Warlord's Prize (Midlands Omegas Book 1) by F.A. Lantern & J.C. Bugg

Author:F.A. Lantern & J.C. Bugg [Lantern, F.A. & Bugg, J.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Come with me,” Sebastien orders, hand squeezing tighter around Brook’s shoulders as he guides him from the hall and into the little antechamber that Burke and then Kal had cornered him in directly before Sebastien had claimed him.

The room still smells slightly of Brook’s fear, but all of that falls away in the face of Sebastien’s renewed rage. Brook feels his lips tremble with a mixture of frustration and disappointment. Sebastien still hasn’t looked at him.

“He’s going to cheat,” Brook tells Sebastien, fighting to keep his voice beneath hysterical levels. Why won’t Sebastien listen to him? Brook has been invisible for most of his life, so why does it hurt so badly that Sebastien doesn’t see him either? “Poison or drugs or a knife in your back from the crowd.”

Sebastien finally looks at Brook, and his eyes are black and his lips are pursed tightly. Brook feels very much like a scolded child, caught red handed doing something he knows is shameful.

“You still do not get it, Brook,” Sebastien says with exaggerated slowness. “I am not worried about your father, I am furious that you continue to act on your own plans, hiding them from me to your own detriment when I am trying to help you.”

Brook flinches. “I’m not the one who needs your help,” he explains, willing to give Sebastien everything that he can. “I’m not the one who left without telling the other - this time,” he tacks on hastily at Sebastien’s pointed glare. “You’re challenging an established Alpha to a fight to the death, Sebastien, how could you keep that from me?”

Brook’s voice trembles at the end, and a single tear, bred of fear and anger and exhaustion slips down his face. Sebastien frowns, crossing the small room in a single stride and taking Brook’s face between his large hands with a frown.

“Don’t cry, pretty eyes,” he says, voice quiet and compelling. “I can’t stand it when you do.”

“You used to like making me cry,” Brooke sniffles. He hadn’t meant to bring up the physical distance Sebastien has been keeping between them, but it’s gnawing on him like hunger, driving him to distraction in slow, exponential degrees. “But now you barely look at me.”

“You think I don’t want you?” Sebastien questions, his voice dropping dangerously. “You think the fantasy of owning your body is ever far from my mind? Why do you think I am here? I could have sacked this pathetic building weeks ago, burned it to the ground with everyone inside, or cut off all supplies until your siblings were nothing but bones. I should have, but I couldn’t stand that look – yes, that one – that tells me I am breaking your heart.”

“I-” Brook says, his voice breaking. “Then why have you deserted our bed?”

“Brook,” Sebastien says, his voice soft and pained. “Something I did made you flee our tent and attempt to break back into the place where you were abused. I failed to provide you with something that you needed to feel safe, to feel supported, to feel secure, and then I failed to protect you.

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