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Chapter 7

Brenton

“Yeah, figured you didn’t know about them. Looks like your ex had trackers placed so he could find you no matter where you ended up. I put the third one I found inside the hood of your truck into a safe box that stops transmissions from being sent out to whoever placed them. I’ve already contacted Alpha Jasper, told him what’s going on. He is having Linc come out and grab the two I threw on the ground and taking them to their tech specialist. Now,” I look at my watch then back at her, “Let’s get to my place, dinner will be ready and the supplies I had ordered for Rex will have arrived.”

She glared at me, “I swear to the Goddess if you are lying.”

I interrupted her, I was a lot of things but I wasn’t a liar, “I have no reason to lie to you. All I want is for you to be safe.”

She pushed her tongue against her teeth then nodded, “Don’t make me regret this.”

She pats my jeep and jumps into her truck. I back out the driveway to her crappy apartment, then wait as she backs up behind me, I take off and keep at a pace where she can keep up with me as I make my way toward my penthouse apartment in downtown Nashville. About forty minutes later we pulled into the underground garage. I pulled into the first space for my jeep and threw my arm out the window pointing her to the second.

I then hop out and grab Rex’s leash and then help him climb out of the jeep. Once he’s down I grab the bags from the back, on the other hand, I lean back and kick the door shut. I watch as Katie grabs her duffle bag and smirk, as I make my way to the elevator. 

“Come on beautiful, I am dying to show you your new home.”

She rolls her eyes, “this is not going to be my home.”

“Ahh, if you don’t like it, we can always see if we can buy a home nearby.

“Whoa there lover boy, we aren’t anything right now, you need to come back like a million steps.”

“Ah but I don’t want to, I’m all in little omega.” I growl.

Her face dropped and her color went white.

“What did you just call me?” she whispered her eyes wide, darting side to side. She couldn’t get anywhere, thankfully we were stuck in the elevator as it took us to my place.

“Little Omega.” I say again, “I figured it out from your scent. It’s no wonder your ex wanted to force a bond. You are rare, powerful, but rare.”

“You are wrong.” She whispers, her voice squeaking at the end. Rex moved toward her, pressing his big body against her legs.

“I am not, if I had wanted to I could become head Alpha of any pack, I choose not to for my own piece of mind. I know the extra sweetness in your scent proves you are an Omega. You being here mean’s something big is coming. You are a part of Jasper and Aria’s pack. They will protect you, yes. However they won’t have to because you are mine. My mate. The Goddess chose you for me.” the doors opened and I pushed her forward with the bags in my arms. I set a few down and typed in the code to unlock the door.

“No.” she said looking back at the closing elevator doors.

“Yes, mate. Did you not know what you are?”

“Shut UP!” she yells pushing her way into my apartment and running through it blindly. Well, that went well. I thought as I followed behind her. Closing the door with my foot, I dropped Rex’s leash to let him explore. I made my way to the spare room and didn’t see her there. I laughed under my breath, I wonder. I make my way over to my bedroom, and smile when I find her laying on my bed hugging a pillow to her chest.

“Leave me alone!” she screams.

“You are in my bed.” I say as I lay all the bags inside the door before I lean against the frame and cross my arms.

She sat up and looked around, groaning, “fuck.” she whispered, pushing her hair out of her face.

She goes to get up but I quickly walk over to the bed and push her back. 

“No, don't get up, I enjoy seeing you in my space.”

She rolled her eyes before dropping her gaze.

I lift her chin with my finger. “You craved my scent, there is nothing to be ashamed of. I want you in here.”

“I want my own space.” she says softly, her eyes locked behind me.

“Then you can stay here, and I’ll take the spare room. Your wolf wanted you in here, so here you’ll stay.” I lift my hand to cup her cheek, but she turns away from me.

“Please don’t say I’m an Omega.” she whispers. 

“Why would it be so bad for you to be an omega?” I ask, sitting on the bed next to her forcing myself into her sight. 

She took a deep breath and swallowed hard, “What do you know about me?”

“Just that you were in foster care and had an abusive ex.” I say. My eyes locked on her face, taking in every expression that crossed it.

She bit her lip and nodded, rubbing her hand under her nose, she looked at me, rocking back and forth, “So, My birth mother was an Omega. She was wanted by men everywhere, and my father, he was willing to share, for a price. When she got pregnant with me, they didn’t want me. However,” she scoffs a laugh, “They waited until my wolf appeared when I was five. Just long enough for me to remember them, Omega’s don’t designate until they are about twelve, but my mom didn’t care. I wasn’t useful to them so they threw me away like yesterday's trash.” She pushed her hand through her hair before bringing her knee’s up and hugging them. Her body still absentmindedly rocking back and forth.

“I went into foster care, but our society, they are all about families and pack, unless you are abandoned, then you are an outcast, unwanted. I bounced between homes until I was sixteen where a foster brother tried to assault me.” She laughed, “tried, because I had a knife on me that night and was able to stab him in the gut, before launching myself out the window, climbed a tree about four miles away and hid. My wolf didn’t come out, she didn’t protect me, it was the first time I realized my wolf was different.”

She looked up at me, “I met Jacob when I was seventeen and he was twenty nine. I felt lust for him, but thought it was the bond. He said it was the bond. Always saying how addictive my scent was to him, how perfect I was for him. We were married on my eighteenth birthday, married for right at four years.” She swallowed hard, wiping away the tears that had started rolling down her cheeks. I wanted to help her feel better but knew the only way to do that was to let her get this out, then to hold her as long as she would let me.

“At first, he was wonderful. Charming, funny, and worshiped the ground I walked on. Then suddenly he changed. I started smelling perfume on his shirts, confronted him multiple times, but he would just laugh and say it was someone sitting too close to him on the bus, or train. Then he suddenly started lashing out at me, accusing me of cheating, he would apologize and beg me to forgive him, and I did every time. It was three years into our marriage when he first hit me. He had come home late, drunk, sneering about me being an Omega, and that he was going to force me to do whatever he wanted, that he was going to make money off of my power. I had no clue what he was talking about. My wolf has always been weak, hiding in the shadows, never coming forward. He hit me over and over and over trying to force her to come out. Kicking me, pulling my hair, breaking bones, anything he could think of to force her to come out.” 

She looked away, “It took him putting me in a coma for the police to finally take him into custody and put him behind bars, I served him with papers while he was incarcerated, he was supposed to be put away for twenty years, but apparently two was enough for the system.”

She looked me dead in the eye, “Now he’s in jail again for doing this to me.” she waved her hand indicating herself.

“I’m not going to let him get to you.” I say softly. Wanting to take her in my arms.

“You can’t stop him.” She says.

“Don’t believe me? Just watch.” I say before jumping to my feet and walking out the door.