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I run, and this time, I don’t think I’m ever going to stop.
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Ten
JETT
“Follow her,” Atlas barks as the omega dashes off like an Olympic sprinter.
“I’ll send a drone.” I want her gone. Today. Now. I can’t have her here for a week, let alone a month or more.
This is the only place I can relax. My home with my brothers—the only people I trust.
Lilah.
Her name is the purest poison.
It forces me to remember the girl I refuse to recognize. That girl was sweet and smiling, but somehow always bruised and crying alone. I’d find her hiding in dark corners whenever I followed my father to work.
That Lilah had sparkles in her grey eyes.
I must have dreamed that girl.
This omega is sallow skin and jutting bones. Threadbare clothes and a disciplinary file filled with fights and confiscated weapons. Her eyes aren’t soft or sparkling.
They’re defiant. Angry. Terrified.
Just the way I feel.
She’s a relic from before.
Before Renee showed me there’s nothing sweet or pure about omegas.
They’re predators.
And fuck our history because Lilah is the latest in a string of sluts to come sniffing after my pack.
She needs to be destroyed.
I don’t give a shit if we’re off missions. I’d rather be grounded forever and face our issues head-on than try to keep pushing forward, stuck with another invader in our lives.
“She looks rough,” Finn says, still staring at the spot where she disappeared. He’s not wrong, but I can’t let myself catalog her bruises and scrapes or the hint of a scab in her hairline.
“She was spooked about Orion.” Hunter frowns. “Didn’t she know what she was walking into?”
“Craig,” Atlas barks, summoning the waste of a beta I can just barely tolerate since he’s at least a male. My stomach twists at his dog-eyed expression, the way he yearns for Atlas. The same way he looks at me when I’m forced to acknowledge him.
Alpha chaser.
“You spoke to her yesterday. What did she say?” Atlas asks.
“She disrespected me, Alpha.” The whine in Craig’s voice is the height of cringe. “And then she ran off before I could explain. But there’s no way she doesn’t know everything about you. It’s all online. You have fan sites,” he says in awe.
No doubt, Craig is a founding member.
I pull out my phone and scramble the drones, setting them to search the property, but they come up empty.
She can’t have gone that far.
