Sold To The Three Alphas Who Hate Me

Conrad

She was so small.

Eyes glued to the omega in the hospital bed, I watched the machines beep and light up. My uncertainty grew. Did the doctors even know what the hell they were doing?

What if these machines weren’t working? What if she was dying right now, and everyone thought she was on the mend because some hundred-thousand-dollar machine wasn’t working, and nobody knew?

How could someone hurt an omega like this? In most cases, wolves were wired to protect an omega. Who the hell in their right mind would try to kill one?

Other than us.

We’d never told anyone the truth about Lana. Not even King Cyrus, although he’d probably guessed. Everyone else assumed our old omega had died with the rest of the betas.

Omegas were precious and rare. It took someone perverse and twisted to hurt an omega like this.

Unfortunately, wolves with darker tastes weren’t hard to come by. I feared what would happen to Kieran if we didn’t find some way to get him some help. What would happen to all of us—no matter what Kieran turned into, Lucien and I would never leave him.

We had to protect her. What if the would-be killer comes back? He could come back, because I couldn’t catch him. In fact, he was damn likely to come back—trying to kill an omega was punishable by death.

I was fast. In the two years since we’d lost our pack, all I’d done was train. Push myself to be better. Harder. But the fucker had too much of a head start. I knew I was close, but when Kieran called me back, all I could do was obey.

“When was the last time the goddamn doctor checked on her?” I growled and started back to the hall, but a gasp brought me up short.

She was awake.

I didn’t need to communicate through the bond. Lucien and Kieran would have felt it. Both of them were staying as far away as they could.

They assumed I’d be the most immune to her because I hadn’t been all that enamored with Lana.

My reaction to this omega was nothing like my reaction to Lana.

The woman blinked and moaned a little as she started to shift. Her gaze didn’t seem to focus anywhere, but she tried to roll to her side before she whimpered in pain.

My wolf pulled desperately and howled at the sound.

“This is Candy!” Betty said, toddling toward the omega on the bed.

Immediately, I put my hand on Betty’s shoulder and started to pull her back. Wolves in pain often didn’t react well, and I had no idea what they’d pumped into the omega.

Although they rarely shifted, I knew nothing about this one. I wasn’t about to let her hurt Betty, even if that wasn’t in their nature.

It sure as fuck shouldn’t have been in Lana’s, and look where that thinking had gotten us.

The omega’s hand shot out, and she grabbed Betty.

“Don’t...hurt...her,” she said as she struggled to sit up. “Please.”

It wasn’t hard to pull Betty out of the omega’s grasp in her weakened state, and I narrowed my eyes as I fought the tide of emotions rising in me. Please. The word nearly sent me into overdrive.

“Candy,” Betty repeated, holding her bear out.

“Betty!”

The omega’s eyes landed on me, and sheer panic swept over her face. She bolted upright. I could smell the adrenaline pulsing through her as she started to pull at the needle and tubes attached to her.

“Stop,” I ordered as I swept Betty into my arms and carried her to the door. “We need a doctor in here!"

Another scent hit me, and I snapped my head around and stared at the omega as she continued to fight with the machines. We hadn’t smelled it before, maybe because she was so close to death, but it was there, plain as day.

Her alpha bond.

The omega belonged to another.

“Conrad, no,” Kieran ordered. He could feel my wolf about to rip out of me. “Pull it together.”

Pull it together.

I felt him getting closer, and it calmed me a little. I couldn’t explain my reaction. Of course she belonged to another—it wasn’t like omegas ran around rogue.

But I did know that whoever had claimed her didn’t deserve her and had taken something that wasn’t his.

But God, she couldn’t be ours. She could never be ours. Kieran had already made his decree after both he and Lucien had been covered in Lana’s blood.

We would never welcome another omega into our pack.