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“Of course.” There’s no way I’m watching Lilah try on dresses. Just the thought of her pale shoulders, all her soft skin out—
I won’t betray Orion.
“Why don’t you show Lilah around the facility? Have her sit in on the boys’ classes,” Scorpio suggests.
Show around means show off that our pack’s going to claim her. I won’t take this lie that far. “I’ll drop her off with Hunter.”
She flinches ever so slightly, probably eager to get out of here.
Eager to be back in his arms?
I smelled Hunter on her earlier. Just a whiff, but I need to sit his ass down and find out what the hell’s going on. They shouldn’t be spending time together. They shouldn’t be alone together.
None of us should be alone with her, whether or not she’s awakened.
“I’ll give you the tour.” I stand, reluctantly offering her a hand while the dads are watching.
Lilah lets me pull her to her feet. Her fingers are impossibly small. She’s so much tinier than Orion. All clouds of dark hair and grey eyes, like a storm when he’s the sunshine.
She snatches her fingers away from me, and I can’t help breathing deep, trying to read the scent that would tell me exactly what she’s feeling.
But Lilah’s a blank. Nothing. I can’t even scent her shampoo.
“A moment. Alone?” Hikaru holds me back.
Glancing nervously between us, Lilah darts out, a mouse escaping a flock of barn owls.
The four alphas close in as soon as the door shuts. I draw myself to my full height. I’m taller than all but Uncle Kieran, and I’m just as broad and dominant as any of them, but I feel like a little boy again when they blast me with their power.
“Are you treating that girl right?” Kieran speaks in his same dead-cold voice, but the fact that he’s asking shows he’s beyond concerned.
“It’s not easy letting a strange omega in our pack home. We’re trying.”
“She didn’t eat.” Max frowns. “You need to feed her more.”
As if Hunter and Finn don’t have that fucking handled.
“I expect you to make your best effort,” my father says sternly. “I don’t believe you don’t feel anything for her.”
“She’s not awakened.” Thank god for that.
Hikaru scoffs. “You haven’t spoken to my son about her?”
“We’ve discussed Lilah as a pack.”
“Did you ask him how they met?” Hikaru throws me a curveball when I’m not even holding a bat.
“They know each other?”
“Don’t you wonder why she was never contracted? An omega that beautiful? It has nothing to do with being unawakened.”
I tense, not liking where this is going. “Where did they meet?”
“At the Center when they were five or six,” Scorpio answers. “Jett used to follow her around like a pup.”
“Does he remember?” I don’t believe it. Jett would’ve mentioned this.
He would’ve mentioned her.
