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I cocked my head, examining those words. My own words. That hate was foreign to me now. The anger and desperation.
“Just… quit, and everything will be the way it’s supposed to be.”
I couldn’tseethe memory. Not really. Just a flower wilting from its own poison. Slowly fading, leaving me behind.
“You think I don’t hate myself more than you hate me?”
“Impossible.” It was the last thing she ever heard me say.
That word was an old wound, and it ached like something that had healed over, but wrong, proof of how useless and venomous that hatred had been.
I knew Dusk was frustrated. I knew what they’d both heard that piece of shit say about her last night. He needed to chill, though.
Shatter was the most important flower that had ever sprouted, and poisoning hermorewasn’t the way to stop her poisoning herself.
Best way to stop that was to just show her how much she fit with us. That no matter why she thought she needed them, it was nothing in comparison.
She’d get there.
I believed in her.
“It’s stupid to worry about,” she was saying, though her sniffle was contradictory. “I know that. No one’s going to dark bond omegas likeus,” she added.
Right.
Roxy wasn’t gold pack, and of course Shatter couldn’t just go around telling anyone.
“It’s just… I’m different. Please don’t tell, but my scent is really strange. I need to get really good at Omega Studies because my uncle said that the only way it’ll ever balance out is if I’m bonded to a pack. He said if I’m claimed, it’ll settle. Like… I won’t be like a threat anymore. To my pack, mostly, but he hoped even to everyone else. And all my hormones will balance out, too. They’re already so much more manageable since I arrived. There’s so many alphas around here…” She trailed off, but my chest was puffing up.
So many alphas? Ha. What was sheon? That wasus, helping her out, even if she didn’t want to admit it.
There was a pause.
“Well.” I heard an anxious tapping like a pen on paper. “My scent makes alphas… upset. Not just alphas. Once, my blockers wore off when I was on my way to the Academy—and even betas were upset by my scent. An omega too; she kicked me out of the cafe.”
Again, another pause for what I could only imagine was a fake Roxy answering.
Shatter’s voice was broken. “Ireallyneed a pack.”
I frowned. She alreadyhada pack.
“No, Dusk wants me to hide my scent for his own reasons.” I could almost hear the pout in her voice.
Damn.
Fake Roxy was really asking the difficult questions, huh?
“I can’t afford to get behind in this class. I really appreciate you studying with me.”
Luckily, it seemed Fake Roxy was on my side.
“The Kingsman pack?” Shatter asked. “Oh… I don’t know.” Her voice got so small again that I could barely hear it. “I think I’m managing, but I think Dusk exaggerates how much he likes me. I don’t know… There’s a catch. It doesn’t make sense. It’s like… I’m always waiting for the real reason they chose me, and it’s all going to come crashing down.”
My heart sank at those words. She really didn’t think she was good enough for us.
“My scent? Oh. I mean. They don’thateit?—”
“Liar,” I snorted, cutting her off before I remembered that I wasn’t supposed to be here.
