Semua Bab You Were Always Mine, Omega: Bab 21 - Bab 30

"What if I don't want to be yours?" Kai asked. "What if I don't want someone who won't listen? Who forces people? Who has people's blood on his hands?"Kai frowned. "Justice, though? You actually hunted them down?"If those people had done to others what had been done to Emma, maybe they'd earned whatever came to them. Still, the thought of murder didn't sit easily in him.Because here was the ugly truth: that night at the party, forced to perform in front of a crowd was the worst thing anyone had ever done to him and somewhere underneath the shame, he hadn't hated it. Not fully. Not the way he kept telling himself, day after day, that he should.Pointless, all that lying to himself. He'd ended up back in that man's bed regardless. Back under him.And now they are sharing bathwater like two people actually in love. He was beyond hopeless.Real horror stories were being told right in front of him, real people who'd suffered, and his brain kept drifting toward how badly he wanted his

Then again. What choice did he actually have?"I'm coming."Seth kept him quiet on the ride down. He walked easy beside Kai through the garage, relaxed, like nothing about this was wrong and that confidence sold it. A couple guards gave them long looks. Nobody stopped them.A car idled, waiting. Seth waved him into the back seat first."Ignore him," Seth said when Kai stared too long at the driver. "Eric, Mall 54, please." He held up a glowing credit display, grinning. "Told to spend recklessly.""Baby shopping, Prince?" Eric pulled out smoothly, no glance back."Greg wants help picking a claiming gift for his mate," Seth said. Then, quieter: "Between us I'm spending his money on the baby instead."Eric laughed. "Lucky kid, having you as a father.""Boy?" Kai asked once they'd settled."Congratulations, I guess.""I get the hesitation. I want this baby, though I wouldn't be having it otherwise. The truth is we don't even know the sex. Clara said something offhand once and it just st

"That's exactly how you wanted it," Alex said, unbothered. "I already told you I'll give you anything. All I ask back is everything in return. Fear me or worship me, doesn't matter which. I want it all, Kai. Every hope, every nightmare, every secret thing you've never said out loud to anyone. I'll build a world where I'm the only thing worth kneeling to.""And what's in it for me?" The question slipped out before he could catch it in a thin voice, heart slamming against his ribs. His grip on the mug tightened enough it should've cracked."Anything you want," Alex said. "Everything, if that's what it takes. Just never repeat today. No more running. No more trying to slip away from me. Stop fighting this, Kai, and I promise you something close to perfect.""You know exactly what perfect looks like to me. What I've always pictured for myself.""Not this again." Alex's jaw ticked. "You honestly think you'd be happy stuck in some suburban house, buried in kids, no time left for your art?

 "There's also money. More than you'd burn through in three lifetimes.""Oh, perfect. Should've opened with that." Flat, dry. "I'd have signed up for the bite on day one.""Truly?""No, you idiot." Dark eyes, but at least they'd found him again. "You actually think I'm that easy to buy?""Wanting security isn't shallow. Neither is wanting comfort." A beat. "But no  if money had ever looked like it would work, I'd have used it already. I like the idea of you needing something from me. Even something as simple as a bank balance.""I don't need you for anything.""Strange. You see

Marco's words landed like ice water. "You texted saying you were with Alex. Last time I saw you, it was some other alpha entirely. Then the Rossis dropped off the map completely, and yeah I started losing it a little."Kai's stomach bottomed out. "The whole family?"Because Emma was already dead. He'd hoped Alex would keep that contained. Quiet. Not spiral into something that swallowed an entire household."Nobody's saying much officially. The case closed fast the second they found her dad tangled up in a trafficking operation." Disgust flickered across Marco's face. "Bribes, abuse of power, the works. Between us? Hope it hurts, whatever gets him." His eyes drifted to Kai's neck again, lingering. "Rumor's he bolted. Emma seemed normal enough, but""She wasn't." Kai's voice came out harder than intended."Figured. Three exes surfaced within a day of the story breaking. Paid-off silence, years of it." Marco's mouth flattened into a grim line. "Rotten tree, rotten fruit."Kai exhaled.