A's

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

were they

ably heard everything. My desperation to learn

ing Reed's hands off me and scrambling to sit

aught me with my toys, but now his brothers knew too. They probably

my arms over my chest. "You're all just t

ened. "Off? You think

get off the bed, but

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

but the way they all tensed at the sugg

siness," I shot back, l

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

glances with his brothers. When he looked back

uietly. "We haven't exact

muttered, remembering every

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

words, spoken so casuall

to their presence. "You've done nothing but humiliate me since I got here. And t

across Reed's

ing some elaborate way to embarrass me further

t of his cologne....dark and masculine.

e. "What could you p

fferent classes. Our father's threatening to pull u

u?" I couldn't hide my d

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

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

y, watching their faces. "Th

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

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

dvantage. Play along and see

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

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 brot

m myself into som

so desperately that rejection would dest

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

s....strategies, timelines, goals. My sex d

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

dn't

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

," I mumbled, tryin

uld react, his hands were on my waist, spinn

what

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

I could see the way his eyes darkened with desi

ered, but it came ou

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

ock. Through the thin fabric of his sweatpants, I could

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't

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