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She loved my hair.
I keep it long, just in case she ever thinks to brush it again.
That prop room was my happy place, tucked away from my father’s expectations of perfection. I was to have the best grades. The best performance.
With Lilah, I could just be.
But then Renee.
The prop room.
The orange couch.
Not just once.
Not even just one omega.
There are more voices in my head as the barriers fall away—voices I’d forgotten and worked so hard to erase.
And, then the part of the memory that makes pain ice pick my skull.
I remember Lilah peeking through the door. Her face twisted with disgust. Contempt.
While Renee—
And then Lilah knows.
She knows I’m not a real alpha.
She knows my shame.
She didn’t touch me, but she’s in the room with them, and that makes her one of them, and everything is broken.
Broken.
Broken.
“Dude.” Hunter grips my arm. “You are not okay right now.”
“I’m fine.” My voice is dry as ash.
“Play the stoic card all day, but you’re not with Lilah if you’re not one-hundred percent. There was a fucking bomb, J. And we caught another guy trying to scale the fence. These fucks are relentless.”
“He’s in custody?” The thought brings me back to the present—walking to Hunter’s Jeep, and the constant danger to the mate I never once deserved.
“We moved him to the compound. You can have him when you get back.”
“Perfect.” I slip into the car as if nothing’s wrong, but I can feel Hunter watching.
He’s the hardest to fool.
We’re halfway to the place I’m dreading when he speaks. “If you need to talk, I’m here. The pack needs you if we’re going to be whole.”
“Does it?”
“You fucking kidding?” Hunter smacks the wheel. “We’ve never given you a role you couldn’t own. You do combat, strategy, intel, tech. Anything the team needs.”
“I betrayed the team.”
