Page 42 of Claimed Omega

“Drive! Get us out of here now!” I hissed, keeping a close eye on my side mirror and all around us as we rushed out of there.

“What’s going on? What did you find out?” Trinity asked, her voice trembling with fear.

“Two guys jumped me. They came out of nowhere, but they knew me. I dealt with them, then I found something on their phone…” I turned to face her. “The price. Axel has put a bounty on our heads. Ten million for each of us, dead or alive, to anyone across the country.”

Trinity gasped, dread etched on her face, Shadow’s expression paled, and Aspen was deathly silent.

“The fuck?!” Aspen finally broke the silence.

“How can we find any evidence against Axel now?” Trinity’s voice shook, and Shadow held her close.

“That’s what he wants,” Shadow blurted. “To eliminate us fast because we know the truth. This doesn’t change our plans. We’re going to find a way to take him down. And if that means getting to his mistress as a possible solution, we’ll do it. Even if we’re down to only a few more days left to prove our innocence.”

No one said a word, then Trinity broke the peace.

“We need to return to the Luxe Hotel and try to find Axel’s mistress. We can’t run this time. We have to go back now and do this.” The resolve in her voice hardened, and as much as I agreed, I didn’t want her to be with us.

“Better option,” I suggested. “Aspen and I head back. You and Shadow return to Daniel’s place.”

“No,” they both remarked stubbornly, her brow furrowed.

“We stick together,” Shadow stated loudly. “Right now, with everyone after us, we are stronger together.”

I wasn’t sure I agreed.

My gaze remained glued to Trinity, on her every move from the back seat of the car. She was a force to be reckoned with when she wanted something her way, but I couldn’t shake the dread curling in my gut. My mind raced with the worst-case scenarios of her being caught… or shot… Fear of losing her gnawed at my insides like a relentless beast.

When she met my gaze, her eyes were filled with determination, worry… with every emotion under the sun, and she was scared. Yet, she wasn’t running away.

I nodded. “So be it.”

Aspen was already turning the car around in the middle of a back street. The burden hung heavy on my shoulders that no matter what happened, I had to keep her safe, regardless of the obstacles coming our way.

Fourteen

TRINITY

My heart skipped a beat with trepidation.

Parked on a side road, a block away from the Luxe Hotel, all four of us were staring out the windows. With night cloaking the city and tension tightening around me, at least the bright streetlights made it easy to see the front of the hotel.

Shadow was pressed up against me in the back seat, his arm around my waist, drawing me closer. The pulse of his heart thundered under his skin, matching mine. Just having him that close to me burned me up. My heat had passed, but my body didn’t seem to care that we were staking out a dangerous man. Fire swarmed over me, pooling between my legs as his fingers danced across my side. It felt as if the heat of a hundred blazes engulfed me at the sheer size of my Alpha against me, my mind filled with memories of the things he could do to me.

He glanced down at me with a raised brow. Clearly, he sensed something in me as well. I grinned and shrugged.

“How can you be so sexy at a time like this?” I whispered.

His nostrils flared, inhaling me, then chuckled.

“My beautiful Omega, if we weren’t in a terribly dangerous situation, I’d strip and lick you all over this very second to make you purr, to give you everything you desired.”

His words left me fluttering, squeezing my thighs tighter.

“That’s really not helping.”

“Um, who’s licking who because I want in?” Aspen added, his eyes sweeping over me hungrily.

A growl rolled over Viper’s throat, and when I met his gaze, I saw the primal need on his face.

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