“I think I’m fine right here,” I say.
“Jax,” He sighs, exasperated. I don’t know why this is unexpected, I’m not acting out of character by saying I’m not leaving.
“Olivia, what would you like?” Brandon asks, cutting in.
I love that guy, he always has my back. I need to take a book out of Liv’s book and send him a gift basket or something.
“I would like him to stay,” She says softly, her eyes darting to him.
“Very well,” My captain sighs.
“Okay, we just have a few questions for you, Ms. Miller,” Officer Parker says. “Are you okay answering them?”
“Yeah,” she says with a nod, straightening her back.
“You were kept in a different warehouse than the other omegas, do you know why?”
“Yeah, it was because I was sold directly to them.”
“Sold? Who sold you?” the other officer chimes in.
“My mom,” She sighs, her gaze falling to the table. “She came to my apartment and I opened the door for her and then a couple of alphas knocked me out and I woke up in that warehouse.”
“Why would your mother sell you?” The other officer asks, his eyes narrowing in suspicion.
I already don’t like this guy. I don’t know whether it’s the stench of his dominance or just him in general, but I know I don’t like him.
“She really hates me,” She grits out. “Like, really hates me. I moved out with my little sister when I was sixteen because of how bad things were. She also probably wanted money.”
“What were things like in that other warehouse?” Officer Parker asks. “You were the only one to come out with injuries so severe. Why?”
“I had a cellmate. Her name was Willow Carter. She was a twenty-year-old visual arts major from the local college. She was being taken away by this guy in a suit and his goons, I’m pretty sure he was the one in charge of the whole thing. He said she already had a buyer. I tried to fight back when they tried to take her and they didn’t like that.”
“Why would you fight back against alphas?” Officer Ballard—I should call him Officer Ballsack cause he’s really being a dick. Childish, but I don’t care. I can’t do anything but tap my foot on the ground right now anyway. Punching him in the face for being so aggressive to Liv won’t do anything positive.
“You know that’s a stupid thing to do,” He continues.
She narrows her eyes at him. There’s my fiery Liv.
“I wouldn’t just let them take her without a fight,” She scoffs. “She was being taken away to be fucking sold. Everyone here knows what that fucking entails. I wasn’t just going to let her be shipped off to that hell without seeing someone was willing to fight for her.”
Officer Parker seems to be the smart one, cause he picks up on the tension in the room and continues asking some questions.
“Other than the physical assault that happened, did anything else happen with the man in a suit?”
Her shoulders tense up at the memories and she squeezes my hand even tighter. “He said something about some alphas paying good money for an omega they could break, but that’s about it.”
My blood starts to boil at the sound of that.
“If that’s the case,” Officer Ballsack cuts in, his eyes glinting with something that makes me want to wipe that look off his face. “Then you should be taken into police protective custody.”
“That’s not necessary,” I cut in. “She can still be protected while not in police custody.”
Officer Ballsack just rolls his eyes. “I’ve read your file, Mr. Henderson. You really don’t have to do this here, I’m sure you understand she’d be safer—”
“No,” Olivia cuts in turning to look at me. “I want to stay with Jax.”
The biggest smile spreads across my face.