Page 3 of Knot Your Basic B*tch
Yes, it sounded ideal. It was everyone’s dream… everyone’s but mine.
…As more of my brothers and sisters piled into the room, I could just picture it. My own pack of men who would do anything to keep me safe.
And in the process, leave their dirty socks everywhere.
Great. Just great.
CHAPTER 2
CHLOE
I threwmy stress ball into the air, catching it before it smacked me in the face. Only to launch it as close to my ceiling as I could again.
“You need to take this seriously.” Zane was pacing with his arms crossed. He was going to wear a path into the rug if he kept this up.
“I don’t understand why I have to go to the Institute. I don’t even want to learn anything about alphas.” I refused to look at stupid Zane and his stupid pacing. Besides, if I took my eyes from the ball, it was going to hit me in the face.
“Don’t let our moms hear you say that. Especially not Mother. I saw her puking in the kitchen.”
“Oh, come on. Don’t tell me that she’s pregnant again. Mother said that she was done after Rose. Momma Rain’s already like five weeks?”
“Six and a half. And Mother can’t help it. She has a breeding kink.”
“Ugh, come on. I didn’t need to know that. I especially don’t want to know how you know that.”
“Anyways, forget about that. What’s your grand plan ifyou don’t want to go to the Institute? You can’t be saying that you want to go gold-pack.”
“What’s so wrong with ending up as a gold-pack?” I threw the ball harder so that it whacked against the ceiling, before hurtling back down.
“Besides the fact that you could legally end up dark bonded? The fact that you wouldn’t be able to have any kids?”
The no kids thing wasn’t the end of the world. Not that I hated kids or anything. Or put any thought into wanting them myself or not. I’m just saying, that watching my moms puking and waddling around everywhere… making comments about how they felt like walruses… watching them struggle to get in and out of a car for God’s sake—let me just say that it didn’t exactly make me thrilled by the idea of getting knocked up.
But getting dark bonded was another story. It was essentially legal slavery. Alphas, who would have complete control over me.
There’s no way that I could allow that to happen to me.
No quiet secretary job was worth that.
“Fine, I can go to the Institute, and get the stupid shot. But can’t I just come back after that? Do I have to stay there?”
“What were you planning to do instead?”
“I was planning on applying to New Oxford University. My grades are good—”
But Zane was already shaking his head no. “They don’t let omegas just skip the Institute to go to college.”
“There’s no law that says I can’t apply.” It’s true. I looked it up and everything.
“Well, our parents would probably let you apply if it’s what you really wanted. But, Chloe... you’d still have to take all the Institute classes.”
I caught the ball in my hand, then opened my palm fullyso that it rolled away from me. Bouncing off to the floor below.
I sighed deeply.
None of this was fair.
I don’t know who I had to blame. Should I blame biology, when I was an omega and some other girl who was desperate for it would never be? When I wanted to be an omega about the same amount as I wanted to lick pond scum.