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“Are you sure?” Joel asked. “We can stay at the nest here if you like. Just use the bed in the suite.”
“I’m sure.” I didn’t want to be in the same house as Beau and Angela. As anyone. All I wanted was to be alone withmypack. The nest being perfect didn’t matter. I would have plenty of heats in my life to have a perfect nest. Right now I needed them and the truth of what was between us. Something I should have known the day I met them. I wish I’d known.
But they weren’t wrong. I never would have believed them. Probably would have sent them away and tried to muddle through the last two weeks alone. Miserable and sad.
Cade arranged me over his legs in the back of the car, my feet ending up in Vaughn’s lap. I closed my eyes and drifted, knowing they would take care of me.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
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ISOLDE
Rowan took me from Cade and carried me inside. It was too bright out here. I needed it to be dim and cozy and warm. Not bright. I shut my eyes. The sun warmed my already overheated body too quickly.
Soon the coolness of the indoors soothed the burning under my skin. The air smelled like them. A tantalizing blend of everyone together.
And I wastheirs.
Happiness bubbled up, trying to break free, but I couldn’t move. All I needed was a knot. And a nest. I needed them.
The last time I had a heat, I was all by myself. Beau hadn’t stayed. He said he was sorry, but he left. I could barelyremember what a good heat was like. Even the ones before that had been… basic. Barely enough to get by.
Rowan stepped into a small hallway that was bright, like it had windows. “Almost there,” he said.
Darkness opened in front of us.
There was no scent in here, like no one had used the nest before. My Omega preened, loving being the first and the fuckingonly. This wasmynest. No one else’s.
Cade stepped up beside me and picked up my hand. “Sorry there’s no time to get it ready, princess. We’ll make it up to you.”
I looked around the space, and my jaw fell open.
A deep bowl of cushions and pillows, all in different shades of turquoise and blue. Like we were looking down on the ocean from above. One side of the space looked like it could slide open. Maybe to the windows? But right now it was blissfully dark, a couple of low lights rendering it cozy and safe. The ceiling and the walls that weren’t lined with cushions were painted a dark navy like the summer beach sky, and I spotted little silvery constellations across it.
“What do you mean?” My voice rasped. “This is beautiful.”
“You like it?” Rowan asked.
“Yeah.”
He put me down, and I wandered into the nest, feeling the soft squish of the pillows. It was stunning. My Omega was already picking out things to tweak and change, but she had no problem with this. It reminded me of them. Open and free. Like relaxing on the beach with the wind in your hair.
I sank down into the cushy floor, need drizzling over me like someone was pouring hot honey over my skin. And yet, my Omega was settled and comfortable. With my Alphas and my Beta.
Tears burned in my eyes. I didn’t know how to feel, because after so long, it wasn’t real. It couldn’t be real. They couldn’t really be mine.
Somewhere along the way, I’d given up hope that I’d actually have anyone, or deserved anyone.
“Isolde?”
I looked over. All five of them were in the doorway in varying states of undress, and suddenly my mouth was watering. “What are you doing over there?”
Vaughn smiled. “It’s your nest, sweetheart. Can we come in?”
All I could do was nod.
Joel reached me first, hitting his knees in front of me. “We’re here, and we’re not leaving you, okay? You’re ours. We’re going to take care of you.”
