Five
Eric has left the mansion to do Alpha work; this is the first day I’m alone with Logan. We are eating breakfast in silence, but now and then, my eyes flicker to his. There is something I need to ask him.
“Can I ride with you to school today?” We are college students. Well, I’m going to become one. Either way, I still call it school. It’s easier.
Logan’s eyebrows furrow as he asks, “You’re really going?”
I can sense his disbelief. He probably didn’t think I was serious when I told him and his brother I wanted to attend college a few days ago. Because what normal person likes to study? The answer: someone who has spent their entire life being an Omega and a slave to their parents. I haven’t lived like a normal teenager should.
mal. College would give me a chance to be the person I want to be.”
at are you going to be studying then?”
to his eyes, searching for any sign of teasing or doubt, but instead, I only find admiration and faith.
next year, I will choose something that is more aimed towards something,” I answer firmly, fee
His touch sends electric currents through my body, and my heat starts acting up again.
now?
e we are mates, that’s amplified, but during my heat? He looks like s*x-on-a-stick. I’m fighting like hell not to jump his bones and start
t acting up again?”
e?”
r side while you’re strolling around campus. Maybe I should be near you today? I wouldn’t want another wer
tes.”
looks happy.
on. I like that.” I grin, my body relaxing.
lemaker in disguise of a tame lamb.”
I’m not a troublemaker,” I say
I like this mischievous side of you.”
us”
laughs and folds his arms behind his head. It’s h
ou’re not a tiny bit mischievous?”
to notice that he caught me checking him out. Good guy.
ah.”
hatever you say, Five.”
***
d me from going overboard is that Eric hasn’t been at home, and Logan has miraculously been able to keep his paws off me.
right?”
this, I shout back, “Yeah! Let me just…find clothes.”
ed?”
Kinda…”
car.”
e driveway. His BMW is playing music on low volume, and he is scrolling on his phone while leaning his face against his knuckles.
n I take my seat. “Did you wait long?”
at me, and I realize that I haven’t put any make
was simply the maid, I wore no makeup, but now that I’ve grown closer to Logan and Eric, I find myself wanting to look pretty.
nervous flutter in my chest. “Sorry. I didn’t realize what time it was.
of your classes?”
’t have any classes that I need to attend today
s.”
know this is going to be trouble. Ada wan
an we stay in the car?”
not scared of her, are you? Ada is harmless
to tell them it was Ada, scared that it might bite me in the back in the future. What if Logan and Eric grow bored of me and choose her instead? Since that’s a possibility, I shouldn’t rat her out to the twins.
ed. Can we…can we go home?”
dn’t you have seminars and shit?”
hat why you’re being this ridiculous?”
en notice an extra pair of eyes.”
yes.
in: he only agreed because he saw Ada.
ke her?
My hea
want Logan to be interested i
mine.
Only mine.
stroll up to Logan with their noses lifted in the air.
n’t she your maid?”
h, about to growl, but then I think b
ng noses and snarky already.” Actually, I’m Logan’s fated mate.”
to keep that part a secret?
her eyes. “So it’s true? Is Five, the weak Omega, really the mate of an Alpha?”
is voice now a fierce symphony of anger. “She is my fated mate.”
waste of a mate. She will make a terrible mate and Luna. You’re out of your mind if you mark her!”
