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“That’s not the point.” Devin angled her knees to lean against the door, watching Beau’s profile as the shadows crept forward and receded, revealing the neutral façade with reluctance. “Why?”
“You know, Rey was courting an Omega when I first met him,” Beau said, so quiet Devin had to strain to hear him. “She really did a number on him, but I remember all the shit he did.”
“Real funny.” Devin snorted and gave a terse shake of her head as she turned back to the window. Giving Beau her back, she curled her hands over the glass again and banished any thought of Rey touching another woman with the reverence he showed her. “Just lie like he does. Or be quiet, I guess.”
“I haven’t lied to you.”
“Patently untrue. You lied when you took me up to the party room.”
“Not entirely.” Beau rolled his shoulders, easing into another turn that started them back towards the main road. “I did take you up there so there wouldn’t be an all-out brawl on my hands. You needed to clean up. And I did send the boys looking for that Alpha bitch friend of yours, but it was to send her on. If I’d known she was so enamored with you, I wouldn’t have bothered.”
“Ash doesn’t feel that way about me.” Devin raked a hand through her tangled hair, wishing for something to tie it back with as lifeless wisps stuck to her lashes. The entire conversation was making her head spin, too much information dumped into her lap. More than she knew what to do with. “She’s my friend.”
“Alphas aren’t friends with Omegas.”
“Ash is.” Devin shook her head again. “You wouldn’t understand. I’m just a piece of meat to you. She saw me as a person, liked that I could have actual conversations with her. Not once did she make a pass at me.”
“Mhm, and you thinkjust friendsoffer to take another Alpha’s claim like that?” Beau patted Devin on the head with a low chuckle. “Gods, I just want to fuck you so hard when you’re being this naïve.”
“She just didn’t want to see me tied to some asshole.”
“Right, and she was just the person to take it on.”
“She offered someone else, so there.”
“What?”
Devin stilled at the icy edge to the single word. As if the frozen wind from beyond the glass had invaded every molecule of air within the car, she shuddered as it wrapped around her with pricking barbs. Daring a scant breath, she drowned in the smoky ash of violence.
“I said no and came back, didn’t I,” Devin stammered out as she shifted closer to the hard comfort of the door. She knew escaping Beau if he decided to lash out was a slim chance in hell, but it helped calm the shaking of her hands to a fine tremble.
Tipping his head side to side, the crackling pop of tensed muscle sounded through the too close air. Beau flexed his fingers over the steering wheel, loosening the stranglehold on the fine leather before speeding the car up. Gone was the lingering crawl that gave Devin time to breathe. He hurried them back towards the house without another word.
“So, you’re trying to court a mated Omega,” Devin asked in a trembling whisper as he pulled onto their street. “Your friend and… and sometime lover’s Omega, at that. The one you told you wanted nothing to do—”
“Maybe I’m just trying to give you something he can’t.”
Devin didn’t get a chance to press him further. Rey was waiting, dragging Devin from the car amid vicious growls, hurting her as he manhandled her on the way back into the house. Assuring himself Beau hadn’t touched her, maybe.
She didn’t know anything anymore and gave up trying as Rey pushed her into the bed with demands she nest. Shuffling blankets and sheets around with disinterest, she made the awful thing before collapsing into it.
* * *
“Tell me about her.” Curled up in the bed littered with crinkling paper wrappers and half empty boxes of chocolate, Devin perused the remaining selection. Wrinkling her nose, she tossed a cherry confection into the growing pile before Beau.
“Ask him,” Beau said, popping a white chocolate covered almond into his mouth.
“He’ll lie. If he deigns to talk to me.”
“Fine. She was fucking hot.” Beau rolled to his stomach, taking hold of Devin’s foot beneath the brushed cotton sheet to rub at her foot. “Huge tits. Long legs.”
“Come on, be serious!”
“Tall for an Omega. All this blonde hair, down to her ass. Lips like she was born to suck. She liked to flaunt it all. Not a humble bone in that body. Zero sense of humor, too.”
“And? Did he… did he court her long?”
“Like a year or something. He fell all over himself, buying her shit. Didn’t have the club back then, just started in with the big boss, so he spent every penny he could spare on that bitch. Ridiculous.”
