Page 65 of Psycho Alphas: Part Two

My eyes darted to the door, then back to him. “You’re mine,” I muttered. “He has no right.”

“Notevenif he’s worried about what I might do if we’re alone?”

I narrowed my eyes, peering up at him. He was so still, fingers still curled around my wrists as if expecting me to try and shift closer again. He’d always been hard to read. I considered myself pretty good at it, but right now the bond was shut and I wasn’t sure at all what that cold look in his eyes meant. “What are you gonna do that you haven’t already done?” I asked.

“I would guess that what I’ve already done is exactly what he is concerned about.”

I felt a little smile tug at my lips. “Yeh,” I scoffed. “But he thinks you broke me.”

I mean, sure, Ace hadn’t put me back together all that well, but all he’d done was step on the shards of an already broken vase.

He’d found me like that.

“WhatdidI do then, Omega?” he asked, and I thought there was a true curiosity in his eyes this time.

I thought about that.

Ace hadn’t helped me get fixed—not like I knew Knox and Rogue wanted to, but he had always been better than thebefore.

“You claimed me,” I whispered, and my jaw clenched as the truth of what he’d done came barreling in. “I just…” I didn’t quite manage to stifle the angry little growl that rose in my chest at the thought of it. “I finished the job when you wouldn’t.”

There was a strange silence between us as he watched me with far more interest than I remembered. Or I thought so, anyway.

I glanced down at Bunny, who was resting on his chest between us.

I hated it when he went all quiet.

“You neverhadto take me from Dan’s pack.” My voice was tight. “But you did. You weren’t ever going to let me go, but then… then you didn’twantme.”

I felt a strange, clawing desperation that I needed to make him get it: it never had to be like this.

“You… you weren’t, were you?” I pushed, my voice wobbling.

“Weren’t what?”

“Going to let me go.”

He rested his head back on the headboard, holding my gaze as he finally released my wrists. “Never.”

I felt a surge of relief from that single word, and I wasn’t even sure why. I was just so full of second guesses, and the rage he’d felt when he’d finally surfaced… but I needed him to know I hadn’t had a choice.

Not really.

He’dtaken that from me.

“So,” he mused, “if you thought Imightlet you go, you wouldn’t have gone through with thismess?”

My lips parted in shock, my fist balling against his chest. “I would, too.” Howdarehe. “But if you’d bonded me proper I’d have never had the chance.”

His low, involuntary bark of a laugh caught me so off guard I flinched back.

It was rare as diamonds, seeing him laugh.

For a moment he looked poised to reach after me, as if he wanted me close after all, but then the door creaked and I spun on his lap.

Ohhhh shit.

Knox was standing in the doorway, peering in, eyes narrowed before he caught a glimpse of us.