Page 12 of Tangled in Knots

“I don’t want her to be too comfortable,” Jed growls from the back, but I ignore him.

Please don’t let Zela have heard him.My sister is incredibly protective over omegas after her best friend had such an awful heat, even if she doesn’t know them.

“Thank you,” I tell my sister, playing it cool. “She’s sleeping, but I’m hoping to make it to the house before she wakes up.”

“Morris,”Zela says in warning. “Is your pack going to help her through her heat? I probably have some prepackaged emergency omega sex toys in the closet up in my room if you’re not. It’s not the same, but it’ll help. It would be better if you just fucked her.”

Kane snorts, and I know he heard her. A blush crawls up my neck as my sister tells me to fuck an omega with my pack. There are very few things off the table with my sister, if any. Telling me where to stick my dick isn’t even one of them.

Zela has been telling me for years that I deserve better than Pack Dresmond. She thinks I need alphas with more morals and less crazy. Unfortunately, I’m stuck with them.

“Um, good to know. I don’t want to know why you have those,” I tell her, my voice strangled. “Thanks for your help.”

“One more thing, you’ll have to coax her and remind her to eat and drink. I have frozen fruit in my freezer. It’ll help her. Omega heat sex can vary, but sometimes it’ll last three days to a week,”Zela warns.

Fuck, I don’t have a week.

“Thanks,” I sigh, hanging up.

“That sounded like a pretty awkward conversation, bro,” Demon chuckles darkly. I roll my eyes because it really was.

“I took one for the team,” I mutter. “I’m pulling off here to take this road up to her house. She said the heat could last for several days. There’s no real way to know.”

“Jed, did you decide if we’re gonna taste the auction goods?” Kane asks. As much as the brothers mouth off in their insanity, Jed is our alpha. He’s the one who is the boss and our leader.

The buck stops with him. Jed grunts as he stares at the little sleeping omega twitching in her sleep. His fingers keep moving as if he wants to touch her, and finally he gives in, rubbing her ankle.

My alpha enjoys taking care of his people, and I wonder what that means for Adira when her future involves the auction house. There are a lot of fucked up packs who attend those. People who are banned from matching with omegas with the agencies.

Demon’s still looking at her as if she may bite him. I don’t know what kind of literal demons surround him, but it’s clear that he had a panic attack earlier. For as long as we’ve been a pack, he’s still an enigma to me.

Demon has always held himself aloof from me. We are pack mates, but there’s no attraction between us, which is fine. However, I don’t know him very well even after five years of being practically family, because of his need for control and holding himself apart.

He has to be perfect in all things as well. I hope this little omega manages to help him remove the stick from his ass.

Whatever happens,I think as I pull into the driveway,it’ll be interesting.

KANE

Morris’ sister has a sweet house, even though it is out in the middle of nowhere. Stepping out of the car, I look around as my boots crunch on the snow. I want to check in on the little omega in the trunk.

I’ve listened to every whispered breath like it’s my job, even though I pretended as if it wasn’t. Adria is wiggling herself under my skin, and I wonder what that means for the loyalty I have for my father. She’s earmarked for the auction house, even though she had no idea what her father was doing.

She seems too innocent to have known.

This is quite the opposite of the thoughts I had when I stormed her home and then bombed it, and I keep my face restrained in a cruel smirk as I open the back door.

Jed grunts as he removes his fingers from Adira’s ankle as if they burn, but I can tell he’s being affected by her too.

“I’ll take her down to the basement?” I suggest, even as I wrap my arm under her back and the other under her knees. I plan to cross quickly, because the temperature is much colder than it was.

Or, should I look as if I’m unbothered by the omega freezing, while still ensuring that my long legs eat up the space between here and the basement?Best to play it cool.

I don’t want anyone to take my little rabbit from me yet.

“Yeah, Morris, Damon, and I will secure the house,” Jed grunts with a nod. “I need to update Dad as well. He’s going to be less than pleased about this, but there’s nothing I can do to change it. It’s not safe to be in an enclosed moving space with an omega in heat, even in the best conditions.”

“This snow is just gonna keep getting worse,” Morris mutters, looking up.

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