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“She’ll come back,” I promised. The confidence in my voice shocked even me, but Cas needed to hear it. We both did.

“I’m going to follow them.”

“Do whatever you want as long as she doesn’t see you.” I went back inside the house and it felt so empty now that she wasn’t in it.

Cas would follow her and I would watch over them both, just like I’d promised.

Now…it was time to see what Francisco Lopez had to say about his missing heir.

Frankie would never harm Lucy, but they both had connections to the Lopez pack and if I was going to keep my promise I needed to eliminate any chance someone might use to harm her.

Because what she’d seen in the basement was just the tip of the iceberg.

CHAPTER 11

Lucy

Sitting in the waiting room of Nathan’s office after getting what felt like half the blood in my body drawn, I bounced my leg up and down as I tried to understand what the fuck was going on with me, with Frankie…

With everything.

I didn’t understand what was happening to me and I was spiraling all over again.

No matter how much I tried to focus on what was going on around me, I couldn’t stop thinking about the way Cassius and Liam had stood at the top of their stoop, watching me with the glowing eyes of a predator – one red and one blue.

They wanted to devour me, but somehow they held back.

They let me go.

Liam Valor was a legacy alpha who saw me as his, and he…let me go. Just stood there as I got in Frankie’s car and left with nothing other than the clothes they’d bought for me. Everything else was still at his house.

It was all replaceable I suppose.

I tried to focus on Frankie’s voice for the thousandth time, but I just couldn’t concentrate. Not even when she took my hand in hers and tried to soothe me like she usually did.

Guilt crashed over me when I remembered how much work she was doing all by herself—how useless I was. Why the fuck couldn’t I do anything right?

Chewing on the inside of my cheek helped make my body feel a bit more real instead of nothing more than an anchor all the way at the bottom of the ocean – the pain was the only thing keeping me from crashing into smithereens against the hidden rocks.

Pain always helped ground me, but this time, even the taste of copper felt far away as I remembered how easily my fury had turned into needy desperation when they’d strapped me to that freezing cold chair in a basement that smelled like death, decay, and chemicals.

I glanced over at Frankie, my gaze catching on her bright red lips to see she was still speaking even if I couldn’t make any of it out over the ringing in my ears. Then I looked up and studied her blue eyes that were lighter than Cas’s. Like the sky in summer. For some reason they unnerved most people but I could never figure out why.

My leg stopped bouncing and I tilted my head, wondering if the blue had always been that light or if it’s changed ever so slightly.

I was definitely losing my mind.

Shaking my head, I went back to bouncing my leg as we waited for Nathan to call me into his office.

The sweatpants and hoodie Cas had gotten for me were a little too big, but in the way I preferred. Almost like I’d bought them myself. The sneakers too. They were such a soft pink I almost hoped it didn’t rain today so they wouldn’t get dirty.

They must have bought these at some point during my heat.

Just thinking about that was making me seriously reconsider if I should keep my distance from them or not. Most alphas didn’t go this far for an omega they had no intention of seeing again after their heat.

It was entirely possible they had real feelings for me outside the effect of my pheromones.

Shoving that thought all the way to the back of my head, I studied Frankie again. She was wearing makeup and her scent blockers, but there was a slight hint of her floral tangerines lingering on her clothes.

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