Page 42 of Collateral Omega

Jealousy scoured Xaine’s inside. He shoved the feeling away because it didn't matter, the omega was his.

“Impressive,” Xaine said, not letting on how much her presence annoyed him. He sat down on the nearest couch and watched in satisfaction as the woman’s face morphed from anger to confusion, then recognition. She loudly gasped, before she slapped a hand over her mouth.

“I see you recognize me,” Xaine said.

“Yes. What…what brings you here?” she asked, reaching for the omega behind her. She pulled him to her side. The omega came out of hiding, eyes blazing. He resented Xaine’s presence there even though he saved him from the wild hungry beasts outside.

Or maybe the omega could sense that Xaine was the worst kind of beast. The devil himself. Here to demand his body and soul. Xaine’s eyes ran over the omega’s sexy body to his bare feet. His hair was sleep tousled. His clothes were rumpled. Yet he looked breathtaking.

“Sit,” Xaine commanded.

“Come,” the female alpha said, dragging the omega to the opposite couch. Xaine’s eyes fell on the woman’s hand on the omega’s arm resentfully. This time, instead of fighting his possessive nature, he set it free. And it felt like he could breathe for the first time in his life. He gripped the urge of the couch, his eyes following the omega greedily.

“You were saying?” the woman said awkwardly, looking from him to the omega. Her hold tightened on the omega's arm, as if that would keep Xaine from taking him.

He might be bonded to her, he reminded himself. But Xaine didn’t seem to care.

“My assistant will explain everything to you. Let’s wait for him,” Xaine said. “I think it would be better that way.”

The omega looked up at him. Finally, Xaine thought as they stared at each other. The damn world disappeared and all he could see was the omega, his grey eyes were stormy like the coming of a terrible storm. He looked pissed enough to cuss Xaine out. A thrilling sensation went through him. He’d never had an omega look at him like that. They were all scared of him. Could it be the omega wasn’t scared of him?

“You’re angry with me. Why?” Xaine asked.

“I don’t like you.”

“Is that all? A lot of people don’t like me.”

“What are you doing here?” he asked. Xaine stared at the omega, not answering him. “What? Don’t you have a reason?”

“I do.”

“And?” The omega asked.

A thrill went through Xaine. Fuck. He loved this. Loved the challenge in the omega’s eyes. Xaine wanted to get up and walk to him, just to see what the omega would do. They stared at each other for what felt like forever. The room filled with a sensual tension that turned Xaine warm.

Klane walked into the room a few minutes later, breaking the tense moment.

“Did you take care of everything?” Xaine asked. Klane nodded. “Good. Please explain to them why we’re here.”

“Right,” Klane took out his data reader from his case and clicked through it before he stepped close to the omega. “This is the contract between your father and master Covus.”

“What contract?” the omega asked. “I don’t know anything about a contract. He didn’t tell me.”

“Uhhh…” Klane rubbed his neck sheepishly. “It states here that if your father fails to pay back the credit he borrowed from master Covus, you’ll belong to master Xaine. Your father put you down as collateral for all the credit he borrowed.” Klane stepped close to the omega and showed him the contract.

The omega’s eyes widened. He looked like he was about to pass out. “He borrowed that much?”

“Yes. Plus, the amount I had to pay to save you from those ruffians.” Xaine said smugly. What was it about this omega that made him turn into an asshole? His fingernails tingled as he waited for his response.

“Oh shit, Holi,” the female alpha said, gripping the omega’s hand.

Holi. That was his name. Xaine rolled it around in his head, liking the sound of it. It suited the omega.

“This can’t be happening,” Holi said in a tiny voice.

“It is. I want you to become my service omega for a year to pay back the debt,” Xaine said.

The room went deathly silent.

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