Page 4 of Pack’s Pledge
“Hear me out.” Adrian slid into the booth on Beau’s other side. “First of all, a woman… well, let’s just say it’s been a while for you, hasn’t it? Could be fun, and serves the same purpose as an alpha, right?”
“Not really, no,” I said, but Beau was nodding. For him, it did, in a way: a sexual outlet. It wasn’t the same, it wasn’t the thickness of a cock, the stretch and burn that only an alpha could provide, but it would be… well. I didn’tknowwhat, we’d never tried it before. I wasn’t interested. In a beta?No.But it would be good for him. Probably.
“Second, she’s hot as hell. Well, I didn’t get a good look at her body, but... Pretty face. Long hair. And she’s funny. No bullshit.”
I couldn’t help but picture her in my mind, despite the meagre description he’d given: long brown hair I wanted to wrap my fists in and pull, a body that fit against mine perfectly. Grey eyes, looking at me through dark lashes.
The sudden lump of shame in my stomach shouldn’t have been a surprise at this point.
Somehow, all my fantasies still looked like her, even after all these years.
“Okay, I’m interested,” Beau said, and I dragged myself pack to the present. “Conall?”
“If Beau’s interested then…” I rolled my shoulders back, pushing my weird salty water away from the table. Adrian’s smile grew, his white teeth shining in the low club light. I was halfway to standing when it hit me: “Wait, A. Where’d you even find a beta in a club like this?”
His smile grew broader, and he nodded his head at my weird spring water. A bead of condensation slipped from the side of the glass and onto the cocktail napkin.
“She’s the one who fixed you that drink.”
CHAPTERTHREE
Britt
“You were right,”a familiar voice said from behind me. He was back. “The water was too watery for my friend.”
He was back? Sexy alpha had come back?My eyes widened, and I mouthedwhat the fuckat the glass I was polishing. In a stunning turn of events, the glass didn’t have anything helpful to say, so I put it down next to its friends–itspackmates, maybe, given the venue–and turned to face him.
“I told you so,” I said. “Alphas like you always want their drinksstrong…”
But the man standing next to my alpha–well, notmyalpha, but the alpha from before–wasnotan alpha.
If I were an omega, or even an alpha–it would be his scent that triggered my recognition. As a beta, I didn’t have that clue.
It was hard to tell what set him apart from other men just by looking at him. He was tall–not as tall as the alpha beside him but certainly taller than me–and handsome, with a sharp jawline and bright, twinkling blue eyes set under straight brows. But there was something… A certain grace in his movements, an intangibleglowthat betas didn’t have, that alphas were too solidly corporeal to radiate. Or maybe it was just the way the alpha’s arm draped possessively around the new arrival’s shoulders.
His full lips curved into a flirtatious smile as he noticed my sentence trail off.
“Oh,” I said, and his smile grew.
“Yes,oh,” the man agreed.
“I’m–” I stammered. “Sorry, I–”
I’d never met a male omega before, not even working here. They were rare–rarer than omega women, rarer even thanalphawomen.
And…I blinked rapidly, hoping my flush wasn’t too visible in the bar lighting.And the things you heard about them…
Heat built in my stomach, and I squirmed, feeling as guilty as I was turned on. This was how alpha men looked at the omegas in the club, wasn’t it, and I disdained them for it. One look at an omega with a cock and I was just as brutish as the rest of the clientele here.
I’m not clientele,I forced myself to remember. It was hard with the two men staring at me.I’m just staff.I dragged my polite, neutral smile back onto my lips.
“Sorry,” I said, sounding almost back to normal, “about the drink. I’ll make a new one, on the house. What would you like?”
I wasn’t expecting the omega to laugh.
“Damn, A, she’s good, huh?”
“I told you,” he said, then leaned across the bartop. I stiffened as his face loomed closer until it was inches from mine, and he whispered into my ear, “usually the wholeomegathing has people dropping their pants for him right away. It’s given him quite the ego.”