Holy fuck.
The world went red, sanity drowned amidst fury. That was it. I was going to kill Ace. With the bond, I couldn’t. That was fine. I could hold him down, Knox could pull the?—
“Rogue!”Thistle’s squeak sliced through my thoughts. She was in front of me, hands pressed to my chest. I’d been striding toward the door.
“Wait a second!” she begged. “Everything’s okay.”
“Okay?” I spluttered.
“I carved him up,” she whined. “Why can’t he bite me a couple of times?—”
“Couple of times?” My voice cracked. “Kitten, you’re minced meat.”
A huge grin spread across her face and her fists balled in trembling excitement. “Iknow!”
I opened my mouth, but she pouted, staggering a step toward the bed. “Don’t ruin it or I’ll go sleep with him?—”
“No!”
Absolutely fucking not.
I reached for her, just to check her over, but she squealed and dove into the bedcovers?—
“Ah—!” Fuck.
She popped up from the sheets after wiggling around for a moment. By the time she did I was pinching the bridge of my nose.
“Too late,” she giggled. “I already?—”
“Iknow.”
Burrowed.
She’d already goddamned burrowed.
Fucking Omegas.
“Don’t you… hurt?” Knox asked. He was wide awake and giving her a once-over. I heard the faintest traces of concern in his tone, but notnearlyenough.
“Yes!” She kicked beneath the sheets with excitement. Holy fuck, she looked so jubilant she might be high.
Wasshe high?
What had Ace done to her?
“Anyway.” She tucked a strand of loose raven hair behind her ear. “We should get some sleep. Major day tomorrow!” She almost sang the last words.
I stared, my thoughts a chaotic collision of making sense of what was in front of me, and puzzling out how I was going to murder a pack mate.
“Rogue!” She pouted. “He’s mine. I can do what I want with him.”
“Didn’t you say just the other day that we should let her lead?” Knox asked.
“You’re okay with this?” I demanded.
“She’sokay with this.”
“What he said,” she said. “Now…” She trailed off to let out a big yawn. “I wanna catch someZs.”