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“I’ll let the nurse know that you can be discharged now. It’s been a fantastic visit, and we hope you use our services again,” said Lio.

With that, he slammed the door, and my eyes widened in shock.

“What?” I said.

“He has strong feelings for you,” said Markus gently, also getting up. “I want to apologize on behalf of his rude actions. He normally never behaves like that, but you affect him, little omega.”

“Do I affect you too?” I asked.

“You do,” he said, nodding with a sad curve to his plump lips. “It was a pleasure helping you through your heat. I wish I had met you under different circumstances.”

“I know,” I said, and just then Owen walked in.

“You can’t leave without saying goodbye to me,” he declared, strolling over to me with a new gleam in his eye after the blowjob I gave him. He sat down next to me, pulling me in for a hug, and Markus joined in, too hugging me from behind.

“I’ll miss you guys,” I said when they finally released me. “Say bye to Lio for me. When he calms down, tell him no hard feelings from me.”

“We will,” said Owen.

Later after I was washed and dressed, I soon regretted my words about no hard feelings when I saw my twin brother, Adam, waiting in his car outside the heat clinic.Did Lio tell my family I was here? Did he take it that far because he was angry?

I was fuming when I walked to the car.

I was finally wearing normal clothes, which felt heavy on my skin with every step to the car. It felt weird after being naked for so many days.

I opened the door to the passenger side and sat inside.

“Hey, sister,” said Adam, studying my face. “You okay?”

“Yes, I am,” I gritted out through my teeth. “Did Lio tell you I was here?”

“He didn’t want to, but I was worried about you,” said Adam, not driving yet, but his hands were on the steering wheel. “The whole family’s worried about you, Alana. But when I called Lio, he hesitated when I asked if you were here. I even threatened that I would break into the heat clinic if he didn’t tell me.”

I let out a long breath, embarrassed and afraid of what Adam was thinking about me.

“Does anyone else know?”

“No, just me. But the family knows I’m bringing you home now,” said Adam. “Listen, I won’t ask any questions about how you got here. I don’t care to know, and I won’t tell anyone. I’m just glad you’re safe.”

I sighed.

“Thank you, Adam.”

We were close growing up despite the fact I moved out, and he was the best secret keeper in the world. It touched my heart that he had driven here to get me instead of creating video games which he loved to do in our parents’ basement. Even though we had gotten older and grew further apart, he still cared, and that meant the world to me.

“Man, this clinic is fucking far,” said Adam, honking his horn at a bunch of cars on the road. He flipped a finger out the window at someone, and I cringed in my seat. He still hadn’t worked on his road rage issues. “I need to get back home. I think I may have a breakthrough.”

“Oh, a new game?”

“Yeah, I need to develop it some more before I launch it tomorrow,” he said. Our fathers didn’t approve of what he was doing and they begged him to play sports or find a real job instead, but he had his own mind. I was the calmer, more logical twin and usually reigned him in when things went too far.

When we finally arrived at my family’s home, I saw everyone outside. My mother, Tiana, and all my fathers. Grandma Bianca and my two younger sisters, Roxanne and Sarah all waiting eagerly for me.

“Shit, Mom is crying,” I said while he parked the car in the huge driveway. “I don’t know what to tell them.”

“Say you got stranded somewhere,” said Adam. “And also…you might want to cover that bite mark on your neck.”

“Shit,” I said again, looking into the mirror above me. The two puncture marks from James were turning purple and bruised. I tried pulling up my shirt to cover it but to no avail.