Page 93 of Crash Course Omega
The engine screams, the body of the car creaks and rumbles, and I squeeze my eyes closed until it all comes to a stop as I hit the barrier so hard my teeth rattle in my skull, and I black out instantly.
Maddock
“Look, you're killing me with this death glare. Can you just talk to me instead of staring a hole in my cheek?” Jaxx turns to me, glaring straight back.
I don’t want to shout at him in front of an audience, but I don’t think I can stay still when he’s just standing there like everything is normal when he has scent matched withmyomega.
She's still out on the track, and she's done about twenty laps, but even watching her drive a hundred laps doesn't stop me from feeling on edge.
It isn’t as if he’s playing around with her like all those other omegas. The scent match basically cements him in her life.Unless she rejects him. But I saw the way they were looking at each other, and there’s no way she’s going to cut him out.
It might even go in the other direction, and the thought of her bonding with Jaxx and not me makes me want to punch him even more than every single other time since we met.
“What’s going on between you and Harmony?” I say through gritted teeth.
His face instantly lights up, and he claps his hands together.
“Ding ding ding! Look at you, Maddock Harrison, finally asking the right questions!”
“Fuck off, Jaxx. I’m being serious.”
“So am I,” he chuckles. “It took you long enough. Or did Harmony spill the beans?” He arches a brow, and I end up glowering at him.
“Forget about it,” I say. “There’s no point in talking to you.”
“No, there really is a point. Because if we’re going to be pack, we need to start getting along. Which means fixing the way you scowl every time you look at me.”
My heart suddenly plunges down into my stomach as I fully turn to look at him.
“What the fuck are you talking about?” I growl.
“You heard me. You know what I’m talking about. I wasn't joking around earlier. I offered her a bite. She might have said no this time, but we’ve got a sort of magnetism she can’t deny.”
I look at him with wide eyes, trying to keep it together, because it feels like my heart’s breaking and he has barely said anything.
When Harmony and I were dating, I'd promised I’d bite her when the time was right. And when I won the championship title. But neither of us could ever find the time to have even a week together. I was always busy with publicity and interviews, she was focused on training, and it just sort of slipped us by. Until I was left wondering if she would have stayed if I bit her.If I’d become her alpha in every way I could, would she have wanted to keep being my omega?
When she said she was leaving racing, it instantly felt like she said she was leaving me. And from there it only took months and she was suddenly walking away with her suitcase in hand. Our lives centered on racing. So, what did we have if we didn’t train and compete?
“Maddock, I’m making it clear to you now that I’m going to bond with her. We haven’t really talked about our future, but I’ll bring it up, and then you have to decide if you want to be in a pack with me, or if you’re going to spend the rest of your life looking like that.”
He points straight at my face, and I can only imagine my expression, because Jaxx Sands is the last person in the world I ever want to be in a pack with.
“It’s up to you.” He shrugs as if he’s completely innocent. “Either you and Harmony get yourselves sorted out, or watch us live nice and happy with our pack.”
I look at Jaxx, trying to catch up with what he’s saying. Jaxx may look like he jokes and flirts all the time, but he’s a smart guy, even when he tries to hide it. And he knows exactly the right words to say to piss me off. He’s been doing it since we met.
So he wouldn’t make some kind of slip-up like that. He didn’t say ‘me and Harmony’. He deliberately said ‘pack’.
“Is there another alpha?” I ask, and his grin turns even wider.
“Oh, I wonder.” He gives another one of his annoying shrugs. “Maybe if you’d made an effort to get over yourself, Harmony might have let you in on that little secret. But I guess you’re both going to be stubborn until the end.”
“It's not about being stubborn,” I growl. “She's the one who won't talk to me.”
Jaxx clicks his teeth, and I’m surprised to see him scowl, too. “You don’t know how good you’ve got it, do you?”
“What the hell do you mean?” Jaxx is the one Harmony is so attached to.
