Selfish Request

Later that day, Ty sat criss-cross on the bed, clinging to my backpack. When I glanced up to him, I saw how upset he was and he refused to look away from me.

"It doesn't matter how hard you look at me Ty," I sighed. "I don't wanna go either, but I have to."

He wiped his eyes, "you're gonna be back tonight right?"

I smiled up to him, "I don't know when it'll be but yeah, I'll come home immediately." I looked away, "there's no point in me being there anyways. I'm just a show piece to him, if anything. I don't understand why he won't let that moron take over the company rather than me."

"You mean that alpha, Grayson?"

I nodded, they're a match made in hell."

"Do you think he might have found out about you and that's why?"

I looked up to him with surprise as I didn't expect him to bring that up. "I know he hasn't figured it out. He would've moved me to the other group of students, just to use me as another trophy for his success. He'd celebrate and flaunt it like he made me a dominant alpha. He would take just about anything and claim it as his own if it made him look good."

"Can you promise me something? It's really selfish."

I got up off the floor and sat beside him on the bed. I pulled my backpack from his arms and sat on the ground before a leading him to sit in my lap. I hugged him lightly as he laid his head on my chest.

"You can ask me anything. There don't have to be any secrets between us. I tell you everything that happens."

"It's not a secret but...I feel guilty thinking about it."

I kissed his head before laying mine on top of his. "Tell me."

He sat up slightly so that we looked eye to eye and I knew he was very serious about whatever this was. "If something happens with that selfish omega that's hiding at your school," he began but for taking a pause to try to muster up his courage to continue. "If he attacks you again and makes it where you lose control, I want you to promise me that you will do everything you can to get away."

I smiled towards him but felt how hard this was for him to ask. "I always planned to do that."

"But," he began and had to stop again to take a few deep breaths to try to continue talking. "If you can't get back under control, I want you to hide yourself away from everyone else, wherever you can, and call me." His arm squeeze me slightly and I knew he was really getting nervous. "I want you to call me and I will come find you and...I want you to mark me."

I froze in complete shock as I never expected this to happen. "Ty," I whispered as I tried to sort through my thoughts and make sure whatever I said did not hurt him further. "I can't break my promise to my mom," I whispered. "You know I want to bond with you and nobody else, but I don't wanna do it before we're ready."

Ty's arms came away from around me and his hands clenched onto my shirt. "But I am ready! I've been ready for a long time and now I'm scared that if I don't find you in time, you might be forcefully taken from me! I know we promised your mom, but I know if he knew this situation was happening he would understand and let us do it. We could talk to Marcus and see what he thinks!"

I kissed Ty gently as my chest tightened. "I love you Ty," I whispered as he looked to me with desperation, "but I don't want it to ever come to that. I can't even imagine what it would be like or what I could do if I was completely out of control. I promise to you that I will lock myself away until I can gain my composure, but I don't want to forcefully bite you. If I'm out of control entirely I could hurt you. But I won't bite anyone else, especially in that situation. I promise you that."

We both paused as my phone began to vibrate loudly. I picked it up and answered the call.

"Are you here?"

"Yeah, we're outside," Ava replied with excitement in her voice.

"I'll be down in 1 second," I said before hanging up.

I look to Ty and saw how upset he was getting. I gave him another kiss before bringing us both to our feet. He reluctantly let go of me, other than my hand that he still claimed. I made my way downstairs and saw Marcus quickly jump to his feet as he saw us coming towards the front door.

He gave Ty a sad look, "you've got to let go of him at some point, all right?"

Ty squeeze my hand tighter but nodded to dad. Dad followed us outside and we found Ava standing on the sidewalk impatiently waiting in front of the car.

Dad rushed in front of us and immediately went to hug Ava. She looked slightly surprised, but her smile became bigger as I'm sure that man did not hug her often. Dad let go of her before smiling back to her.

"You must be Ava," Dad began. "Thank you so much for helping my son out with his new school and new living arrangements."

"You must be Marcus," she replied kindly but I noticed that her glance kept going towards Ty.