Page 49 of Beta Lies and Cursed Lives
I look at the glistening ice, sharp and deadly, opening my hands to find that it moves with me, like a second skin.
Kill them all.
That is not helping, whatever you are.
I frown at myself—at the creature who’s growing more brazen each moment—and take in a deep breath, then let it out slow, willing the ice to recede. To my surprise, this actually works.
“Good job,” Colt tells me as I sit beside him on my bed.
The dorm lock beeps, setting us all on edge, and a ragged Nyx enters the room huffing and puffing with an oversized duffel in her grasp. When she spots us all in the room, she freezes mid-step with brows raised. “Uh, hey, guys.” Her tone is questioning as her gaze pierces into me.
I wave her inside hastily, and she closes the door behind her, dropping her heavy bag on the stone floor with a thud.
“What’s, uh...going on?” She sounds nonchalant, but the concern on her face is evident.
I trust Nyx. I know that she won’t betray us. And so, I make a decision and turn to Colt. “We need to tell Nyx what’s happening. Everything. Safely.”
My beautiful Alpha looks at my friend for a moment, then back at me before turning to Rai, who rises from the chair at the only desk in the room and comes to sit beside me. I think that’s the moment Nyx realizes that Rai’s face is uncovered, because she stares at him hard.
“You’re as hot as your brother.”
I stifle a laugh. My Alpha is, indeed, beautiful, but he stiffens beside me and grasps my arm like a frightened child.
Nyx scoffs, eyes rolling upward. “I’m not interested, I assure you. I have enoughboytrouble.” She emphasizes “boy” in a way that draws a sympathetic look from me. I want so badly to ask her all about the war games excursion, especially about what happened between her and Erich, but it’s not the time.
As Nyx slowly makes her way to her bed across from us, I pull off my gloves and grasp Colt’s and Rai’s hands in mine.
She gapes at us, and I think she might faint right there.
“Nyx,”Colt somehow says inside all of our minds at once, including an increasingly shocked Nyx,“Mira trusts you. I know that trust isn’t misplaced.”He squeezes my hand.“I swear that you can trust us like we trust you.”
Nyx’s gaping face gives a slow, affirmative nod.
“I know you feel a connection to a couple of the Alphas here.”
She pales, her mouth slamming shut.
“Trust,”he reminds her.“You have to know that we have the same connection you do with them.”
Her chocolate eyes grow tight as she nods again, swallows audibly.
“I also know that…”
As he trails off, I look at him as his jaw flexes before he continues.
“You haven’t had a heat.”
Nyx’s eyes dart to me, and before I can defend myself, Colt says,“Mira would never betray your trust, Nyx. My curse, remember?”
She blinks a few times, then looks back at me apologetically, but I understand her fear all too well.
Colt looks at me in question, and I think at him,Tell her everything.
“Mira wants me to tell you that she experienced her first heat with Rai.”
There’s an audible gasp as Nyx’s gaze snaps to me, eyes wide, swimming with newly formed tears, and filled with more questions than I could possibly decipher.
Colt goes on to explain our mating and the aftermath of it.
