“How did you get here, Selena?”
She was shaking, and the cruel, sadistic part of me liked it. I savored her fear. I wanted to shape it into pain and pleasure for the both of us. I wanted to lean in and inhale the heavenly scent coming off her skin and knot her until she surrendered. And she would. Because she was my match. Glancing at Nick, I confirmed with one look.
She wasourmatch.
There was a reason we were chosen for this assignment, and it wasn’t only because we were smart and ruthless. We also enjoyed a willing Omega tied open for the taking.
“I was just in the club,” she said. “Someone mentioned something about an auction. I thought they meant an auction like… for members of the club to play with each other. So I asked and came here.”
That was a lie. None of the staff of the club would ever send a patron to this room. They would be fired immediately, and they knew it. “Try again.”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’tknow?” Sebastian asked.
Weaving my fingers into her hair, I pulled her head back, nearly to the point of pain. “I’m not going to ask you again. How did you get here?”
“I swear,” she gasped. “I woke up back there. I don’t know how I got here or why I’m here. I went to sleep in my bed last night.” Big tears gathered in her eyes. “I’m not even sure where I am. All I know is the name of the club.”
Interesting. It had to be a lie, too. Because no one could get into this club without us knowing. But it was closer, at least. It felt like she was telling the truth.
It was possible she didn’t fully know or remember, and this was a different kind of attack on us. Maybe whoever sent her drugged her as a part of the act. The question was, what was she here to find? Who sent her? Questions we’d have to discuss later after the auction was over.
I tightened my fingers in her hair and rose-scented perfume enveloped me in a cloud. So she was affected by this too. Excellent.
“Please let me go,” she whispered.
“You see, I can’t do that. The man I pulled you away from is a very bad Alpha. And if I let you go, he’s going to take you. Even if you go back to wherever you came from, he’ll find you. So you’ll stay here.”
“You’re selling Omegas.” She gritted her teeth. “Are you saying you’re agoodAlpha?”
I laughed. “No. But I promise you’d rather us than him. And you don’t want to find out the hard way.”
She looked at me and glanced at my pack mates, terror clear. “So you’re going to punish me?”
Sebastian crouched down beside her and gripped her neck. It looked far harsher than it was. “Yes. Punish you, train you, and own you.”
“Own—”
“You are now a slave,” I told her. “Our slave. I already told you we can’t let you go, and even if I could, I wouldn’t. Not without knowing the truth about who you are, why you’re here, and who sent you.”
She opened her mouth, and Nick interrupted. “There’s no point in begging. You won’t win. Whether you came here yourself or someone sent you to attack us, you’re ours now. You can accept what is required of you, or we can force it on you. It will happen either way. But it will be much more enjoyable for you if you agree.”
The idea of forcing anything on this beautiful, curvy Omega made me sick to my stomach, but it was the truth. In order to take down evil—true evil—you had to become evil yourself. And as intoxicating as she was, one Omega couldn’t be worth more than the lives of all the Omegas and everyone else being sold across the world.
Even if I wanted her to be.
Her cheeks were flushed, chest rising and falling almost too quickly. “What will I have to do?”
“You’re our slave, Omega.” Sebastian’s voice had deep notes of Alpha command threaded through, and her body wilted in the face of it. “You will do what we say when we say it. Or you will be punished. And trust me, we’ll enjoy that just as much as your obedience.”
“Now,gattina,” I said, reaching down and unbuckling my pants. “You will suck my cock while the auction proceeds. After that, you’ll be punished. And later?” I shrugged. “Later, we’ll figure out what to do with you.”
My cock was already hard as I pulled it out, and in the corner of my eye I found Delano smiling. Bastard.
Selena was flushed bright pink, glassy eyes staring at my length. She was hesitating too long. I wished this could go differently.
“Now, slave. Hands behind your back, put your mouth on me before I have to make you.”