Page 80 of Cost of Courting

“Mael, I need your help.”

I let out a vicious growl that has her turning white and stepping back. I stalk towards her. This petty, insolent little bitch wants to play power games. So be it.

“What are you doing here?” She looks between Mael and me, her expression growing more and more unsure.

I don’t say anything, just raise a single eyebrow and watch as she shrinks in on herself.

“Time for you to go, Luna.”

“No, I-”

“Time to go. These are not your toys, not your alphas, and they are not for you to manipulate when you can’t be bothered learning something yourself.”

“I tried!”

I snort. “You always try to, you never do. Let me guess, you lost your job again?”

Luna’s gaze drops to the floor.

“Right, go home and wait for me. We can talk when I get there.”

“You can’t tell me what to-”

“GO HOME!” My purr thunders through the room, leaving her no choice but to turn and walk away.

Bailey wheezes. Mael gapes at me, but Kingston and Edric start to laugh.

I turn on them. “Are you right? Stop being so,” I wave my hand at their laughing faces.

“Are you sure you’re an omega?” Kingston teases.

“I dare you to find out.”

He clutches his chest. “I’m in love.”

The words are an arrow straight to the heart I gave to them when we were kids and a blow to my ego.

My furious anger returns.

“Are you or aren’t you?”

The room stills. It goes deadly, deadly quiet.

“What?” Kingston says, blinking at me.

“Are you in love with me?”

His eyebrows snap down, and his whole body tenses. Two seconds later, he closes the distance until we’re facing each other.

“Yes.”

My heart thuds hard against my chest.

“Yes?” I frown up at him. “Yes, what?”

“Yes. I am in love with you!”

I didn’t expect him to say that. I didn’t expect that at all. His eyes are earnest, his expression serious. Kingston never does serious.

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