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ALPHA’S SACRIFICE
IRRESISTIBLE OMEGAS
BOOK 1
NORA PHOENIX
Alpha’s Sacrifice (Irresistible Omegas Book One) by Nora Phoenix. Copyright ©2018 Nora Phoenix
Cover design: Vicki Brostenianc
Edited by: Angela Campbell (Addicted to Reviews Editing)
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CONTENTS
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Publisher’s Note / Trigger Warnings
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Sneak Peek Alpha’s Submission
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ALPHA’S SACRIFICE
Four men, brought together by fate, connected in more powerful ways than they’d ever imagined.
Lidon, the powerful alpha-cop, who helps a vulnerable omega through his heat and connects with him in a way that leaves him reeling.
Vieno, the omega who suffers from a medical condition that requires an alpha’s help. It was supposed to be mere sex, but his instant attraction to the alpha goes much deeper.
Enar, the alpha-doctor who works himself to the bone, anything to drown out his inner voices that scream at him he’s not a real alpha.
Palani, the sassy beta reporter who will do anything to save his omega lover and childhood friend, even if it means watching another man claim him.
Amidst political unrest, evidence of corruption and fraud, and a life-threatening medical issue, four men figure out what and who they are to each other.
Alpha’s Sacrifice is an MMMM mpreg romance and the first book in the Irresistible Omegas series, which combines epic world building with suspense, romance, sexy times, and all the feels. Buckle up for an emotional rollercoaster that will leave you breathless!
This is not a stand-alone and ends on a soft cliffhanger, but the sequel is already available. Please note the triggers warnings in the front of the book.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE / TRIGGER WARNINGS
This novel depicts mature situations and themes that are not suitable for underage readers. Reader discretion is advised.
Please note there are trigger warnings for mentions of rape, sexual assault, suicide, miscarriages, and abortion (all off-page) and depression (on-page story element).
1
The attractive, dark-haired beta behind the pharmacy counter in the drugstore avoided Lidon Hayes’s eyes. Many betas and omegas did it, or they flirted with him excessively, since Lidon was an alpha and an imposing one at that. With the pharmacy tech, Lidon wondered if the beta possessed another reason for his evasive behavior. Lidon wore plain clothes, but his instincts screamed he’d been made. After three years in narcotics and ten years on the force, he’d damn well learned to rely on his instincts.
Still, he’d keep up the charade until the beta voiced his suspicions. Lidon wasn’t in any danger here. This timid guy was not about to pull out a gun, unlike some other suspects he encountered. Lidon excelled at reading people, and this beta appeared as nonviolent as they came. The type of crime they suspected him of only confirmed this.
“Can you get me these meds?” he asked, making every effort to keep his voice soft and kind. He put the medicine bottle on the counter, and the beta slowly took it to read the label.
“Sir, this is not over-the-counter birth control. You need a prescription from your physician,” the beta explained, still avoiding Lidon’s eyes.
Lidon reached for his pocket and pulled out the prescription. “Here you go.”
The beta read it, only a few quick blinks betraying his nerves. “Is Dr. Brooks your personal physician?”
Lidon shrugged. “Does it matter?”
“Yes, sir. By law, we can only accept prescriptions for this drug from your personal physician.”
Lidon raised his eyebrows. “Is that so? So if my personal physician didn't prescribe these, you’d refuse to give me the meds?”
The beta hesitated. Lidon had him cornered with this question. He would either have to confirm it, which would seal his fate, since he’d then have to admit to knowingly distributing these meds to patients who didn’t have prescriptions from their family doctors, or deny it, which could cost him his license. Regardless of his answer, he'd lost his license by now anyway with the evidence they’d collected against him.
The beta slowly brought his eyes up to meet Lidon’s for the first time. “Do we need to continue this farce?” he asked. “I’m well aware you’re a cop.”
Lidon waited. He was under no legal obligation to confirm it unless someone asked him directly. Apparently, the beta had taken Law 101 as well. “You are a cop, correct?” he said.
Lidon sighed with frustration. How had this pharmacy tech made him? Had he been too dominant? That seemed unlikely, considering how fast the tech had recognized him as a cop. They possessed plenty of evidence to arrest him, but it still annoyed Lidon he’d been busted so quickly.
“Yes. I’m with narcotics,” he said, his voice not so friendly now.
The beta looked almost relieved. “I figured.”
“You’re Lucan Whitefield, is that correct?
“Yes, sir.”
“You want to explain how several patients received prescription drugs from you without a prescription from their physician?”
The beta shook his head. “Not really, no. I’m not going to help you make this case and in the process, hurt innocent victims.”
“Victims? I would think more of them as fellow perpetrators who knowingly bought illegal drugs.”
“These birth control pills are not illegal,” Lucan protested.
“They are without the right prescription,” Lidon fired back.
The irritability that had been plaguing him lately rushed back into his system. Who the hell did this beta think he was, arguing with a cop and an alpha at that? He’d been caught dealing in illegal drugs, for fuck’s sake. The guy should have some sense of his place in this…and it wasn’t on equal footing with Lidon.
“They shouldn’t be. These are crucial drugs many omegas need.”
“Then they should request a prescription from their primary doctor,” Lidon snapped.
“Are you that naive? You may be alpha, but you can’t be that blind…”
Lidon’s jaw tightened at the almost-insult. “What are you talking about?”
The beta didn’t cower under the icy glare Lidon shot at him, which was impressive, though the small tic below his right eye betrayed he wasn’t unaffected by Lidon’s intimidation tactics. His hands shook as he placed them on the counter, probably to steady himself.
“These are some of the most expensive birth control pills available. Coincidentally, they’re also the most effective. However, many insurance companies are reluctant to pay for them because they’re so expensive. They’ve been lobbying ever since these became available to get do ctors to prescribe anything else but these. I’ve seen the number of legal prescriptions go down further each month. That’s also why they added the clause that birth control pills can only be prescribed by your personal physician and not by any other doctor.”
Huh, that was a damn calm and rational explanation under the circumstances. Lidon took the bottle back and studied the drug name on the label. “Excellon,” he read the drug name.
The name was unfamiliar, but that wasn’t surprising for a new drug in this category. Lidon stayed away from omegas and didn’t fuck around like many alphas did, so birth control held zero interest for him. They’d found a few of these bottles during a raid in a drug dealer’s apartment, a guy who dealt in anything ranging from cocaine to prescription drugs. They had traced them back to this pharmacy and to this pharmacy tech, who had distributed it without a valid prescription. A little digging revealed he’d been filling close to two hundred prescriptions that weren’t prescribed by the correct doctor.
“You’re saying insurance companies are actively discouraging doctors from prescribing this?” he asked, his anger diminishing, though tension still simmered in his body.
Lucan nodded. “It wouldn’t surprise me if monetary incentives were involved.”
“Monetary incentives…you’re talking about bribes? Payoffs? You think they’re paying the doctors to prescribe something else?”
“I think that's an option,” the beta said, his face not betraying much.
“It’s usually the drug companies who pay doctors to prescribe their stuff.”
“Excellon is a little different, since it wasn't developed by the big drug companies. A small start-up invented and now produces it. They had trouble getting enough investors to even back them financially despite promising first trials. And it took ages before they got approved by the government. Of course, that could also be because they’re aimed at omegas who don’t exactly constitute a priority.”
A small start-up, huh? This could be bigger than even this pharmacy tech suspected. If this birth control had proven to be more effective than others, that created a big financial reason for other birth control drug companies to stop this drug from becoming a success. The insurance companies could be bribing the doctors, but competitors could be as well.
If that were true, it wouldn't be his case to solve. He’d do a quick investigation, if that, and then kick it over to the White-Collar Division. Hopefully, they’d do something with it, though with the backlog they had, it was doubtful.
“I’m gonna have to bring you down to the station for further questioning, Lucan,” he said.
Lucan nodded, a resigned look on his face. “Will you allow me to call in a coworker? We have patients depending on us being open.”
Lidon gestured him to make the call. He took out his own phone, walking to the back of the empty store for some privacy as he called Enar. He answered only after seven or eight rings. Lidon checked the time. Damn, it was almost midnight. Oops.
“Hey,” the tired voice of his best friend greeted him.
“Hey yourself,” he said. “Sorry, did I wake you?”
Enar yawned. “I was taking a nap in my car. Was too tired to drive home.”
“Long day?” Lidon asked, more out of reflex than anything else. Enar only had long days. The man worked seven days a week most of the time.
“Yeah. Emergency hysterectomy on a female omega after an illegal abortion.”
Enar was a doctor, an OB/gyn and reproductive specialist who focused on helping omegas who had nowhere else to go. Lidon was aware that a good portion of what his friend did was illegal, but they’d managed to find a way not to have their respective jobs clash. Usually, that meant not asking more than what the other was willing to share.
“I’m sorry, man,” Lidon said. He had lost civilians in drug raids or when the uniforms called narcotics in after ODs to trace the drugs, and it never got easier. He couldn’t even imagine what Enar encountered on any given day, considering how much of himself he poured into his work. Losing patients was hard on him.
“Yeah, it sucks. Young omega too.” He sighed. “Anyway, what can I do for you because I assume this wasn’t a social call, considering the hour?”
“Excellon,” Lidon said. “What do you know about it?”
He regularly called Enar with questions like this, and the assumption was always the same, that none of what his friend shared would be traced back to him or his patients.
“New generation male birth control pills, highly effective in comparison to the three most popular ones. When taken as prescribed, they are about ninety-five percent effective in preventing male pregnancy.”
“What’s the competitors’ percentage?”
“Around eighty percent, the cheapest one seventy-five.”
Lidon whistled. That was a big difference. “It’s good stuff, then.”
“Yeah. It’s also crazy expensive. You need to start taking it twice a day a week before your heat till a week after, so sixteen days in total. They run at about fifty bucks a pill so that’s sixteen hundred dollars per heat. With four heats a year, you’re talking about a lot of money for most people.”
Lidon almost choked on his own breath. “Holy crap, that’s insane. Why are these so exorbitant in price?”
“No idea. I’m sure they have developmental costs to recoup, but it’s a small company, so it’s not like they have a lot of overhead.”
“Huh. Interesting. But it’s the most effective birth control method on the market right now?”
Enar hesitated. “Condoms are getting better and better in preventing pregnancy.”
“Yeah,” Lidon agreed. “But alphas hate them because they feel restrictive during knotting. Argue all you want, but they’re a major hassle during a heat ‘cause you have to put on a new one for every round. Plus, they’re not comfortable, especially when knotting, and take away a big chunk of pleasure.”
As he spoke, his dick stirred again. He turned his body toward the wall to prevent anyone else in the store from witnessing his erection. For some reason, he’d been easily excited the last few weeks, and all this talk about sex only aggravated his libido.
“Yeah, condoms are far from ideal,” Enar agreed. “But it’s what we have.”
There was something in Enar’s tone that triggered Lidon to ask, “Aside from condoms, this Excellon is the best thing available, then?”
Again, Enar paused before he replied. “Legally, yes.”
Ah, now they were getting somewhere. “You’re saying there are illegal methods that are more effective? Why are these not freely available?”
Lidon swore he could hear the eye roll Enar was giving him. “You know, for a cop, you can be stunningly naive,” Enar said.
That was the second time in an hour he’d been called naive, and Lidon didn’t appreciate it. His annoyance flared back up. “Well then, Doctor, if you know it so well, why don’t you explain it to me?” His tone was snappy, and he regretted it as soon as he’d said it. Enar merited more than to be the target for Lidon’s temper.
“Not today, man. I’m wiped…and it sounds like you are as well.”
Enar’s answer was more civil than he deserved, which shamed Lidon. Plus, there was a tone in his voice that betrayed how depleted his friend was. “It can wait,” he said. He lowered his voice. “Do you need me to come over?”
He wasn’t sure if he hoped the answer would be affirmative or not. He could sure use a release of pent-up energy out of his system, but maybe Enar wasn’t the best candidate. His mood had been crappy lately, and he would not risk taking that out on his friend.
