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At Devin’s furrowed brow and hard sigh, Beau sent his eyes skyward and worked her arch with painful pressure, waiting until she hissed her discomfort before continuing.
“She led him on for all that time, then went too far teasing someone she shouldn’t have behind his back. The other guy got tired of it, shot her up and claimed her. Last I heard, he married some Beta, had a whole damn harem of Omegas as breeders. Some claimed, most not.”
“Gods,” Devin breathed, recoiling from the words though Beau kept her from retreating too far with his grip on her foot.
“He wouldn’t do that to you.”
“Right, because no Alpha ever has changed their minds and left the Omega high and dry.”
“Don’t worry, baby. I’ll keep you good and wet.” Beau’s slow smile might have meant to tease, but everything about him held a sharp edge these days. A cutting blade lurking for any excuse to be used against those closest in his path.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Don’t like my company anymore, baby?”
“I just don’t understand. You don’t—”
“Out,” Rey barked as he stormed into the bedroom. Shedding his clothes as his long strides brought him towards the bed, he dropped them to the floor as he went. His shoulders twitched at Devin’s quiet snarl. The unforgiving depths of his rich brown eyes fixed on her, pinning her with the weight of his gaze as he stalked closer.
“Maybe I don’t want him to go,” Devin mumbled even as she cowered under Rey’s attention. Spine bowing, her shoulders hunched towards her ears as she awaited his assault.
This must have been their new plan against her. One coming as the other left, never leaving her alone. Rey had used her hard, letting Beau collect all the shattered pieces of her with the array of chocolates. Now that Rey had returned, he would replay this morning’s ritual.
“Don’t go asking for things you can’t handle, baby,” Beau said with a final twist of his thumbs against Devin’s arch before he climbed from the bed.
“Maybe I can,” she whispered, not daring to look at either of them. Beau was right. She couldn’t handle the attention of two males in her current state, but at least Beau looked at her. He’d hurt her, to be sure, but he’dseeher while he did it.
Rey didn’t. He looked through her. Saw what he wanted. What he could take, regardless of her needs. Devin might not remember what all she said during that missing piece of time, but she doubted this had been part of it.
Sucking in a breath to expand her lungs to capacity, Devin curled over her legs, tucking them beneath her as she crawled towards Beau. Every limb stiff, head ducked low, she was the picture of submission. Waiting for the balled fists she glimpsed hanging at Rey’s side to strike.
Her nerve began to falter before she’d even reached the foot of the bed. Breathing fast and hard, her hand shook by the time she sent it towards Beau’s chest. The moment she pressed her palm against him, the bond roared.
It shredded her thoughts, stripping flesh from bone until there was nothing but mangled agony. Devin fell to the bed with a silent scream amid the bevy of candies, curled tight over bent knees with arms over her head. Attempting to defend against the pain tearing away her soul one vicious blow at a time.
“The fuck, Rey,” Beau shouted.
Devin became lost to what happened next. Intent on destroying her, the bond raged on. Her lungs ached as the furious tempo of her heart battered her ribs. Trying to break free, to maim… to kill. Vision graying, she fisted the sheets and rolled her eyes towards the ceiling and the Gods beyond. Wanting nothing but for it to end.
It stopped as suddenly as it started.
A trembling leaf in a frozen wind, Devin clung to the mere scraps of reality around her. Ragged breaths burning her throat, the rough weave of cotton torn and frayed against her cheek. The tangible things that kept her anchored in the moment as the darkness faded, the utter stillness within as terrifying as the opposite had been.
Rey might have spoken. She couldn’t tell if the thundering rockslide were actual words. Not as his touch seared its way over her back, clawing at her spine as he climbed onto the bed to mount her. Drowning her in his heat, gagging her with the hot ash of his anger, the burnt offerings of his rage. It left her cowering beneath the crushing weight of it all.
“She chooses. That’s what you said,” Beau snarled, though he kept his distance from the bed.
His voice a wet confusion, Devin searched for the source. Found the bloody wreck of his lips, crimson dripping from split flesh where Rey’s blows had landed. More bruises decorated his neck, shoulders, even his chest and stomach.
Lacking the courage to even unfold her legs as Rey pushed her deeper into the mattress, Devin closed her eyes. She hid away from the vicious sight as she withdrew deeper within herself. She’d done that, though she never raised her hand against him. A single moment of bravery, a careless need let free.
She didn’t matter here. What she wanted was not to be tolerated. Devin understood that in a way she hadn’t before, the proof of it still rattling around her chest on the low resonance of Rey’s growl. This was so much more than him ignoring her, never listening. Rey had punished her in a way she could never withstand, using the bond against her.
Was that what it felt like for him all those times she’d done the same?
“I don’t give a fuck what I said,” Rey said through a subterranean reverberation. “She’smine.”
It made an audible click in her mind. Loud and jarring, it caused her shoulders to jerk against Rey’s hands as he positioned himself behind her. Readying to mount her, to rut her like the beast she was starting to believe he was. All the warmth and comfort had been lies, the security he offered a deceiving act.
