Page 19 of Seducing Selena

Nor did it matter that I’d taken off the week from work for it. It’s not like it would prove to them that I wasn’t a spy.

“I’ll get the suppressants,” I heard Nick say.

“They won’t work,” I whispered.

Derek’s hand was still on my skin. “Why not?”

“I skipped my spring heat.”

He closed his eyes. “Fuck.”

“It’s fine, Master. Leave me here. Let me go to the bathroom every once in a while and I’ll get through it. I won’t orgasm.” My voice sounded dead, even to my ears. But it was the only way to get through this. If I let in real emotion, I wouldn’t be able to do it, and I wasn’t going to risk Anna’s life for some discomfort. There would be plenty of heats for me in the future if I could just make it through this.

Both anger and heat flared in Derek’s gaze. “We’ll be right back.”

He disappeared from view, and I still didn’t move. The clouds were moving in a way that was soothing. If I stayed just like this, maybe it wouldn’t be that bad.

The footsteps came back sooner than I expected, and Nick placed a glass full of pink liquid on the steel frame of the bed. “You need to eat something.”

I stared at the glass. Was that a smoothie? “I get food?”

“Did you think we were going to starve you?”

An answer didn’t come to mind. Food and bathroom use weren’t exactly things you thought about when it came to being kidnapped and enslaved. Getting to drink a smoothie certainly wouldn’t have been in any mental picture I had.

“Drink it,” he said. “Half of it needs to be gone when we come back.”

That meant moving. But my stomach growled. I hadn’t eaten anything since the day before yesterday. I washungry. Slowly, I pushed myself up to sitting, fighting the aches and pains. The flashes of pure lust I couldn’t escape. The traces of scent they left behind made my mind glaze over, salivating for Alpha knot.

At home, I had different sizes of knotting toys, and if I was still there, I’d probably have already used them at least once. That was why there was pain. Because justsittingthrough a heat wasn’t what Omegas were made for. We were made to fuck anything and everything while our heat lasted.

I supposed I was grateful I hadn’t fully gone into heat yesterday while in that theatre. Would they have been able to stop an Alpha free-for-all trying to claim me? Would I be bonded to some nightmare of an Alpha right now?

The smoothie was strawberry anddelicious. Like my body suddenly remembered food existed, I was ravenous. Granted, this hungry pretty much anything would taste good, but I still allowed myself to enjoy it. Keeping the blanket around me, I tried to move as little as possible. My fever was rising, and my mind became more and more detached from the real world.

It wasn’t hard to obey Nick’s command. The smoothie was almost entirely gone. I could probably drink another whole one. But that would be uncomfortable. I wasn’t sure how much they were going to let me out of the cage for this.

I did feel better. Now that my stomach was content, I could even go back to sleep if they let me.

The door opened, and the three of them entered, coming toward me with determination. They unlocked the cage and came inside, watching me carefully. Nick saw the empty cup where I set it on the frame, and a fraction of a smile flickered across his face.

Sebastian was the one who lowered himself this time so he could look me directly in the eye. “Give me your hand, Selena.”

I obeyed, putting my wrist in his hand. He didn’t bother to unlock the chains attached to the cuff, instead unbuckling the cuff itself from my wrist. He did the other one, and my ankles too. I wasn’t about to ask him why the hell he was unchaining me, because it wasn’t something to complain about.

“How long do your heats normally last?”

“It depends. Three or four days, but I’ve never skipped one before, so I’m not sure. But I’ll be fine. You don’t have to worry about me.”

His gaze hardened. “Heats are much longer if you’re not helped through them, yes?”

In theory, yes. But for myself, I didn’t know. I’d never been helped through one. That wasn’t to say I was innocent—I definitely wasn’t. There just wasn’t anyone in my life who I wanted to spend four days fucking.

Maybe in another life, I would be helped through my heats by three handsome Alphas who bore a shocking resemblance to these men.

“Stand up.”

A whine came out of me. Standing would hurt. It would be so much easier if I didn’t have to move. He knew, and he didn’t hesitate to lean forward and scoop me into his arms like I was one of those tiny Omegas from last night.

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