’t be left alone,” I say. “He’s sick.”
“He’s not sick, he’s a junkie,” Abel scoffs. “Big difference. He did it to himself.”
“Youdid this,” I seethe, my claws biting into my palms. “I won’t come with you—”
“You will or I’ll execute him right now.”
My blood runs cold. I try to make myself bigger to take him on, but that’s not who I am…and it never will be.
“You wouldn’t,” I whisper. “Gideon would be angry.”
“Gideon is the one who injected him,” Abel says. “Wanna find out who he would side with out of the two of us? His loyal second…or the omega traitor who stole his women?”
I glance back at Javi, wanting one last look—but Abel takes the opportunity to grab me by the arm and drag me out of the room. He shuts the door and locks it behind us, severing line of sight, and the bond snaps like worn thread.
I can’t sense him.
This is going to be torture.
Abel pulls me along by the collar, forcing my shoulders back. He moves fast enough that he’s almost dragging me by the time we reach the dining room, and I make a bee-line for the kitchen to try to escape Gideon’s attention. Abel catches me and pulls me back, though, and I come face to face with my father.
He sneers, towering over me.
“Eyes down, girl,” he says.
I don’t so much as blink.
I meet his gaze for the first time in my whole life, staying strong. My claws won’t retract; I’m desperate, scared, but Iwon’t back down. He stares at me like he doesn’t understand, like thought everything he’s done would have broken me already.
But now that Javi is weak, I have to be the strong one.
I won’t let him down.
“Why did you do it?” I ask.
My father snorts. “I’ve been honest with you. I told you we have ways of taking care of people who break the rules.”
“He could die,” I say.
“Then he shouldn’t have betrayed me.”
