Page 41 of Beast

“Confused? How?”

I fell on my knees in front of him. He cupped my face and I titled my head to the side, leaning into his touch, as I accepted his comfort.

No.

I jumped up, remembering things that came to my mind in the heat of the moment. We were here on this island acting like lovers, then he showed me that he was a wolf, then I discovered I was an omega, and now my dad knew about us. Or did he?

“Did you tell my dad about us?”

“He figured it out.”

“Fucking great! Now, not only is my life on the line, but yours too.”

He nodded in agreement.

“I had no choice. I don’t know why they want you dead, and I’m not even sure if I can trust anyone on my side.”

“You have your men.”

I crossed my arms, and he raised an eyebrow as he looked at me. They were loyal and I trusted them with my life. We were more like brothers than anything.

“Yes, I have them, but they’re not powerful enough to protect us and there’s only a few of them.”

Beast wasn’t as powerful as I was making him out to be. He had men, but there were so many eyes and such a lack of trust in this business, that having men wasn’t enough. We both knew it. I started to pace again. Keeping myself moving was the only thing that was stopping me from going insane and into heat. As much as I was keeping my omega at bay, I knew it was only a matter of time before I tried to seduce him. Before I couldn’t think of anything but having him inside me. And I wasn’t even on the pill. Double shit. I hadn’t had my medicine since he kidnapped me. The stuff usually helped my libido, but now it was fading and my heat was coming on full force. I shoved the images down of Tomas naked and making me come. We had to figure out what to do.

“Our first fight!” He chuckled and then patted the cushion next to him like I was going to sit and giggle about what was happening with my father and everything else.

“Fight? You’re fucking kidding.”

We were on an island, ready to either run off into the sunset or be killed. Now that my father was involved, I had a feeling it would be the latter. Beast was a powerful wolf, but it meant nothing if he was facing the wrong side of a pistol.

“I don’t even know what we fucking are…”

“Mates. I told you,” he said, standing and grabbing my arms, making me face him. “Mates. We love each other. This is why I ran to your father. This was the only reason I ran to him for help.”

None of this made any sense. Wolves. Mates. Heat. It was something out of a fantasy story, one that parents told their kids when they were little about strange animals in the night, yet he spoke about it like it was nothing.

I couldn’t handle it. I felt like the island was spinning out of control, and nothing about this whole thing was real. My heart was racing, I was sweating, and it felt like the sun was raining down on me.

I wanted to make sense of it all.

“And I can trust you?” I pleaded with him. I needed to be able to trust someone in all of this madness.

“I’m surprised you’re asking me that.”

He pulled away from me.

I couldn’t imagine someone as powerful as him getting all emotional, but somehow, I felt as though I’d seen the closest thing to it.

“I need to get some air.”

“Don’t go too far,” he croaked.

With that, I swung the door open and ran down the stairs. I didn’t know where I was going or how far I would go from the house. I needed to be out of breath so I could stop the fucking omega side of me from taking over because it was driving me fucking insane.

This wasn’t the time to have sex or act like we were living a fucking fairytale. This was my life—real life—and I knew it was coming to an end. I hated him for doing this to us, for bringing my father into the equation without discussing it with me first, which was why everything about this scenario was all fucked-up.

We weren’t the conventional couple. We never dated and he didn’t take me to the prom. He was a cruel memory of my childhood back in Russia when I use to tease and torture him. Like the true bully I was. And he did the same thing to me online. Then, after drugging me and bringing me to the island, we had connected.

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