Page 67 of I Replaced His Husband
Before I could say anything, Adam stepped closer. It was obvious they’d already talked about this.
"Preferably you, Rain, since your hands are—"
"No way. I’m not hurting Kay," Rain cut him off.
Adam and Rain locked eyes in a weird, silent standoff.
The tension between them was starting to get on my nerves. Adam, usually the cheerful one, looked stiff now, a deep frown on his face. Was it the attack that had shaken him up this badly, or something else?
He let out a frustrated snort. "It’s for a good reason. Don’t make it more difficult than it has to be," he retorted.
"I said no, I won’t do it," Rain said through gritted teeth.
"Rain, you’re being irrational."
"The things I want to do to Kay are the opposite of hurting him, Adam. You get that, right?"
Adam’s mouth tightened before he suddenly snapped, "Yeah, well, I’ve already seen way too much of that, thanks to you, and I really didn’t need to. He’s my brother, for fuck’s sake! And now? The cops? This whole mess? That’s on you, Rain! You couldn’t hold back and had to pull some alpha dominance shit, and now Kay’s the one dealing with the fallout! Can’t you see that? You had to send those bastards to the hospital?"
If he thought he was the only one pissed off, he was dead wrong. I was done. Going off on Rain like that? Not okay. Letting my omega instincts take over, I lunged at him so fast he instinctively stepped back, tripped over the sofa, and landed on it with wide eyes.
"What the hell, Adam?! I’m sick of you taking this out on Rain! Would you prefer I’d been raped by those assholes? You weren’t there. You didn’t hear what they said! Stop blaming him. He’s my protector now! I appointed him!"
The room went dead silent. Marco, especially, seemed stunned at the word protector.
Adam swallowed hard and looked away.
"How can you even say that, Kay?" he muttered. "I want you safe. That’s why I’m so frustrated. Instead of just scaring them off, he nearly killed them. Now we’ve got a case against us and a visit to the police. You realize Johnson’s cousin married into the Dawsons, right? They’ve got connections. It’s dangerous if they decide to separate Rain from you."
Rain spoke up then, his voice low but calm. "I understand where you’re coming from, Adam. I really do. But I couldn’t stop. I swear, I tried. It felt stronger than my will. I’d never drag Kay into unnecessary trouble. But as Marco pointed out, they can’t separate us anyway, because of Kay’s pregnancy. We can contact the Omega Red Line Agency."
Quiet pressed down on us once more, and Adam looked down.
Marco let out a breath. "Okay, can we all just take a second? This situation’s a mess, and we don’t know how it’s going to play out. But turning on each other isn’t helping. Let’s just deal with what is. All right? Can we get back to the bruising?"
Adam slowly stood up and crossed his arms over his chest.
"The alpha is against it!" he quipped with a wince.
"Hurting a pregnant omega is against everything I stand for!"
"And yet you endangered him by behaving wildly and over-the-top!"
Rain flinched, and his jaw tensed. He looked out of the window, furrowing his eyebrows.
"I don’t get why you’re suddenly so furious with Rain, Adam," I growled. "You were the one who wanted an alpha here. You had this whole romantic plan in your head, didn’t you? So what’s going on?"
Adam swallowed. Silence reclaimed the room.
After some deliberation, he snorted and shrugged. "What the alpha did was simply feral. Period."
"Rain didn’t start it, you idiot! The Dawsons did. He only stepped in after they asked if I minded giving them my ass!"
Now Adam and I had a stare-off.
"Don’t you really get why I’m upset, Kay? It’s about the cops. They’ll be on the Dawsons’ side, and this could’ve all been avoided."
"Adam… I marked Rain; there might be some weird one-sided mating thing going on. He acted along instinctual lines. You can’t possibly blame him, it’s like being angry he breathes! And on top of that, maybe the blockers messed with his glands, so his reactions could’ve been even more impulsive."
