So, yeah, there was no way any of them were shifting to let me in there. Each time Brandy tried to get up, they fucking grabbed her and forced her to stay.
My wrist kept stinging, and I just knew Zania was gripping hers under the table.
Maybe sitting with them was an honour to the other omegas, but they didn’t realise they were keeping her on a leash. They hid her from the rest of the room by the wall of Zania’s alphas.
And then there were these assholes.Myfucking alphas.
If I knew Cas couldn’t drink, smoke, or do any drugs in case he lost his shit, I would have said he’d dropped a ton of acid before he came to the restaurant. Because he was fucked up.
And not even in the classic ‘I’ve had a bad day, so I’m going to be a growly cunt for the rest of the night’kind of fucked.
I’m talking rogue-level fucked.
The moment he and Sin got close enough to the restaurant for me to sense them through the bond, they burned with rage, grief, guilt, and any other fucked up emotion under the sun. It was so strong that Brandy shivered in her chair, looking at me across the room with shock. Though that could have just been from the general vibe of the party.
I didn’t care that Sin phoned to say Cas was ill, or that Cas now sat between the both of us, holding our hands like he was going to collapse if we let him go. This was their chance to show theirmums that Brandy wasours. And Cas couldn’t even keep his shit together.
They both glared at the main table as if they were preparing to kill everyone there. Every time Zania or Vivian laughed and Brandy reacted, Caspian would jolt, pure anger firing through him.
“What the fuck happened?” I hissed to Sin as Caspian leaned forward, staring at the tablecloth like it had called him a little bitch.
“We can talk about it later. What matters now is that we keep him calm.”
“Did he lose it?”
Sin shook his head. “I knocked him out before he could do any damage.”
My eyes widened along with my grin as Sin stared resolutely at his shitty mum. Vivian was fluttering around, waving her hands as she chatted with Zania like everything was fine and she hadn’t placed a target on our backs for all the other omegas in the room.
“I am so disappointed I missed that,” I said.
“Don’t be. We’ll pay dearly for it later. Please focus on Caspian; I can’t handle him emotionally like you.” Sin was better at subduing Caspian physically when he went rogue, and I soothed him afterwards, usually with my mouth and my ass.
“When we get home, you two owe us a fucking explanation.”
“We must stabilise Caspian first,” Sin said, releasing a harsh breath.
It was rare, if not almost impossible, to shake Sin up. I’d seen him go through so much atrocious shit and come out the other side with a blank face and an absolutely neutral aura. Ruffled was not a word people used for Sin Risler.
But he was shuffling in his seat, his attention bouncing from Caspian to Zania to Brandy. I didn’t know what Zania had done,but it must have been pretty fucking bad for Sin to be reacting like that.
So, I gathered my energy again, trying to remember why I fucking loved them after everything, and pushed that love through the bond.
Caspian shuddered, but his shoulders relaxed as he kept clasping us. It seemed like the perfect time to curl up in bed and snuggle into Caspian to keep him the fuck down. Just as long as Brandy came with us. I’d never done an omega pile-on, but I was looking forward to it already.
“What is she even doing here?” one omega said loudly and too obviously. “I thought Zania said they weren’t committed to her.”
“Don’t worry, ladies,” Zania’s voice travelled over the entire room. “She’s simply here as decoration.”
A rainbow of emotions, ranging from irritation to raw hate, exploded through the bond from all four of us. It was probably the first time we’d been in sync, and Sin and Cas hadn’t even bitten Brandy.
“What gave you that idea?” I cut in loudly, facing the omega head-on. She couldn’t have been more than twenty, and she was acting like she had a fucking right to even look at my alphas.
“Did you think we somehow made a mistake and brought the wrong omega?” Sin asked her.
There was a twinge from Cas as another tremor buzzed through him. I sort of wanted to push him and set him off, get him going enough that we could cause a distraction and whisk Brandy away. But I was seriously worried about how messed up his aura was. He was literally shaking the table, even with all the love I was shooting at him.
“N-no… Of course not. We were just told…” The omega blushed, light pink dusting her high cheekbones that clashed with her orange dress.
