Page 24 of The Forgotten

Gareth is the wild card, and a part of me likes that. It’s why we don’t need another person in our pack that we can’t control.

My hand fists at how pissed off Olivia makes me. Rejecting her should mean that I don’t fucking care if she lives or dies, but the way that Cai and Maddox are reacting, allows me to see that I’m very wrong.

She’s under our skin and I fucking hate it.

“Excuse me, what? Did they let you out of the mental institution too soon?” Maddox asks, moving closer.

Olivia refuses to look at him, while Gareth strikes in her defense. Maddox’s mistake is getting within Gareth’s long arm span, and his head rocks back when Gareth punches him.Blowing out a breath, I shake my head at how loyal he already is to Olivia.

She’s a goddamned stranger!

“Gareth,” I complain, my fingers pulling at my hair. It’s probably sticking straight up at this point because I can’t stop fucking with it.

“You’ll go bald and be less handsome if you keep pulling your hair,” Gareth says, ignoring my tone as he pushes Olivia’s chin up to gaze into her eyes. “I will hide everything you could think to hurt yourself with, Angel. I need you to understand that I’m nothing like Mallan and those other dirtbags.”

“Who?” Cai asks.

“She can’t have alphas if she’s scent matched to us,” Maddox adds, rubbing his bruised face. There’s also a cut from where Gareth’s ring glanced off his cheekbone. At this rate, we’ll all be showing evidence of Gareth’s anger.

“A bite will eventually take if it’s forced,” Olivia says in a dead tone, her gaze on Gareth’s, refusing to look anywhere else.

Outside of her responses, she’s trying hard to ignore our existence.

“That’s illegal,” I say without thinking. It doesn’t matter that my brothers and I often partake in illegal activities, the people who work for my father at the sex club want to be there. Forcing someone to your will as she’s describing is asking to be killed.

“Yes, because you’re so perfect,” Cai chuckles, his gaze trained on the omega who is beginning to drift.

“Olivia,” Gareth yells in her face, making her body flinch. “Stop doing that or I’ll start breaking shit to get you to pay attention to me.”

“Is everyone bleeding but me?” Cai asks, moving to investigate the blood mixed in with the glass on the tile floor.

“I’m sure I could change that,” Gareth mutters, pulling some of the tape off the chair binding Olivia to it. “You and I aregoing to have a chat, Olivia. I need to know everything my idiot brothers have failed to find out.”

“Repeated acts of rape aren’t typically documented on the internet,” she rasps dully.

“I think we should be a part of this conversation, Gareth,” Maddox says, his lids shuttering as he gazes at Olivia.

“What the fuck are you talking about, Olivia?” Cai asks, moving closer to her.

My lips part to warn him, but not before Gareth backhands him.

“This needs to be a private conversation,” he says.

“My past isn’t any of your business,” Olivia says as Gareth wraps the tape around the back of her sweatshirt to keep her bound. “My stance is that I do not wish to be in the presence, home, or within a hundred mile radius of the males who rejected me. You don’t get to give a shit now.”

“Don’t tell me what to do,” Cai grunts, his voice muffled. His nose is bleeding as he drops his hand. Now we’re all bleeding.

Gareth’s face is even covered in scratch marks. Fuck, we ended up with a hellcat for an omega. My cock twitches in interest, but I shut it down because now isn’t the time.

“This is your new home until we can decide what to do with you,” I decide, ignoring Maddox’s noise of disapproval. He knows I’m right. “Gareth, maybe you can get her to talk to her daughter’s pack to tell them she’s perfectly fine and wants to remain with us to avoid a war.”

“‘Fine’ is a stretch… Nope!” Gareth yells as Olivia tries to spit at him. He squeezes her jaw until it opens before returning the attempted favor…right into her mouth and forcing her to swallow it.

My jaw drops as do my brothers’ as I listen to her muffled screams as she attempts to fight him.

“You’re a damn hellcat with no manners,” Gareth growls, voicing the thoughts I had earlier. “You’re going to learn to like the taste of my spit in your mouth, Olivia. I won’t mind turning your ass red either. I know you like that.”

Maddox, Cai, and I drop further into shock as he ties a clean dish rag around her lower face as a gag, and picks her up in a bridal carry. Gareth is an incredibly dominant beta but likes to be topped by me every time we have sex. He says he likes the feeling of my cum running out of his stretched hole.