I ignored him.
“Or is it something aboutyou?” he went on. “Is it your omega biology? Because it’s certainly not your personality.”
I growled but kept ignoring him. He wasn’t going to bait me into talking.
He grew irritated at my silence. “Or is it just that you’re a slut who will sleep with anyone?”
“Obviously not,” I said loudly, “because I turnedyoudown.”
That bothered him. His hackles rose briefly and a flash of annoyance crossed his face. I decided I liked it. I wanted to seehimbothered more.
“What do you get out of all this, Neil?” I demanded. “Is this the only place that will accept you now?”
“Blaze respects me.”
I rolled my eyes. “Wake up. Blaze thinks you’re a pest. You’re a small, pitiful wolf among gryphons. The only reason they even let you stay is because you foundme,their precious prize.” I said the words with contempt.
His eye twitched. “Blaze trusts me to watch you.”
“Are you happy with your life?” I demanded. “Being on babysitting duty? Being a slimy traitor who sold me out just because I wouldn’t sleep with you?”
Neil bared his fangs. “Isoldyou out because you were a menace to the wolf packs, you and your mates and your stupid prophecy! It was all a waste of time!”
The prophecy,I thought, suddenly struck by the fact that I hadn’t given it any attention since arriving.Does it have anything to do with what’s happening to me now?
Neil loped forward, entering my personal space and interrupting my thoughts. “You’re at my mercy now, just like it should be. Omegas should bow to alphas. That’s the law of nature.”
But I wasn’t afraid of him. I knew he couldn’t do anything to me, or else Blaze would crush him like a bug. He was talking big to show off his meagre ounce of power.
“Just shut up,” I muttered.
“All I wanted was for our pack to thrive,” Neil went on. “For East Pack to be the best, the strongest. We could’ve conquered the others, expanded our territory, but then you came along with your made-up stories, trying to make everyone hold hands and get along.”
“You’re crazy,” I muttered, trying to avoid him, but he kept following me like an annoying fly. “Get away from me!”
Neil leapt in front, cutting off my path and blocking me from getting away. He inched closer, his eyes full of cold determination. Full ofhunger.
This situation seemed all too familiar.
Except this time, Eric, Ramsay and Colton weren’t here. And neither was Noro.
But I wasn’t scared. I was fucking pissed off.
My wolf soul snarled in defiance and I let out a deep, threatening rumble in my throat. “I’ll rip your face off if you don’t leave me alone.”
“If you act like an omega is supposed to, we won’t have a problem,” Neil said calmly.
I don’t know what he was expecting. Maybe he wanted me to roll over and show my belly to him, or bend over and present my ass. But he was insane if he thought after all this, I was going down without a fight.
I waited for him to come closer. He did.
When his face was an inch from mine, I bit him.
Hard.
I sank my teeth deep into the sensitive flesh of his nose and held on like my life depended on it. Neil screamed.
I bit harder, tasting blood, clamping down as Neil thrashed desperately like a fish out of water. His agonized wail echoed throughout the chamber. Finally his pain beat out his reason and he pushed his claws against me, trying to get me off him, but his paws only found purchase on my chest.
