Page 34 of Bliss & Her Idols

Chase pins Hudson on his back by his throat.

Then he raises his fist, slamming it into Hudson’s nose with a crunch of bone. “It’s impressive how many reasons you’re giving me to tear off your balls, before drowning you in the same barrel that you dunked your precious son. I don’t recommend anyone insults him again or I’ll rip out your tongue to present to him as a gift.”

Chase readies to punch Hudson in the jaw.

“Dad,” one of the teenage Alphas calls in distress.

Unsure, Chase lowers his fist. He glances at me.

I can tell that he’s uncomfortable taking apart even an Alpha like Hudson in front of his sons.

Lucky for Hudson.

“Why aren’t you fighting back?” Possie sneers at her husband. “I have two Omega Rejects here to drown and I want to get some sleep tonight.”

I growl at her, clutching Cricket closer to me.

“Possie,” Hudson rasps, as Chase holds him down more firmly by the throat, “shut the fuck up. You don’t know who this. It’sHarbinger, the fucking Champion cage fighter. We’ll give him what he wants, and he’ll let me live. How about that deal? We’ve just done a big job. We turned over a jewelry store in Sanctum. You can take the diamonds.”

Possie cringes, taking a cowardly step backward toward the house and further away from Chase.

Cricket nuzzles me, touch starved. He noses at my neck above my leathers desperately.

“I knew that you’d come.” Cricket peers up at me from underneath his eyelashes.

Such faith.

It’s heart wrenching.

Having Cricket’s trust like this is everything, when I know how much it means for him to move on from the betrayal of the last pack who made promises to him.

And the female Omega who wrecked him.

She must have known how his family would treat him, when he was sent back to them…what she was sending him home to.

Then Cricket whispers, half plea and half question, “Don’t leave me here…?”

“Never.”

How could I? Cricket is the other part of my soul, which has always been missing.

I understand now why I’ve been so addicted to his nightly messages.

Why hearing his voice was a revelation.

Now, meeting him even like this and smelling his scent is like an opening up of an entire new world.

In it, I have a male Omega who is mine to protect like I’ve always dreamed about.

A man who is already protecting Jin and fighting the same struggle as I am to change the world.

A man who I admire and respect.

Cricket is shivering from the cold.

I slip off my jacket, sliding it over his shoulders to try and warm him up.

Chase glances over at me, arching his eyebrow.

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