Page 8 of Curvy Nerdy Omega

Liam Valor considered his omega a threat.

Trying to wrap my brain around that gave me a headache and I gave up trying to understand what made him so fucking sure she could cause that much mayhem. What had she done when they were kids for him to stare at her like he expected her to rip his heart out of his chest and eat it while we all watched?

Lucy had shown me just how crazy she could be when she’d put the knife to my throat and then her own, but Liam watched her like he thought she could still kill us both even though she was cuffed to the interrogation chair.

What made him so fucking sure when he’d been just as surprised as me that she’d fought us like an expert martial artist? It certainly hadn’t been in her records.

What else didn’t I know?

“I’m going to kill you,” Lucy stated. Her voice was so calm, bored even, that a chill went down my spine.

I absolutely believed her. I didn’t know how she’d manage it, but she would. I’d even believe she’d done that kind of thing before, and considering who her father was, it wouldn’t really be a surprise.

Lucy didn’t seem surprised Liam believed that she would kill him.

She leaned so far forward she hung from the cuffs, and I winced when the scent of her blood hit the air. I watched Liam closely and waited with bated breath to see what would happen next.

Usually, it was my job to interrogate people, but every once in a while Liam would do it himself.

I had no fucking idea what to expect with these two. All I knew was I couldn’t let them kill each other. I didn’t think I could live without either of them. I swallowed down bile at the thought of having to live this miserable life alone.

We had to figure out a way to make this work.

“Before you kill me, I’d like to explain.” Liam didn’t tease her, or try to plead with her. He simply told her what he wanted with zero emotion attached despite how much he had to be freaking out right now.

After all, this was the girl he’s spent millions of dollars trying to find, and now here she was, ready to gut him the second she got the opportunity.

“Then explain,” Lucy whispered. Somehow, she made those simple words sound like a threat. “You have my full attention.”

That really should not make me feel jealous after everything I’ve been through.

Ever since I’d settled into my alpha designation I’d gotten into fights. High school had been a fucking nightmare thanks to just how dominant of an alpha I was. Kids who’d just settled into their designations were cruel beyond belief as they all tried to figure out where they stood in the pecking order.

It had taken me way too long to learn how to ignore my instincts. It had taken me even longer to learn how to drop my eyes first, or ignore the jeering taunts that questioned my strength and abilities.

I was from a normal, working-class family, not a legacy pack. We didn’t have connections or money, but before my parents died, they’d made sure we lived a relatively comfortable life. I never went hungry, even when my appetite became insatiable after becoming an alpha. They’d made sure I had everything I needed, even when I grew over a foot in a single year.

Sometimes, I wondered if I was as strong of an alpha as I was because of my parents.

Not many betas ended up with omegas, and even fewer ended up with alphas. There had to have been some weird genetic glitch that allowed me to surpass all the normal alphas and become something like a legacy alpha.

But no matter how strong I was, I was not a legacy alpha. My eyes stayed blue, but the color shifted slightly until they glowed like a predator’s when I was angry. I may be taller than most legacy alphas and bigger, but I still had only one knot.

One year two guys from a legacy pack trapped me in the locker room after soccer practice and stripped me out of my clothes so they could see if I actually had only one knot or two. Like my eyes weren’t already an indicator of the answer.

That was the first time I was expelled, but definitely not the last. I was just lucky those idiots hadn’t told their parents who’d beaten them so badly they’d ended up in the fucking hospital. It would have been too shameful to admit that two legacy alphas had gotten their asses handed to them by some nobody, especially when they’d outnumbered me.

It had taken a few more years after that to learn how to ignore the instincts raging at me to prove my dominance, but by then I was shipped off to a boarding school for problem kids.

That’s where I met Liam.

Yeah, a lot of legacy alphas went to that boarding school by choice, but it was built like a prison which was why they’d sent me there on a scholarship. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get past the security without someone stopping me.

It was honestly impressive, but it also made sense.

Brand new legacy alphas were dangerous to everyone around them which was why there wasn’t a single omega or beta in that school. We’d had to learn how to control ourselves before we rejoined society and after the first time I got caught, I never tried to escape again.

That place was the only reason I could control my instincts and it had even helped me go a step further.

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