Page 214 of Unhinged Omega

Geo doesn't bother looking up. "Better than expected, apparently."

Another sound reaches us, this time unmistakable—the discordant notes of a piano, played clumsily, as if someone had simply fallen against the keys. Or been pushed against them.

"Guess she's teaching him to play piano," I remark stiffly, attempting to maintain whatever's left of my sanity.

The words have barely left my mouth when Cosima's moan cuts through the air, clear and unmistakable.

Geo's lips curl into a smirk, his one eye still fixed on his book. "Sounds more like she's teaching him to playher."

The silence that follows is excruciating.

I resume pacing, bile rising in my throat with each step. The sound of the piano continues, intermittent notes punctuated by more moans, more growls, more laughter. The sound of wood cracking and splintering.

Geo's eye twitches. The spine of his book cracks.

My mate is in there with the monster who tore through my men like they were nothing. The creature I captured to weaponize, not to fuck my omega.

Myomega, who looks at me with disgust in those violet eyes.

Myomega, who doesn't think she's mine at all.

What's most infuriating is how much I still want her. I've never wanted anyone more, and I've certainly never considered anyone my fuckingmatebefore.

I don't do mates.

I don't do love.

I barely even do sex that isn't transactional.

So what thefuckis happening to me?

Another moan, louder this time, rips through my thoughts. My hand clenches involuntarily into a fist.

Geo slams his book shut. "That was an antique, you know. Belonged to a fucking prince."

I turn to him, incredulous. "Yourpiano? That's what you're concerned about right now?"

His eye narrows. "What would you have me concerned about? Your wounded alpha pride?"

"She's my mate," I snarl.

"Funny. She seems to be mating with someone else at the moment." His tone is casual, almost bored, but I see the tension in his shoulders. He's not as unaffected by this as he pretends to be.

"Where thefuckis Raven?" I snap, finally reaching my breaking point. "What's taking him so long?"

Geo shrugs, reopening his book. "How the hell should I know? I'm not his keeper."

"Could have fooled me," I sneer. "You should go find him."

His bark of laughter is harsh, but I can tell I struck a nerve. "Like hell I'm leaving you alone in my base." He gestures toward the door with his book. "But you're more than welcome to leave. If you bring Raven back, I might even let you back in."

I eye the gun on his hip. "I need my weapon."

"No."

"You expect me to go out there unarmed?"

Geo looks around lazily, his eye eventually settling on the mantelpiece beneath the massive horned skull. "Best I can do is this," he says, reaching up to grab a rusty sword that looks likeit hasn't been used in centuries. He tosses it to me with obvious amusement.

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