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They look too young and they smell too sweet. Like little powder puffs flouncing across the stage. Dozens of scents and not one is tempting.
All they do is make me yearn for Orion’s rich apple taste on my tongue. His mature sweetness.
Hikaru catches my eye before the final performance, giving me the nod.
When the upper-level dance team struts out, my body goes rigid.
She’s there.
The omega who wants to break up my pack.
The omega the dads think will fix us when all she’s going to do is zero in on every strained, fraying thread of our pack and tear us apart at the fucking seam.
I already hate her.
Then the music kicks on.
A dozen girls move across the stage, but she’s the only one I can see. She’s tiny. Delicate. More eyes than body, with luscious brown hair that makes me wonder if she tastes like chocolate mousse.
And these juicy rosebud lips I want to feel wrapped around my—
No.
Absofuckinglutely not.
Hunter leans over the balcony, straining to take her in. “That’s her?”
“Pretty,” Finn says breathily, his eyes sparkling.
I can’t deny she’s beautiful. The way she moves, that lithe little body twisting and bending…
I tip my head back, staring at the ceiling, but my hard cock already sees something he likes.
Fucking traitor.
“Look.” Hunter nudges me, handing over his phone with the digital program pulled up.
Her name’s Lilah Darling.
Only the Center’s wards are named Darling. So she’s either an orphan or her family fucking sold her.
“Lilah,” Jett chokes.
I lock on to her photo.
She has huge, haunted grey eyes.
It’s a terrible picture. Her skin’s swollen, her hair a tangled mess. No makeup or coy smile like the other omegas. She purses those rosebud lips in a nasty scowl.
Her bio lists her hobbies as forensic financial accounting and shiv whittlin’—her spelling.
“Unawakened.” Hunter points to the key piece of info.
She’s twenty-three and hasn’t even gone into pre-awakening.
“Makes sense the dads flagged her.” She’s bizarre, damn near a spinster for an omega, and if she never awakens, she’ll stick the OCC with her debt.
I’m still not buying the “secondary omega” line of bullshit. What pack would dare keep two when they’re so rare?
