#Chapter 23 – Fight Me!

Bernice POV I am shocked beyond words at Jessie’s question. Dates? Proposing? Landry? That’s the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard and I wonder how to say so without hurting my friend’s feelings. “What do you mean?” Jessie asks, and I swallow hard. Part of me points out that that’s a reasonable question – wasn’t I just saying that Landry seemed to be taking me on dates? The rest of me reminds myself that love isn’t real and what Landry and I are doing is simply a transaction, nothing more. I straighten my shoulders and take a deep breath. “Landry and I…we are sexual partners only. We fulfill each other’s needs. There are no feelings, and feelings have no place in a relationship, anyway.” I learned that first hand. I was a bastard child, the child of my father, the Alpha of Sunset Pack, and a lowly Omega with nothing to her name, no status, and no say in anything. My father helped her with her heat and the result was me.