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But this is something much worse.
An ugly sound tears from her throat, one thick with humiliation and sorrow.
But before she can fully spiral, her laptop alerts her to another email, and she frowns.
Garments due by the end of the week to Lincoln City.
She glances at the worn sweater that sits in the vacuum sealed bag on the kitchen island, ready for delivery.
Thank you for doing your partis etched onto the bag in big, bold letters.
It used to not bother her, but now a chill creeps up her spine.
She’s done it every week since she presented at eighteen years old.
Her pheromones keep them sane; they tell her. That’s why she can’t leave Lincoln City. Alphas are dangerous men, and the only way to calm them is with an Omega’s scent.
Her essence, her very DNA, iscrucialto the development and maintenance of the Alpha military.
But all of that is starting to seem like bullshit.
She can’t believe she didn’t question it before.
Whyshouldshe willingly hand over worn clothes? Where’s the proof that any of it works, or even matters?
They took away a child.
Something’s not right.
Still, she drops off the sweater that evening in her apartment’s drop box, seeds of doubt festering in her mind.
She begins to spiral.
CHAPTER 4
ABEL
They thought leavinghim alone with his thoughts was punishment.
But, away from the incessant drills and trainings, he’s finally able to rest and think.
Granted, there are no windows in this room, it’s cold as shit, and he has to piss in a bucket, but he assumes it could be worse.
Well, they also took away his allowance.
It’s been two weeks, and he hasn’t smelled any trace of an Omega.
His inner beast roars, desperate for the delicate scent, but he fights the primal voice as best he can.
He understands why no one acts out.
The sweet aroma is a drug so incredible, so mind-numbingly exquisite that many of his fellow soldiers would take a bullet just to inhale it for a mere moment.
Don’t want to train? One day without allowance.
Get into a fight? Two days without allowance.
Mouth off to a guard with a power trip…
