“I will fix this by stopping Caspian and preventing our omega’s mind from shattering. A new bite will damage all of us.”
I pressed my lips together because it couldn’t be true. We loved her so much that a bite would save her. We could find her in the bond and fuckingprotecther, but he had to bite her.
“Sin,” she gasped, reaching for him. She couldn’t even open her eyes because she was in so much fucking pain. “Please, I… Sin, I need Caspian…”
It wasn’t me she was reaching for; I wasn’t the one she really wanted.
Sin rose before she could touch him, his voice like ice. “We’re running out of time.”
I had to bite down my panic. I needed to keep it together, but it hurt so fucking much, and she was slipping away from us, and I wasuseless.
“If you’re going, just give me the gun and get the fuck out of here.”
Sin sighed as he handed it to me, and I casually spun it in my right hand before aiming it straight at Sin.
Brandy grabbed my arm to stop him, but I growled.
“Stay still, Brandy.” I clicked the trigger as I pressed it to Sin’s forehead. “Give her a bite, or I’ll shoot. It might not kill you, but it’ll fuck your brain up enough to show you I’m fucking serious. And that will knock us all out.”
“Can you really afford to shoot me when I’m the only chance you have?” Sin asked coldly as he dismissed me, pushing the gun away with two fingers.
He trusted me to kill Cas’s dads, and he trusted me to be a fucking coward, just like him.
Sin scent marked her again just for good luck, but it wasn’t working when every second that passed, Caspian grew wilder.
“Sin, don’t go,” she pleaded. “I need you.”
“Melanie, please listen to me.” Sin stroked her arm as his face hardened. “If Caspian’s rogue state wins, we may lose you as well. If not for us, then please keep yourself together for the people in the pictures in your nest. For your family.”
“I’m her fucking family now,” I snarled as I pulled her closer to my chest. “And don’t chuck it on her. We’re all responsible here, especially you, for bringing Cas to this fucking dinner when he looked like that. You don’t even deserve to touch her, so give her a fucking bite, or leave.”
Sin nodded, one more brush of his aura sweeping over us, his concern beating out of him before he took off.
If he really fucking cared, he would have let me go instead.
“Brandy?” I gasped as I tried to make her look at me.
I was in fucking awe that he actually left us. His omegas were slumped in pain, stuck in a fucking corridor where anyone could get to us…and he left…
“Brandy, please, come on. Lift your head,” I begged. I could stop panic swamping me as Sin’s energy faded and Caspian’s took over.
I couldn’t cry. No matter how furious I was or how much despair ate at me, I had to be what she needed. I couldn’t let Cas or Sin steal it. I was fucking hers, and I’d show her by being the only one to keep her alive.
Melanie
Igroaned as Sin’s presence left us.
I didn’t realise how much I needed his alpha energy to support me. But I reached over to Kai, burying myself as tightly into him as I could.
When the next wave of fury came, my body convulsed, jerking in Kai’s arms as my vision suddenly went red.
My thoughts vanished, and there was just an endless path of pain that drilled itself deeper and deeper into Caspian.
I couldn’t reach him through the haze. It was too powerful. I didn’t have a shape, or even an idea of who I was. I just neededhim.
Even though I went towards him into the fire, he was covered in the dark red flames, and there was no way out.
“Brandy? Hey!” Kai’s shout burst through me as pain flowered in my neck, and his presence suddenly bloomed inside me.
