Page 21 of Bait Wolf
If I really wanted to run, now was probably the time, but that couch looked awfully comfortable and inviting.
Giving in, I went to it, lowering onto the velvety fabric and nearly moaning in pleasure.
I couldn’t remember anything quite so comfortable.
Despite myself, I laid back, stretching out aching muscles.
This room was bigger than the hotel room I had rented for years before I was taken. The Belfort Hotel was in the worst area of town and known for being a shithole. The rooms and facilities had rarely been cleaned and there were cockroaches in the bathrooms, but, for a while, it had been home.
I used to roll my eyes at the wealthy shifters. There were enough aristocrats in the city that I’d grown a dislike for the upper crust of society, the types who would cover their noses if I passed. I knew that often I probably needed a shower, but could they really smell me from feet away? To even beinvitedinto a house like this... to potentially mate with someone whoowneda house like this... I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. Except a touch of excitement filled me, images accosting me at once of warm, clean clothes, soft bedding, hot water... My mouth was watering.
Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad for a little while. Just until I could make it on my own again.
In the car, we had both calmed down from that heated embrace. Coal had been too distracted by the other alpha to pay me much attention, which I understood. Alphas had issues with other alphas around their omegas, especially when they hadn’t mated yet. He wanted me, that much was obvious and made even more so as we had stood embracing on the chilly street. Coal’s hard length had sent a thrill through my entire being—and remembering it now was affecting my body again.
With a groan, I pushed the thought away. I wasn’t going to live up to the cliche of the sex-obsessed omega. That stereotype had put me in enough shit situations in my life that I actively rebelled against it.
I squeezed my eyes shut, and my exhausted body, finally finding some reprieve, almost immediately drifted to sleep.
ChapterTen
Coal
I dug my claws into the palms of my hands. Just enough pain to keep me grounded.
“Do you know how much you cost us with that little stunt of yours?” Alek’s snarl through the line set my teeth on edge, fangs itching to cut free.
“It wasn’t a stunt,” I gritted out. “I was planning to lose the fight like we agreed, then the club brought in my omega.”
“You want me to believe you lost it for cheap bait omega.” His laugh burst down the line, grating on all of my senses.
“Not a cheap bait omega.” The words burned my throat. “Myomega. Get it? My fated mate.”
Silence rang through the line, and I went on.
“I couldn’t control myself. I don’t even remember what happened.”
When the silence continued, I forced my voice lower. I wouldn’t beg, but I would ask nicely, at the very least.
“Give me another chance. Just give me my sister today, and I promise I’ll do anything you ask.”
The continued silence made my heart pound. Finally, Alek let out a heavy sigh.
“Look, I’m not in the habit of killing kids and now we’re stuck with the girl. It’s lose-lose, really.”
His words didn’t comfort me. Killing was only one of the many terrible things that could be done to a small child.
“So you’ll bring her to me?”
Alek snorted.
“I didn’t say that. But tell you what, you give us the money we lost on you, and you’ll get her back right then.”
My hands were shaking. Rage coursed through me.
I had money. I could do it, but how was I now the one to owe them? It didn’t seem very fair. Then again, when did gangsters play by the rules?
“How much?”
