Page 117 of Stolen Omega

I spend a while standing by the reception desk, checking my phone every few minutes to find out if Cameron’s decided to check his messages. So far, he hasn’t. If things were reversed, I wouldn’t be answering his messages, but that’s only because I would never be up before eight a.m.

He’s the early bird type. He’s up. He’s just not speaking to me.

I’d call another friend, if I had one I could halfway trust.

Unfortunately, most of my ‘friends’ are more like acquaintances.

And my mom … Well, she was kind of upset with me when I started dating Cameron.

She’d probably be pleased that Zane finally decided to bring me out here with the intention of making us a pack. She might not approve of how he got me out here, but she’d definitely point out that I’m not hurt, and she’d want me to hear him out.

She’s a romantic at heart. Firmly believes in true mates, even if she never met her own.

There’s no point in asking her to go knock on Cam’s door to get him to fly out here.

She wouldn’t do it.

That only leaves one avenue for me. I need to seriously consider calling the police.

No matter how I feel about him, Zane did drug me and bring me out here without my consent.

He talked me into helping him kidnap a celebrity first, but my involvement in that isn’t what makes me so hesitant to call the authorities. The truth is, if I call the cops, I’ll end up having to tell them more than I’m comfortable with.

I’ll have to tell them about Zane’s obsession with finding Zoey, about his delusion that Zelena is Zoey, and worst of all, I’ll have to tell them that he’s my Alpha, even though he’s never marked me.

They’ll need to know all the gory, fucked up details, and I know how it will make Zane sound.

Unstable Alphas are dangerous.

They aren’t assessed and treated like anyone else who might show signs of a mental disorder.

They’re locked up as quickly as possible, while the cops find as many offenses to charge them with as possible. Then, they’re given the maximum sentence for every charge, and good luck trying to appeal any of those sentences. They’re rarely overturned once they’re dealt.

Zane would be lucky to ever see daylight again.

I could never do that to him.

It doesn’t matter what he’s done.

That doesn’t mean I forgive him. It means this whole fucking thing is incredibly complicated, and I just made it even messier by calling the only other person who’s ever meant anything to me.

Cameron might be resisting looking at my messages now, but I know his curiosity will eventually win out, and he’ll read them.

He can’t not read them. He feels the same way about me that I do about Zane.

That’s why we keep getting back together despite how much I hurt him every damn time.

I know as soon as he reads those messages, he’ll be on his way out here, ready to rescue me.

And when he gets here, I’m going to have to explain that we can’t leave without the world’s biggest popstar, and he’s going to have to help me find her before we can get the hell out of here.

Zane can’t keep her here against her will.

Maybe Cam showing up will help him see that.

This delusion he’s got going that she’s Zoey can’t last when he sees what he’s doing through someone else’s eyes. Someone who didn’t know Zoey and who only knows that what he’s doing is wrong.

Something needs to break this spell he’s under.

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