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Once they were parted just a little bit  and he deemed it safe enough to get to work on the wallet. He pulled out the cash and stuffed that in his pocket before he tossed the wallet in the nearest waste bin. He breathed a sigh of relief once the worse of the contraband was gone and he slowed his pace slightly, ambling the streets. It was a decent haul todayâŚmaybe he could afford to buy Atticus something nice with the extraâŚlike a tea cup from the antique shop. The Omega deserved a distinguished cup that matched everything else about him. He was just about to steer himself into the store and browse the cups when a hand locked around his wrist.Â
Internally he sighed, but the performer in him put the most shocked and frightened look on his face. His entire body set to trembling slightly and he looked up at the Beta with wide wet eyes. âIâŚI donât have a lot of moneyâŚm-misterâŚIâm just visitingâŚâÂ
Luciel turned out his pockets, revealing only a few bits and bobs like string and a rubber ball and the handful of pilfered bills that heâd crumpled up. âTh-This is all I haveâŚâÂ
Annoyance was his next recourse, it flashed across his face as Gem took pause. Because he wanted to believe him. He didnât get a good look a whoever had bumped into him, anyway. He could be wrong. But then, experience told him this was all a rouse. His deliberation of the matter stopped there, Gem was the âtrust your gutâ kind of dude. His hand moved from the otherâs wrist to the collar of his shirt. Like, Gem wasnât a fighter, per se. Genuinely, it was a great thing to get along with people. But he wasnât dumb, wasnât naive enough to think heâd go through life without some kind of conflict. And maybe he wouldâve swung on the omega but....people were looking. Out of the corner of his eye he saw passers-by giving the pair of them weird looks. And the whole kind-of-passifist-kind-of-not thing Gealach had going on. To be fair, despite his ire, Gem wasnât physically hurt. Wasnât sure how Hannigan would respond to news of him having beat on some omega. Better not to chance anything.
âLook....â he grated, letting go, transitioning to a friendlier hold on the wolfâs shoulder, â I donât give a fuck about the cash. I just need the wallet. Donât be a dick.â







