Page 10 of Brandy Snap: Part Two
“Let her go,” Zania commanded. The alpha who pushed me freed my arm just as she unstuck her nails from my skin.
I quickly snapped it forward, the strain on my shoulder releasing as the deep indents on my skin grew pink and then red.
I needed to stay calm. I didn’t know how I was going to get out of here, especially when I could barely think.
They began forcing their auras on me, nearly driving me into a panic as they overwhelmed me.
The door clicked shut behind me, and I didn’t have to turn around to know the alpha who guarded my flat when Zania broke in was now standing there. Because that’s where the leather stench had come from, and it was just as potent as the others.
All four alphas wore identical penguin suits, with the same haircuts and beards, and boutonnieres that matched Zania’s dress.
The two other alphas still hovered next to my side, and it was so disgustingly similar to how Sin, Kai, and Caspian had walled themselves around me. Except there was no way I could escape.
They weren’t moving, absolutely fixed on Zania, and I wondered if they would stand there like statues until she gave an order.
“Do you like them? My mates dress up so well, and they are so happy to go along with my games.”
“They’re your mates?” I asked in shock, even though my voice was already growing hoarse. I didn’t notice the last time I saw them; I was too fixated on getting them out of my nest.
“Are you surprised? Real alphas will do anything for their omega.”
“Like breaking and entering? Or kidnapping?”
She just replied with a knowing nod.
How the hell was I going to get out of here when she’d threatened to kill me if she ever saw me again?
Coming to the party was meant to be a protest, a big ‘fuck you’ to her. But I’d let all the madness of my new designation get to my head.
I summoned the feeling I had when we entered the party. When Sin and Kai and Caspian had stood by me, and I felt like I had power. Because all I wanted to do was scream and run as she approached me with a triumphant smile.
Why did I think I could get revenge when I couldn’t even stand in front of her without my knees shaking?
I’d been scared so many times in my life. Scared I was going to starve or be kicked out of my home because I didn’t have enough money to pay my rent. And scared Mum might die if I didn’t take care of her or pay for her health care. Scared I might lose my job, be alone, and scared something might happen to me and no one around me would care.
But those fears were long term, because I was scared about the future and worrying what might happen.
This fear was short term. Immediate and choking. Fear that the woman standing in front of me might really tell those alphas to kill me. And there was nothing I could do about it.
The kind of fear which churned my insides and made me squeeze my eyes and sob because any second now she might saythe word, and I’d never see my mum, Sin, Caspian, Kai, and even Rosa again.
I was really in danger, and all the power I thought I had with those three was meaningless in front of her.
I had to stay calm. I had to meet her eyes, keep my expression as neutral as Sin’s as she reigned above me.
It didn’t matter how sick I felt. I’d had so many different experiences since I became an omega, both good and bad. This was just another one of those. I had to keep telling myself that so the deep fear didn’t take me.
“So, you decided to come sneaking back into my domain like a little rat.” She sneered, folding her arms. “I can’t believe you had the audacity to even think I would let this go.”
My hands balled into fists, and I glued them to my thighs to stop myself from shaking. Curling my toes in my shoes, clenching my ass, pushing my shoulders back to force my body to stand tall.
All through life, I kept thinking I couldn’t get any stronger, that the next thing would break me. But I always got through it. No matter how much I struggled and hurt, I always made it. So I had to believe I could do it here, as well.
“It wasn’t my decision,” I said, cutting myself off because of the tremor in my voice. “They basically crawled on their knees to me. They were begging me to be their omega.”
Her eyes danced over the spot Caspian had scent marked before a laugh cracked from her.
“Don’t be ridiculous. Your lies are useless here. There’s no point even replying to me with things like that.”
