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My mouth drops open at his words. The crowd isn’t happy. His a pure alpha… an elite.

“What the fuck?” I mutter out loud.

Storm looks over to me and winks. No fucking way. She put Jonathan's pack in the lottery. Why the hell does she want him? He's an asshole. But then I think back to that moment...that very heated moment. Maybe there was more to that than I realized. I was too caught up in my own stuff to see what was going on with my best friend.

Alphas start storming the stage and I suck in a breath at all their scents… they’re angry. This is bad.

“Let’s leave now.” Ace reaches for me, and I grab his hand as he pulls me away. I don’t have a chance to say goodbye to Storm. There’s no time as alphas start jumping up on the stage, and the guards can’t hold them back.

“Bye,” I whisper as Jonathan hauls Storm over his shoulder and runs off with her. But just before she completely disappears, she looks over to me and waves with the biggest grin on her face.

Oh, Storm...you’re much more like a hurricane.

CHAPTER 11

DASH

Getting Harley back to our home is harder than we thought it would be. As we left, her scent drew in more alphas than we expected. So many were outside, protesting Storm’s match to an elite pack. And the fact no other omega was listed as the next was fuelling the uprising even more. We needed to leave as fast as we could before this turns into a blood bath.

We’ve been driving around for a while now...not wanting to go back to our home. Worried alphas would try to steal her. Our address isn’t listed anywhere, but Ace wanted to make sure we lost all the alphas who have been following us for the past hour before we drive to our home.

Harley doesn’t say much. She stares out the window as we drive through the streets, Knight never once letting her off his lap. I don’t think he will ever let her go.

I reach out, wanting to touch her as I see her eyes closing. I shouldn’t touch her...by law, I can’t. But Knight doesn’t say a thing as I stroke the hair away from her face and push it behind her ear. She lazily opens her eyes and sees it’s me. I’m not sure if she’s going to yell at me or what her reaction will be. I didn’t mean to wake her. I shouldn’t have touched her without her permission, either.

I just couldn’t help myself. I’m drawn to her. Even though I’m not an alpha and she can’t be my scent match… I just can feel it in my bones that she’s the missing piece to my heart. Harley is the piece that makes it complete. For all of us.

She gives me a sleepy smile, and I return it. All the tension in my shoulders leaves as she sighs.

“That was nice. I miss touch...nothing’s like this back at the Omega House,” she mumbles. I can see the day has wiped her. Hell, I’m exhausted, but I can’t rest. Not until she’s home and safe.

“Don't worry, we'll be home soon. Close your eyes and rest for a bit,” I tell her. Knight holds her tighter, his scent not once letting off burned pancakes.

From beside me, Zayd tries to ignore the presence of the omega in the car. But it's pretty hard not to. Her scent is intoxicating, and I'm a beta. I can only imagine how much she is affecting the alphas in this confined space.

Like Jax can read my thoughts he turns to me and winks. I must be letting of some emotions that he can feel down our bond that alerts him to how I’m feeling. Hell if her scent had me this hard… Jax must be breaking the zipper on his jeans.

She closes her eyes again, and I watch as her jaw slackens, and she falls asleep on Knight. He looks over at me, as if he wants to ask—am I dreaming? This is an unbelievable sight. Never in my wildest dreams did I envision this. Did I want this? Yes. But I never thought it could be like this. Her full trust in us to keep her safe while she sleeps against Knight is something I will remember forever.

“We have to let Gage know that he can't come back tonight,” Ace says from the driver’s seat.

“On it.” Jax pulls out his phone and starts typing a message to Gage. Her beta. There’s only one beta per pack… we are already registered with me as the beta for pack Bentley. But when have we played by the rules. We have hidden Knight for this long, and no one has ever suspected that Zayd doesn’t speak. If he did we would not have been allowed into the draw to begin with. A defective pack.

“My parents—he'll be able to stay there. Until it's safe for him to come,” Knight adds.

When that will be, I don't know. I had no idea that someone would be watching us for the first month. Is this like a test, and if you fail it, you lose your omega?

Shit. I'm pretty sure once Harley sees our house, she might want us to fail. Nothing leaks or is broken. But it's a not a house for an omega. They deserve so much better than what we can offer. I hope she understands that we want her to have all the nice things, but we just can’t afford them. I could never repay her for the way she’s already saved Knight. Saved them all...

Ace is a year off forty, and Jax is right behind him. I would have lost them both in the next five years. Zayd is younger, but I don’t think he would last without the others. I know I wouldn’t.

We only have five bedrooms, and in the past week, we have scrambled to make my room a nest for Harley. Gage has been sleeping on the couch and helping us get things that he knows she likes. He painted a mural of a tree and stars behind it on the wall.

He's a very talented artist. I wasn't too sure what I was expecting when he said he was going to paint it. But it turned out so much better than I thought.

“He’s not happy but warned us that Veronica is the toughest of all the betas in that house. And she will do everything to see us fail. She hates Harley.”

Zayd growls low, and I grab his hand. He doesn't like people in his space. I know having Harley with us is a change for him, and he's okay with that. But having this other beta, dissecting all our flaws and searching for any excuse to take Harley away from us?

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