Page 9 of Embracing Sky
“That’s enough,” Adam growled, his voice low and dangerous, but I paid his warning no heed. I twisted and jerked and bucked and snarled.
“Fuck you!” I spat at him, the wad of saliva landing on his cheek. Adam reeled back with a hiss, but he didn’t let me go. I growled, vicious and wild, just like my wolf. “Just let me?—”
The words cut off in a gasp as Adam’s fingers wrapped around my throat, his claws digging into my flesh hard enough to hurt. He hovered over me, his face mere inches from mine, his golden eyes nearly glowing.
“I SAID ENOUGH!” he roared. “I AM THE ALPHA HERE!” His grip tightened, and panic shot through me. My breath stuttered as Alpha energy slammed into me, full-force. It swamped my system and made my inner-wolf whimper and cower away.
He didn’t wish to fight this Alpha anymore.
“Control yourself! This isn’t you!” As Adam snarled at me, his fangs sharp in a human mouth, tears sprang to my eyes. I collapsed on the floor beneath him with a soft sob, my chest feeling like it might cave in.
“Y-You don’t understand! I’m a monster, Adam!”
Adam’s expression didn’t shift, didn’t change. He remained resolute. “No, you’re not. You didn’t kill anyone, Sky.”
My heart lurched. “What? But I… The blood…” I’d heard Xan’s scream of agony as my fangs had torn into his swollen stomach. Felt the flesh rip beneath my teeth. He’d survived? But how?
“I talked to Gracie last night,” Adam said quietly. “Xan and the baby are alive. They’re fine.” He looked at me, long and hard, and his face blurred in my vision as the tears kept falling. “You, on the other hand, are not.”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you understand what a mess you’ve created?” He sounded more exhausted than angry in that moment, and guilt weighed on my heart. “How furious you’ve made our Alpha? The one person who is supposed to protect her pack wants you out of here. For good.”
I whimpered. “But where would I go?”
“She told me she didn’t care,” he replied quietly. “She expects me to take you somewhere and drop you off, to abandon you, because of what you did to her son.”
My heart beat mercilessly in my chest as panic took root. Abandon me?Just like Mom...Tears burst free, unbidden. “No, I— I don’t…” A laugh escaped, half-sobbed out, bitter and broken as I shook my head. “I probably deserve it.”
Adam frowned. “Stop. Do you want that, Sky?”
I swallowed hard. Feeling very small and very scared, I answered him honestly. “No. I don’t want to be alone again. I?—”
“Adam?” Fletcher’s voice made my head snap up. He stood in the doorway, looking as alarmed as I felt, as he glanced between me and his Alpha on the kitchen floor. “What’s going on?”
6
FLETCHER
I stirredwhen I felt Adam get up, but I was too cozy, wrapped up in my blanket burrito, to follow him. I nuzzled my face into the sheets and breathed in the citrus-spice of Adam’s scent, content to doze back off…at least until I heard shouting from down the hall. I jerked awake and sat up in bed.
What the hell? Something was wrong. Adam didn’t yell unless something was seriously wrong.
Flinging my legs over the side of the bed, I tugged a pair of PJ pants over my hips and snagged my robe off the hook on the back of the bedroom door. I wrapped it around me as I hurried down the hall.
I paused in the living room, taking in my surroundings. Sky wasn’t on the couch, where we’d left him last night. The blankets remained in a pile. The plastic trash bin sat next to the coffee table, within reach, just in case the drunk Omega needed to vomit throughout the night.
I shook my head and moved towards the kitchen, freezing in place when I saw the scene spread out in front of me—Sky, pinned to the white tile floor, with my mate straddling him, one hand wrapped around Sky’s throat.
My stomach knotted when I saw Sky was in tears. Swallowing back nausea, I rushed to his side. “What the hell? Sky, are you okay? Adam?” My voice pitched high, betraying my panic. What was going on?
Adam growled under his breath, but released the frightened Omega. He let Sky up, but didn’t move to stand, choosing to kneel on the kitchen floor instead, his expression tight.
Sky scrambled away from him, sitting up to hug his knees to his chest. He buried his face in them, sniffling softly. He was a sight, still cloaked in Adam’s fuzzy blue robe from last night’s chaos.
I sank to my knees beside him and gently rubbed his back, but Adam held my complete attention. “Is someone going to tell me what the hell is going on right now? Because I am so lost. Please and thank you.”
Adam dropped his gaze, a flicker of guilt dancing in those wolf-gold eyes. He blew out a quick breath. “There’s something I didn’t tell you last night.”
