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He must hear the deception in my voice for him to turn around and stare me dead in the eye. “Should your heat come sooner, let us know and we can see about getting you some suppressants.”
“I won’t be here that long.” My tone is insistent. “So there’s no need to go to the trouble.”
I briefly consider if I’ve made a mistake by refusing his offer.
Icouldtell them I need suppressants so they can go to the trouble—and the danger—of getting them for me. Tracking down someone selling black market pills is likely to be a slow and probably expensive process, and I don’t have a cent to my name.
But I’m not making a mistake. If I ask for suppressants, they will assume my heat is close, and if they think that, they won’t let me leave. They would, like any alpha, take full advantage of having an omega in heat in their midst.
Rune’s amber gaze sharpens, and he nods at the open doorway. “See that line, cher?”
I turn to where he’s looking, frowning as I slowly shake my head. “There’s no line.”
Just carpet. Gray carpet in this beautiful guest room they’re letting me stay in and a cream-colored one in the hallway.
“Ky. Cian,” Rune barks, making me jump.
He strides toward the doorway, and they all step outside the bedroom and swing around to face me.
Rune points a finger at the divide between my bedroom and the hallway. “For the time you choose to stay with us, no alpha can cross that line.” He pauses as if he wants to make sure I understand. I don’t. When I blink at him in confusion, he softens his expression as he points at the gray carpet I’m standing on. “Thatis omega territory. Occasionally, our beta staff will want to clean things up for you, but they always knock before entering a room.”
He’s explaining, but I’m still not getting it.
“Sleep, rest, recover,” he says. “When Lawrence has scaled back his search for you, we’ll take you wherever you want to go. You’re safe.”
He takes a step farther back into the hallway, grips the door, and gently closes it.
Omega territory.
I stand in the middle of the room, listening to their footsteps move away and then thump downstairs. And I chew my lip as I think about those two words for a long time. Land marked off as just for me. I want to believe he means it. I really do.
But because I know what alphas are capable of, I start looking for something I can use to block the door and barricade myself inside.
Chapter7
Kylian
The sound of someone dragging something heavy in the room over our heads makes me glance up, frowning. “I don’t think she believed you, Rune.”
Thump.
Everleigh must be blocking her door with the dresser. Or, if it was too heavy to move, a bedside table.
That sound solidifies one thing in my mind that I’ve been thinking since we found her in the garden. Lawrence hurt her.
Badly.
Whatever Lawrence did to Everleigh goes far and beyond a punch to the jaw. It wasn’t just the way she flinched or kept three steps between us on the way upstairs. It was her willingness to throw herself out of the limo, and Devin, our driver, wasn’t going slow.
“You saw the bruise on her jaw. Why would she believe we’re not made of the same stuff as Lawrence Wentworth?” Finished typing out a text, Cian places his cell phone on the table and crosses his arms.
It’s late, past midnight, but none of us can think of going to sleep. We need to think, and we need to talk about what we’re going to do with Everleigh Wentworth, our unexpected temporary guest. We do our best thinking in our office, so that’s where we’ve come.
“So we’ll have to make her believe otherwise,” Rune adds.
“For the short time she’ll be here.” I eye Rune closely. “Don’t think I haven’t noticed that you’re acting like it’s going to be longer than the couple days you told her.”
“I said I wasn’t planning on keeping her.” Rune glares, shaking his head slightly as if warning me to keep my voice down. “And I meant it. But I don’t feel easy about tossing a traumatized omega out on the street when it’s clear she has nowhere to go.”
