I rocked my head back as his lips descended on my neck as my heart fell. I didn’t have to stifle my whimper because he couldn’t tell it came from hurt and not desire.
Why couldn’t they just want to be with me for me?
Pain spread from every place he kissed as I forced myself to hide it. To not show it. To make it disappear, even though Kai was tugging at me, answering my pain.
My fingers dug into Caspian’s shoulders like I could keep him with me. But they were so broad, and his muscles were so thick that I couldn’t leave a mark.
His finger traced down the V of my hips, and he was so absorbed in kissing my skin that there was no way for him to sense the fresh anger blooming in my heart.
I wanted him to pay attention. I wanted him to notice what was going on. Kai could feel so deep inside me I couldn’t hide anything from him. So what would change if Caspian knew me the same way?
“Hey, Caspian?” I said, pushing at his shoulder to bring his face up to mine.
I’d been thinking about it as an actual way to take him away from Zania, and I hated myself for it. But I couldn’t stand the way they made me feel about myself even more.
I was so tired from everything that had happened in the restaurant that I just didn’t care anymore.
“Do you really want to know how to make her furious?” I asked.
I couldn’t believe I was going to say it after everything they’d put me through.
Caspian was here, and he needed me, even if it was for the wrong reasons.
“Tell me, Mel,” he asked breathlessly, his gaze so innocent it threw me off. “What do you need me to do?”
I drew in a breath, standing on my tiptoes to whisper in his ear.
“Bite me.”
Caspian
It has to be you.
That’s what Sin murmured to me as we watched Mel sweep through the room, looking so sexy it hurt.
Either you go after her and fuck her, or I do.
Was Kai’s reply when I tried to argue that I literally couldn’t process the fact that Camille had murdered three people, and it was all because of Zania.
I was going to fucking destroy my mum.
I’d had that thought so many times since I was a kid. Of just leaping on her and breaking her neck, finally ending her reign of bullshit manipulation and full-on fucking cruelty.
After the way Camille screamed in horror and agony as she saw me in her blood-drenched bedroom, I didn’t know how I could sit in front of Mum when she cornered Mel.
My mates said they needed to stay behind to clear up the drama Mel had caused. They chucked her dress at me and told me to go. But the way the two of them looked at each other felt like they were cooking up a plan.
And my brain was too blown to figure it out.
I just had to find Mel.
Sin kept going on and on about losing her and how we couldn’t let her out of our sight. And we’d basically fucked that up already.
As soon as I left the restaurant, it stopped being me searching for Mel, and it became an alpha hunting his omega.
All I had to do was follow the rich scent of brandy that wound through the gardens that backed onto the restaurant. The place was famous for its secluded outdoor dining, which made it easier for her to hide.
But my alpha instincts picked up as the hunt went on.
