Page 34 of Curvy Dirty Omega

My neck…the last band of scent blockers was so tight I couldn’t breathe.

Nails dug into my skin as I tried to remove it, but nothing was cooperating and I couldn’t help the small scream of frustration when it wouldn’t come off.

I couldn’t breathe.

Tears threatened to fall when the panic started to win?—

Warm hands grabbed my wrists and shifted them so my arms were across my body, making it impossible to struggle when Liam reached up and ripped the last of the scent blockers off of my skin. The adhesive made it feel worse than getting waxed, but I could breathe again.

I looked up at him in shock and my breath caught when I saw his red eyes blazing down at me.

Every single muscle in my body went completely still.

This was a legacy alpha – a predator of the highest class.

Liam Valor’s eyes were actually luminescent, his entire body surrounding me as he bared his teeth – furious.

With me.

I swallowed down the whimper that nearly escaped me, a tiny sliver of that omega deep inside reacting to his emotions.

Fuck, I was drowning in him, and he was still wearing his scent blockers. How would I ever handle his pheromones if he took them off?

“I’m taking you to the hospital,” he told me in such a deep growl that I shivered.

It took me way too long to understand what he’d said, but when it finally registered, I tried to yank my hands out of his. It was fucking useless when I felt so weak, but I couldn’t help it. There was no way I was going to the fucking hospital, and even if I was, I was going to let him take me.

“Stop it,” Liam snarled, grabbing my face with his free hand so hard I winced. “Do you have any fucking idea what you’re doing right now?”

My stomach flip-flopped and I froze again, searching his eyes for the answer. It freaked me out that I had no idea what he was talking about, enough so that him holding me like this barely even registered.

“You need to rein in your pheromones.” Liam pulled me a little closer, his red eyes flashing with rage. “We’re going to have a fucking problem if you don’t.”

I searched his eyes again, still not quite understanding. “You can smell them?”

Liam dropped his chin and his hair fell into his eyes, making those garnet eyes glow even brighter as he stared me down. He didn’t answer me, but he didn’t need to.

Somehow, he could scent me.

A thread of panic slid through me. “That’s impossible.”

“Is it?” Liam’s hand on my face tightened and he yanked me even closer. “You smell like black currants and summer…wild roses and patchouli.” His eyes became wild and he licked his lips, almost like he could already fucking taste me – as if he planned to devour me.

Somehow, this alpha could scent me—he could scent me and it was affecting him.

Fuck.

What the hell was I supposed to do now?

CHAPTER 12

Lucy

“I—I don’t know how to pull them back,” I whispered, too scared to move and make everything so much worse than I already had. “I’ve never had to…no one—this has never happened to me before.”

Liam took a deep breath, clearly struggling, but it seemed like something in him settled as he processed my words. “Okay…I can work with that if you let me help you.”

My panic spiked as I tried not to think about what the fuck that might mean.

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