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Fourteen years later…
Dad: Come downstairs.
I narrowed my eyes at the message on my phone, trying to will it
away with my mind. My parents never came into the city. They’d certainly
never been to my flat before.
I quickly changed my status to ‘away’ and hoped my colleagues didn’t
ask questions, before slipping out of my spare-bedroom-slash-office,
grabbing the keys on my way downstairs.
The old terrace house I lived in had been split into two flats years ago,
and I had the upstairs while the Clarksons, an elderly beta couple, had the
downstairs. The sounds of their favourite game show filtered through the
wall to the stairwell, but it was the murmured voices on the other side of the
exterior front door that had my attention.
I took a fortifying breath before opening it, bracing myself to see my
father.
Fourteen years later…
“Margot!” Asher said with a beaming smile, throwing himself at me for a
surprise hug. Chelsea followed with a soft smile, shyer than our baby
brother.
“Upstairs,” Dad barked, barely keeping the alpha command out of his
voice. “I need to talk to your sister.”
I pressed the keys into Chelsea’s hand with what I hoped was a
reassuring smile while Mum suddenly burst into tears. It wasn’t totally out
of character for her, but it always made for awkwardness.
“Head on up, make yourselves at home.”
“Oh, we will,” Asher promised, already jogging noisily up the stairs.
Good thing my downstairs neighbours were hard of hearing.
“What’s going on?” I asked the moment the top door closed behind them.
Mum let out a full-blown wail, and while Dad could soothe his omega
with a well-placed purr and a hug, he unsurprisingly did neither.
“Calum’s dead.”
I blinked at him, certain I’d misheard. Calum couldn’t be dead. He’d
messaged me asking for money just yesterday.
“Poisoned by some omega,” Dad added viciously. My blood ran cold.
“Chelsea and Asher don’t need to know that, though.”
“He was such a good man, a good alpha,” Mum rasped, half-collapsed
against Dad, who barely spared her a glance.
“Do they know he’s dead?” I asked bluntly. Calum was a dick who’d
grown more dickish each year, and he’d been particularly awful to Asher
when he’d presented as an omega, instead of an alpha like we’d all
expected, but they’d been surprisingly cheerful, all things considered.
Maybe they didn’t know. They must not have known. And the cause of
death being what it was…
Deaths like that didn’t happen very often these days. Alphas were
educated about the risks now. They knew not to lose control.
Only the worst of the worst did.
“You can tell them.” Dad’s voice was hollow and distracted, his mind
very clearly somewhere else. “Tell them it was a heart attack. That’s what
we’re telling the neighbours, but we wanted the youngest out of the way in
case rumours spread. We need to go to the station, sort some things out.
We’ll be back for them later.”
How incredibly typical of
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