Page 95 of Crash Course Omega
“Maddock!” Jaxx shouts, shaking me from behind. “Get it together! She needs to be treated.”
But I can’t let it go. My alpha sense tells me if I don’t go with her, I’ll never see her again. The panic is so intense that I can’t breathe. I think I’m going to topple over as every single fear I had about her driving bursts to the surface and I can’t focus on anything else apart from the way they lift her onto the stretcher.
It’s not right. She shouldn’t be limp like that. They haven’t even taken off her helmet, so it might not be her, even though she’s wearing that crazy pink suit that no one apart from the photographers and the Valkyries like.
“Maddock, I’m going to walk you over to the ambulance. Don’t fight me, okay?”
Another growl rumbles from me, but Jaxx keeps his fingers dug into my shoulder as he forces me to walk behind the stretcher and the EMTs.
If he’s really her scent match, if he feels the same way as she said she does about him, he wouldn’t be so calm.
“Just get in the ambulance. Stay with her. Try to keep your shit together, okay?”
I nod numbly as Jacob jumps in first. He gives me a look and reaches out a hand, telling me to climb in with him.
“What about you?” I say to Jaxx, my voice completely numb.
“I’ll follow behind. But she needs her alpha, okay? You know what that means?”
Why is this the only time he’s actually treating me like a proper person? We need to keep together to be there for her if we’re both really her alphas, so why is he stepping back?
“Just look after her, for all of us.”
It’s only just as they push the doors closed I see Everest standing there, his face completely white. A look of pure shock joins the single tear rolling down his cheek as Jaxx turns to him, throws his arms around him, and the doors slam closed behind us.
Harmony
“Leave. Now,” Viktor’s voice echoes through the haze as a thick weight in my muscles stops me from opening my eyes.
“We just want one shot. It’ll be good to show the world she's okay.”
“Either leave, or we call the director and pull our funding from the project,” my Dad’s voice joins in. “If you try to come near Harmony at all during this period, there will be no movie for you to publicize."
I can’t work out what’s going on. The last thing I remember is crashing, so why do I hear their voices?
The weight begins to lift, but my body feels so weak. I don’t know if I can even move when there’s no life in my muscles. All I can do is lie here and listen to them talk.
“You should never have allowed him to take control of the race like that,” Viktor says coldly.
“I know,” Jacob says. “I didn’t think he would push it so far. It got too out of control.”
“If this becomes serious, you understand what will happen,” Dad says, his voice dripping with rage.
I’ve only heard him talk that way to me when I told them I was leaving F2.
“I understand. I'll take full responsibility for all of it,” Jacob says, and the pain in his voice makes me try to move my fingers. I want to reach out to him to tell him it wasn't his fault. The fault lies with the director, and me for getting annoyed enough to do what he said.
My family keeps talking, and I want to listen more closely, because it feels like all three of them care about me for the first time in years.
“Harmony.” A soft voice sweeps over me, and my heart swells. There’s a gentle tap on my hand, and Maddock's fingers wrap around mine. He speaks so quietly that I don’t think my family can hear him. “I saw your breathing change, I know you’re awake.”
I want to open my eyes to reach him, but it just isn’t working. It doesn’t matter how much I try, I can’t move.
“I’m not going anywhere,” he says. “I’ll stay with you as long as you need. Jaxx said he’ll come soon. And I think…” he trails off, and his hand squeezes me tighter. “I think Everest will come with him…” He lets out a shuddering sigh. “Is that right?”
My hand twitches under his as my heart thumps. I want to see all three of them. I want them here with me after the fear of almost losing it all.
But Maddock’s the one I need the most. Because if there’s anyone I need to talk to and make my peace with, it’s him.
