an'

ach. Cold terror washed over

is body, completely blocking me from his brother's line of sight.

d, his voice dripping with venom.

ing his head. "That's not the sc

ames roared, stepping forward

ce against his chest, and sprinted past his brother toward the dorms. Maxwell didn't chase

m door shut and locked it, my s

hred of my pride. I tangled my fingers in James

, my sanity slipping. "Make it

s breathing ragged as he fought his own Alpha urges. "No. If I knot y

towels and used his hands to give me relief-fingering and jerking me off until I came hard

of anxiety. My heat ended,

urs hunched over the toilet, dry-heaving until my throat burned. My appetite vanished,

sical signs of a failed contraceptive. The busted condom. The su

preg

me in our room to demand why I was spiraling, I snapped, slapping him across the face be

ulders, his voice strangely steady: "If you a

f campus late one afternoon to buy an em

throom, my hands shaking as I wa

s felt like

ne. Ne

ere nausea and physical exhaustion were just a massive hormonal crash caused b

e for the first time in weeks. I couldn't wait to get ba

cally floating with relief. I shoved the dorm room

died in

attered across the floor, furniture was overturned,

loor at Maxwell's feet was James, bleeding from his li

p a file folder. "Look who finally decided to join us. Thanks for