Claiming their Omega (Suzi de Beer) novel Chapter 20

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20. DAISY

I rubbed my chest with a shaky hand. My breathing had calmed down but my heart was still racing a mile a minute. Kissing Elias had been nice. Kissing Valiant was great.

But kissing Alex…

I hadn’t been prepared for the reaction his kiss caused.

A soft knock on the door made my body jerk in fright. I jumped to my feet and spun around.

Elias hovered in the doorway, brows dipped into a frown. “I just wanted to check on you. Are you okay?”

I nodded.

His eyes dropped to my hand. “Alex can be a little intense. Did he scare you?”

Swallowing, I hesitated a moment and then answered him. “It scared me. I wasn’t expecting it to be so… intense.”

Elias entered the room. He took a seat on the edge of the bed and grabbed hold of my wrist to pull me between. his parted legs. His hands dropped to grip my hips.

“I know that everyone is different but I have to ask you this. Have you ever been on any suppressants?”

“Erika asked me the same thing along with a few other questions before we decided on a birth–control method,” I told him. “I have never been on any, but the antibiotics and pain medication I was on while recovering from my injuries had some bad effects on my body. It’s why I haven’t-”

“You’re in pre–heat, flower.” Elias’s hold on my hips tightened. “In a few days, your heat will hit fully. Erika’s calculations were wrong. When your heat hits fully, you’ll be sending all of us into our ruts.

“Is that b–bad?”

To my knowledge, omegas sending their alphas into a rut was a great thing. It meant that they were very well- matched. Compatible, and would make a great bonded pair.

“No.”

Of course, it wouldn’t be bad. My reaction to Alex’s kiss made a lot more sense now.

“This is unexpected.” He paused. “I want to make sure that you know that you have options here.”

“What kind of options?” I asked him.

“You can spend your heat with us and allow us to take care of you or we can talk to Erika about that suppressants. It will…dampen your heat symptoms and make it a little easier for you to get through your first heat.”

“And if I spend my heat with you?”

“We’ll take care of you. Breed you, rut you. Give you anything you need until your heat is over.”

“It’ll send you into your rut.”

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“Yes, it will and that might complicate things.” Elias smiled. “I’m pretty certain that you’re it for us flower, so I’m perfectly okay with the complications your heat can cause.”

“I’m not. It’s not… I don’t…” I trailed off, uncertainty making it hard to tell him what I wanted.

Standing, he kissed the corner of my mouth. “I know flower which is why I’m giving Erika another call.”

I nodded.

“In the meantime, I want you to make a list of your hard limits and soft limits so we can go over it in case Erika can’t do something about your heat. Do you know what hard limits and soft limits are?”

My stomach clenched with nerves, but I nodded.

When Elias was gone, I fell back onto the bed and blinked up at the curtains.

I was scared.

My heat wasn’t going to be like any other omega’s heat. We’re all different and our experiences are different. But all I knew about an omega’s heat was what I had learned about in school. My mother had never sat me down and had the talk with me.

I wasn’t sure what to expect but it seemed like maybe they did.

Biting my lip, I got up and walked into the bedroom. My phone was in the top drawer of the bedside table. I put it on charge and waited for the phone to switch on.

The moment it did, my phone exploded with messages.

There were about a hundred messages from John, some from my mother, and a few from unknown numbers.

I ignored them all in search of some papers and a pen. I’d write down my limits and then check the messages. But focusing on it proved harder than I thought. The messages from the unknown numbers worried me.

I had next to no friends and my social media accounts were outdated.

Dropping the pen, I reached for my phone.

*UNKNOWN NUMBER: It’s all lies. I know that. The two of you were too comfortable around each other to be strangers. But don’t worry little omega, you will be freed from Alexander Wyatt’s claws.*

*UNKNOWN NUMBER: You look so pretty when you’re scared.*

*UNKNOWN NUMBER: I want to lick those tears from your pretty face.*

*UNKNOWN NUMBER: You should wear dresses more often. You have such sexy legs. Would love to have them wrapped around my hips while I fuck you.*

*UNKNOWN NUMBER: Wow! You’ve grown up. The last time I saw you, you were just a thin awkward little girl. Now you look sexy.*

Hurrying over to the window, I jerked the curtains closed. Someone was watching me. He was going to take me and lock me up in a closet.

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My breathing sped up as panic filled me.

I knew it was going to happen.

I shouldn’t have gone to that restaurant to meet my mother.

Aty phone pinged. On shaky legs, I walked back towards the bed, I hesitated a few seconds before I opened the new text message I just received.

It was a picture of me and Alex entering the elevator of this building. At the bottom of the picture was a date and time

*UNKNOWN: I know where you live,*

“Daisy”

I screamed and dropped the phone.

“What happened?”

Tears filled my eyes when our eyes locked.

Lunconsciously took a step back when Valiant moved forward. He froze, eyes dropping to the phone on the floor and then back up to mine.

“Elias!” he called before he closed the space between us and picked up the phone.

There was no reaction when he pressed the button to unlock the screen.

“What happened?” Elias was suddenly at my side, an arm wrapped around my shoulders as he glanced between Valiant and me. “Daisy?”

“It’s happening again,” I croaked before I burst into tears.

Elias pulled me against his chest. “What do you mean, flower?”

Valiant muttered a low curse, making Elias tense.

“What?”

Turning my head, I watched through blurry eyes as Vallant turned the phone to show him the newest text ! received.

“The picture was taken yesterday morning,” Valiant growled.

“Time?” Elias questioned.

I blocked them out. Someone was watching me. They could be watching us now. What if they were following Alex?

“Daisy, Daisy, look at me.”

I blinked rapidly until the tears cleared from my vision. Ellas’s face hovered inches from mine.

“I want you to breath with me.”

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Raising my shaky hand, I pressed it against his chest. His chest rose and fell with every breath he took and I found myself copying him.

“Alex,” I croaked when I finally managed to get my breathing under control. “He’s watching him. He needs to

come back.”

Elias’s eyes darted over to Valiant for a few seconds.

“Val will call him,” he reassured me softly. “Why don’t you and I go to the nest and watch some movies while we wait for Alex to return?”

He didn’t give me time to decide. Elias picked me up and carried me into the nest. Lowering me onto the bed, he fixed the sheets and then took a seat next to me.

“Movie?”

I shook my head.

Elias settled down next to me and pulled my body against his. Leaning up on one elbow, he pulled the sheets over us and then settled down on his back. The moment I rested my cheek on his chest, he started purring,

My body slowly started to relax, but the anxiety didn’t go away.

This was what I was afraid of.

“He’s going to come for me,” I whispered. “They’ll take me again and lock me up in a closet just like last time.”

“No they won’t,” he growled. “I won’t let anything happen to you, flower.”

“You can’t say that.”

“Why not? I mean it. As long as I’m by your side, nothing and no one will fucking touch you.”

Elias rolled me onto my back and hovered above me. Reaching up, he cupped my cheek. His thumb brushed my jaw and then moved up to brush against my bottom lip.

“You don’t believe me do you?” he whispered.

I closed my eyes instead of answering him. He was making promises he wouldn’t be able to keep and I was trying my best not to believe him. I didn’t want to get my hopes up only to have it crushed when I found myself in some stranger’s trunk.

“I’ll show you,” Elias whispered against my lips.

Whatever I was about to say was captured by his lips. His hand slowly moved down to the side of my neck. It rested there for a few seconds before it slipped lower, over my shoulder where it lingered for another few seconds and then lowered again.

His fingertips traced my skin all the way down my arm to my hand.

Entwining our fingers, he gave my hand a squeeze.

“I know you haven’t kissed anyone before us,” he whispered against my lips. “Have you pleasured yourself?”