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Chapter Six

JASPER

I’m inserting myself into Tommy’s house and life, but I can’t bring myself to care as I walk in the door with my overnight bag.

“The windows are all sealed, and the doors won’t unlock unless it’s by my fingerprint,” he grunts as he locks the door behind him.

“So that means…”

“Tommy, you’re a fucking bastard,” Marie snarls as she gets up from the couch. “I can’t get out of the house, and you damn well know it. This entire place is a fire hazard!”

My lips press together in amusement as I see Tommy’s sister stalk over to us. Her long blonde hair is tangled from the exhausting night, her brilliant blue-green eyes are angry and tired.

As an omega, even her normally sweet scent of chamomile and honey smells burned as she snarls at us. Damn, Tommy has his work cut out with her.

Rolling his eyes, he appears bored as he gazes on her. “It’s not my fault someone brought bullshit to my doorstep, Marie. You have nothing better to do, and you know that in the event of a fire, I’d get an alert on my phone to open the emergency doors,” he says.

“I actually didn’t know that, asshole,” she mutters, folding her hands over her chest. “I’m not invited over enough.” I watch them as if it’s a drama on television, because they tend to fight like cats and dogs. Marie is single, often picking up extra shifts as often as possible and ignoring whenever her brother offers her money. She’s too damn independent to let him help her.

“All I do know is that you’re making me an accessory to kidnapping. Who the hell is the girl all beaten up in your bed and what sort of criminal activity are you dragging me into?” Marie asks with a huff, pushing her blonde hair over her shoulder.

The reminder that Cerenity is in his bed makes me irrationally angry. Tommy merely shrugs at me as if to say it was the only place to put her, but we both know that’s a lie. There are eight bedrooms in this monstrosity of a house, and the next neighbor can’t be seen from the fence. This place is obnoxiously safe.

“Don’t look at me as if I did this to her, silly woman. You damn well know better than that. I found her in the dumpster at work,” Tommy grunts. “It looks like she ran afoul of some people, and they decided to teach her a lesson. Someone threw her in with her arms tied behind her back to feed her to the rats. I don’t think they expected her to live through it, or for anyone to be working late at the gym. Jas and I pulled her out. She was damn lucky we were there. We’re looking into what happened.”

Marie pales as she takes that in, and I know she has some idea as to what that means. She’s a nurse, has no ties to Tommy’s work outside of patching up his fighters on nights no one else can, but she’s a very smart omega.

“Tommy,” she gasps. “The girl is in for a rough road. She definitely has a concussion and she’s been having nightmares on and off, though she hasn’t woken up again to ask any questions. I had to sedate her once while you were gone when she got really violent. She’s also very dehydrated.”

A scream from the room upstairs makes our heads snap up, and Marie curses under her breath as she takes off running, her long hair streaming behind her. Tommy glances at me as he rushes after her, making me helpless to do anything but follow.

I shouldn’t want to get closer, but there’s something about the injured omega that keeps pulling me toward her.

I know the only thing it could biologically be, but I’m twenty-six-years-old and don’t believe in fairytales or scent matches at this point. My sister was lucky enough to meet hers in the oddest of places, and while I’m not exactly happy that they’re executioners for a mob boss, I can’t exactly throw stones when one of my best friends is a mafia boss.

Sighing at how confusing my life is becoming, I walk up the stairs and into Tommy’s room to see the little omega is tangled in the tubing of her IV and blankets. She's wearing one of Tommy’s long black shirts, but it’s so big that it balloons around her, making it feel as if she’s drowning in it.

The little omega is trapped in her own nightmare, and all I want to do is pull her out of it. I just don’t know if the real world is much better of a place for her right now.

“Shh, you’re safe,” Marie says, pinning her arms to the mattress to attempt to keep her from ripping out the needle from her arm.

“No,” I bark when Cerenity mewls as if in pain and struggles harder. “Get the fucking IV out of her, but don’t hold her down. We don’t know what happened to her earlier tonight.”

“Goddamnit, we’re going to scar this poor girl,” Tommy mutters. “Come on, Marie. Move your ass.”

Marie glares at her brother as she attempts to pull the needle from Cerenity’s arm as she struggles with her, when Tommy leans over the little omega and starts to purr for her. Breathing hard, Marie gets the needle free, and stands there watching her brother as if she’s never seen him before.

Tommy is six-foot-four, thirty-eight-years-old, and a brick shit house of muscle. He’s the last alpha you’d ever expect to purr for anyone. My heart pounds as I push away the omega’s dark, blood-streaked, blue hair, watching as she begins to relax and her breaths even. There’s no way Tommy’s sister can sedate her again so close to having done so earlier in the night.

“What the fuck,” Marie whispers. “What pod people have taken hold of you?”

Tommy takes a deep breath, grunting in annoyance when he can’t smell anything but garbage and antiseptic. Frowning when I can’t either, I shove my nose in the crook of her neck, shaking my head when I can’t scent her.

“I can’t explain it, but this girl is mine,” Tommy rumbles. The omega whimpers in her sleep, so I find myself purring to keep her asleep as Tommy talks. Marie looks as if her poor brain is about to explode.

“She may damn well be Jasper’s too, but I can’t fucking smell her.”

“I tried to clean her up as much as possible,” Marie says in a small voice. Tommy’s sharp emerald eyes cut to her as I continue to purr from deep in my chest. Cerenity is still twitching in her sleep, and I give Marie the full weight of my icy blue stare.

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