Two cops, huh? Well, it wouldn’t be the first time the Valor pack would be forced to remove two asshole cops in one way or another. I’d rather have their hearts than their badges because there was no fucking way I was going to let them try to force Lucy to do anything ever again.
Her skin was finally cooling down, but I couldn’t let go of her. Not when her nose was buried in my neck.
Even if it hadn’t been, I wouldn’t have been able to let go.
This was something else, wasn’t it?
I was supposed to be a fucking legacy alpha, but I’d nearly lost control tonight for the first time in my life. Her scent – fuck me, I’d never smelled anything like it. She was asleep at least, so it wasn’t as bad as it had been earlier, but my entire goddamn body was aching.
It wasn’t just my dick either, but my teeth.
Pressing down on her neck to force her even closer only helped a little. No one would be able to see her neck with my entire hand around it like this.
The smell of black currants reminded me of the end of summer, just before fall came with its golden leaves and cinnamon apples…
If I buried my nose in her hair like I wanted to, I was going to fucking lose it.
I’d never felt this unhinged before. Every single part of me wanted to tie her down and mark every fucking inch of her body. I wanted to drown her in my scent and feast on her – see if her blood tasted as sweet as her scent…
God, I wanted to rip her apart and burrow deep inside her.
Fuck.
When the hell was Cassius going to get back?
The door opened and my sanity just evaporated. The low growl that escaped me was a warning – one my pheromones would follow through with. If someone wanted to challenge me?—
“Liam, it’s me,” Cas murmured, his raspy voice soft enough it was actually a bit hard to hear him. “Frankie’s finishing up with the last one for the day.”
I didn’t want that alpha anywhere near Lucy right now even though I’d promised…I’d promised to let her go.
No, I couldn’t do that.
The last time I’d let her go, she’d fucking disappeared and I hadn’t been able to find a single trace of her. Years and years of searching. So much fucking agony every time it rained…and yet, she loved rainy days. How fucking typical.
Did she like them because she was glad I left?
It was so hard to read her sometimes. She hadn’t looked even a little bit sad when I’d told her I had to leave.
Had she thought about me at all since that day?
“Fuck, Liam, I need you to calm down.”
I glared at Cassius, my entire body tensing as I waited to see what the other alpha would do about this new situation.
“What is with you and this omega?” Cas demanded. He crossed his arms over his chest and raised an eyebrow, not exactly challenging, but definitely being a giant pain in the ass. “Is it just her pheromones?”
“And if it was?” I pressed her head to my chest, covering her ear with my other hand to soften the noise so we wouldn’t wake her up.
“I don’t know.” Cas sat down on the couch beside me, every movement slow and careful. “You’re acting like a jealous alpha though. What exactly do you have to be worried about?”
I slid my gaze to the other alpha and tried to decide whether I should tell him or not – wondering why it didn’t bother me that he was so fucking close to her, reaching for her.
Cas gently untied her shoelaces before sliding one sneaker off at a time. It was such a careful, calculated movement that she didn’t even stir.
“You like her scent, don’t you?” I gritted my teeth when Cas looked up at me through that dark hair of his, those blue eyes fucking glowing. “You’re doing a better job of containing yourself than I am. Maybe you should be the one holding her.”
“No.”