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He wasferal?An alpha ruled by nothing but base instinct. It was rare these days, but I’d read everything there was to read on Arkology—on the history of alphas and omegas.
He hadn’t spoken yet, and I didn’t know if he would. Following a wild impulse, I lifted my hand and dared to press it to his cheek gently. He shifted, his whole body loosening as he leaned into my touch, eyes closing.
Okay. Maybe he didn’t want to kill me after all.
Our scents tangled in the air, saturated with fear and frenzy, but now… his was changing. As in… right at this moment he was becoming more present—more dominant. When he opened his eyes again, his pupils were so wide there was almost no green left.
This time, the growl in his chest sent goosebumps across my skin, and my chest became tight. With each inhale of the wild hormones in the air, my own—on edge and frayed as they were—began to tumble out of control. A familiar wave of blistering heat swept through my body.
Oh,bother.
Heat?
Again?
It couldn’t be. That was ridiculous—my last wasyesterday.
Was that even fucking possible?
For me and my stupid-ass heats?
Yes.
And I’d been burning through too many omega instincts with Umbra and Dusk when bundling them both into cocoons and saving them from rabid auras. Then Flynn and his stupid mate-scent. Add to that the alpha before me, with lust now literally seeping from his pores…
Fuck.
But my mates were close. Could I leave right now and get to them in time?
I felt a sharp cramp in my stomach and loosed a low whine. Ransom went absolutely still at the sound, eyes boring intomine. Slick was already leaking down my thighs, and he let out a rumbling breath. He knew.
Flynn was long gone.What are you going to do, Shatter? Crawl out into the hallway and hope no other alpha finds you before you can get to them?
Wait.
My eyes had fallen to his left wrist, above where the cuff was fixed.
Were those myscrunchies?
Dusk had been giving him my scent?
And Ransom didn’tseemto want to kill me. He was staring at me like hewantedme, his whole body tense against the chains that held him. His chest heaved, pupils dark and blown wide in the dim room. More than Flynn’s had been.
Another wave of heat rolled through my blood, setting my pulse pounding. He was here and broken and… I thought I could fix him.
But my mates…dammit.
I couldn’t keep fucking other alphas. Plus. This one was kind of on me.
I rapped my knuckles against each other anxiously, losing a battle against another little whine.
What was one more dick, really—in the grand scheme of things?
At the sound, he growled, chains clinking as he threw himself against them once more.
Fuck.
The sound struck me to the core and I whined again, reaching up with both hands and taking his cheeks between them—so refreshingly cool beside my warm skin. I was panting, feeling the mass murder of brain cells as the tide of heat flooded my brain.
