Chapter 13 #2
“How could I? How could I?” He shoves his omega to the side and doesn’t bother to help her as she stumbles.
This already tells me everything I need to know about the bastard. Behind Jessica, I crack my knuckles, snarling at him as he gets too close. Raising his hands in the air, he backs away until he’s far enough away I can allow my shoulders to relax.
“What did you expect me to do?” he screams, his face turning a violent shade of unhinged red.
Jessica’s face falls. “You knew how much Greece meant to me.”
“Yeah. You wanted your first fuck here. How did it feel? Did he satisfy you?” As he tries to step forward, I loom behind Jessica, glaring until he backs away again.
“I waited,” she sobs back. “I didn’t… I couldn’t…”
As she fumbles for words, I gather her back into my arms and allow her to sob on my chest. “What is it you want?” I bite out.
Alec smirks at me and shakes his head. “Good luck with that ice princess. She’ll keep teasing you, stringing you along. At least you got that ring. Maybe she’ll open her thighs.”
“Enough. You will keep a civil tongue in your mouth when you speak about or to my wife.”
“Wife,” he spits out. “Fucking manipulator is more like it.”
Jessica’s tiny hands claw at my chest as she grips my shirt. It kills me to feel her vibrate with what I can only discern as enormous grief. This has to be the jackass who lied to her about his ruts.
A feral grin eases over my lips as I look the asshole up and down. “It must have been so hard for you to control your ruts around her. How many was it? Monthly? You must be such a prime specimen to experience that many that often.”
His face pales for a moment. “I did nothing wrong.”
Jessica peers up at me, her brows furrowing. “I told you. He did it to protect me.”
“Oh, I’m sure he did.” Keeping one arm around her waist as an anchor, I pull out my phone. “What’s your number? ”
“As if I’m going to give it to some psycho like you.”
Jessica glares at him for a moment before rattling off his number. “But you won’t find anything. He’s shown me his phone before. There was nothing.”
Alec crosses his arm and gives me a cocky grin. “Right. There’s nothing to show because there’s nothing that happened.”
After a few moments, my program spits out his text information. True, there’s nothing untoward on the surface. Just like Jessica. However, when I go into his deleted folder, all of it comes to light.
Instead of saying anything to him directly, I simply hand the phone to my wife.
She’s the one who needs to see his massive betrayal.
At first, she squints her eyes, as if she’s not believing the messages going back and forth between him and an establishment where you pay to have sex with willing omegas.
“What are you reading?” he sputters, daring to take another step forward.
I growl at him and continue to shelter Jessica in my arms, allowing her to process everything. Like clockwork, once a month, he’d leave to go to this place. The explicit and provocative texts and pictures leave nothing to the imagination.
Finally, she hands me my phone back and turns to Alec. “Why?”
He stands there, silent for several moments. “Why do I even care anymore? It’s not as if we’re actually ever going to get married.”
“You didn’t know that,” she cries out, hysteria lacing her tone. “How could you sleep with all those omegas? How?”
“How? You wanna know how? It was simple, really. I’d go to the place where we were supposed to meet, spread their legs, and slide in my cock. It’s all simple, really. Well, simple for someone who’s fucked before. I guess it’s rocket science for someone like you.”
Jessica’s jaw drops, her eyes glistening with new tears. “That was uncalled for. You agreed to wait.”
“I agreed because I didn’t think you’d actually wait that long. I thought you’d give it up after at least a few months. What was I supposed to do? I had needs.”
Jessica steps forward, her stride purposeful. Raising her hand back, she smacks him hard across the face. Fury blazes in his eyes as he, too, raises his hand.
Before he can let it fly, I step in and grab him by the wrist. “Lay one finger on my wife, and I will snap every fucking bone in your hand. Trust me. I know how to make you hurt with an accuracy and precision that will leave you pissing your pants and crying like a baby.”
Alec looks at me, his face turning white as a sheet. “She’s not worth it,” the omega cries out behind him. “You’re married to me now.”
“Yes,” I seethe. “Go to your bride, and I will see to mine.”
“Wait.” Jessica pulls herself from my grasp. “Just one more thing.” Before any of us can prepare for it, she balls up her fist and punches Alec right in the dick.
He hunches over, crying out as he cups himself. For the first time since she saw her ex, a soft smile dances across her lips. While he groans and rocks, she wraps her arms around my waist.
“I can still have anything I want. Yes?”
Confused, I drag my gaze away from the sobbing Alpha. “Yes, my pet. Anything you wish.”
“Make me yours. Erase Alec from my heart and mind. I want you to take me in the way that only you can, Master.”