Chapter 6

Sam

Sam couldn’t believe that he was seeing Toby sitting before him in an omega's nest, swaddled in blankets, smelling mouthwatering and seemingly even more forbidden to him than before, telling him that he was in heat.

“H-heat?” Sam repeated.

“I-I’m well…As you can probably sense, I’m….”

“...an omega.”

Toby looked down with embarrassment and nodded.

“Why are you pretending to be an alpha, then?” Sam couldn’t help asking.

When Toby raised his eyes and glared, Sam could see that he’d just put his foot in his mouth.

“Sorry,” he said. “I realized as soon as I said that it was obvious why.”

“Why is it, then?” Toby said coolly.

“Well,” Sam said carefully, “it’s what we studied this week. The inequality between alphas and omegas?”

Toby stayed silent.

“Or is it that you’re an alpha trapped in an omega’s body?” Sam asked, hoping that wasn’t the case because Toby’s scent made him dizzy with desire.

“Keep talking…”