Page 142 of Cost of Courting

We’re the same, I realise in that moment. I’m alpha and omega, but so is she. I found my soulmate in my pack’s other omega.

“I really do love you,” I say, meaning it more than ever.

She slips her hand in mine and leads me down the stairs. Her perfume is strong, but it’s not affecting me the same way, and I realise my omega is coming out to play, making it easier to deal with.

Before, I would have been worried, but I’m going to do what Selene suggests and trust myself.

She opens the door, and we just pause to take in the chaos. The alphas are fighting. Not just fighting but killing each other.

“Omega, you are a force,” I whisper in awe.

She smiles smugly and slips out of the doorway. I follow her but pause when I see cages stacked on top of each other. There are animals in a lot of them, but in a cage right up against the wall are our alphas.

I can’t walk past them. I try, but I can’t. Lia would kill me.

“Go get them out. I need to do something.”

I set to unlocking the cages, one by one, releasing dogs, cats. There were pigs and even a couple of birds, but it’s the massive cat in a hidden cage down the back that takes my breath away. It would probably stand as tall as a man on its hind legs. It’s grey with black rosettes and looks deadly.

I hesitate because releasing it might be dangerous, not just to us but to someone else, but I can’t stand to see it locked up.

Trust.

I reach out and unlock the cage.

The cat tenses, its glowing green eyes watching every move I make. I pull the door open and step back, watching as it slowly slips out of the cage, creeping low on the floor, until it suddenly sprints away.

“Fuck this bullshit.”

I turn and find Selene beating the shit out of an alpha. I jog towards them but leave her to take care of it while I yank open the cage door.

Mael explodes out of it and launches at the nearest alpha, using his fists alone to cave his head in. The beauty of the violence of his movements staggers me for a second.

I am so in love with my pack.

Edric glides out, looking roughed up but cold as a glacier. While Kingston’s eyes blaze in a similar way to the cats. He grabs the alpha who Selene was fighting with and cuts his throat with the alpha’s own blade.

Selene grabs their clothes and tosses them to each alpha. The three of them watch her intently, and I can see they’ve entered a savage protective phase.

Without a word, we make our way towards the exit. Pausing only when Selene glances back, she goes to the front of the warehouse and slams a hand on the button to open the automatic doors.

“We’ve got to get back to our territory. Right now,” she says, looking over her shoulder.

Alpha’s who were messed up are starting to get their heads clear. And somewhere, Benson and his Hammer will realise what’s happened and come for us.

The huge, wide sides of the building slide open, and the animals we rescued run. Some of the alphas do, too, but we ignore them, slipping into the dark and following Selene to a car she indicates is our ride.

“Where is our car?”

“They would have taken it for parts,” Selene snaps. “Of all the stupid, idiotic things.”

Kingston pulls Selene into his lap in the backseat and kisses her hard. “Have I mentioned lately that you are the most amazing omega I have ever met?”

Selene wraps her arms around him and trembles. The stench of her heat is almost impossible to ignore.

“Don’t you let go of that yet, Selene. We’re not safe!” Edric warns in a deep alpha growl.

The car starts, and I reach forward, putting a hand on Mael’s shoulder. He’s driving, but he’s not obeying any road rules. He’s simply getting us home as fast as humanly possible.

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