I couldn’t sleep. My eyes stayed glued to Daisy’s face, watching as sleep took her. Soon after Val followed and I tried too, but I couldn’t. My body was wired, my mind racing with the events of the night and what had been said. But the worst of all, I was afraid to go to sleep in case I woke up from a nightmare and accidentally ended up hurting Daisy. The nightmares always hit unexpectedly. Sometimes I was lucky enough to go days without them. I knew that the moment I closed my eyes the demons would sneak up on me. I could feel it. And it was all because Dad Logan had opened the door I kept tightly locked. I didn’t want to think about the past, but I couldn’t help it. To top it all up, my mind has been filling up with doubts about our relationship with Daisy. I couldn’t help but wonder if maybe they were right. What if my bond with Daisy is stronger than her bond with my brothers just because we spend too much time together?What if she secretly blames me for what happened bac
“There’s someone at the door, Val.”There was a loud thud, followed by curses. “Do you have the iPad? Are you checking the camera?”I nodded, clutching the tablet tighter as I stared down at the man standing outside the door. “It’s a m-man,” I whispered as if he could hear me. “He’s wearing a cap and a black hoodie. He rang the bell but hasn’t looked at the camera.”“Okay, where are you?” he asked. “I-In Alex’s office.” I licked my lips. “Elias placed the tablet on charge in the office before he left.”“Where is he?” The man moved, snapping my attention towards the screen again. He pulled something out of his pocket and slid it under the door. For a few seconds, he remained in the same position, ear almost pressed to the door. “Daisy?”“He pushed something under the door.”“Did you see what it is?” There was a strange note to his voice. “L-looks like an envelope.”“Where’s Elias, petal?” he repeated his question. “H-he went out to…to…I can’t remember.” Val cursed under his brea
Why the hell did he leave her alone? What if that man got into the apartment? We had no idea who the fuck was after her, so we didn’t know what the hell that man had planned for Daisy. What if he was there to kidnap her, to hold her for ransom like they had done when she was just a little girl?I shook my head as soon as the question flashed through my mind. John owed a lot of people money so it wouldn’t be a surprise for any of them to target his family. But what I couldn’t understand was why they would target Daisy specifically. She’s an omega.But so was Isabella. She would be a better fit because she was constantly in the public eye. Most photos of John in the media were either with his daughter or Daisy’s mother. Why weren’t they being targeted?It also made me wonder whether it was actually related to John. He had been the subject of our focus since he stole my money. Maybe we were looking at the wrong people. Pressing the speed dial button on the steering wheel, I called V
Someone’s phone was vibrating. An irritating sound that pulled me out of my sleep. The mattress dipped as Val sat up with a low groan and reached for the phone on the bedside table. “Hello?” he answered hoarsely. “This is him.”He fell silent but I felt his body tense. Running a hand through his hair, he took a few steps away from the bed but froze. “When?” Val paused again. “Is he okay? How long ago? Okay. I’ll meet you at the front desk.”Hanging up, he dropped his phone back on the bedside table and then leaned down to shake Elias’s shoulder and then mine. “What?” Elias groaned, turning onto his front. I sat up and reached for him. Val swallowed loudly, eyes darting between Elias and me. “Dad called,” he said softly. “There’s been an accident.”Elias was instantly on alert. “Are they okay?” “It’s not them.” He paused. “It’s Alex.”My heart dropped to my stomach, the air locked in my throat and tears instantly filled my eyes. Panic clawed up my throat, making it impossible f
“Can you drive?”My eyes snapped up. “What?”“Can you drive?” Alex repeated his question softly.He was propped up against the pillows, the bandage on his arm had been removed, revealing the ugly red scrapes he had gotten from the broken glass and twisted metal.“N-No,” I muttered, flushing bright red when his lips twitched.“You’re telling me that you’re an eighteen-year-old who has never gotten behind the wheel. Weren’t you even a little curious about driving? Owning your own car?”I shifted uneasily in the chair. “Not much of an outgoing person, remember?”“I know. But seriously, you’ve never wanted to learn?”I shook my head.“Why?”“I’ve just never gotten the urge to learn how to drive. It would have been useless since I barely leave the house, and I’m fine with that.”He nodded slowly. “I wish you knew though,” he muttered. “I want to go home.”“The doctor hasn’t given you a go ahead, yet. He said that you’ll be staying here until the test results are back.”Alex sighed. “Well,
It was like I had my own personal nurse. I loved how attentive she was. I loved the way she looked at me as she took care of me. I was now more sure than ever that she was the perfect omega for us. Now I just had to try and figure out how to make her see that. The courting gifts didn’t seem to be helping. A sigh fell from my lips as I watched Daisy move around the kitchen. Elias had been teaching her to cook and she had been getting good at it, although she still needed to work on a few things. My eyes dropped to my phone. There had been no word from Aiden yet. It hadn’t been easy to make the decision to agree to Aiden’s plans, especially when it required placing Daisy in danger. The plan was simple, but there were still too many loopholes. They needed to be able to ensure Daisy’s safety before we went ahead with it. I wanted John to rot in hell. I wanted the bastard to get out of our lives so we could move on. Daisy’s exclamation of pain made me snap out of my thoughts. I pa
“We’re just finishing off a few things here and then we’ll be home,” Elias said softly. “Is everything still okay?”My eyes darted over to the couch where Alex was sleeping. “Yes.” “Alex sleeping?” “He fell asleep a few minutes after I gave him his pills,” I explained. “That’s good,” he muttered. “It’ll give him some time to rest.”I bit my lip. My eyes darted over to Alex again. He wanted me to take care of him but in a different way. “C-can I speak to Val, please?”“Sure, flower. Hold on a minute.”I waited, my eyes darting around the apartment as I waited for Elias to give him the phone. My hands were beating a mile a minute. I was scared that I might mess things up. Alex might have been joking when he said he wanted to feel my lips wrapped around his dick. “Hey, petal. What’s up?” I sucked in a breath. “You’ve been with a lot of women, right?”“Uhm…you can say that. Why?”“I…I’m…Alex said something and I want to…I don’t know how,” I stuttered. Val muttered something to some
Fingertips were trailing down my spine. I could feel Alex’s warm breath against the top of my hair. His chest rose and fell in deep, steady breaths that let me know that he was still asleep. It couldn’t be him touching me. Through my sleep-dazed mind, I figured that my other alphas had returned, but something felt off. Wrong. It was a struggle to open my eyes, but when I finally managed to pry my eyelids apart, I locked eyes with a man I had never seen before. A scream rose in my throat but a gloved hand clamped down on my mouth before it could escape. Smirking, he leaned closer. “I’m going to make things easy for you, when I move my hand, you’re going to keep quiet. If you scream, I won’t hesitate to kill your alpha.”To show me that he was dead serious, he pulled a black knife from his boot and held it up for me to see. “He’s been drugged so there’s no use trying to wake him up.” The man slowly pulled his hand away from my mouth. “Here’s how this is going to go Daisy. You’re