“There’s not much she can control right now, Leaf, even her reaction to us and to you seems to be out of her control. She’s not in her home, this world is different and hard to navigate, she’s being hunted.”
I growl at the mention of that monster.
“So, we give her some space?”
“Yes, right now, so she doesn’t run away again, we stay here where she knows that if she needs us we will be right here, but we do not encroach into that room unless she says the words.”
I growl.
“Leaf, did you have sex with her when she bit you?” Lirin asks as he walks into the room.
I cock my head to the side. “What’s sex?”
“When you get aroused, you have a dick between your legs, right?”
“Dick?”
“Your maleness,” Lirin says and leans on the counter beside me. “Third leg.”
Oh. “Yes.”
“Did you put it in her?”
I snarl.
“That’s sex. Did you have sex with her, Leaf?”
“So what if I did?”
Lirin sighs heavily. “Changes things. It’s going to have to change things.”
Reed is watching me closely, what they are saying isn’t making any sense. Changes what things?
“Did you get stuck together, too?”
I growl in warning. It’s private.
“Shit, fucked, knotted, and bonded,” Lirin says and hides his eyes behind his hand.
“She is mine.”
“Yeah, we heard you, old boy. She is yours. There is no refuting that fact, especially not now.”
Ronit walks into the room and pauses. “Leaf, let’s talk.”
I follow him to the window where we stare out at the ocean.
“Do you know what an alpha is?”
“I think so.”
“Let me tell you again. An alpha is a type of male who is born different. He’s stronger, more aggressive, and he becomes unstable as the years go by. Alphas are dangerous, and generally, they have one person in the world who can calm them. Years ago, there were omegas everywhere, but those days are long gone, and now the only place you can find them is here.”
“Okay.”
“Mei is an omega, and you and the rest of us are alphas. Mei is starting to awaken, and as she does, she will go into what is called a heat where she will want to breed, to have sex, and be knotted. It can be very painful, but it’s also a very vulnerable time. There are lots of issues associated with an omega coming into heat, but the most important one to you is that your temper will get worse, you will want to touch her, protect her, destroy anything and anyone that makes her unhappy. You need to lock it down and use your brain and fight your instincts.” Ronit turns to me and glares. “No heat.”
I shake my head, ignoring his last two words. “This all sounds intense.”
