I remained silent, mind working a million miles a minute.
Dominic continued, unprompted. “I’m going to see that omega in a cage, one way or another. The question isn’tif, it’s who will be ruining her when she’s there. Count yourself lucky, Sin, that I find you a desirable option.”
Still, I remained, trying to decipher the level of commitment he had to this threat.
“Take them,” Dominic said, nodding at the bundle.
Walking in here was a fucking mistake. He’d decided what he wanted before we even came, and I should have known what it would be.
All I could do was try and buy us some time.
“The deal isn’t complete until she’s bitten,” I said.
Dominic raised his eyebrows, then shrugged, taking the last drag of his cigarette before dropping it to the stone.
“Fine.”
I nodded. I would talk to her first. If she didn’t want this—if we had to fight the Redgrave pack… Well. That would be an all out war…
Fuck me.
I’d figure it out.
“If she agrees. That means protection,” I added. I wouldn’t take any deal without that.
“You’re spoiled.”
“You could set all of Anarchy on us—take her anyway. You know I don’t go anywhere without causing problems. If you want what you’re asking for, it means protection, plain and simple. Bite or no bite.”
There was a long pause as Dominic crushed the cigarette beneath his foot, humour dancing in his eyes. “Alright. I’ll keep an eye out. But the more ofmyprotection you use up, the more it’s gonna cost you.”
I breathed a sigh of relief. Vague as it was, it was more than I could have reasonably hoped for.
At the end of the day, this protection might be the only thing that kept our pack alive.
Art.
Entertainment.
Thatwas the true currency second to only one—if you distinguished between entertainment and omegas.
But some in here—well, they didn’t distinguish at all.
8
CRESCENT
“You tried todamnhim!”
I couldn’t see the one who said that through my blindfold, but I could hear the wrath in their voice. The hatred.
“N-no.” This was a misunderstanding. “I didn’t. I swear?—”
“You little liar.”
Panic gripped me.
I was forever a curse.