“Sin!”
I blinked, and my sweet golden-eyed firefly was cupping my cheeks, looking afraid.
It dragged me back from the brink.
“Where did you go?” she whispered.
“N-nowhere…” My voice trailed off, my soul feeling a million miles out of place.
“We don’t have to talk about this anymore. I’m not… I don’t need to think about it, I have you all, now.”
“Wecan… I just…” Everything waswrong. I needed to fix it… I wasn’t whole until I had?—
“Tell me more about what you want to do on the other side?” she asked, eyes pleading. “I want to know it all.”
“We don’t have to—” I cut off again at a pinch and blinked to see she’d sunk her teeth into my shoulder. She looked annoyed as she glared at me.
“I want to know.”
I smiled weakly, trying to ground myself. I’d tell her everything I could think of, but none of it would change the new truth.
The poison that was seeping through my heart. The real reason we had to make the appeal.
What they’d done to Crescent—evenbeforethey’d forced her heat and thrown her into a prison of feral alphas—made my stomach turn.
We had to get free of Anarchy, because I had alphas to hunt.
27
Six days until appeal
KARMA
I was the one who meandered out of our cell first thing in the morning to ask the Emerald pack when they were ready to head down to breakfast.
I stretched my neck, which was stiff, but if my neck ached from having no pillow, it was a point of pride for me. My omega had a nest.
Crescent was in good spirits, and had cuddled Sin all night.
I’d shared a look with Phantom and Vandle, and we’d decided not to disturb them.
Never, in all my time being bonded to Sin, had I felt him as scared as he had been yesterday before the cage.
Whatever Crescent had said to him beforehand, it had calmed him down. But I got the impression that Sin was more traumatized about the whole situation than she was.
So, we’d left her to patch him up, since she was so good at that.
The Emerald pack alphas did not seem nearly as tense as I was. Bug looked fresh and irritatingly tired as he leaned against the door, his lumberjack frame taking up nearly the whole thing.
They’d definitely had a busy night.
Justin was a very flexible omega when it came to kinks, and I was absolutely sure the show from last night had rewarded his alphas handsomely.
I straightened the bitterness out of my expression as Bug exchanged a few words with his pack within, deciding on a time to go for breakfast.
My eyes wandered down the hall as they talked, thinking of the night before. It had beenimpossiblenot to rub one out to the memories in the bathroom at least once during the night.
My omegas could getmehorny, they just weren’t supposed to be gettingotherpacks horny.