Page 55 of His Stolen Omega

“Why not?”

“We aren’t friends.”

“No, we aren’t.”

“You said…you think of me as an omega.”

“You are an omega.”

“Before I was just a test subject.”

Levi slid in closer and draped an arm over the man’s waist, but he didn’t pull him in. They’d both been relatively calm, and he hadn’t had to use his pheromones to influence the other man’s mood. He’d like to keep that up for a bit longer. “Speak plainly. What are you trying to ask me?”

“Is this the difference in your head? Now that I’m a person and not a thing, you’ll talk to me? Bath me? And?”

“You’ll be allowed more liberties,” he offered.

“I literally tried to escape.”

“Yes, and if you’d waited just a couple of days more, you probably would have. You overestimated yourself though.”

“I’m not safe around other people right now,” he seemed to resign himself to that. “I need you to fix me, but that doesn’t mean I like you, and it doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying to get away.”

Levi chuckled. “You really shouldn’t be telling me your master plan, omega. All you’re doing is alerting me that the second you’re stable, I’ll need to find a way to lock you up more thoroughly.”

He turned his head, catching his eye. “Thought you were going to kill me?”

“I’m positive I mentioned that was no longer on the table.”

“Then what? You can’t actually be planning on keeping me? There’s nothing you can promise that will make me betray my brother. I won’t join you. Ever.”

“We’ll see.” Levi still wasn’t sure if that was even what he meant. But it was best not to dwell on the unknown for the time being. No matter what came next, he really had decided to keep the omega alive, in what way, and with what title, he didn’t know.

But he was confident he’d figure it out.

Levi always puzzled through any given situation and came out on top.

This would be no different.

“Sleep,” he suggested. “You’ll be angry with me again tomorrow.”

“I’m angry with you now,” the omega drawled, but he settled in. He didn’t last a full minute before he added in a quieter voice, “Can you do that thing you did earlier?”

“What?”

“I can’t fall asleep. I’m too wired. You smell good but you’re also scary and I can’t stop picturing that sea snake you have between your legs.”

It wasn’t often someone shocked him into total stupefaction, but Levi found himself staring at the back of the omega’s head, mind blanking as he struggled to process. “Did you just…?”

“Sorry,” the omega sounded an awful lot like he was rolling his eyes, though Levi couldn’t see it with him facing away, “would you prefer sea dragon, Leviathan?”

“That’s…” He cleared his throat.

“Hold up, are you flustered?” The omega tried to turn, but Levi cinched his arm around his waist and pressed up against him, keeping him in place.

“Sleep.” He let out waves of coaxing pheromones, the type that could help slip him into unconsciousness, growling a little when the omega laughed at him.

“Coward.”