Page 26 of Curvy Dirty Omega

Jesus, where had he come from? Had he run down all those stairs?

Frankie glared at his back as she watched him get into the driver’s seat. “I really don’t like him.”

“Why?”

I knew why I didn’t like him, but my partner usually liked everyone. Other alphas never bothered her, and she didn’t really get territorial around me. All this was new for the both of us, and I very much did not like this added variable while working on the biggest case of our lives.

“He’s not wearing blockers, but he has no scent? Either he has something to hide, or he’s defective.”

She walked toward the SUV, but I stood there, not quite sure I’d heard her correctly.

“What did you say?”

Frankie turned around and seemed surprised I wasn’t following her. Then she sighed and looked away. “I didn’t mean it like that.”

“Then how exactly did you mean it?” There was no way I could keep the hurt out of my voice, not about this.

“I meant…fuck. Look, I didn’t mean he was defective without a scent.” Frankie reached for me but I took a step back, too irritated to let her touch me right now. “I just meant he was a weak alpha and it’ll be hard to trust him with your safety.”

Narrowing my eyes, I tried to assess her tone and posture, but I was too angry to really read her clearly without putting my own assumptions and feelings into the mix. “His scent doesn’t have anything to do with his strength or weakness. Betas can be just as strong and dominant as some alphas.”

“Lucy…”

“Don’t say shit like that, Frankie. I don’t care if you’re feeling all hormonal.” The last thing I wanted to do was get in the car with that asshole, but we still had a job to do. “You’ve said yourself that my barely there scent doesn’t mean I’m not an omega.”

I evaded her hand as I walked past her, not the least bit interested in being comforted. I went to the passenger side of the SUV and yanked open the door to the front seat harder than necessary. Even Cassius seemed surprised that I would choose to sit beside him rather than in the back.

Slamming the door closed, I propped my chin on my fist and glared out the window, waiting for the other two to get their shit together so I could get back to work and ignore how much that single statement had bothered me.

I was still an omega, even if I was defective. I could still breed with an alpha, even if it would be more difficult than it was for other healthier omegas. There might be some alpha out there who could detect my scent, and even if they couldn’t, I was sure one of them wouldn’t mind how weak it was.

We still had functioning sex organs and a whole other set of hormones that worked just fine. I felt desire and pleasure. Someone would be fine with my career. And there were plenty of betas to choose from who didn’t care about the intensity of pheromones the same way alphas did.

My extremely weak scent didn’t mean I wasn’t an omega. Just not a very popular or desirable one.

Surprisingly, Cassius didn’t say anything or ask any questions when Frankie finally got in the backseat. “Seatbelt,” he reminded me, refusing to even start the car until I’d clicked the damn thing in place.

See? All alphas could be annoying and domineering even if they didn’t exude a strong scent.

They were all overprotective assholes who liked to put their foot in their mouth.

CHAPTER 10

Cassius

This omega was starting to piss me off.

I couldn’t figure out what it was either. I’d been watching her for over an hour now, and I still didn’t get what it was about her that would have Liam falling all over himself to accommodate her and her partner.

I eyed Lucy, waiting for the light to turn green, wondering what had pissed her off enough to choose to sit next to me when there was plenty of room in the back with her alpha.

Her platonic alpha.

I was pretty sure I’d never seen another relationship exactly like mine and Liam’s before. I’d even assumed they were together despite the color of her eyes, but ironically, they were nothing more than friends.

Well, friends was a bit too weak of a word to describe the relationship they seemed to have, but right now, these two seemed to be in some kind of disagreement.

A sassy omega wasn’t anything new, but a vicious one?

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