Page 27 of Psycho Alphas: Part One

I pulled the trigger of the gun pressed to my temple, only to hear a dullclick.

My heart slammed into my chest, panic making it hard to breathe.

It… hadn’t worked?

Why hadn’t it worked?

The lingering silence in the room finally broke with Dan’s snort. “She can’t even do that right?”

The beautiful ice-blue eyes of my god Alpha, framed with flutters of midnight, still held mine, glittering with a thousand curiosities.

As I watched, the most breathtaking smile stretched across his pale face, and a wild laugh slipped from his mouth. He took a step back, looking around.

He spread his arms; voice filled with mirth. “It didn’t work.”

One of the others who’d come with him joined in, barking a laugh, and my eyes finally darted to Dan, whose gaze slid from me to Ace with uncertainty. But Ace clapped him on the shoulder, and Dan finally cracked his own smile, joining in on the humour and not returning his gaze to me.

They all seemed to get it, but I didn’t.

Were they laughing at me?

I glanced down at the gun. Was it… jammed?

“You’re right,” my god Alpha said, speaking to Dan as he tugged another gun from his belt. “I couldn’t claim an Omega who other Alphas have already fucked.”

Dan was cackling now, expression more relieved as my god Alpha levelled the gun at me.

I nearly broke.

Hewas going to do it, and I didn’t want that. It wasn’t the same. It felt like a failure that he had to, and I’d already failed him enough.

But then, through the deafening sounds of music and laughter, and the eyes of everyone witnessing my shame, my god Alpha moved in a flash. His gaze held mine as he whipped his arm to the side, pointing it right at Dan’s head, and pulling the trigger with an ear-splitting bang.

The laughter died with Dan, his body crumpling to the floor in an instant.

My god Alpha’s voice drowned out everything else, and his gaze pinned me with a promise never to let me go. “NotlivingAlphas, anyway.”

Another long beat of silence passed, and then, like the first brush of a string at the orchestra, the most mesmerising show in the world began.

A beginning where there should have been an end.

The first real beginning I’d ever seen.

He never had to take his eyes from me, head cocked as he regarded me with more intensity than anything I’d ever felt.

His men did the rest.

Every Alpha in Dan’s pack fled, and one by one, they were dragged back to Ace for him to put a bullet in their skull.

The comforting aroma of blood rose in the air, as the foul Alpha scents I’d long come to hate mingled with terror before turning stale with death. I didn’t want to look away from my beautiful god, but I heard their screams as the others died slower than Dan.

This was for… me?

I didn’t really understand.

When it was finally over, I was out of breath, a wild smile on my face as blood squelched beneath my shoe as I took the smallest step toward him.

“Any missing?” he asked.

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