Page 207 of Kingdoms of Night

Somewhere in North Carolina

Wait, that’s it?

I frowned.

Then I dipped my head back to see that Jonas had left, his steps silent.

What the hell?

I sat up, wet from the damn stream and other things.

He fucking left.

My wolf growled inside me, furious.

But she wasn’t mad at him. She was mad at me.

She might not understand words, but she understood that I’d insulted her chosen Alpha.“I’d take any knot right now.”

Okay. That wasn’t fair. Nor was it true. I would eventually reach that state while in estrus, which was why I hated going into heat, but I wasn’t near that point yet. I could easily choose right now.

And yeah, I’d choose him over all the Alphas I knew.

I’d just been pissed at the situation. Pissed that he’d caught me. Pissed that I’dlikedhow he’d caught me. Pissed with how easily I was giving in to him. Pissed that we were in the middle of the woods, away from my labs, and nowhere near my suppressants.

Pissed that some part of me was thankful for all of the above.

Thankful that it was Jonas and no one else.

Thankful that we werealone.

I’m so fucked up, I thought, curling into a ball on my side as a pang hit my lower abdomen.What am I even doing?

And what is he doing?

He’d just left me here.

What kind of Alpha left an Omega alone when she was about to go into heat? He should be fucking me already, bringing me that much closer to the edge of my impending insanity.

Not walking away.

Alphas didn’t give Omegas choices. They took what they wanted.

Does he not want me?

My frown deepened.No, he definitely wants me.I’d seen the evidence of that hanging between his thick thighs.

He’d walked away out of pride because I’d insulted his knot. I’d insultedhim.

Most Alphas would have just fucked me in response, told me to behave and take it andenjoy. Proved their prowess and size of their knots through action alone.

Yet Jonas leaving me here proved a different sort of point.

I’d rejected him, and he’d more or less accepted it.

Which made him a very different kind of Alpha indeed.

“I’ll make you a safe place in the cabin for your heat. Or you can stay out here and fend for yourself.”

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