Page 70 of Brandy Snap: Part One

My eyes flicked around, but I couldn’t tell if anyone else had heard him.

“Are they inside?” Sin asked Caspian, who glared pointedly at me before nodding.

“Guess we’ll finally get to see what your little plan is,” Caspian said to me, his jaw tightening.

“I still don’t know what you’re talking about,” I replied. Though I knew a lot more than I thought I would about their cryptic comments. I just didn’t know who was involved, and their motives behind sending me to the heat suite. I kept in touch with Lucielle as she searched for where the order to send me to them had come from, but she hadn't discovered anything.

“Yeah, we’ll see how long you keep that one up for, Mel.”

I shivered at how good my name sounded in his smooth voice.

Caspian reached forward, still scowling at me. I froze as I thought he was going to grab me.

Instead, he threw his arm around Sin’s neck and tugged him so hard that his hand was ripped from mine.

Kai snorted as Caspian shot me one more venomous look before he dragged Sin off into the hotel.

Suddenly, it was just me, Kai, and the tight crowd surrounding us, tracking us like they were planning an attack.

Kai laughed as he looped his arm through mine. “Let's go, Brandy. It's time for a show.”

“What do you mean ‘a show’?” I asked. I was still trying to keep my balance after the raw pleasure of being surrounded by all three of them.

“Ha! You’ll see. If we’re right, it’s going to be the most fun we’ve had for ages,” he said as he pulled me towards the doors.

A wave of scents hit us the moment we entered. It was like fifty people were shouting at me from every direction, and my brain was instantly scrambled.

I wavered, my eyes dropping to the wooden floor, trying to focus as my vision shook.

“Hey, pay attention,” Kai snapped. “This is important stuff. If you mess this up, there’s no chance you’ll be part of our pack. And that would just betragic, wouldn’t it?”

My brow furrowed as I met his glare. “You’re talking like I actually chose to be here,” I mumbled.

I was doing this all for my mum, but I didn’t know if I could even enter the crowd when it was so overwhelming. How did new omegas deal with this when they first presented?

Kai stopped dead between the double doors, snapping his fan shut between us.

He slowly turned his head to me, that fierceness I’d seen only minutes before blazing through him again. The fan trembled under white knuckles as he took a breath.

“You always have a choice,” he said bitterly. “And you chose to come back to us. Even though I told you.” His jaw clenched as he scanned the people who watched us from the steps, and he lowered his voice. “I told you to stay the fuck away from my alphas.”

Even just meeting his rage was enough to stoke my need.

We watched each other, our breaths in sync, each second that ticked by solidifying the connection between us. I urged it on, opening my body to him, inviting him in, even though it felt like he could shred me from the inside.

“Kai?” Sin’s voice followed us from inside the hotel. “Are you coming?”

We both perked up at the sight of Caspian and Sin standing in the centre of the huge foyer. A whole crowd weaved around them, and they only had eyes for us. It really felt like they were waiting for their omega to join them.

“Oh, fuck yeah.” Kai smirked at me before he lifted his fan, spreading it again to hide everything but his sharp eyes. “Let’s go start the fun.”

Melanie

“Please…”Anolderwomandirectly in front of us pinched the bridge of her nose. “Please tell me you aren’t serious?”

I had staffed events at the Spa before, weddings and birthdays and other celebrations that needed someone to quietly move through the party with canapés or drinks. It always put me on edge to be around so many people who could get me fired with one word, but they never noticed me.

They were nothing compared to standing in front of a semicircle of people who reeked of money and all looked at me with total horror. Apart from the woman in a pale pink suit on the far left who wouldn’t stop grinning.

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