Chapter 1 1

POV LOIS

Waking up every day and thinking that the rest of my life would be spent as nothing more than an Omega filled me with discouragement. Adding my illness to that, nothing looked very bright.

A week ago, I turned twenty.

There were three bad things in my life.

The first one: I was still a virgin!

The second: I found my mate at eighteen! But he rejected me the moment he realized I was only an Omega. And I don’t blame him—he caught my scent while I was serving food to the Beta children, after being invited as a special guest of the pack, and yes, when he saw me, he rejected me and ran off. That destroyed my chances of leaving the pack, because even as a student I couldn’t get a scholarship to study somewhere else.

Several months of fragile health kept me from giving my all in my studies.

The third, perhaps the most important: I was born with a “special” condition, as they liked to call it whenever I needed treatment. I had to get blood transfusions every three months. That cost money. My parents worked only to make it to that day—the day we needed the money for the transfusions.

Mostly because my blood type was extremely rare.

Being an Omega didn’t help at all.

But… some things could change.

Viviana, the Alpha’s youngest daughter, was my friend. We’d known each other since we were little; my mother had been her nanny, so we became friends even though she was two years older than me. She decided to specialize in her field at a university on the other side of the country and asked her father, Alpha Joseph, to let her take a companion since she wouldn’t know anyone there—someone for her free time, to avoid being bored.

It was mostly an excuse to help me.

The Alpha agreed after many pleas from her!

They would pay all my travel and living expenses as long as I served Viviana in whatever she needed.

Now it was time to say goodbye to my parents, which shattered my heart, because they were so worried. They wanted to ask the Alpha not to let me go, but they forgot something.

I was not a child!

I was twenty!

I needed to see the world, and Viviana was giving me the chance to leave this place.

I would go to a university—not as a student, but as her assistant—but I would go!

I knew what scared them the most wasn’t just the transfusions; it was that I was an Omega, and the world was cruel to Omegas.

“Dad, Viviana won’t let anything happen to me. Tell her, Mom.” I hugged them both, crying with them but glowing inside. My suitcase was packed, and the excitement kept growing.

I was getting out of here!

“We’re ready,” Alpha Joseph said behind us. He took my hand and led me away from my parents. He placed his strong hand on my shoulder, burning my skin, and those black eyes fixed on me with intensity. “If you let anything happen to Viviana…” His little Viviana. “I’ll tear your family apart first, and then you, Lois. You’ll be her sanity. Don’t let her energy overwhelm you. Control it! A university full of… hot wolves! I don’t even want to think about it!” He suddenly looked deeply concerned, but more than her safety, he seemed tormented by whatever direction his daughter’s sex life might take. But she was an adult too, right? At that age, things like that happened—especially when you were beautiful, strong, the Alpha’s daughter. Suitors swarmed, and you could reject, accept, fall in love with whoever you wanted. Viviana had a good future ahead of her—a very favorable one. “Remember, Lois, you are her sanity. Don’t let her go wild. Threaten to tell me, is that clear?”

A knot formed in my throat as he placed his heavy hands on my shoulders again.

“Yes, Alpha Joseph. I’ll take care of Viviana. I’ll be her sanity.” I agreed. I wouldn’t let her overwhelming energy drive me mad too.

My journey with Viviana began, but on that train… the first thing she did was trade rooms with a boy she ran into in the hallway on the way to the restaurant.

She left me… alone.

She just took her things and told me the ones from the other room would be coming now.

“Ones”? There were several? Guys?

I gathered all my things, changed out of my pajamas into clothes, and climbed into the bed with the lights off, hoping that when they arrived, they’d think I was asleep.

There were only two beds; if they were several, they could share.

I just prayed they weren’t Alphas or Betas.

I’d never had much contact with people outside the pack, and my heart thundered when the door opened.

I felt faint when the light came on and then…

Oh my God.

They were twins—and so handsome they were practically edible.

I squeezed my eyes shut and slowly pulled the sheet over my head.

“The blonde said her roommate’s name was Lois, right?”

“Lois!” the other one called. I don’t know which one pulled the sheet off the bed, exposing me entirely, but both jumped onto the mattress while my nose confirmed that they were both… Alphas. “Lois…” purred the one on the right, “want to have some fun?”

“I-I’m sleepy,” I muttered, trembling like a terrified little animal. “I want to sleep.”

“There’s a big party outside. Don’t you want to go?”

Party? I’d never been to a party, and I didn’t have party clothes.

“I-I’m sorry, really, I’m just tired.”

“Up!” ordered the one on the left. It was the only way to tell them apart—they dressed the same, talked the same, and were identical.

“Please… I want to stay here,” I said again, but my wishes meant nothing to them.

They forced me to put on something nicer, but when they saw I only had rags, one of them left and came back minutes later with clothes for me. Thankfully, they gave me privacy to change, and afterward, I found myself walking out of the room with them on either side of me, heading to a party.

Was this real?

How long was this train supposed to take?

People actually did this on a train?!