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She tasted like vanilla and mint, she must have found the spare toothbrush I had snuck into her bathroom before she woke up.
What the fuck am I doing?I jumped back, pulling us apart. We both panted hard, just staring at each other. Lavender’s pupils were blown and she looked almost feral with wide glassy eyes. Her omega instincts were riding her hard, and my alpha ones were responding. There was no scent of fear in the air, just sweet slick. It clung to my clothes and my body was thrumming with desire.
I had been so distracted looking at her face and drowning in her scent that I hadn’t noticed her hand rear up until it slapped me across the face. She packed a punch, my face stung from the impact.
“Careful, darling,” I warned. “You forget who’s in charge here.” I stalked forward, backing her up against the wall I had wanted to press her against just moments earlier. The sting from the slap didn’t hurt too badly. She was challenging me and the alpha in me wanted to assert my dominance, to prove to her I was stronger.
She looked up at me defiantly, but the smell of burnt sugar was starting to infiltrate her scent. Good, the last thing I wanted was for her to realise that I wasn’t capable of hurting her if she didn’t behave. Fear, as much as I hated it, was my best motivator right now.
“Get out,” she snarled.
“Tonight we will finish all this, and you can leave tomorrow.”
Taking one last deep breath of her floral scent, I stepped back, turned, and left, unable to take the fear.
What the fuck was I doing? I was meant to be leading our pack, and instead I was making out with an omega. One who wasn’t meant for us, like a horny teenager.
My phone buzzed, I pulled it out of my pocket and made my way to the kitchen. It was a text from an unknown number with an address by the docks. That was where the buy was going to happen tonight. If we could take down this trafficking operation we would be one step closer to figuring out where Juniper was.
As soon as this meeting was done we could take Lavender home. Twenty-four hours and it would all be done with. We would drop Lavender somewhere near the Haven and lurk long enough to ensure she got back safe and sound.
Kane was sitting at the kitchen island, reading something on his tablet when I walked in.
“We have an address for tonight,” I told him.
He turned to face me. “I’ll get the gear then. You, me and Theo, yes?”
“Yes, I don’t trust Theo here right now. Archer will at least keep his distance. She’ll probably spend all day sleeping off the drugs. It’s 3pm and she’s still half asleep.”
“Okay, I’ll get everything ready and let Theo know.” Kane looked at his tablet before glancing back at me. “Should we drug her again? That way she won’t be causing issues when we’re busy.”
I shook my head. “That’ll only scare her further.”
“We can slip it into her food, she probably won’t even realise,” he rationalised.
“She’s still sleepy from the last dose, it’s probably not safe, I don't want to risk her having a reaction when we aren’t here to keep an eye on her.”
Kane grimaced. “Okay, Archer will have to behave then.”
Considering I failed to keep my own distance from her, I highly doubted Archer’s ability to.
ChapterEleven
Kane
The docks were fucking freezing. Naturally of all the places for a seedy purchase of a human being, Julius had picked here at two in the morning. The few surrounding lights were a dull hazy yellow and there was fog coming off the water. Visibility was shit, and that pissed me off.
The omega had been fast asleep when we’d left, Archer had stayed behind to keep an eye on her in case she woke up and used the time alone to enact another escape attempt. He could help with any computer stuff remotely as well, if need be. He hadn’t voiced any complaint at being left behind; clearly wanting to be near her.
“Do you think Archer will be able to handle being with her on his own?” Gage asked me. Frowning as he looked over the foggy water, his hands tucked into his pockets. “He’s quite attached, as is Theo. You or I should have stayed, but we needed to be here.” I knew without even asking that one of his hands was clasped around the Glock in his pocket. He was hyper aware of our surroundings, me, Gage, and Theo all were—it was a crucial part of our dealings. We were the only ones here, there was no sign of Julius. His phone was going to voicemail, so there was nothing we could do but wait. Ihatedwaiting.
““I hate that she got mixed up in this,” Gage said.
“I’m not!” Theo piped up, grinning madly.
“I blame Archer, his curiosity led to this situation. He's usually so much more level headed. Hopefully she’s still asleep, otherwise he may be distracted and let her run amok.” I wouldn’t admit it out loud, but I could see the appeal of the angry little omega. Her fight and escape attempts had been pretty impressive. I had no doubt that were she to go head to head with Archer, she would be the one to come out victorious.
I still had the marks on my arm from where she had sunk her claws into me while trying to escape. There was a pang of emotion when I thought about the scratches healing over, but I tamped it down. The alpha in me wanted to preen over the fact an omega had marked me, but I needed to be thinking with my brain, not my knot.
