Read Alphas Possession by Jessica Hall Chapter 73 – So instead, I make my way up the stairs to the VIP section to find Bree


    working behind the bar upstairs. She smiles and waves me over to her, and I quickly rush toward her and the little safety behind


    the bar area.


    “Thanks foring in,” she says before looking downstairs toward the lower bar. “That man down there came in twenty minutes


    before you did,” she tells me, nodding toward Jake and ncing down at him nervously.


    “He knew your name.” I swallow and nod. “As Harlow,” she whispers. It was no secret anymore that Tal and Bree knew my real


    identity now, yet the fact he figured out where I worked and came here frightened me.


    “Apparently, he was herest night asking about you, Bree tells me. Now that worries me. I don’t offer her an exnation.


    Though it made me curious as to why he was here.


    “His name is Jake. He is also the man responsible for killing my sister. She took my ce in his pack,” told her. Saying that out


    loud made the sickly feeling in my stomach worse, remembering how angry he was when he found out he had the wrong Omega


    after killing her.


    “Stay up here today; I will have Shane stay in case he gives you a hard time,” Bree tells me, giving my arm a squeeze before


    going downstairs. She was due on stage in twenty minutes, and I hated the idea of being here by myself but knew it couldn’t be


    helped.


    Besides, Shane would step in if he tried anything. I set to work, trying to ignore Alpha Jake the best I could, yet he never left and


    remained most of the day.


    When I thought he was getting up to leave, relief filled me but on temporarily. Instead, he came up to the top bar where I was.


    Shane, the security guard, watched him closely and never left my side. But his presence was bing harder and harder to


    ignore.


    “Are you going to ignore me all day,” Jake asks.


    “Yep, I have nothing to say to you,” I tell him while sliding the drink he ordered over to him. He sighs.


    “Does Thane know you are working here?” he asks, and my hands freeze what they are doing as I wipe the counter down.


    “Chill, I won’t tell him. That isn’t why I am here,” he tells me and returns to my cleaning..


    “So why are you here?” I snapped at him “Are you happy with your mates, Harlow?” I nce at him. Do I look happy? I could be


    at work with them, but instead, I am sneaking around behind their backs, trying to find a way out of this city that wasn’t going to


    have me eating out of dumpsters and sleeping in alleyways.


    Jake moves closer and leans over the bar before whispering. “Zara sent me, he says, and I grit my teeth “You’re lying. Your pack


    killed her.” I snapped at him, and he leaned back, looking around and toward where Shane stood watching him Yet as long as he


    didn’t try to grab me, he would remain where he was.


    “No, we realized as soon she brought to us that she hadn’t bloomed. We aren’t monsters, despite what the media says about my


    pack,” “You knew and forced her anyway?” I asked, ring at him. Jake shakes his head.


    “Once an Omega is bought, marked, and mated. The pack can’t take another; Zara bloomed the next day, Jake tells me, looking


    around “Think about what I am saying, Harlow” he whispers, unbuttoning his shirt. He jerks the cor aside, revealing his neck.


    “We waited, would have waited forever if needed, and she begged us to save you. Said that you were both promised to never be


    separated. The only way for a pack to have two Omegas is if one was dead” he tells me.


    “We gave her the serum when she bloomed. I tried to buy you for her. But then, when I found Thane used hisst serum on you,


    I convinced her to let you stay with him. He is a good man, and I knew you would be safe with him. But then, after you went on


    the run and killed his mother, we have spent thest two years searching for you before he could get his hands on you,” He tells


    me.


    “You’re lying. Packs can have more than one Omega, and if what you’re saying is true, how did you get away with faking her


    death?” Jake sighs. “Why would I lie, Harlow? As for your other question, not here. Too many ears.


    But ask your mates. Thews changed three weeks before Zara came to us. They made it stricter. Once marked and mated, that


    is the only Omega for the pack. No new ones and those that do take another are heavily penalized.”


    “So Thane can’t take another Omega?” I ask him. “Not unless he wants to pay over a million dors in fines, not that he can’t


    afford it, but why risk it when you have hisst serum running in your veins,” Jake tells me, buttoning up his shirt.


    “Omega’s are bing rarer. It is also why the council is so quick to chuck Omega’s into rotation these days, trying to bring


    poption numbers up.


    One thing goes wrong, and an Omega is forced into the rotation, parking ticket, arrears in rent. The council has be


    desperate. I wouldn’t have been able to bid on you had they known Zara was alive.”


    “You could be just saying this. That could be any of your pack’s marks” “I tell him. “I could be, but when I saw you. Saw how


    frightened you were. I stuck around, found out you worked here; I knew once Thane figured out who you were, he would want


    your head.”


    “Then prove she is alive, ring her,” I tell him, knowing I would recognize her voice anywhere. Jake shakes his head.


    “No, we have just got her to a good ce; I am not getting her hopes up of bringing you home only for you to decide not toe.


    So again, Harlow, do you want my help to get you out of here?” he asks. Yet how could I trust him? For all I know, he could be


    behind the killing of Thane’s mother and setting me up.


    Whisked me away only to find out my sister was indeed dead “What do you mean about her not being in a good ce?” I ask


    him. “Our pack has lost a lot; I am not willing to lose my mate or this baby by stressing her out,” he tells me. My sister is


    pregnant.


    That made no sense. She is dead; I saw the autopsy report. “Then how am I expected to believe you if you won’t let me speak to


    her?” I tell him. He slides a folded piece of paper over to me.


    “My number; I am staying in town until my meeting on Friday with Thane. Decide before then. I have to leave on Friday to get


    back to my family, “he says. Standing up and slid his stool under the bar.


    “Did you have anything to do with Thane’s mother’s death?” I ask. His brows pinch. “No, you killed her? Didn’t you?” he asks,


    seemingly genuinely perplexed. I shake my head.


    “But Thane thinks you did?” “He wouldn’t let me exin. They have some shitty grainy footage of me leaving a restaurant with


    his mother before she apparently died. But it wasn’t me. We were run off the road and attacked. She told me to run.” “Can you


    prove this?” he asks. I shake my head, knowing I can’t. No one else was on the road besides those that tried to capture me.


    Have you told Thane this?” he asks. “I tried he wouldn’t hear me out,” I admit. “I’II look into it. But remember Friday Harlow,


    decide or I leave without you, he says before leaving. I was so confused about his actions when I saw him at work and today.


    He was like two different people, and I didn’t know which version of him to trust. If he was right about changing thews around


    Omega purchases, that was also more motive to try to deceive me.


    When my shift ended, I quickly changed back into my clothes when Bree handed me a stic bag.


    “Your shoes and clothes from the other night,” ” she tells me, and I curse. I left her clothes I borrowed and heels at the Hotel.Còntens bel0ngs to N?(v)elDr/a/ma.Org


    “Thanks, I will return yours tomorrow when Ie in, tell her before bidding her goodbye, catching a cab back to the Hotel, and


    doing my normal after-work ritual of ridding the scents from work before they get here.