Page 27 of The Blind Hordesman

Silence falls. I imagine Dreikx standing there stupefied.

I am stupefied. There’re layers and layers to what makes this Omega tick, and I want to peel them all away and get to the core of who this woman is.

“At your service,” Dreikx replies, then leaves. He returns with meds, I presume, because Kiki kneels and starts cleaning me, putting sticky smelly shit on my chest.

“In the east,” Kiki begins, “there’s a town with a drone station. Several drone stations. It’s manned by Alpha males such as yourselves and Telean males such as you, General, though none as intelligent.”

“Kiki, baby, your fangirling over Dreikx makes me homicidal.”

“You’re always homicidal, Alpha,” she says. “That’s what I like about you.”

Hot damn. “Come sit on my lap, baby.”

She giggles. This one gets me. Of all the Omegas, it’shisdaughter that gets me. Go figure. Such is my life. A thrilling adventure.

“Do not interrupt her,” Dreikx bites out. “As you were saying, dear?”

Kiki clears her throat, “The main drone station is heavily guarded.”

“I have scanned this entire country,” Dreikx says. “There’s no such town around here.”

“Father knew you would. Regardless of what you may think, Father isn’t stupid.”

“How is he avoiding my scans?”

“The Teleans on his crew have developed counterscans. All you will see is land. Endless snow. The only way to see it is to actually go there, but there’re guards. They kill everyone who approaches. Or so I’ve been told.”

I grip her wrist, still her as she swipes over the raw skin on my neck. “What do you mean you’ve been told? He tells you about his business?”

“The pack he intended for me brags. That’s where they work.”

“Good to know, baby. When I march into that town, be sure to point out the pack he intended for you.” My blood might boil at the mention of the damn pack.

“Father isn’t there,” she says.

“But the pack is, and I’m going after them.”

“Seer,” Dreikx says. “That is not your mission.”

I scrub my face. “But I can’t let them live either. After I kill them, you will enter the town and examine the drones, and we go from there.”

“Oh no,” Dreikx says. “The imposter is not there, she said. Seer, you can’t get distracted now. You arethisclose.”

“Can’t have a pack thinking they have a claim on my Omega.”

“Yours?” Dreikx squeaks.

“Mine.” There, I said it and I can’t unsay it. It’s done. Kiki is mine, and I’m going after the pack.

“Alpha,” T-ne says. “The Collectors will arrive by nightfall.”

“Then we better leave before they get here.”

“If the imposter isn’t in the east,” Dreikx says, “where is he, dear?”

“Last time he left, I got the impression he’s ready to head for your coast.”

“Where, precisely?”

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