Page 65 of Knot All is Crystal

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Except, that’s not what I find.

Gage

Okay, look, I’m not trying to make everything weird

Because I really enjoy chatting with you

And tattooing you

But like, there’s something here, right?

I mean, ignore me, or send a weird emoji or something if I’m way off base here.

I bet I’m just as surprised as you are that I’m doing this

I don’t even allow myself to entertain the idea of being with an Omega.

And you have an Alpha now

I’m readingthe texts in real time, feeling his anxiety through the small screen.

Two Alphas, now, actually

Long story

Wow uh

I think I was hoping I was talking to your pocket and you’d just ignore this and we’d pretend like it never happened

Sorry to disappoint?

I just

Put me out of my misery here, Crys

Tell me there’s nothing, you feel nothing, so I can go cry into Burger while eating a burger

I should tellhim there’s nothing. I should let him go. I can’t be greedy and demand a Beta’s attention when everything is still so new with my Alphas.

But I’m starting to realize that I am fucking selfish.

I have spent four years letting my life be ruined to keep those I love safe. Am I supposed to give up on love, too? Am I supposed to allow a psychopathic Alpha to force a bond on me every few months for the rest of my life?

Instinctually, I rub the back of my neck, feeling the twisted, blighted bond that rests below my hairline.

It’s … lighter?

I can’t see it, obviously, but it definitely feels lighter. It doesn’t feel a few weeks old. It feels over a month old.

Could the fizz have burned it off faster?

My mind starts to run with ideas. What if I took enough fizz to burn it off completely and then went into heat with Maverick and Emmanuel and let them claim me? What could Kieran do?

Oh.

He could fucking murder them, that’s what.

My phone buzzes in my hand, and I swear.

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