[ It's just over the threshold of too much, somehow. It's not a way she can quantify right away. Her biology should be content, should be drinking down the alpha pheromones, but the way in which his scent wasn't quite right persists in this too. She cannot help but compare.
Ben would bite and scratch and devour her too. There would be aggression and violence and hunger. But the balance is wrong. She had fallen into Ben for the way he nurtured her — the promise that he'd care for his omega and she'd never want for anything again.
It's Poe's words that clears up the picture. The focus on violence, on hurting Ben. Hurting her mate. Her whole body revolts against it. Dead. Dead dead dead. You got your mate killed. She feels suddenly, violently ill with it, a whole-body kind of anxiety that has her lungs tightening and her stomach twisting and her head spinning.
She pushes Poe out of her neck. She hadn't thought protecting their family would mean killing her mate, though the logical progression there is obvious. The conflicting signals are ugly. No, don't upset Alpha, he's helping you. and Enemy, enemy, threatened your mate; your mate wouldn't have left if you'd been a good Omega. ]
Stop. [ The scramble to shove him away from her neck becomes more desperate and determined. ] Stop.
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Ben would bite and scratch and devour her too. There would be aggression and violence and hunger. But the balance is wrong. She had fallen into Ben for the way he nurtured her — the promise that he'd care for his omega and she'd never want for anything again.
It's Poe's words that clears up the picture. The focus on violence, on hurting Ben. Hurting her mate. Her whole body revolts against it. Dead. Dead dead dead. You got your mate killed. She feels suddenly, violently ill with it, a whole-body kind of anxiety that has her lungs tightening and her stomach twisting and her head spinning.
She pushes Poe out of her neck. She hadn't thought protecting their family would mean killing her mate, though the logical progression there is obvious. The conflicting signals are ugly. No, don't upset Alpha, he's helping you. and Enemy, enemy, threatened your mate; your mate wouldn't have left if you'd been a good Omega. ]
Stop. [ The scramble to shove him away from her neck becomes more desperate and determined. ] Stop.