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I’d trade for Shatter, too. I’d trade a damn lot for her actually—though revealing to her my highest bid was a rookie move. That sort of knowledge cost in its own right.
I waited, still and silent as I liked to be, dreaming of what she’d look like when she stepped out.
Golden eyes.
Pleasegive me the golden eyes.
Why did we vilify them? Gold was the currency of the whole world, wasn’t it?
There was a buzz in my veins. Waiting to see what she would do was like a gamble in itself.
Shatter didn’t realise it, butshewas going to be my first.
I’d never been cuddled by an omega before. I’d never been cuddledat allbefore… as far as I knew.
I frowned as my brain hiccupped violently, ripping me into a world I’d be paying debts on for the rest of my life.
A hard, sterile mattress.
My bones shook quicker than my body could keep up with. I shed sweat like I was on fire, but I was frigid, the moisture on my skin funnelling ice right into my pores. The blanket and clothes were live wires, each movement ripping along hairs like a thousand shocks of electricity.
The only part of my body that didn’t ache—fire and ice, numb and electric—were the parts he touched. Where he held me against him, the whistle of a soothing song I didn’t know upon his lips.
I tapped my fingers in a hopscotch along each payment on my thigh, and knee, and shin, humming to myself: a tuneless lantern leading me back home.
Back home with Dusk and Ransom.
And her.
She would come out and give me cuddles.
I needed to be home for that.
Okay. I ran it back, still tapping slowly.
I realised my error. I wouldn’t make it again. Ihadbeen cuddled. Kind of. But Dusk didn’t really count, and besides, she’d never know about that, so fuck it.
She was still my first.
The door creaked, and my eyes snapped up. With eyes downcast, Shatter checked around the door like she expected me to be looming outside, waiting to pounce.
I snorted.
I was acompetentpredator, not a thug.
She’d learn.
Her honey hair was up in a bun, she wore a pair of baggy black sweatpants and a matching long-sleeved top. She returned to her suitcase, tucking the dress away, gaze averted the whole time so I couldn’t see what I wanted to see.
“Is this your attempt at being asunsexyas possible?” I asked, cocking an eyebrow at her loose clothing.
She glanced back, smiling much too sweetly. “How’s it going?”
Finally. There they were.
My heart tripped over itself.
Golden fucking eyes.
