“I don’t believe him. I don’t trust that he won’t find out everything he needs to know and toss us behind bars. That can’t happen, I can’t be away from you. I’d fucking go crazy.”
“Then give him a chance to prove himself. Spend time with him, get to know him as Tucker Davis, not Detective Davis. Treat him like you would if he was any other male Omega with a different job.”
“I don’t like men,” he grunts. “So why do I want him?”
“Because it’s how our biology works.” I smile softly.
“I don’t like it,” he grumbles.
“I can tell,” I laugh.
“I don’t want another Omega.”
“But you’ve got another one.” I shrug. “Suck it up.”
“But I only want you.”
“Give it time and you'll like Tucker, just as much as you like me.”
“I don’t like you, Nova.”
My brows furrow. Like, ouch much?
“You don’t?” I whisper.
He shakes his head. “I fucking love you, you crazy bitch,” he growls. “Can’t you see that? I’m obsessed with you. You drive me fucking insane, yet I can’t stand being away from you more than a few hours. Even then, you're all I can think about. The idea of anyone hurting you makes me want to rip the world apart. All I want to do is take care of you, but you fight me on every step of the way. You don’t make it easy to love you, Nova, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t.”
Fuck me. Fuck me hard. I’m not going to cry. Nope, not happening.
“You really love me?” I ask, playing with the hair at the back of his neck.
“More than I’ve ever loved anything in my life,” Nick says. “And that terrifies me because the last time I loved someone, I lost them.”
“Who?” I cock my head to the side.
He lets out a heavy sigh. “It doesn’t matter.”
“It does.” I nod. “You can tell me.”
“Promise you won’t go all jealous Omega?”
“Promise.”I think?
“When I was a teenager, I met this girl named Reina. Let’s say, I fell in love with her the moment I laid eyes on her. I was fifteen and obsessed,” he chuckles. “We went to school together. At first, we just hung out at school, but then we started dating and we hung out more and more outside school. She became my whole world and, well, my father didn’t like it. He told me to break up with her because I was too distracted by some pussy when I should have been focused on the MC,” he growls, eyes growing dark. “When I refused he threatened her; so I told him what he wanted to hear, that I broke up with her.”
“But you didn’t?”
He shakes his head. “No, but I really wish I had. We snuck around for a few more months, but eventually my dad’s men were out and caught us together. They told my dad. The next day, my dad dragged me into one of the storage buildings and there she was, tied to a chair with a gag in her mouth. I tried everything I could to plead with him to let her go, but he said I needed to learn a lesson. That the MC came first. Then he shot her right in the head. The last thing I saw was the terrified look in her eyes as tears spilled down her cheeks.”
“Oh Nick.” I press my forehead to his. He’s not crying, but his body is trembling.
“After that, I became a cold, heartless person. Eventually we left, but I always lived with the fear that if he found out I cared about another person, he would do the same thing to them that he did to Reina.”
“That's why you hated me so much when we first met.”
“I never hated you, baby.” Nick cups my cheeks, brushing away my tears. “I was afraid of caring about you, loving you.Nova, I was obsessed with you the moment I saw you too. More than Reina.”
“Yeah?”
