“And where the hell are you dropping me off?”
“Somewhere you’ll be taken care of.”
Taken care of could mean one of two things. Given a bed and comfy blankets to ride out the heat that was causing me immense pain... or murdered and weighed down at the bottom of the bay.
“Where?” I demanded again.
Guinn took a sharp turn, and I barely managed to avoid smacking my head on the window. “Put your damn seatbelt on.”
If he was bringing me to be killed, he wouldn’t be worried about vehicle safety, right? That was a good sign.
“I will if you tell me where you’re taking me.”
“You’re just as insufferable as I imagined an Alfieri heiress would be. Seatbelt first, then I’ll tell you.”
Guinn knew exactly who my parents were.Damn it.And I was stuck in a sports car with him.
With shaky fingers, I grabbed the belt. It took a few tries to click it in, but I managed it right before the next sharp corner. Guinn was driving like a maniac.
Then again, he was running from the scene of a kidnapping. So maybe it made sense.
“Done. Tell me where we’re going.”
“The Omega Haven Residence.”
My eyebrows drew together. I knew that place. We referred omega psychiatric patients there sometimes. It was a long-term care centre for traumatized omegas. They had a small acute ward but focused on omegas who needed help for a minimum of six months.
“Why are you taking me there?”
“Because I’m not planning on dying today. I should have walked the other way when I met an Alfieri daughter in the hospital parking lot, but no. I decided to try and be the good guy.” He laughed. “And hasn’t that fucking backfired? If I called your family, I would end up killed or worse for failing to keep you safe—regardless of the fact that I was fuckingtrying. Like to seethemkeep a delirious omega safe in the middle of hostile territory.”
I stared at him. He was glaring out the front windshield. “Why didn’t you call them to get me and then leave me on the street?”
“What kind of alpha would I be if I left an omega alone in your state? We have protective instincts, you know.”
That made sense. “Who the hell are you? Why do you even know what my family would do to you?”
He huffed. “I’m Guinn, and I didn’t call your crazy ex. That’s all you need to know.”
We’d left the lights and skyscrapers of the city behind, and his driving was smoother on the highway. Farmland and forests took turns populating either side of us, the orange glowof sunlight growing more intense as the sun rose behind the mountains.
I believed him.
We were really going in the direction of the Residence. He could have called Benjamin... but my scent match had seemed too cocky to have been tipped off by some random man. He’d known where I was, not by chance... but by design.
Benjamin was more dangerous than I’d given him credit for.
Everyone had warned me, and I hadn’t listened. And now... here I was.
Bonded and abandoned.
I hugged my knees to my chest, resting my feet on the seat. “How much longer to Omega Haven?”
“Fifteen minutes.”
Letting my head hang down, I stared out the window at the passing scenery. Everything hurt, from my tingling toes to my throbbing temples. I wanted to curl up into a ball and sleep for a year, but I wasn’t sure if my body would let me.
Not until I had my alphas by my side. If they still wanted me. If they didn’t... I wasn’t sure what I would do.
