Page 18 of Omega Ruined

Dean studied me with his blue eyes. "I'd like to believe that, but the man is about to go feral."

I closed my eyes. "I know." Opening them again and looking directly at Dean, I took a deep breath. "I'm trying to do my best for both of you, but I need you to focus on yourself, not Vale. Let me handle him."

Something dark and dangerous sparked in his eyes, but then it was gone. "Fine. Do things your way, but when he snaps and takes us all out, don't forget I told you so."

He went back to his weights and I left the room, feeling tired. I was barely thirty and already this pack had me aging like a crack smoker.

I finally found Zephyr in the basement, where he was measuring spaces and drawing lines on the concrete floor with chalk.

"What the hell are you doing now?"

"Planning ahead. Those two are going to go feral and we'll need cages for them."

"You don't think we could get the Alpha Protection Agency to pick them up?"

He narrowed his eyes at me. "They're pack. We're not letting some fucking agency drag them off to who knows where."

"So what's the plan down here?" I looked around the space. We usually only used it for storage, but Zephyr had shoved everything over into one corner, leaving most of the space open.

"Metal cages. Wall between them so they don't flip out over seeing each other…" There was a sudden roar from upstairs, followed by a crash. "Shit."

We both ran up the stairs at full speed to see who was hurt, the noise level picking up as we reached the living room.

Vale was under Dean, but both men were flailing at each other like they had an audience.

"I'll take Vale," I muttered, as we charged into the fray.

Grabbing the man by his narrow shoulders, I hauled Vale back and he fought to reach Dean again. It was like trying to separate fighting dogs. "Keep Dean here!" I called to Zephyr and dragged Vale out of the room.

Once he was out of sight of his rival, Vale snarled and twisted to snap at me. His dark eyes were glazed over with a look I was unfortunately becoming all too familiar with.

"Vale, it's me. Snap out of it!"

There was no response. His nostrils flared and he lunged for my neck.

"STOP!" I barked. My bark was far stronger than he was at this point and it stopped him dead in his tracks.

Vale blinked, his eyes focusing again and he ran his hand through his shock of bright pink hair. "Shit, I did it again, didn't I?"

"You did."

"When are those injections coming?" he asked tightly. "Is Dean okay?"

"Sounds like he's still under." I could hear Dean fighting Zephyr in the other room. "If you're good, I'm going to go bark him straight, too." I steadied Vale with my hands on his shoulders and peered into his eyes.

"I'm good, go."

Spinning away from him, I ran toward the other two members of my pack. As usual. It seemed like all I did was put out fires these days between the two alphas. The pack was unbalanced and if I didn't do something fast, we were going to lose them both.

Zephyr had Dean in a headlock, but the other man wasn't settling.

"Dean, stop fighting it!" I barked.

His neck muscles strained as he twisted to snap his teeth at me.

"Stop fighting. Come back to us!" I barked again, hating to use this much power on my own men.

Dean suddenly sagged in Zephyr's arms and the other alpha lowered him to the floor.