Page 172 of Broken Omega

Then, his phone vibrates in River’s other hand, and our Omega lets out a sigh as his work is undone in a second. Donnie gasps in a breath, his bright eyes widening as he stares at River.

“What’s happening? What’s Kellan’s friend saying?”

River steps back, opening the text as I lean in over his other shoulder.

Shit. It’s the worst-case scenario.

Brooke’s been detained at the academy, and Kellan’s life was threatened as well as mine. Apparently, Brooke’s father found out I met Henry.

Fuck! I should have given him back his gun.

“They know about you,” River murmurs.

“They don’t know we’re out here now,” I remind him, hoping to hell that’s true.

“We knew he was smart,” Donnie says. “It’s not that big a surprise, right?”

It shouldn’t be, but it is. I thought I covered everything. That was cocky of me.

I need to be smarter than that now.

“We can’t go back to the apartment in the city,” I tell them. “We get this file, and you two need to take it straight to the cops.”

“What?” Donnie asks. “Why? Where are you going?”

“They know about me. They’ll know about the apartment. They don’t know about either of you.”

They won’t know about Crystal Lake. That’s Donnie’s place, left to him by his grandmother when she passed. I might have made it my home, but my resistance to give up the apartment meant I never updated any paperwork to make that official. I can’t be linked to Donnie or River, except through our work.

“What do you mean?” Donnie asks. “We were all there the night Brooke escaped.”

“Yes, but as far as her father and the academy administrator knows it’s Kellan and I who organized the escape. We’re the Alphas. As far as they know, you two are unrelated Betas.”

And like any rich asshole, I’m pretty sure Brooke’s father isn’t going to waste much time thinking about the Betas who just happened to be there while his daughter was being set free by two Alphas.

“Unrelated?” Donnie sounds pissed.

River nods. “We’re the secret weapon.”

“Right,” I tell him. “We need to make sure you two stay off this asshole’s radar.”

I’m used to being protective of my mates, to doing whatever I can to keep them safe.

Knowing they need to be the cavalry on this only makes me more determined to save Brooke and deal with her father before it comes to the point where they would be needed to step in.

The sound of a car engine starting captures our attentions.

I turn to the right. It’s impossible to see the car itself from this spot, but the lights are visible, and I know it’s Warren Corvina’s car. He’s leaving to go to the academy.

I turn back to Donnie and River.

“Okay, change of plan. I’m going in alone, and you two are going to wait out here for the files.”

Donnie shakes his head. “You can’t do that, Frost. Who the hell knows what’s waiting in there?”

“Brooke said he doesn’t have guards. He has cameras. I’m the only one who should be seen on those cameras. It’s the only way the plan works now. You two need to be the ones to take those files to the cops.”

“Where will you be while we’re doing that?” River asks, while Donnie lets out an irritable sigh.

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