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I have to put it out because what the fuck did we just do?
He pulls me down until I’m laying on my back and then rolls on top of me, cradling himself on his elbows.
“Who is this confident, sexy man?” I ask.
He smiles and presses a kiss to my collarbone. “It's me, I just…”
He hesitates, and I feel the confidence leave him. I can’t have that. I take his face in my hands and lean up to kiss him softly, gently.
He lowers himself to me and kisses me back. When he breaks away, there’s a smile on his lips, and his hard cock is pressing against my stomach.
“Barren.”
I whip my head around and see Acton standing there watching. His face is strained.
My cheeks burn, and I can’t even find the strength to look him in his eyes. Barren growls and pushes me back down, using his weight.
“You don't want me?” The growl is savage, feral, full of pain and madness.
I pause, containing my own feelings as an ice shard slips in-between us. What’s happening here?
I sigh and take his hand, leading it down to my leggings that are soaked. “I want you so much. Can you feel that, lovely omega? I want you so much I’m breaking all the rules.”
His hurt eases back, and he frowns in confusion. I roll my head to look at Acton. Barren doesn’t follow my eyes. He buries his face in my neck and inhales.
I shudder and close my eyes. “Acton, please?”
Acton walks towards us stiffly and peels his omega from my body. I lay there panting for three seconds and then roll the opposite way.
“Scarlet?” Acton asks.
“Just go. Please. Go.”
I hear them leave and then sit on the rock again. Staring at the expanse of trees and mountains around us. I left so I wouldn’t hurt people, and I’m here hurting people. What is wrong with me?
If only I could have liked Tabby. Or been more attentive to the pack. No, it goes back even further. If I’d just been born an omega or a beta. I put my face in my hands.
“What am I doing?” I ask the world around me.
No answer comes. I climb off the rock and head back down the trail, pausing to stare at the manor.
That confident, sexy man was impossible to resist. The wounded omega is impossible to resist. The alphas have their own pull. But they have secrets. I can feel them all around me.
The fine hairs all over my body rise with a sudden tension. I stare at the manor, but I’m no longer seeing it. I can feel someone watching me, someone staring daggers into my back. Gold? Taylor? I’m not sure, but I wait for them to come to me. The feeling eases, and I clear my throat, uneasy with the sudden change.
I start walking and hear footsteps. I pause and turn in a circle, straining to see through the thick bush. Eventually I move on, but the sound doesn’t come again.
I get into the cabin and walk to the shower. I turn the water on and hesitate. The scent of Barren and I is delicious, and I’m loath to wash the combined scent off me. But I need to go to town, and it will just raise too many questions.
I get in the shower and remove any trace of the scent. Mechanically, I move through the day, fixing up the broken cupboards, answering emails, ignoring the many phone calls from my ex pack. Looking out the window, at the door, hoping and praying that one of them will come and then cursing myself for my stupidity. The trip to town is excruciating, and I can’t shake the feeling that someone’s watching me, but when I look up, there’s no one around.
I sit down with my microwave dinner and try to eat. The silence is heavy, and I end up throwing my dinner away. A couple more items have been stolen. A hair brush, toothpaste. A blanket that came from my pack. The only conclusion I can come to is that there’s some poor homeless kid living out in the forest. I put out a bag of food with a note saying help yourself.
Someone knocks hard on my front door, I reach for my dinner knife and let out a low growl. A moment later, I’m uncurling my fingers from around the knife and putting it down, wondering what the hell is wrong with me. I swallow hard and answer the door.
Gold stands on the other side. He stares at me, taking me in from top to toe. My mind goes over all the ways he might want to destroy me. All the ways I’ve broken trust. All the ways he has. If he tries, I will fight him, but I won’t win against him.
That knowledge doesn’t sit easy with me.
