"It doesn't happen a lot, but when one of the higher ranking males is angry they might attack me." I looked at him concerned. "That only happens about twice a decade though. Most of the time they try fighting someone higher ranking than them." He took a deep, stuttering breath. "Vampires are instinctual creatures. Alpha males have the right take any female of a lower rank." I gasped.
"They rape-"
"No, you don't understand!" Edward shouted, panic seeping into his voice. "The higher a vampire is ranked the more pheromones they let out and the less others' pheromones effect them. It makes them more sexually appealing to whatever gender preference they hold. The females are always willing, especially when they are lower ranking than the male who wants to have sex with them." Edward huffed. "How should I explain this? You once said: 'The way I see it, Edward, is that I already had everything I ever wanted for eternity, now I just have to protect it.'. That was part of your vampiric instincts. Since you subconsciously felt that there was no one strong enough to protect you, you decided the best course of action was to protect yourself.
"If we had stayed with the Cullens then the best way to protect yourself would be to be useful to a higher ranking male member. This is most often done by having sex. It's instinctual to want to stay alive and that instinct drives a vampire to want to have sex with someone of a higher rank so that they are useful and worth protecting." Edward started fidgeting as I took all the information in.
"So does that mean you weren't a virgin-"
"No, I was a virgin when we shared our first time... None of the females ever wanted me, not even Alice, the other Omega. Omegas don't give off any pheromones so it's very hard for us to ever find mates or have sex with anyone other than another Omega. Female never have sex with anyone lower than them unless they are in love." He glanced up at me and smiled weakly before looking back at his hands. "Had one of the other males in the coven been homosexual I would have been attracted to them due to their pheromones and I would have probably had sex with him." Edward said with his nose scrunched up. "As an Omega female all the males except for me has had sex with Alice tons of times. I know she loves it, but I don't want that degrading life for you. I didn't know where you would rank once you were changed. So we had to run away. I couldn't stand thinking of any of them touching you. They'd wait till your newborn year was up to integrate you into the hierarchy, but then if you were low in ranking you would have been attracted to the other males and leave me behind."
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