Page 64 of Bliss & Her Idols

I chuckle.

Zoe’s expression sours. “Thank you for your input.”

She abruptly cuts off the call.

Chills run down my spine, when she doesn’t pass me back my phone but slips it into her back pocket instead.

“Hey, that’s mine,” I protest. “Give it back.”

“Not yet. You’ll need to sign an NDA about this incident. We can’t have anything published about this, you understand.”

I cross my arms. “Pass.”

Zoe’s expression darkens.

She pulls out her own phone and swipes it on, before giving me a nasty smile.

“Hello, Stapleton?” Zoe never looks away from me, as she talks into the phone. “Send two of your team to me ASAP. They won’t sign the NDA.”

Then she turns off her phone.

In the silence, I take a steadying breath.

That’s a definite threat.

The twinkling lights of the meeting room feel oppressively bright now.

Cricket is glancing between us, uncertain. “Is Jin in trouble?”

“That’s none of your business.” Zoe drops her fake smile. Her true character is showing through. “Worry about yourself.”

“Don’t fucking talk to him like that,” I growl.

Zoe stares at me in shock. “Your Alpha allows you to cuss…?”

I give a dangerous smile. “You have no idea what my Alpha allows me to do.”

Zoe takes a frightened step backwards.

She should be scared.

Chase wasn’t bluffing about what he’d do to someone who hurt me.

Unfortunately, the two security team stalk into the room. They’re both muscled and dressed in dark suits with guns holstered at their waists. They’re also twice the size of Cricket and me.

Zoe tilts up her chin and tries to act like a moment before, she hadn’t been retreating from an Omega.

“Defiant.” Zoe’s gaze settles on the Rej bracelet at my wrist. “I suppose that I was expecting too much from two Rejects.”

“Don’t fucking talk to her like that either.” Cricket’s voice is harder than I’ve heard him speak before.

His eyes are flashing with rage, and his hands are clasped at his side.

“Pretty but rebellious.” When Zoe reaches out to stroke a finger down Cricket’s cheek, I bat away her hand. “If my Omega acted like you, then he wouldn’t sit down for a week.”

“And if I was ever unlucky enough to be bonded to a Beta who treated me like that,” Cricket furiously wipes his cheeks free of tear tracks, “then I now know that they’d be an abusive piece of shit.”

My eyes widen.

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