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I push the paper away. “Then they can offer someone else. They’re not even here.”
What more needs to be said?
No one invites a person—even an omega—into their pack sight unseen. There’s too much risk of a pheromone clash that could spark fear, anger, disgust. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a scent is worth a million.
“It has to be you,” Scorpio insists. “Between your age, your performance, and frankly the way you aren’t caving, even though we all know you should. There’s no other omega up for this mission.”
Mission?
A mating’s a marriage, not a diamond heist.
“But—”
“If you refuse,” Hikaru interrupts, “you’ll be chemically awakened and put on offer for mating. When no pack makes you an offer high enough to buy out your debt, you will be placed in rotation as of your first heat. Unless you’ve secured another source of funds?”
A high, hateful omega growl builds from the base of my soul, rumbling and bubbling with a lifetime’s worth of fear and frustration.
If I ever let myself imagine my dream proposal—which thank the goddess, I didn’t—it wouldn’t have gone down like this.
No words of love.
No promises or gifts or affection.
Hell, no mates. The assholes are having their fathers make the offer.
Honestly, it’s exactly what I’ve always expected.
Further proof that I’m an asset and not a person.
My body isn’t even my own.
Not awakened? No problem.
We’ll stick you full of this toxic hormone cocktail and force your awakening in a way so painful they give omegas a stick to bite. No painkillers, because those could negate the effect.
A fucking stick.
Oh, and no doubt they’ll add the cost to my debt.
Assholes.
I grab the paper that says how much I’m worth.
And fucking choke when I see the number of zeroes the Wyvern pack is willing to shell out for my omega ass. Then I keep reading and can’t even breathe.
Lilah Darling, “the Omega,” hereby agrees to join the Wyvern pack on a temporary basis, terminating wardship with the Omega Cultivation Center “the OCC.”
The Wyvern pack assumes responsibility for the Omega’s debts, forgiving them in full, under the following conditions:
The Wyvern pack and its current members may exile the Omega at any point for any reason prior to the bestowal of a mating bite. Upon receiving the pack leader’s mating bite, the Omega becomes a fully initiated member of the Wyvern Pack, receiving all corresponding status and benefits.
Upon exile, the Omega returns to the custody of the OCC, retaining all debt and relinquishing all assets obtained from the Wyvern Pack.
Signed by Scorpio, Hikaru, Kieran, and Max Wyvern on behalf of Atlas, Jett, Finnegan, Hunter, and Orion Wyvern.
Instead of writing out the gajillions in assets the pack must own, they write one simple line that implodes my brain.
As a fully initiated member of the Wyvern Pack, the Omega receives access to and equal share in all Wyvern Pack accounts, assets, and properties.
