Page 125 of Why Cruise

“Alpha.” The word got his attention. I could have whispered it and he would have heard. “Bite us.”

Justice

Alpha. Bite us.

The certainty in Mackenzie’s eyes instantly rearranged my entire world. I looked at Theo. My omega. Mine. In pain, suffering.

“You can’t form a pack with two omegas.” I said.

“Bite us,” she repeated.

Ren was at my side. Where he always should have been. A desperate hope in his eyes, but he shook his head.

“Mr. Twill…”

“Don’t call me that.”

After my aura had presented, pain had wracked my body. Instincts had flooded me. All I could do was lie on my floor, staring up at the fluorescent lights with visions of Ren sinking his teeth into me.

“I am a complication that’s not good for the CEO.”

“You don’t get to tell me what’s good for me.”

“Just.” He tilted his chin, just slightly, just enough to show consent. “I’m sorry.”

I sank my teeth into him hard. His skin gave with a pop. He flooded into me. His blood, his taste, his aura, bringing love and fear and loyalty. He was mine. He had always been mine. Since the day I got off that bus for first grade, I knew I loved him, too. He sagged as power flashed through both of us. I held him up by the neck and slung an arm around him.

I pulled back. Blood welled and trickled down his neck.

“Forgiven.”

He bent and picked Mackenzie up with an arm around her stomach, bringing her eye level with us.

“Omega.” I brushed bangs out of her eyes.

“Yes. A hundred times, yes.”

I cupped her face, nuzzled her neck with tiny kisses. I was more careful, controlled, when I broke her skin. She yelped at the pain, but wrapped both arms around my neck like she’d never let go. She tasted like sunshine.

I put her down and traced a finger along my bite mark. It would be there forever, making her mine.

“I love you,” she whispered. And I felt it. I felt her in my aura, becoming a part of me. I staggered from the force of it. And then she turned and bolted across the police station.

An officer tried to grab her, but she ducked and crawled between his legs to get to Theo.

“Tommy, go get our pack registration paper. We are claiming that omega.” Gaston practically foamed at the mouth.

Ren and I both growled. Tommy darted for the door. Ren threw out a leg and tripped him, sending Tommy crashing to the floor. He hit his head on a desk on the way down. He did not get up again.

I rounded on the officer in charge. “That omega belongs to me. I’m taking him. You just saw me become a pack lead. My teeth are in them. Give him to me.”

He threw his hands up like this was too much drama for him and nodded to one of his deputies.

One unlocked the door to the cell. Mackenzie scrambled to make it to Theo. When the second door opened, she took Theo into her arms, wrapping herself around him. His groan of relief rippled through the entire building.

Gaston bellowed and charged one officer. I heard the angry zapping of a taser as Gaston was buried under a pile of blue shirts.

“We can’t take him back on the ship,” Ren said.

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