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"What does that even mean?" Milo asks.
"I don't know," I groan. "I'm not a fucking fortune teller, and this shit is so fucking...I don't know, it's crazy, right? But I just feel like we're supposed to be with her. We're a unit."
"You're both too deep in this," Milo says, shaking his head. "You need to get your head in the game or I'll have to report you to Enclave high command--"
"Don't," a quiet, female voice says.
We all look inside the room to find Sloane sitting up in bed, her hair messy and her face flushed. Her lips are still swollen with desire, and she bites down on her lower lip and closes her eyes as we all watch and wait.
I can smell her arousal, but she's trying to get control of it--so I don't move a muscle.
"All three of you are right," she says quietly. "Nate and Arjun...I feel it, too. I don't know what it is, but it's real. But Milo's also right...now isn't the time. We have to be careful and methodical. I need to loop in my PR team and figure this outafterwe've caught this assassin."
"Fuck," Arjun curses. "There really are too many moving parts here, aren't there?"
"Yes," she says.
Milo leans against the door frame, blocking our entry to the room. "How's your heat?" he asks.
"Better now," she says. "Controllable. I'm sorry I used my purr to get all three of you to help, but it passes faster when I just...let it happen. That wasn't fair to you."
I snort. "I mean...we really wanted to. All three of us."
Milo sighs. "He's right; we all wanted you. But now..."
"Now what?" Sloane finishes for him. "Well...first off, don't feel awkward. We're all consenting adults. Weallwanted what happened. The circumstances are less than ideal. But we need to find this assassin...and I need to get back on the senate floor."
We all open our mouths to protest, but Sloane shakes her head.
"Before you say anything, I have to insist that I do this," she says. "I want to show them that they can't do anything to hurt me. That I'mstrong enoughto survive."
"Everyone knows that, Sloane," Milo mutters.
"They really don't," she says. "And I know the media is all about my success and everyone is touting what I've done, but the issue is that I'm doing this forother omegas. I want to show other omegas that we have a place in government, in Solstice Bay."
"Well, shit," Milo laughs softly. "That was inspiring as hell."
"No wonder people love you," Arjun adds.
"And no wonder the ACB is after you," I say. "Okay...we need to prioritize finding out who's orchestrating this whole thing. Milo, can you contact Enclave intelligence and see if they came up with anything from the crime scene?"
"Yeah," he nods and steps into the room. "I'll just be a minute."
While he's on the comm, Arjun and I are left alone with Sloane. I want to take her in my arms, but I can already tell that she's frustrated--and she just wants to get back to work.
"This is all just so much," she sighs.
"You don't need to do any of this," I say gently. "You don't need to have this platform. You can just be you."
She smiles at me. "And that's why I'm grateful to you, Nate--you understand me. I do need to do this. I need to be out there. I need to be pushing for omega rights. And I want to be out there--I want to be on the senate floor. I want to be leading the charge on this."
"You have a ton of people on your side, Sloane," I say. "And we're going to protect you. Try not to worry."
"I would love to stop worrying," she says. "But all the people supporting me don't matter whenoneis trying to kill me."
While we talk, Arjun skims through his phone...and then his eyes widen and he covers his mouth.
"Holy shit," he says. "What the fuck?"
