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my mind racing. This wasn't what I'd agreed to. I'

were they

ably heard everything. My desperation to learn

ng Reed's hands off me and scrambling to sit

caught me with my toys, but now his brothers knew too. They probabl

my arms over my chest. "You're all just tr

ened. "Off? You think

get off the bed, but J

ive edge that made my skin prickle. "You'll find someone

but the way they all tensed at the sugg

iness," I shot back, li

, charged with something dangerous and intoxicating. All four of th

glances with his brothers. When he looked back

uietly. "We haven't exac

muttered, remembering every c

itting on the edge of my bed. "We know exactly what

words, spoken so casuall

e to their presence. "You've done nothing but humiliate me since I got here. An

across Reed's

ing some elaborate way to embarrass me furthe

nt of his cologne-dark and masculine. "

e. "What could you p

fferent classes. Our father's threatening to pull

?" I couldn't hide my di

oice was serious. "You're top of your cla

erfect. My mind screamed tha

tic, disgusting, a gold digger. Wh

e Zane, how to make him want me so badly it hurt. And despite everythi

, watching their faces. "Thi

air from my face. The touch sent electricity through me. "We teach you ev

s who'd mocked me, who'd made it clear I wasn't welcome. But the way they loo

dvantage. Play along and see

kind of game to humiliate me further, I'll make

read across Col

sed things I didn't fully understand yet. When the door finall

I just a

nation burned bright. I grabbed my notebook f

r. I wrote at the top, the

g. How to kiss. How to to

: Get hi

educe him. Us

Make him sc

lk away. Let

ously, pouring out eve

thing the Steel bro

myself into some

so desperately that rejection would dest

nd fall apart over the "pathetic Omega" she'd th

es-strategies, timelines, goals. My sex dr

this need that never seemed to

him as empty and humiliated

water, needed to clear my head. The house was quie

. I grabbed a glass and filled it from the filtered wate

n't s

hair messy like he'd just woken up. Unlike his brothers, he wore on

," I mumbled, tryi

uld react, his hands were on my waist, spinn

, w

ugh, demanding. His body pressed against mine, and I could feel

I could see the way his eyes darkened with desi

red, but it came out

rushing my ear. "Forget my brothers. Forget Zane. I could

hock. Through the thin fabric of his sweatpants, I coul

He's aro

ion, this overwhelming need. But the evidence of his desir

do to all of us. So stop chasing after some asshole who doesn'

possessively. My body responded instantly, heat pooling

arousal. This was too mu

mbled back, and I bolted past him, running up the

e, but I didn't stop until I was b

t, sliding down to the floo

pening to m

Alphas who claimed to hate me but looked

e, who didn't even know I existed beyond

desire and confusion and a desperate

as no turni