“Do you not like your job?”
“I don’t know, I guess sometimes I just feel trapped? I mean, I put everything into getting to this position, but it’s not what I thought it would be. Hmm. I guess I just never really thought there was another option, but seeing this…I guess I’m just rethinking my choices in life.”
“There’s never a right or wrong time to change your life, Quincy. It’s just a decision in your mind, and then you follow through with it. Why waste time doing something that makes you unhappy?”
“Yeah, that’s what I keep saying to myself.” He huffs as we climb over a fallen tree. “There’s a girl that I met. It was love at first sight.”
“Oh?” I tease.
“Yeah,” he grins back at me. “I think I’d like to not live at an office anymore. Go on holidays, travel. Get bonded. Have kids.”
“Sounds like you know what you want already.”
His grin is so much lighter that I have seen yet. “Yeah, it does sound like that. Thank you.”
I shrug. “I didn’t do anything.”
“You didn’t tell me I was dumb.” His eyes darken, but he hides it with another smile. “That’s something pretty important to me, that is. Thank you, Bonnie.”
I open my mouth to respond, but Vale steps up on my other side, and Quincy melts away.
I hold my silence and, surprisingly, so does the alpha. I don’t trust him, but now I’m wondering if this life I have is enough.
And that’s when the screaming shatters the silence.
Dakota
Iglare at Bonnie and slap a piece of gauze to her head, ignoring her wince. She deserves it. Of all the stupid things to do.
“That was so incredibly dumb!” I snarl at her.
She lifts her cold green eyes to me and glares. I don’t even care. Okay, I care hard because just that one whiff of peanut butter cookie has me drooling from my mouth and cock. I want this omega to keep glaring at me, to keep challenging me. But not if she’s going to get hurt.
And there is my problem, my fear for her and my rage she is injured is killing my desire to fuck her brains out.
I lean forward and smell Nathan on her, and my lingering ardor fades as red fiery rage replaces it. It takes everything I have not to lean forward and rip that ugly, shapeless shirt from her body and replace it with my scent straight from my cock.
Mark her and make her mine.
“He could have taken you off the cliff, you idiot,” I snap instead.
Just seeing her running at breakneck speed down the hill, her pack left forgotten. She’d gotten in front of Nathan and used her body to stop his out-of-control tumble. They’d both stopped mere feet from the cliff’s edge. Vale was there, butI’m not sure if he would have reached her. I don’t even want to think about how close it was.
It was easily the scariest moment of my life, and I’m not ready to unpack why yet. I’m not ready to analyze it or even acknowledge it. That’s for when I’m calmer.
Nathan moans like a little bitch as Quincy helps to bandage him up. Next time, he won’t survive.
He should be fucking dead. Instead, my omega is sitting here hurt, and I’m seething with rage because when I damn well attempt to kill someone, they fucking die. I’ve never had to attempt it a second time.
It’s ridiculous.
I lift my eyes, sensing the thumping rage of Rory drilling into the side of my head.
“You’re lucky you don’t have anything broken,” I snap at her, grabbing hold of my anger so that I don’t do anything stupid like try to kiss that adorable look off her face.
She doesn’t say anything, just sits quietly while I dab at her wounds. At last, I clean up the last one and sit back on my heels, waiting until she gets the courage to look me in the eyes.
“Bonnie,” I growl.
