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But he answers before she can respond. Leaning forward, he cups her face in his warm hands, and his smile turns into a smirk. The tension in her body melts at his touch, but not the tension in her heart.
“Do you know what would happen if I turned myself in?” he whispers. “If I did what you asked of me?”
He leans closer, and for a moment she’s scared he’s going to kiss her.
“Everyone in that building would die,” he promises, “and I’d be back here with you by the end of the day.”
Even though his claim is ridiculous, she believes him.
The smile falls from his face, and he frowns. “I’m scaring you,” he says to himself. He removes his hands from her face and watches as she struggles to scoot to the other side of the couch and away from him.
But her movements are stilted and her body aches in pain. She lets out a startled yelp as her womb cramps and she barely makes it a few feet away from him before she collapses, her legs caught in a twisted mess of blankets and pillows.
Ithurts, and the only time she felt remotely better was when he was closer to her.
It’s just biology. It means nothing.
“Why can’t you just leave me alone?” she whispers. “Just go,please.”
She expects a clever retort, but he simply shrugs. “I don’t have a choice anymore,” he says solemnly. “And neither do you.”
“That’s not true,” she insists through her pain. “There’s always a choice. You can choose to leave, right now, and never come back.”
Her voice cracks on the last word. She doesn’t want this monster to see her break down.
“I won’t even call the police,” she promises. “You can go to Canada, or wherever they’re offering you asylum, and…and this can be done with.”
He stares at her, his expression blank, and anxiety rolls in the pit of her stomach.
The Alpha in front of her is nothing but chaos, and she can’t welcome that into her life.
His gaze falls to her mouth, then to her trembling hands, and he shakes his head. “You need me,” he says finally. Then, he reaches behind the coffee table and pulls out a small paper bag. “And you need these,” he says. He hasn’t moved from his spot on the ground, and he doesn’t come any closer as he tosses the bag onto the couch. Whatever is inside rattles, and Audrey’s eyebrows raise in surprise.
She grabs the bag and dumps out the small pill bottle. She recognizes the label immediately, and suddenly she’s not as fearful of him.
“How did you—” she starts, but he stops her.
“It wasn’t easy, I can assure you,” he says. “But I’m nothing if not determined. They should have always been accessible to everyone, anyway.”
He watches her intently as she twists off the cap and drops two of the white pills into her palm.
He’s brought her emergency-grade suppressants. If she didn’t work in her field, she wouldn’t recognize the significant shape or brand of the pill, but she knows she’s holding a medication worththousandsof dollars in her hand.
She’s speechless as he holds out a bottle of water to her, which she takes tentatively. Their fingers brush for a moment and a jolt of electricity runs down her spine.
Alpha cares for us!a little, foreign voice inside her rejoices.He did this for us!
She takes the little voice and its accompanying thoughts and shoves them into a box for later when she doesn’t feel like she’s at death’s door.
“Thank you,” she whispers, and she pops the pills into her mouth. She swallows them down as he watches intently. His expression softens as she sips from the bottle.
When he’s not saying something outlandish or frightening, he’s extremely handsome. In his sweater and jeans, he looks like any Beta she might have dated.
But it’s the eyes that give him away. Although he looks to be in his late twenties, his eyes are haunted, showing eons of pain.
“There are enough suppressants in that bag to last you at least five more Heats,” he says, breaking her out of her trance. “And the nesting blankets should keep you calm as well.”
She’s unsure what to say. He could have broken in here, taken what he wanted and hurt her repeatedly, like she was taught an Alpha would.
