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“Angry?” I asked, startled.
He leaned back slightly, jaw ticking, and it was enough to make me shrink down. “We messed up,” he said simply. “That’s been clear ever since. I should have known, the moment you came to our table, how special you were.”
Shit.
This was the same as when Flynn had come knocking, but worse.
“We didn’t,” he went on. “And then you turn up at school with their star and I…” He wrinkled his nose, looking away from me. “I’m just angry at all of it. I even checked your entry scores. You’re the most intelligent person I’ve ever met. It’s incredibly intimidating.”
“Intimidating?” My voice was high pitched. “But you have Roxy, and she’s smart and really?—”
“She’s notyou.” Eric cut me off, looking so intense it was hard to keep eye contact. “But I have to pretend she is when I’m… with her.”
I froze, cheeks going bright pink. “You… no. That’s wrong.”
Guilt turned my stomach. She didn’t deserve that.
“I know,” Eric said. “That’s why we’re dropping her.”
Wait. No. “You’rewhat?” My voice was hoarse.
That would be terrible for Roxy’s reputation.
“We don’t want Roxy caught up in this, but the others… they can’t take it.”
“The others?” I asked. “What about you?” Could I talk Eric into not dropping her?
“I… Well…” He rubbed his chin. “I had a different idea.”
“To keep her on?” I asked.
He nodded. “I’m sure you know that the Barclay pack has two omegas?”
What?
My lips parted in shock. But… if they picked two, Roxy wouldn’t lose her place. “Two omegas? Like Roxy and…?”
“You.”
My lungs felt too big all of a sudden, and my eyes darted to the door.
Ohdear. This wasreallybad timing.
He was offering me everything.
Actuallyeverything, because Roxy wouldn’t even get hurt. And he was offering right when it was impossible for me to say yes.
I tripped over that thought violently.
Shit.
Shit, shit, shit.
Even one week ago, everything would have been different. But now there’d been the heat, and I’d met Ransom and I was all confused about what I was supposed to be doing with myself.
Eric smiled, flashing those perfect teeth for me like he so rarely did. “You’re very cute when you’re nervous.”
I realised I’d been wringing my hands together.
