There’s nothing more important to me than hockey. But also, my father is a spiteful man. The moment he knows I’ve caught feelings for a woman is the day he’ll push for me to marry his political buddy’s daughter... his omega daughter.
Not that he doesn’t make weekly attempts to get me to meet the girl.I suspect he thinks one day my alpha will need her.
So I refuse. Every single time.
He gets so fucking angry. And, some days I don’t understand myself either. I’m an alpha, she’s an omega, and she should be underneath me right now, taking my knot like a good fucking girl.
But omega or not... I’m not interested in her. She did nothing for me three years ago when she revealed, and she does nothing for me today.
Hopefully, she’ll meet her scent matched alpha, and he’ll steal her away and make her happier than her politically focused father.
Scarlett is online. A red circle is around her photo, which means someone is paying her extra for personal time. It shouldn’t, but it bothers me when she speaks to others the same way that she does with me.
To calm my racing pulse, I take a deep breath through my nose, knowing all too well that I’m not the only one vying for her attention.
And I don’t understand why this beta makes me feel the way she does. Perhaps it’s the way she smiles at the camera, or the ease with which she shares personal details about her life, which makes me realize how guarded I am about my own life.
I know she lives with her mother and two sisters. I also know her father left when she was a very young girl.
I never told her about my father, or that my mother left us, or that my brother worked in the city, but after he had a meltdown at work, he’s now on a year-long journey around the world.
I never told her my younger sister aspires to be a doctor when she told me it was the first thing she wanted to do in her life.
Or that I’m a hockey star.
In fact, the only thing she knows about me is that I’m an alpha. She saw my knot and asked why I was on BetaFans and not OmegaFans.
I wish I knew the answer.
The circle around her photo goes green, making my heart pound just knowing I’ll get to talk to her again.
I hit her call button. I normally send her a message first, but after my evening, I want to hear her sweet voice and the laughter that lies behind it. I’m not waiting for any longer.
“Hi Henryluvsbetas,” she sing-songs.
Yeah, I know the name is lame. And what the fuck made me pick Henry?
When I signed up, I thought of my father and how much he’d be disgusted with me being on the website. So I had to use his name, knowing it’s the one thing he’d hate.
She turns her camera so I can see her, but she can’t see me smiling, but it’s like she does, and she smiles back at me and my dick is already hard.
Chapter 3
Grace
It took me a while to calm down after the conversation with my mother about being an omega. It did help to speak to Sienna, and she called an omega friend, Ella, to help me.
Ella spoke to me by phone, telling me all about the heat hotels she read up on while she was waiting to go into her heat. She found the best one was in Manhattan. We’re going to meet up at the weekend to discuss it further. I need to know as much as possible about the perils of being with a pack before I go there.
After warming up the chicken dish my mom made before she left for work, I shower and change into a little denim dress that shows off my long legs and makes my body look less curvy than it really is.
And as Henry seems to like white lace lingerie, I wear that underneath.
I don’t know why I do it. Wearing something one client likes, but ignoring all others.
I sign in to my account and while I wait for someone to join me; I turn on my e-reader because I always read a book while I wait for calls to come in. I used to watch television, but sometimes I’d fall asleep and miss calls, and much needed cash.
Then my eyes catch on the box on my bedside table. I pull out a dildo with an inflatable knot that Ella asked me to try out. Ella makes sex toys for omegas—all designations, really. We thought if I used it on my account, it would be a good way to entice more subscribers to sign up and also help Ella in her bid to become a worldwide recognized brand.