The Alpha’s Forbidden Omega
I have ten years of reasons, catalogued and ready.
My eyes close anyway.
Pulled under by the retreating fever, by the warmth of his hand still steady around mine, by the impossible, unwelcome, completely unprecedented feeling of being safe.
His breathing slows beside me in the dark, even and close, and I think — right at the edge of sleep, where thoughts lose their sharp edges — that this is the most dangerous thing that has ever happened to me.
Not Crane. Not the patrol. Not the broken vial or the Selection notice or ten years of running with a false name and a pounding heart.