Page 16 of Brandy Snap: Part Two
“But I can be my real self around you. You’re just that special, Kai,” she said with a fake simper.
“Uh-huh,” I grunted, straightening myself. “Fine. I’ll behave,” I sighed as I ran my gaze over to Camille. “But I’m serious, Camille. It’s just going to make things worse if you hang out over here. Besides, if you meet Brandy now, you can find out why Cas and Sin are so addicted to her!”
Just saying the words was like warm sewage oozing down my throat.
Even though I’d planned to hammer another nail in the coffin of Cas and Camille’s relationship, a bit of me knew the words were true. It didn’t matter how much they denied it—they couldn’t get enough of her.
And I was exactly the fucking same, only I had to protect my alphas from both Brandy and Camille’s wily ways.
I sighed again as I pushed a hand against my hip, offering Camille my arm. “I’m sorry I’m such a bitch. You’re just lucky it’s not contagious.”
Camille gave a small smile before flicking a nervous glance to Lily, who kept glaring with her arms crossed, looking at me stoney-faced.
“I’m really fine,” she gently reassured Lily. “Sin is at the edge of the crowd. And you’ll be able to see me the whole time.”
“It’s them I don’t trust, not you,” she said, her lips thinning as she gave me a pointed look.
I shrugged innocently, even though I was already thinking of ways I could goad Camille and Brandy into hating each other.
I had to scram before Lily started another one of those dramatic conversations about Camille’s health that Sin’s family loved so fucking much. So I wiggled my arm to show Camille I was waiting.
She gave me an apologetic look before hesitantly slipping her hand through.
I pressed my mouth together as those pesky pins and needles started, but they were less intense than usual. Maybe Camille wasn’t feeling it today.
I clenched my teeth as the buzzing came next, but I wasn’t going to let her manipulate me. I wasn’t here for her.
Yeah, maybe I wanted to chop Camille’s head off for using me as target practice with her shitty aura, but it was nothing compared to the way I wanted to keep Brandy alive so I could unpeel her piece by piece.
Brandy was my omega—mine to play with, mine to fuck around with however I wanted. And, after the Selection, we’d toss her away like the trash she was and my alphas could go back to worrying about Camille instead.
“Let’s go, pretty girl,” I said, easing her out from behind Lily. “I can’t wait for you two to meet.”
I shot Lily a grin, but the look on her face told me she knew exactly what I was up to.
If Lily really wanted to stop me, her alpha could step in. But the grand clash of Brandy and Camille was inevitable. I just hoped it would be as fun and chaotic as I’d imagined.
Melanie
Kai didn’t need to clear his throat for me to know he was behind us. Ever since I’d touched him with my aura by accident, I could tell where he was, no matter how far apartwe were in the room. As if there was this invisible string that connected us, and I was tracking him.
There was something in me that had to know he was close. Even with Sin holding me, I was still jumpy when I couldn’t see Kai, like I’d go feral if he left. And it wasn’t the bite—it was the lack of it.
Sin helped. As long as I stayed with him, the scents and auras didn’t overwhelm me. Even when I saw Kai and Lily laughing and chatting with another omega and a stab of jealousy hit me straight through the heart, just leaning into Sin helped me breathe.
I tried to focus on the three alphas in front of us, who were busy networking with Sin. He’d brought me away from the thick clouds of auras and scents to the edge of the ballroom, and it was easier to think out here.
Well, slightly easier. Because the way Sin caressed me set off all kinds of fireworks inside me. I wished Kai hadn’t designed the dress with an open back, as Sin lazily traced circles over the bumps of my spine with his thumb.
The soft cotton of his glove and his smooth strokes nearly had me purring. It was the perfect distraction, though it also made me want to curl into him and rub myself all over his body to claim him.
Which wasn’t why I was here. I couldn’t give in to my omega instincts so easily, but Sin’s presence was addictive.
I had to stay alert because Zania might try something else.
I was drenched in hyacinth and the scents of her alphas, and it wasn’t going away, no matter how much I covered myself in Sin.
When he asked why I smelled of her, I said I bumped into her by accident, but I could tell he didn’t believe me. I wouldn’t have believed my lame excuse either.
