He enters just a moment later, a smug grin on his face.
“I’m sorry I’m late for dinner—” I start, but he cuts me off.
“We already ate.” His gaze rakes over me as Victor and Jasper come behind him. Victor just looks bored, while Jasper has this maniacal glint in his eye. “You never really eat anyway, so we figured…why bother you?”
I swallow the lump in my throat, the looks in their eyes making me take an instinctual step back.
“Then what…what’s going on? Are you going to sleep here tonight?” I glance at my pathetic excuse of a nest.
“Well,” Kellan steps further into the room as Jasper leans against the wall and Victor crosses his arms, “we were thinking about how we could…fixthis whole…virgin predicament.”
“Oh?” I choke out, taking another step back. My heart is running a million miles a minute, and I’m afraid I might pass out.
“So, we have a proposition for you,” Jasper speaks up. “You can have all your nesting items back tonight—every pillow, every blanket, every fucking little annoying-ass stuffy, on one condition.”
A condition I’m not sure I’m going to like.
“And what condition would that be?” I whisper.
“You let us spend your heat with you.” Jasper gives me a cruel smirk, a strange glint in his eye.
I…I have no idea when I would even go into heat. I suppose I haven't had my suppressants since I came home with Pack Caruso…but I can’t spend my heat with them.
I won’t.
But…maybe I can just tell them what they want to hear? And then I’ll be gone before my heat even makes an appearance. It’s risky, but it will get me my nest back faster than hoping I do a good enough job cleaning every day.
“I…” I accept. I agree. That’s fine. Anything. I try to force any combination of the words out, but my mouth has other ideas. “Can’t.”
The word chokes me, and I watch with horror as Kellan, Victor, and Jasper all turn venomous in their expressions.
Kellan sighs. “You always have to do things the hard way, don’t you?”
My head shakes, my words catching in my throat as I take another step back. Something very,verybad is about to happen.
Jasper pulls something out of his pocket, pulling the cap off and revealing a sharp needle. “It’s cute you thought we were actually asking permission. You’ll be begging for our cocks soon enough.”
My blood freezes, my pulse rushing in my ears. “What?”
“It’s a heat trigger.” Kellan grins. “Got it from your parents, actually, at a good discount. We were going to give it to you either way, but now you won’t even get your nest. Trust me, you’ll be much more receptive to us after feeling nothing but our cocks and knots for days on end. Think of it as…virgin bootcamp. An accelerated course to get you used to taking our dicks however and wherever we want.”
“No—” I trip, taking another step back and landing on my ass. “You can’t!” I scramble back, the roar of adrenaline keeping me conscious through the exertion.
Jasper huffs as he catches up to me easily, grasping my arm in his hand before plunging the needle in.
“Fuck!” The scream rips out of me, and I almost don’t catch their laughter. Not with the heat licking through my veins. But not with desire.
With terror. With…rage.
My omega, who has been forcefully neglected for too long, comes to the forefront of my mind, and she ispissed.
So when Jasper grins, taking a step back with a satisfied smirk, clearly convinced I’m about to get on all fours and present…she acts.
It’s like I’m no longer in control of my body as my adrenaline spikes, and I burst forward with a surge of speed, sprinting past the alphas and running out of the nest.
They could have grabbed me, if running away wasn’t the last thing theyexpected me to do.
Their shock is short-lived though, and in the next second I hear footsteps pounding behind me. I nearly slip on the stairs but I catch myself, my body going into full survivor mode.
