"Then why did you let him help you?" Camilla interjected when I said I wasn't trying to woo him. "If you weren't trying to steal him, why did you let him drive you here, huh?"
"I didn't let him!" I snapped in a shaky voice. "He offered, and I—"
"It doesn't matter. Stay away from Axel. Even if he talks to you, don't reply. Do you understand me?"
"But Rosa—"
"Do you understand me?" she repeated, eyeing me with contempt.
I wanted to decline. I wanted to tell her how I'd only met Axel twice and he already was dominating my world. How he'd stood up for me in ways that no one had over such a little period.
How much indebted I felt towards him… how much I liked. How much I didn't want to give him up for her. I wanted to fight for my own options as well.
But such would never end well for an Omega. We were designed to be quiet, to let things be, and to let every other person step over us.
