Page 101 of Broken Omega

The room silences. Everyone stares at the female Alpha.

She’s completely enraged. I feel the same way, but my anger is directed at her.

“I’ll go with her,” I announce, not willing to let the issue go.

I can tell the EMTs are waiting to see if the head of the academy commands them to leave. They’re Betas, and she’s an Alpha. She could force them to leave without Brooke if she really wanted to.

Her gaze is on me now, and mine is on her.

“No, I will,” Brooke’s friend offers, as if she’s trying to diffuse the situation.

Edith glowers at us both. She knows how it’ll look if she doesn’t let Brooke get help. Her job is to protect the Omegas in her charge. Not letting Brooke get medical treatment would damage her reputation before she really gets a chance to build it.

“Kellan will go with her,” Edith says, putting her furious gaze back on me. “Don’t let her out of your sight for one minute. Report back to me when she’s ready to come home.”

I nod. “Of course.”

She apologizes to Ember insincerely, and then the EMTs put Brooke onto a stretcher. I pick my jacket off the floor and keep it rolled up in my hand as I follow them out of the ballroom and out of the academy.

DONNIE

Our new mate is kind of crazy, and I love it. That burn on her thigh looks realistic, but it’s completely fake. A place this fancy would never serve food at the kind of temperature it would take to create a third-degree burn, and that wet patch on the skirt of her dress didn’t match up to where the burn was placed either. It wasn’t even close. Any idiot could see that.

Lucky for her, we know this is her escape plan.

River even insisted on being the one to come with me this time, telling Frost it would be a good way to check his suppressants were working since there would be other Omegas and Alphas around.

It’s always a risk for him to be around Alphas, but considering he’s on a strong dose and he’s only ever perfumed for us since he met us, we decide it’s a controlled plan.

He’ll be put into a situation like this one sooner or later.

Might as well be sooner.

Well, he passed the test.

He’s wearing a cute, lop sided smile as we go out the side entrance with our prize.

The guards stop us at the top of the staircase.

“Stop. Wait,” the guy on the right says.

I recognize him from last week. The guy who was bothering our sweet Cherry.

“We need to go,” the Alpha in the suit says.

“They’ve been cleared,” the older guard says.

“What happened?” the first guard asks.

“Let them go, Henry,” the second guard mutters.

“Brooke,” Henry blurts, as if he’s trying to wake her up.

“Gotta go, lives to save,” I tell them, nodding at River to keep going.

He raises an eyebrow at me, but he moves. One step before Henry stops us.

“Wait. I’m coming with you.”

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