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“Good plan,” he said gently, saying goodbye to the others, whose packs had also arrived. I couldn’t even feel betrayed by my besties, they hadn’t planned for Bane to know the place so well. Or maybe they had? That was a problem for tomorrow.

Though I had a feeling Romeo and Loki recognized it, too, they were just too angry with me to come.

My chest tightened more at the thought.

Had I fucked this all up for good?

“Hey, none of that,” Bane said gently, wiping away the tear I hadn’t realized fell. “You didn’t fuck anything up for good. We’ll talk it out tomorrow.”

Let’s add ‘lack of filter’ to tonight’s drunken blunders. Clearly, I was off to a great start to this reunion.

Chapter

Eight

Eliza

The sun hurt my skin.

That’s how fucking hungover I was as I opened my eyes and instantly regretted every drink I had yesterday.

Fuck alcohol, I’m never drinking again.

“That good, sunshine?” Bane’s deep voice rasped beside me. Green eyes zeroed in on me in gleeful revenge.

I winced, peeking over my shoulder to glare at the beta beside me. He totally said that louder than he needed to on purpose. My good thoughts of him last night were fading away as his smirk grew at my grouchy attitude.

“You need to sober up a bit before the others show up, which we both know they will,” he said, his voice lowering as his expression grew more serious. “I don’t think Loki or that new alpha are going to let you escape this time.”

“I didn’t mean—” I started but stopped when Bane shot me an ‘are you kidding me?’ look. “Okay, fine. I did mean to run. He showed up after so long and then… it just exploded.”

“And you needed time to process.” Bane nodded slowly. “For the record, next time just say that and we can give you that space.”

I swallowed hard, eyes stinging as I started tearing up. Damn Teagan had nothing on Bane. Now I felt like the lowest piece of shit rushing away and leaving my cell phone behind at the drop of a hat. Not to mention Damien probably lost his mind with me running again.

“I’m sorry,” I managed softly, snuggling down into the covers wishing the floor would open up and swallow me whole.

“None of that,” he wrapped his big arms around me and pulled me in tight.

“They are going to be so angry with me,” I rasped.

“Yes. And for good reason,” he replied evenly. “But that doesn’t mean we don’t love you, sunshine.”

“Even with Damien showing up?”

Bane didn’t say anything for a full minute. My heart was beating a mile a minute in my chest and my stomach rolled with nerves and all the alcohol from last night.

“That’s something we are all going to have to talk about…together. We need answers and from what we heard from Viper last night, he does, too.”

My breath was shaky as I squeezed my eyes shut at Damien’s MC nickname. I’d never called him Viper, not once, but maybe I would need to start. No matter what he said yesterday, I’m not his omega or his fiancée.

Not anymore.

I’m just the omega that broke his heart with a pitiful note and an empty bed.

“I need a shower,” I said, not wanting to think about whatever my ex had said when I was out yesterday.

Bane tucked his chin on my shoulder, snuggling closer to me and then threw a leg over both of mine.

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