One for the Money by Holly Monroe

Author:Holly Monroe [Monroe, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 236606910
Published: 2025-08-04T07:00:00+00:00

Memories assault me the same way the scents swirling around the room do, and I struggle to calm my rapidly pounding heartbeat. My body aches, and I squeeze my knees to my chest, struggling to breathe out of my mouth.

My traitorous body wants to take them in. Wants to luxuriate in the scents that surround me.

But I can’t. I can’t let myself fall down that path again. I know that it leads to the paddock in my mind, and I won’t allow myself to be vulnerable like that again.

And yet I can’t help it.

The trailer is small, and there are so many of them. It’s all around me, soaking into my skin, trying to rewrite my DNA so I can never be alone again. My traitorous Omega instinct screams bite, claim, with every breath I take.

Matteo is the closest to me, and I’m wearing his shirt, so I know he’s the owner of the sweet kettle corn scent that is making my mouth water. But also swirling in the room are the irresistible aromas of caramel and candy apples. That’s probably the twins, since their pheromone profiles are going to be remarkably similar. It’s so sweet and yet has that tart apple undertone that is so sharp that I can almost hear the crunch beneath my teeth.

A sugary, salty fragrance with hints of vanilla and fruit makes my teeth ache, and I am immediately thrown into memories of the boardwalk as a kid, chewing saltwater taffy on the Ferris wheel. Underneath it all is the sweet, doughy fragrance of funnel cakes, dusted in powdered sugar. It’s fainter than the others, but I would recognize it anywhere.

I would laugh at the irony of a group of men smelling like carnival foods ending up in a circus if I weren’t so fucking scared of what this means.

I can’t do this again. I won’t.

I won’t survive it.

Dexter’s blue eyes are locked on mine, and for some reason, since I know he, above all the others, doesn’t want a scent match either, I find it easiest to tell him my story.

Because I owe them that much.

It’s not fair of me to write them off and not tell them why. I can see the hope, the longing in the eyes of the others, and if I am going to crush their spirits and pull their dream out from underneath them, they deserve the truth.

“Rich was wonderful. We met during our residency at Portland Hospital and dated throughout our time there. When it came to getting our full-time positions, I moved to Florida with him to work at his top choice of a hospital. I didn’t see anything wrong with that at the time. On our fourth anniversary, he took me to this incredible restaurant, and I thought, this is it. He’s going to propose, and my Omega will want to mark him. But that’s not what happened. At that dinner, he introduced me to his pack. His pack, which I didn’t know he had. Apparently, they were a pack in college, and they were getting back together.

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