Page 53 of One Flew Over the Omega's Nest: Part One
All the air wooshes from my lungs as I look up at the alpha, and if he’s surprised to see me, he doesn’t show it.
Instead, he grabs my arm and leads me back into the wing, out of the view of the cameras.
“What are you doing here,Lisichka?” he growls, leaning in close like he can’t help it.
I only raise a brow. “I could ask you the same thing, Sugar Bear.”
“Do you ever give a straight answer?” The corner of his lip tilts as he looks between my eyes. I want to trace my fingers over the scar that runs across his face, but luckily keep my hands to myself.
“Not if I can help it.” I grin up at him.
A little growl leaves him, but not the kind that puts my hackles up.
Nope. This is the kind of growl that makes my thighs clench together.
“You should not be here.” His voice is strained as he leans in closer.
My tongue darts across my lips as I look into his stormy blue eyes. “And why is that? After all,you’rehere.”
His gaze darts to the motion of my tongue as he lets out a shuddering breath. His voice sounds pained as his eyes shut. “What are you doing to me, Little Fox?”
My heart stutters in my chest. What amIdoing tohim?
Asks the man that kissed me breathless a little more than twenty-four hours ago and then walked away, leaving me untethered and flying in the wind.
“I can’t dare say I know myself, Sugar Bear.” I look up at him. “Considerin’ I can’t make heads or tales of what you’re thinkin’ half the time. One minute you’re kissin’ me, the next you’re leavin’ and then you’re tellin’ me you’ll put my safety before your own life.” Ithrow my hands up. “Maybe if you tell me what exactly has you so hot and cold, I can figure it out.”
His eyes fly open, and then the words are pouring out like he can’t stop them
“You are everywhere. Every moment is filled with thoughts of you. I can’t even say every waking moment, because you haunt my dreams as well. There is never time my eyes are not on you, I constantly have to talk myself out of following you everywhere you go. I am utterly obsessed, and I cannot seem to stop it. Part of me wants to stop trying.”
My throat is dry, my breathing shallow as I stare into his desperate eyes. “What’s holding you back?”
“I tend to make stupid decisions when I am around omegas, it seems.” His face gives nothing away as to what that actually means, and I feel my hackles raise at the thought of him around any other omegas. He must see it in my eyes because he’s quick to soothe me. “Be calm,Lisichka,” he clicks his tongue at me, gripping my chin and making my breath hitch, “I did not come here the way you usually would. I am guessing you are the same, yes?”
How on Earth did he figure that? I mean, he’s right, but still. “You could say that.”
I brace for the questions, but Kole only nods, as if he never thought for a moment that I would protest his assumption. He doesn’t press further, he just keeps explaining himself. “Something we have in common is neither of our fathers would ever be considered good men. I…am not a good man, though admittedly, I do have slightly more morals when it comes to trafficking omegas.”
A gasp leaves me. It shouldn’t shock me, hearing him say that with what I know of the Vasiliev family, but it does, and I ache to soothe the hurt he so clearly has. “What happened?”
“I was put in charge of moving some cargo. I did not realize at the time what we were moving—or, should I say,who. The job was to move the van, and then leave. But when I heard crying in the back…” his eyes screw shut, and he sighs before opening them again. “I found twelve omegas packed in the back, all broken and sad. I couldn’t do it. I drove to the nearest omega shelter and left them there. When father found out…well, I cost him a lot of money, and as it turns out, they were being delivered here. So, Father sold me to them instead. One alpha is not worth twelve omegas, but I suppose being the son of the head of the Vasiliev family carries its weight around here—even if I am a bastard.”
He…he risked himself, his place with his family, all to help some omegas that he didn’t know and would never see again? “That wasnota stupid decision,” I say fiercely. “It was the right one. You may not be a good man, Kole, but youarea good alpha. The only stupid decision you’re makin’ is pushin’ me away. My omega may be all but useless right now, but if I know one thing, it’s that you’re mine, Kole Vasiliev. I don’t know how I know it, but I do. As much as I know that the sky outside is blue, and that the grass is green. Anythin’ else is just delusion.”
Kole groans softly, dropping my chin as he runs his nose up my neck. “I cannot smell you anymore, and it is driving me crazy. I believe you are mine as well.”
“Believe?” I pull back, challenging him. “Because I’m not interested inmaybes, and I don’t need to scent you to know you belong to me.”
He smirks, then tucks a piece of hair behind my ear. “I know. You are mine,Lisichka, and I protect what’s mine, whether you like it or not.”
His words have my heart soaring, and I throw my arms around his neck to meet his lips. The touch of his tongue on mine sends bolts of lighting through my veins, and a whimper of need leaves me.
Gently, he pulls away, his brows furrowed.
Anger snaps through me at the sudden loss of him. “I swear to fuck, Sugar Bear, if you run away again—”
He quickly shakes his head. “No, no. I am not running, but Iamlate. You don’t want them knowing you were down here.”
