I have to refuse. Because if I don’t, we’ll keep driving straight to a Fathim military run site where they’ll never let me go.
“Stop," I shout, my voice cracking with desperation. "Please. You can't take me there.”
“You’re not in a position to give orders, Omega Sparks,” Shade clips back.
Frack. Was he always such a hard-ass?
“I can’t go to anywhere near the Fathim military,” I say quickly, the words tumbling out of me before I lose my nerve. “They’ll send me to The Capital. I’ll be given to… they’ll make me be…”
I’ll become some influential Alpha’s plaything. Not a mate. Not cherished. A whore for their amusement.
And worse… I’ll never find my Omegas.
That gets their attention.
Viper goes deathly still.
Shade’s knuckles whiten on the wheel. Even Blaze, who’s been muttering to himself, goes quiet.
The sharp tang of anger stings my nose.
I don’t know what they’re angry at.
Is it me?
The Capital?
My adrenaline is wearing off, and I can’t stop the violent shaking from chattering my jaw.
This feels like one of my recurring nightmares. The ones where I’m with the squad on the battlefield. Those dreams always feelso real I’m almost loathe to wake, because it means I’ll be alone in my sparse, empty nest.
Maybe itisa dream.
I squeeze my eyes shut and open them again.
I sigh.
Nope, still here.
And Knox is still staring back at me with his glowing red eyes despite his body literally stitching itself back together in what can only be an excruciating process.
He saved me. I’m safe. He can stop staring at me like I’m going to sprint back into enemy fire.
Damn Prime Alphas and their dedication to duty.
Blaze spins abruptly and pins me with a glare that makes the hairs on my arms stand up straight.
"What were you doing with a defected Prime Alpha in a war zone?" he asks, fast and aggressive. “That knothead your lover?”
Lover?
The way he says it,lover,it sounds like a knife being sharpened on bone.
Not merely curiosity or jealousy. An accusation wrapped in razor wire.
I open my mouth and close it again.
A thought slams into me and I fight not to visibly cringe.
