It is the wrong thing to say. Leaf’s eyes take on an unholy joy.
“Please,” he says in a slow drawl that has my body reacting. “Make me.”
I turn away, desperate, and spot the witch. More wild images slam into my brain, and my temper sizzles, flipping wildly between arousal and fury.
Diablos moves, and my temper focuses on him and settles into a rage.
“There are omegas on Earth. Lots of them, they are making you unsteady. You will settle after a while or until you find an omega of your own,” he says calmly. “I can get you one.”
The rage that goes through me makes speech impossible. Long seconds pass as the room fills with the scent of lightning.
“Get. Out.”
He puts a piece of paper down on the island. “Go to this address and kill the thing that is hurting the humans.”
I start towards him, my temper making the walls throb, my mind pulsing. I can barely see. The urge, the complete biological demand to stake my claim on the omega and alpha, obliterates every other thought.
Mei makes the mistake of trying to leave. I brush Canto aside and grip the nape of her neck in a hold that has her whimpering.
“Where are you going, Strega,” I hiss, drawing out the sounds of that name.
“To the ocean.”
Three words that are simple and unexpected, ‘she’s not leaving’. The anger bleeds out of me, leaving me feeling shaky and dangerous. What is happening to me?
I storm into the bathroom with shaky hands, reaching down to yank open my pants, looking at my cock and the sudden appearance of a mythical knot. One I have never had before today. One that marks me as an alpha.
I grip it hard and grunt as pleasure fans out around the spot. What the fuck? What the actual fucking fuck?
Chapter 14
Mei
“Let’s go,” Ronit snarls when he comes out of the back of the house. I find it annoying that I’m so aware of him, like part of me was counting the heartbeats until he came back. “I need to kill something,” he mutters wrathfully.
I have known of the Sirens for a hundred years, but every now and then, I am completely astounded to realise I don’t know them at all. We are strangers who spent a few fateful hours together.
And then we destroyed each other.
But I have spent every single sleepless night thinking about them. It’s not like I could forget. A few hours changed the path of both our lives so drastically we’ll never be able to go back to who we were.
The memories assault me again. Fire so angry and hungry, the feel of the ocean bearing down on me a weight of rage as furious as the flames above. The fury and the fear, but underneath all of that, a pain that I knew would change my life.
And it has.
Lirin grabs my wrist. It’s in the back of my mind to argue, but then we’re falling. We smash into a wave I wasn’t expecting and plunge into the depths of an ocean that doesn’t exist on Earth.
The urge to panic hits me because last time they dragged me like this, they fed me to a monster, but I resist, allowing Lirin to drag me behind him. If I have to die, it’s better to die like this than as food for Deux.
Leaf sweeps past, a glowing teal stain that spreads in my mind, faster and faster, he circles down until the green is so bright I want to scream, and then we’re falling again, but there’s no water.
I react instantly, shifting my body and preparing for impact. I land hard and crouch down, listening intently. There’s a screech of metal, but it’s not the same as from their cars. It's smaller.
“Sam! Sam! Did you see that? I swear, I saw them appear out of thin air. Sam! Get out here!”
I turn my head, listening intently and pushing all other sounds out of my mind. There is a weird sloshing, pulsing sound coming from the house across the road from the screamer. I bet anything that weird house is the target.
Lirin pulls me up and brushes my wet hair back from my face. The water leaves my clothes as my ability to think leaves my body. He’s so gentle. It takes everything I have not to lean into him.
