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She sighed. “It wasn’t what I thought. I thought I would feel happy and safe and taken care of. I was cold and alone in a huge room, and no one would wake up, and I hurt and had no clothes and remembered after all of it that, aside from the links, it was just not right. Nothing was right. So, now I am doing the things that make me happy, and you guys can fuck yourselves.”
“Persephone... Armand is still with you?”
“Yeah. Even I know that my scent could get me in trouble right now. I will let him stay with me until I go back.”
“Persephone... Stay safe.”
“Sure. That’s what I do.”
She hung up and got a change of clothes and a bag with sweats and exercise clothes as well as some underwear.
Armand looked at her closet. “Nothing slinky?”
She zipped up her bag. “You are big boys. Buy your own toys. I am done trying to make myself agreeable to mates who don’t give me anything in return. No one is meeting me halfway.”
Armand started to speak, and then he got quiet. “I guess the only thing we have done for you is adopt cats and show up at your medical appointment.”
“I only needed one of you there to make the doctor think I had a mate.”
“Why?”
She slung her pack over her shoulder. “Because, as an omega, the centre has authorized custody of me and their own doctors. After the attack, they would have been called, and I would be behind bars or in a very comfy room in the centre until my evolution finished, and then I would be advertised to other wealthy alphas. You know. Just what every girl or boy dreams of. I am heading down to the rescue to finish paperwork and then off to the salon.”
“I am with you.”
She nodded. “I know.”
Renner walked down the steps and sat in her office with Armand fidgeting. “Are you a toddler?”
He blinked. “Uh. No. I am just not used to stillness.”
She signed off on the vet bill and payroll and quickly paid both. “There. Done. Now, you can fidget at the salon. Come on.”
Renner walked out the door, waved to her staff, and crouched to pet Achilles. When that was done, she left through the side door and tossed her bag in the trunk.
In the car, they were on their way to the salon. Armand got some texts. “They are worried about you.”
“No reason to worry, but if they want to start understanding why, ask Owen to retell his recollection of his first day after his heat. Ask him how it went. He told me in great detail.” She shifted. “I don’t even deserve a part of what he got.”
“I don’t...”
“He was courted. I was acquired. He was wanted; I was assigned. He got romance; I woke up alone and had nothing to wear.” She swallowed, and he remained silent until they got to the salon. “When I was dumped into foster care, it was like that. I was there because that is where I had to be, and no one else in the world would have me. That is what I am reliving today.”
She parked and left him in the car. She was so tense she could crack walnuts on her shoulders. “Hey, Stephanie. One of my alphas will be in shortly. You can either park him in the waiting room or show him into where I am getting worked on.”
“Jasmine is waiting in room three, and your friend Tuesday is already there with Keelie if you don’t mind. It was tough fitting you in.”
“Tuesday? Wow. Small world. Sure. I will just tuck my stuff in a locker and head to room three.”
It took her a few minutes to get ready, and then she walked down the hall in a robe. She knocked on the door, and Jasmine smiled, gesturing for her to settle on the sheet-covered table.
It took a moment for her to get settled, and then Jasmine eased the robe down and got to work.
She turned her head toward Tuesday and said softly, “No one can find you. Your number doesn’t work.”
Tuesday smiled. “That is because my phone was a company phone for the marketing department. William fired me last week, so I turned the phone in.”
“He did what?”
