Page 86 of Pit Stop

Another alpha leers. “You’re right, Ten. They all smell good, to be honest. Even if they are alphas.”

The shifters all nod, and Forest glowers at them while Sage silently preens. Of course he does. He loves the compliments.

“Could fuck ’em. Bet they taste good too.”

“Look, just fuck off with the weird comments, okay?” Forest interjects, piercing a sausage with his fork. “Don’t wanna hear any more of it.”

“Yeah, and what you gonna do about it?” Ten growls.

Bet loudly sets a plate of pancakes on the table. “Enough of this posturing. It’s annoying. Eat up. And Jex, no fighting or fucking in my space. You wanna do that, you take it outside.”

“No one is fucking anyone,” Forest replies, and Ten winks at him.

“You may end up on your hands and knees. Better watch your back out there.”

Forest’s cheeks darken in anger, and I slide a little closer to Maverick. Maybe the alphas here fuck each other all the time.Maybe they don’t care much about hierarchy or rank like we do. I haven’t seen many omegas since we got here; maybe there aren’t enough to go around.

“Fuck off,” Forest grumbles, and Sage lets out a laugh.

“Fuck off is right. This place is wild.”

One of the quieter shifters glances at Sage and talks out of the side of his mouth.

“It is wild, especially on the end of my cock. You wanna ride it, pretty boy?”

Sage balks and tosses his hair over his shoulder.

“The only one riding anything isyouonmydick.”

Bet sighs loudly at the verbal sparring, but doesn’t send anyone outside. So we just eat as quickly as possible before heading outdoors. It’s cooler up here than where we live, and I find myself shivering slightly. Maverick hands me a coat, and I shrug it on, loving how it smells of him.

But my little bubble is pierced once more when Ten appears and sniffs next to Forest.

“Find me anytime. I’ll make sure you scream.”

He laughs as he jogs away, his body shifting seamlessly as he goes, his clothes shredding onto the ground as he becomes a wolf.

Holy shit. I’ve never seen that before. I’ve heard of it, obviously, but where we live, there are no shifter packs near us. So I grew up just knowing the lore, maybe watching it on TV, but never seeing it in real life.

Forest looks stunned.

“Can’t believe he did that,” Forest says. “Like I’d ever lethim, out of any of them, fuck me. Asshole.”

Maverick eyes me, and I bite back a laugh. I kind of like that Forest is being propositioned. I mean, seriously, now he knows what it’s like to be an omega. They will all learn an important lesson while we’re here.

“Atherton wants to see you now.”

“Atherton?”

“Yeah. What? Why the face?” Bet asks, folding her arms across her chest.

“Just thought it would be a three-letter word.”

“It’s eight. So fucking what?”

I shake my head as Maverick pulls me in a little closer.

“Where can we find him?” Maverick asks.

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