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“Whoa, what is that?” Leon’s voice was heady as the pheromones filtered into the study.

MacKenzie stepped in front of him, scenting the air as she furrowed her brow at his obviously intoxicated expression.

“I don’t smell—wait. Wait.” She breathed deeper, every other wolf in the room doing the same. “That smells like—”

“A heat,” Grayson finished.

Shit.

It wasn’t coming from MacKenzie or the other females in the room. It was coming from upstairs—in my room. Senna. It had to be.

A low rumble began to fill the room as the most susceptible wolves lost themselves to the call of an omega’s heat. No. She’s mine.

As clumsy steps sprinted for the door, I rushed forward, using every bit of strength in my legs to get between the exit and my pack. I landed there first, and the wolves pulled up short. Uncontrollable growls left each of them as the instinct to find and rut whoever was making that heavenly scent overtook them.

I felt it myself, likely stronger than all the others because Senna was my mate, and they would not be touching her.

“Back!” The roar shook the room, cracking out of me like thunder.

My pack flinched back, my alpha claim demanding that they freeze. MacKenzie and a few of the pack’s existing omegas stepped between me and the affected wolves.

Kenzie held up her hands. “Go. I’ll keep them at bay. If Senna’s in heat this soon after the excommunication, she’s going to need tending to—fast.”

“Stay.” I put everything I had into the command, and my wolves whimpered low as they held their ground.

Tearing out of the room and up the stairs, I rushed straight to my bedroom. The smell of roses and almonds grew stronger with every step, and I was losing my damn mind. It was too fucking good. I had to get to her. I had to find Senna and claim her entirely.

My footsteps pounded on the wood floor until I was right outside the door. I reached out, turning the knob and flinging the thing wide before closing it again behind me. I locked the door with my key, securing us inside.

Roses. Almonds. Delicious dessert, better than anything, filled the air of my room, mixing with the lingering leather and pine smell of my own things. Spinning around, I found Senna in my bed.

Naked.

Stalking toward her, I could see the lidded gaze of her heat overtaking her. She clutched the covers, holding them around her bare skin with a white-knuckled grip. She was clearly going through another wave, but she was also very obviously terrified.

It was enough to get me to pause, pulling to a stop right at the side of my bed.

“Senna.” My voice was raspy, a hungry growl. “Fucking hell, Omega. You’re in heat?”

A pained sob left her, and she nodded as another crest of hormones bloomed out of her, renewing that divine scent.

“I didn’t know. I-it’s early. The stress…from the ex…fuck.” She pinched her eyes closed, her head lolling. “I usually go to Terrance’s shed away from the pack or private area. Do you…do you have somewhere…”

“You’re not going anywhere.” I climbed into the bed, unable to stop myself, but still stayed the smallest bit back from her. “Hells, Senna. I…”

My words drifted as that smell of hers surged again. I was diamond-hard, and I needed to rut that pussy of hers until we were both too exhausted to stand. The mate bond flared within me, and the calming surge that an alpha could offer his mate vibrated out of me in a low purr of sorts.

I’d never made that sound before.

“Jet, please. You can’t...you can’t just use me and then toss me away.”

Oh, damn, I’m not going to make it.

“That’s not…that’s not what I want, Senna.” I chewed on my lip briefly before instinct drove me to inch closer to her, sniffing the air and hunting for that scent. “You’re my mate. I want only that. I didn’t…oh fuck, sweetness.”

She was trembling as another wave of hormones peaked. Senna moaned low, arching her back. I could see the hardened buds of her nipples pressed up against the fabric of my sheets. My sheets. It was making her scent rub off all over my bed, my own leather and pine smell coating her skin.

“You keep…you keep saying mate like it matters. You rejected me. You left me alone.”

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