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“She had a well-established pack when I came into her life.” He lets me go and sits down on the coffee table in front of me. “And I wanted to know everything. I buddied up with her pack. They were all such an unsuitable match and had a weak pack leader. Bunny was 29. I was 19. Most of her pack were in their 30‘s and 40’s. Too old to ever change to my liking. After just a couple of weeks, I realized I didn’t want anything to do with them. I just wanted Bunny. For an omega to sever a pack bond, it’s pretty dangerous. But I helped her through it as much as I could. I separated her from them. Which was really tough. She scratched her bond marks to bloody messes. She was so unhinged. She didn’t sleep for days. I purged her of all their scents. It was only me she was getting affection from. Only I could love her in that state.

“But she didn’t get any better. My last ditch effort to bite her, it…” Boone gets wispy eyes. Not quite crying. Not quite anything. “It killed her.”

Fucking fuck fuck. He’s going to kill me, too.

I’m thrashing around, trying to get the feeling back in my body. But eventually I lose out and my head flops back.

“Maybe it’s time to sleep, pretty omega. We got a long road ahead of us. Once I’ve severed your bond. Then I’ll bite you and you’ll be mine. Cannot tell you how patient I’ve been when it comes to that pretty little cunt of yours.”

I can’t feel or think anymore. It’s just my breaths and me. I can’t be here! Oh my god!

And then I’m out like a light.

33

On Drugs

Ondine

Iwake up sometime later, who knows, and I’m no longer on the couch. I’m in a log bed. It’s the softest mattress I’ve ever been on. I’m completely surrounded by white pillows. And Boone’s cowboy scent.

“Oh good! You’re up. I was worried the dose I gave you of heat suppressants was too much.”

I sit up in the bed. I’m wearing a white nightgown. Did that fucker change my clothes? I grip my chest and feel my tank top. Thank god. He just put the gown overtop of my clothes.

“How are you feeling?”

“Fuck off, Boone.”

He smiles wide at me. His mustache curls up at the ends. He’s sitting on the edge of the bed, fully clothed. Jeans and a white t-shirt.

“We’re going to have to work on that. I only want this side of you when we’re fucking. Or you’re playing piano. Otherwise, let’s just be that amiable, agreeable omega, ok?”

He pats his pants, looking for his phone. He finds it and stares at the screen.

“The Meier Pack is losing it. They called me twice asking me questions. I don’t even think they suspect me. Man-ho is at the top of their list. And then the Wong family. They don’t suspect me because Shadow thinks he scared me good the other day. But all he did was validate my resolve to take you from them. Shadow is a horrible alpha. I knew from the first time Jake talked about him that he was just a little snake.”

They’ll find me. I know it. I feel the chord that ties Freddie to me. His hands to my heart. It doesn’t even feel strained. I send all my love down the bond and he returns it.

I’m going to be ok. As soon as I think this, Boone grabs me and scents me again. I’m less erratic but weak as all hell. What has he been drugging me with?

He’s laying completely overtop of me. He also won’t shut up. I’m not even listening anymore.

He is getting hard between us. His dick sticks into my belly.

“Get off of me!” I yell, and he only pulls back a little to smile at me. “Let me go, Boone. I don’t want you. I don’t want to bond you. I want Freddie.”

He continues to smile, and I wonder why I never caught on that he’s insane? I always thought he was kind of nice.

“This is so like you. You’re afraid of being loved by someone like me. But I’ll show you. It’s going to be wonderful. I won’t hurt you like Shadow. I’m not a feral monk like Freddie. I’ll actually satisfy you, unlike that beta. You let me into your nest. You love me. You just have that little bite mark preventing you from being all mine.”

“No,” I cry out as he pushes his lips to the corner of my mouth. I still try to reason with him. “I will never accept this. Ever. Let me go!”

He shakes his head. “No.”

I growl at him and he just laughs at me.

“I could just bite you now, you know. Bond you and Freddie. I don’t want him, but I could do it.”