Chapter 41
Looking up at her, I can see the determination in her eyes. She truly believes what she says, and she believes she’s going to help me find a university that will accept me.
Still I ask, “You really think so?” It seems too good to be true. I’m trapped in a pit of despair; it seems so unlikely that there could be any path out of it.
“I’m positive. It might take some work to find it. We might have to go out to the edges of the continent maybe. I’ve heard things are a little more lax there,” Ella says. “But I’m certain we will find place, and a way for you to get the hell out of here and away from the quadruplets.”
“Our Alphas,” I remind her.
She groans. “Hopefully they are better leaders than judges of character.”
“They want a perfect little sister so they see Sylvia as perfect,” I say. “I don’t know that they’d make that mistake for anyone else.“.
“Unless Sylvia paints a target on them, like she did to you,” Ella says. “Let’s face it. The quadruplets might be the new Alphas, but they are wrapped around Sylvia’s pinky finger.”
I’m quiet for a moment. She’s right of course, but it makes me so angry. “Do you think they will ever see the truth in her?” I ask.
“I doubt it,” Ella says.
I stop to think again, but this time, in the silence, my phone makes a noise. It’s not my regular phone, but the burner.
Ella gives me a long look as I pull it from my purse. “You brought the burner phone? Why?”
I shouldn’t have, and am upset with myself for doing so. But talking to Hugh as his mate has been something I’ve enjoyed more than I care to admit. It’s nice to be treated not just as an equal but as someone desirable.
Now, though, I’m filled with rage for what the brothers have done to me – Hugh among them. He could have stopped the others, but he didn’t. He saw me just as lowly as they did.
If he knew the truth… That his mate and this lowly Omega are one in the same…
I open the
message.
Free tonight? I can’t wait to be in you again.
Ella leans over to see the message and rolls her eyes. “Ug. He’s not even trying.”
My simmering rage punches upward and I start typing before I even realize I’m doing it.
Fuck off, I mean it. I’m not your sex doll. Don’t talk to me anymore I’m sick of this.
I quickly hit send before I can regret it.
Ella, seeing my message, says, “Good for you.”
Confidence surges through me. Since the declaration, I’ve felt so helpless. Now, I feel like I’ve taken some of my power back.
Hugh sees my message, it’s labeled as read. But he doesn’t reply.
The confidence lingers for a while. I’m feeling good as Ella and I leave the park and head home.
That good feeling dims as Ella and I return to the estate just in time for Hugh to storm past us on the way to the garage.
“Hey!” Ella snaps as he roughly shoulders us both on his way down the hall. “What’s the big idea?”
“I’m pissed, obviously,” Hugh grumbles. “I’m going to bury myself into a long line of women, until I feel more myself.”
Chapter 41
I have no idea why he shared this with us. Most likely, he was just talking to himself.
Even so, hearing his plans, a dark gnawing feeling eats away at the inside of me.
My jealousy couples with my regret, and it takes everything inside of me not to call out to Hugh and stop him.
Instead, I coil my hands into tight fists and burn on the inside.
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