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“We can get someone to come to us to help you,” I suggest.

She probably doesn’t trust us as far as she could throw us, but if she’d prefer not to go to the hospital, maybe we can help her.

She glances up from her hands, still trembling in her lap, her knuckles white and her gaze darting between us as if weighing her options.

“Th—thank you. I’ll be good, I promise.”

“You don’t need to promise to be good,” Kane says, trying to reassure her. “Can’t you feel it between us? The connection?”

He’s braver than I am if he’s already ready to talk to her about her being our scent match.

She shifts nervously in her seat. “I—I don’t know what you mean.”

Kane meets my gaze in the mirror, his gaze a bit shocked. Fucking hell, whatever she’s been through, someone did a number on her. Based on the way she’s acting, she either doesn’t know that we’re her scent matches, or she’s so terrified of any alpha that she doesn’t care. Either way, there goes my perfect fantasy of finding our scent-matched omega.

CHAPTER 5

Luna

I’ve never been in such close proximity to two alphas before, but I don’t miss the look they share with each other at my words.

I have to bite the inside of my cheek to keep my tears at bay.

The warm jacket, intertwined with Alpha Madden’s intoxicating dark chocolate scent, is thick and expensive feeling. The car I’m sitting in is the fanciest car I’ve ever seen.

I don’t know what connection they’re trying to talk about, but it’s obvious that my not knowing disappointed them both. They honestly seemed to get a bit upset at me saying I’ll be a good omega. That probably means nothing to them since I’m a bloody, dirty, pathetic mess. They’re probably debating whether I’m worth the trouble of bringing with them.

I’ll just have to prove to them I can be a good omega with my actions, not just my words. I have to do whatever I can to please them, to convince them I’m worth keeping around, at least for a little bit until I can figure out how to get further away.

The Northside already feels like a totally different world, with how many alphas there were around me, but it’s notfar enough. I don’t doubt that Alpha Niall will hunt me down, which means I have to get as far away as I can.

I can do this. I can please them. I have to.

These alphas are already different than I ever thought alphas could be. I imagined they would’ve started rutting into me, now that we’re in the enclosed space of the car. There’s certainly enough space in the back with the seats that lay all the way flat for them to put me on all fours and have their way with me.

But they haven’t been cruel. If anything, they’ve expressed concern. Alpha Kane has been gentle, in both his words and his touch, as he carried me into the car. He set me down like I was something fragile. Like I was something that would break at even the hint of violence.

I may be weak, but I’m not fragile. If my experiences have taught me anything, it’s how durable my physical body is, even when sometimes I think it would be easier if it would just give out and let me slip away into darkness forever.

“Let’s get going then,” Alpha Madden huffs, his big shoulders tensing with a sigh.

A pang of anxiety twists in my chest. He’s frustrated. It’s obvious in every single line of his body.

Even with how scary he looks, he still offered me the coat off his back. The last thing I want is for him to be upset.

“Is the temperature okay?” Alpha Madden asks as he pulls out of the parking lot.

Neither of them has punished me for meeting their gaze, if anything, they prefer it. It's hard because I've been conditioned to submit in all forms. But their expressions don't twist in excitement, despite my obvious fear.

They’re alphas, but maybe they won’t be as bad as Alpha Niall.

“The temperature is fine, thank you, Alpha Madden,” I say, meeting his eyes in the rearview mirror.

His jaw clenches and more panic floods my system. Did I say something wrong? Did I do somethingwrong?

Madden’s eyes go a bit softer when he sees my panic. “I already said you don’t have to do the whole Alpha formality thing with me. With either of us,” he sighs. “I’m just Madden and he’s just Kane.”

My brain short circuits. I’ve only ever referred to Alpha Niall as Alpha Niall. Why wouldn’t an alpha want to be referred to by their title?