Page 57 of Brandy Snap: Part One

What was I supposed to do now?

I’d said she had to pay it all, but I couldn’t leave Mum in that situation.

An empty laugh rang through me as I looked at the wastepaper bin my phone had landed next to.

It sat by my calming sky blue table I’d carefully painted with vines winding around the legs and over the round top.

Everything wooden in the room I’d painted myself: curling plants, small animals, rows of trees growing up from the skirting boards. I had lived here for years, and I’d spent all that time saving money where I could. I searched for the perfect furniture and beautiful colours of paints, delicately patterned scarves to cover the lampshades, watercolour paintings of soft forests on hot summer days and complex Turkish tiles for my kitchen.

I’d put so much work and love into it, and I’d never realised it was my nest.

The wastepaper basket was a simple metal mesh, and I spotted the crumpled business card on the top of my ruined dress that still held traces of their scents.

I craned my neck, looking up to the ceiling I had decorated with a deep midnight blue and scattered with glow-in-the-dark stars.

I had given up having a real life so that I could take care of the people I loved, and what was it worth?

All my years of hard work were swept away instantly.

I needed to calm down. I had to stop myself from panicking. I’d fix it just like I’d always done. I’d find a way, because that’s what I did.

But I shook so much I couldn’t keep upright. I had to bend over just to get air into my lungs.

I really can’t wait to see you again.

Sin’s voice echoed in my mind, and a whimper escaped me.

As soon as I thought of the way he’d looked at me as I left the heat suite, a fraction of the tension squeezing my muscles eased, and my gaze flicked to the card again.

A groan of pain and relief flowed from me as I knew what I had to do.

They needed an omega, scent match or not. If they could drop £10,000 on a luxury heat suite for a week, maybe they’d pay the same for me.

Kai

Fuckher.

Fuck her.

Fuck.

Her.

And all her shitty looks and her smile and her gasps and the way her eyes lit up when I thrust into her.

Fuck her brandy scent, and her moans, and fuck everything else.

I didn’t even want to say her name because it hurt so fucking much.

Even though it had been so fucking good to hold her and sink into her slick heat as she widened her legs for me and—

“Kai!” Sin cried out, and my eyes shot open.

I instantly snapped my mouth open and yanked myself back, bumping into Sin’s chest as I let him go.

I groaned as blood dripped down my chin and stained my bedsheets.

We were lying on my huge bed in my nest, completely naked, absolutely glued together as my alphas sandwiched me. And I’d made sure we stayed that way since we’d all got back from work.

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