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There’s this weird tingle in my toes.
Probably the first warning that I’m about to melt.
Then Jett unfolds from the table.
All I can see is his back, but Noelle and Charles go so stiff that the loose ends of his hair must’ve morphed into Medusa snakes. His voice rumbles out as cold as crypt marble. “If you’d like to discuss business, we can take this somewhere else. If you’re here to fuck with our omega…”
He never finishes the sentence, and I forget how to breathe until Atlas gives my shoulder a gentle squeeze. “Let’s take our business into one of the private rooms. Finn. Stay with Lilah.”
“Planning on it.” Finn drives a knife into the table so hard the water glasses slosh, and Noelle scampers away, tugging her mate to flee.
Their retreat should be the sweetest sight I’ve ever seen, but I can’t stop watching Atlas and Jett.
Our omega.
Why did he have to say it like that?
I know Jett doesn’t mean it.
None of them do.
I can’t let myself be tricked.
I can’t let myself dream what it would be like if the Wyverns were my real pack. If I imagine being theirs, really, truly being theirs, I’ll thaw, and there’ll be no saving myself when I’m a puddle on the floor.
Orion finally takes back his arm. “Don’t worry. The guys won’t let her near you again.”
With a sigh, I release the butter knife and rub my palm.
“Sorry. Got held up.” Hunter appears, plunking down a few glasses of champagne. “Every asshole here is asking about Lilah.”
“How many you think I’ll get to kill?” Finn asks fondly.
Hunter swats his shoulder. “Keep it in your pants.”
I gulp champagne and sneeze on the bubbles.
The way tonight’s going, Finn’s not the only one who’s gonna get stabbity.
***
Twenty-Three
ORION
I’m hyper-focused on the one person I should be going out of my way to avoid.
I thought I’d murder Lilah when I saw her in that dress.
With that pale, pale skin, soft hair haloing her delicate face, and the blue-grey gown that makes her eyes look like storm clouds over a moonlit sea…
She’s everything I can never be.
And every alpha here knows it. Mine included.
I would’ve clawed her face off if she weren’t so perfect at handling me.
Finn keeps playing with his knives, trying to teach her tricks. When he pays her so much attention, my inner psycho flares. As soon as my fingers start to twitch, the vein throbbing in my temple, Lilah’s on top of it like the fucking omega whisperer.
