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“Take a deep breath. Stay calm for our omega. She needs you to stay with her and stay calm. You’re already doing a great job. We’ll have this all sorted out soon,” Leeson said as he hung up the phone.
I didn’t even hear what he must’ve said to his family or if they knew what to do. My heart was beating fast in my chest as I locked my jaw down, holding tightly onto Vera.
“You don’t need to comfort me.”
“I know I don’t,” he said, steady unlike me who sounded like I was about to burst into tears right with my omega.
God, I was so stupid. So soft all over again.
“But I’m going to make sure I tell you whatever you need to right now, Jake. You’re my pack mate and you’re holding our omega, and this is going to be okay.”
“You promise me that? Still?”
His eyes were sad, but the side of Leeson’s mouth twitched. “It’s always a promise when it comes to you, Jake. When it comes to all of us.”
I swallowed.
I wanted to believe him. But the back of my mind screamed at me otherwise.
Yet again there was me and a broken family and I was never enough to put it all back together. I had more years under my belt. A better life to emulate from Leeson’s parents. I was a completely different alpha than the boy they saved from running off from the group home that had given up on him.
What if I wasn’t strong enough this time either?
Chapter
Twenty-Two
VERA
When I blinked my eyes open, I started to cry immediately. My chest heaved and I couldn’t breathe around the sound.
My body felt like someone had run it over. Everythinghurt.
My skin. My eyes. My entire insides twisted and pulled while my omega sobbed and for once, I gave into her, letting the heavy emotions swell to the surface.
There was nothing else left of me by the hard, painful, sorrow she felt.
That I felt.
“Shh, it’s okay, sweetness. You’re safe.”
I shook my head again, my lungs filling with the sweet pumpkin scent where my nose was pressed against a chest covered with a thin layer. And then there was something else. Butterscotch and sugar. I was surrounded by it.
It made no sense. I didn’t think I was in Jacob’s bed, and yet…
I shook my head.
“You’re alright. How are you feeling?” he asked.
I didn’t open my eyes. Slowly, he started circles around my back. I gasped out another sob I didn’t even know I was still somehow holding in my chest. Everything felt raw.
“You scared the shit out of us, sweetness.”
“I…” I took a deep breath. “I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be. If there is anyone that should be sorry it is the asshole that has been banned from the apartment until we say otherwise,” murmured Jacob. “Me too. I shouldn’t have left you waiting for us alone.”
But I hadn’t been alone. I’d been with Silas.
