The Gift: An Omegaverse Romance by Lucy Scott Bryan

Author:Lucy Scott Bryan [Scott Bryan, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Written Under Moonlight
Published: 2022-11-30T18:30:00+00:00

Bailey

Prisons have a distinctive smell and unique feel to them. Hospitals do too in a sense. Where hospitals have a strange detachment going on, they’re also bursting with healing energy and optimism. Even the cleaners they use smell fresher, happier. Prisons, despite having more inmates than most hospitals have patients, are so devoid of life and hope, they give morgues a run for their money. And trust me, I’ve visited plenty of morgues.

I’ve got no doubt there would be people in this awful place that should not be here. Whether they’ve been wrongfully accused, or they simply got caught up in bad shit, but that sentiment does not remotely apply to the man sitting across from me. What makes it worse, is he’s in his element—revelling in our attention. He’s guilty as sin of the depravity he has been charged with and proud still.

Dagmar Regalo looks like a rat, and acts like he has rabies. His eyes are beady, brown and protrude out too far, much like his ears. He stinks like one too, that uric acid stench is ingrained in his skin. The other quality he and the Rattus Rattus share is that they’re incredibly intelligent and dangerously cunning.

Regalo is an alpha, and he keeps trying to make me and the crew submit using his abilities. The first time he did it, the guards waved their tasers threateningly in his direction. He submitted of course, but everything he does is carefully considered. He’s playing a well thought out game, continually pushing a smidge past what they are willing to let slide. The A-team are not as forgiving.

Regalo is chained to his seat and the floor by his hands, feet and body. The prison is treating him like an animal, for the simple reason: he is one. And even though he can’t possibly get me, that doesn’t mean the A-Team relaxes.

From the second we walked in the room, he has been a master manipulator. Perhaps he doesn’t realise I’ve met other psychopaths, but either way, I’m not giving him the credence he’s so desperate for, not that it has stopped him trying.

Koda and Reno stand on either side of me, while the prison guards hover protectively around the film and camera crew. We’re working with a skeleton unit because of the secure location. Donnie, of course, provided the best portable cameras and sound recording on hand to enable us to capture the drama. The questions in front of me were all pre-approved by Regalo’s large legal team. We’re playing to all the rules and are not the ones that keep deviating from the approved, Regalo is.

“You know… can I call you Bailey yet?” he croons before smiling like the shark he is. He’s the type of person that would try to sell snake-oil back to the snakes.

“That is your last warning, Regalo, once more and you’re in confinement,” the senior officer barks, another alpha. And it’s lucky I took the shot from Reno before leaving or I’d be a quivering mess of submission.

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