And I was hers.
Wholly and completely.
CHAPTER 34
Lucy
Oh god. Liam wasn’t just crazy, crazy, he was fucking insane.
The way he kissed me made it feel like he’d only been on a long trip, one that took years, but now he was finally home – showing me just how much he’s missed me.
His tongue gently slid against mine, making every thought in my head stutter, but there was no way I could forget about what he’d just done.
I broke away from him, breathing hard.
What the hell was wrong with him? How could he call his mother and throw everything in her face like that?
The goddamn alpha of the entire Valor pack had basically offered him a blank check – the entire fucking world on a diamond platter if that’s what it took to get him to stay.
And Liam had refused her like it was nothing.
His eyes were such a dark red as he stared down at me but they glowed with this inner light…this motherfucker had cried for me.
An alpha—a legacy alpha got down on his knees with tears streaming down his face. For me. I don’t know if he was even aware he was crying as he begged me not to leave and that somehow made it all feel more real than it would have if he was sobbing.
I was his home.
The skin of my cheeks burned with the heat of my own tears, but neither of them did anything about it this time. They didn’t move a single muscle as I stared at Liam like he’s lost his goddamn mind.
Who was I fucking kidding? He’s always been like this. This man’s been unhinged from day one and I really needed to stop being shocked when the crazy boy did crazy boy things.
Honestly, if I could accept that he was monitoring me, stalking me, tracking my phone, and torturing people in his basement because they tried to hurt me…why was this what had me speechless?
Why did him cutting ties with his pack actually shock me more than the fact that he’s been hiding who he was?
All I did was give him a hypothetical situation and he instantly destroyed any possibility I might use that as an excuse to reject him.
Like it was nothing…and I was everything.
Somehow, he managed the impossible. Liam actually made me feel like I was the one with all the power even when I was the omega – like I was holding his leash and all I had to do was say the word and he’d rip apart all these stupid rules to give me the world I wanted.
With his teeth.
Liam would make the world bleed for me and I really, truly believed he would.
I was still breathing hard, trying to catch my breath as too many emotions to count rose and then fell.
Yeah, he didn’t tell me who he was, but Liam was right. The morning we ran into each other for the first time in fifteen years was only hours after he found out his brother was dead. Murdered. That very same day I got sick.
There were times he could have mentioned it after that, but could I say I wouldn’t have done the same thing if our roles were reversed? If he acted like he didn’t want to be with me without pheromones giving me a chance?
Yeah, I was still pissed about it, but more than anything I was relieved. He knew everything. Saw all my crazy and didn’t even blink. Liam knew who my father was and he was very aware that I wasn’t quite…right.
“Can you really do this?” I asked, needing to be sure. “I refuse to end up in the same situation my father did. I’m an extremely clingy omega and I don’t like being alone, but I don’t like having to ask for attention either. I won’t do it. What I need…one of you will always have to be by my side. Do you understand just how annoying that will be for you?”
The slow grin spreading across his face would terrify most people, but I couldn’t fucking get enough of it because I knew exactly what it meant.
Liam loved how crazy I was.