Betas in Waiting

Andy was trapped in a relationship that was forced on her. Her finances were depleted on a regular basis. She couldn't choose her own life, car, associates. He even decided she should bear his child when his wife wouldn't.His sudden death was more relief than burden, and her body immediately undergoes a transformation from stunted beta to petite omega. Only her terror is holding her back now. A friend she has known for years steps in and helps hold her up. He finds her a pack and helps her embrace her new designation and all it means. The pack finds her an assistant to manage life with five males.Dell is a woman who has seen the dark side of alphas. When she is offered the chance to work with and for Andrea, she accepts and helps her through the loss of the child she never chose but still looked forward to. Dell had her own experience a few years earlier.The day she meets Andrea's pack, Dell is prepared to stand in the shadows, but her own nature puts her into the path of one of the alphas, and he is delighted to finally have a breeding mate of his very own.Balancing her job and her lover will be difficult as the pack pulls tight, with Andrea and Dell firmly in the middle.

Reebee has been unwell for the last five weeks. Since she got back to the city and returned the strength and protection she had borrowed from two alphas, she has been sick as hell and not keeping anything down. Her ex has turned up his stalking, and her mother is trying to kill her... again. It's been stressful.She's been hiding successfully at an empty property when her illness takes a nasty turn. Kern was one of the alphas she had borrowed from, and he was the one who found her, getting her to the hospital and under the care of the second alpha from that arrangement, Theo. Kern's scent eases her pain, and she suspects at that point what her problem is. The problem is that she spent the first four weeks of her pregnancy running overland and through volcanoes, along with free diving in a tropical ocean. She hoped she didn't mess it up.Appreciating how ill alpha withdrawal had made her, she agrees to spend time recovering and getting ready to return to work at her previous level, and they agree to assist her with her goals and projects as long as she takes care of herself. She's going to be a mom, Kern's going to be a dad, and people out there are still trying to kill her. What an easy start to a partnership.

Compulsion forced Ruby to find a good man, get engaged, and settle down. It was what everyone said she should do. When she found her fiancé cheating with her best friend, she took the out and got as far away from him as she could. Her family isn't exactly happy to see her, but they take care of her while she gets over her shock, and after they see the video footage from her security cameras, they call her a lawyer.Marshall is the lawyer in question. After he takes notes, interviews her, and gets a copy of the video, she's dismissed to head off to her job at the family business, and after a few moments of talking to police, she is free to go.Work is mind-numbing, but when she heads out for lunch, she is met by a friend of her lawyer. Rayden is an alpha; he plays hockey and is currently involved in a seasonal production of Patchwork Pixie. When he finds out that she wrote the choreography, he insists that she come to see practice the next day. She goes to the practice and seals her fate.With her mates around her, she can finally be herself, and with Rayden's help, she breaks the mental compulsion that kept her locked in the horrible relationship. She is finally able to be the Elite omega she was meant to be, and her alphas are there for every inch of her, so she returns the favour.

Myrtle had just taken a break from work when agonizing pain struck her. An ambulance ride later, she finds out that she is suffering from mate rejection. The only curious thing is that she didn't have a mate. She hadn't even met the bugger. Her life force was bleeding out, and there wasn't any way to stop it.Time passes, and the Elite take an interest in her demise. As death closes in, Myrtle gets irritated and restless. She sneaks past her friends, who guard her door, and heads to a late-night coffee shop. The proprietor greets her, and they chat for a while until a chance contact explains the issue with Myrtle. She's an Elite omega, as is the shop owner, and it explains the interest in making sure that she dies expressed by the Elite.Myrtle meets two men who are pinch hitters in case of an alpha fatality. They introduce her to the remaining member of her two fated mates, and his situation is only marginally better than hers. They discuss, they negotiate, and at the end of it, Myrtle just wants to survive. She will put up with too many alphas if it means finishing her manuscript and getting on with her life. She just needs an office and a laptop. The rest will take care of itself.

Hara was a competitive ballroom dancer, but her partner betrayed her by telling her community they were lovers. It led to a cascade of aggravation and punishment from her community, and when it came out that he was sleeping with her omega best friend, he was congratulated for getting one of the rare ones, and both of her besties discarded Hara.She didn't know what to do and had to leave her family and friends to start over. So, she did. She ends up as a housekeeper in a pride of friendly feline alphas with their two omegas. She occasionally doubles as Ford's assistant. She ends up stunt-dancing, and that spurs Ford to find her alpha. She has a very specific adaptation, and it needs a very specific alpha.A meeting in a museum sends her across the world and to an island that doesn't greet her warmly. It's all right; she's a treasure to any who meets her, and eventually, she starts to believe it.

Amby was a victim of fanaticism gone wrong, but now that she is free, she wants to experience what life has to offer: body and soul.A travel vlog has been proposed, and Amby is chosen for the honour of host. She learns to climb, swim, and how to handle insects before she is sent halfway around the world to the Wonder Islands.On the first day there, she runs across the first of her three marks in the form of the hotelier, who has decided to show her around the island. When things heat up, she catches the beauty of the islands, all for public consumption.

Win survived being taken by the Elite and got herself home again. They didn't dare take her twice.Now, Win's sister has been duped into leaving the safe zone and is out where the Elite can capture her, so she calls for help, and help arrives.Massacring the brutal elves is the highlight of her week. Taking photos at a wedding as she filled in for a photographer who cancelled is a close second.Working to save her family and free her friends and those like her, Win sets out to break the Stronghold and start a life after panic. It's a good thing that others have the same goal.