Page 204 of Omega for the Pack

Later that evening,my packmates and I sat around the dinner table in my sister’s apartment.

“Are you sure about this omega?” asked my sister, Jade, plopping the entire pot of soup on the table. I had dropped the bomb on them that I was thinking of getting Vanessa back.

Who knows what type of horrors she was going through right now?

“I think it’s an amazing idea,” said Ryan, scooping a ladle into his bowl. “I like her a lot. I know she committed a crime, but she was trying to improve her life.”

“How about you, Liam?” I asked. “What do you think?”

He was quietly sipping on the hot soup like it was nothing.

Shit, I already burned the tip of my tongue with the searing soup. He looked deep in thought as he rubbed his small beard.

“She needs a real pack of alphas, as you said,” Liam said. “Who’s going to help her through her heat? She needs plenty of knots to go around.”

Did he have a change of heart after Vanessa’s confession? He didn’t seem as crazy about her anymore.

“You have a point,” I sighed. “But for now, we need to do it and save her from being sold to some random pack.”

“I don’t know,” Liam said warily, but that spark came back to his eyes. I knew he was still obsessed with her, but he was hiding it.

“I think you’ll do an amazing job as a pack mate and leader,” said my sister Jade, looking at me with admiration. It was her off day from her nursing job, and we usually came over to her place on Thursdays to talk about life or just hang out. She looked similar to me with dark eyes, olive skin tone, and dark hair. She was more on the chubbier side and felt self-conscious about herself around potential alpha packs. “And honestly, she sounds like a really cool girl.”

“You’ll be an insta-aunt,” I said.

“Really?! She has a child too?”

Liam’s face saddened. “He’s with the Royal Pack now. There’s no chance in hell we can ever get him back.”

“Man, I miss the kid already,” said Ryan, shaking his head sadly and pushing his mop of blond hair away from his face. “It sucks she has to go through this. As a mother.”

“I feel for her, bro,” said Liam, already finished with the soup.

“The least we could do is offer Vee a safe space,” I said. “So tomorrow, we’ll be there at eleven a.m. sharp.”

“So you’ve decided on bringing her in?” asked Liam, licking his lips.

I could just imagine all the dirty thoughts he was thinking but wasn’t saying in front of my sister. His eyes had a dark, feral look in them, and it was something I felt before I finally fucked her before coming to Howl’s Edge.

“Yeah, but I neglected to mention something,” I said.

“What is that?” asked Ryan.

“I slept with her already.”

“What?!”

Twelve

VANESSA

Iwoke up freezing the next morning.

Stretching on the top bunk, I rubbed my cold feet. The thin, scratchy blanket did nothing to help with the cold. I was sleeping in a place that looked like a freaking warehouse with a bunch of other omegas in bunk beds.

I hated every second of being here.

It reminded me of my past life- before the leaders of Howl’s Edge courted me. This was a nightmare on repeat, and like I was living my past life all over again. The giant clock on the wall said 8:30 am.

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