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Ellie waved a hand. “Do whatever you need to. If you guys need anything, let us know. We’ll do it. After everything, we just want Isolde to be happy.”
“I appreciate that, and I’m sure Isolde does too, even if she doesn’t recognize it.” I saw Warren approaching in the back of the frame. “I should get back to her.”
“Keep us posted.”
Leaning against the wall, I blew out a long, slow breath. I barely remembered getting to the breakfast room. My Alpha was in full control, only looking for the source of pain for my Omega. I remembered the shocked look on Beau’s face and savoring the crunch of his jaw under my hand. His eye too.
I wasn’t sure how many times I hit him, but it wasn’t enough.
Cade turned the corner and saw me slumped against the wall. “Everything okay?”
“Seems to be for now. Warren wants to talk to us and Isolde once her heat is over. I think he wants to get a different side of the story than the one Beau has been feeding him.”
“Fair enough. You okay with grabbing the blanket from your bed? We don’t have nest blankets and stuff, so we thought something from each of us might make a good blend of scents until we can buy them.”
Hell yes, I was okay with that. I wanted Isolde wrapped in our scents for the rest of fucking time. “I’ll help you grab them.”
Walking into the nest again almost put me on my knees. Isolde’s red hair spread out against the blue of the pillows, making it so much more vibrant. In the dimness here, she was like a fallen star, bright even in the darkness.
It was a good thing she knew she was ours now, because I was in love with her. There was no waynotto love her. Every hesitant smile and worry that crossed her mind. Every time she trusted us enough to let go even though she was afraid. Each piece of herself she revealed was another piece that fit against me, completing a picture I hadn’t even known was missing something before we met.
I dropped the two comforters I’d brought to the side, instead stretching out beside her and pulling just my blanket over the two of us. She let out a little sigh, shuddering and stretching into the new warmth like a cat.
Joel smiled at us from across the nest. “She’s more relaxed. She still had tension at the estate. Here it’s like she melted.”
“Good,” I murmured. “She needs a place where she doesn’t have to have any walls.”
It didn’t matter how long it took for her to wake up, or how many days her heat drove all of us to fuck, knot, come, and start all over again, I wasn’t leaving her.
I tucked my fingers around her hip and pulled her closer, my lips on her temple. The scent of magnolias and roses drowned me, and I was happy to drift away, but I couldn’t close my eyes. Couldn’t miss a single second. Because she was here, and she wasours.
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
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ISOLDE
Ifelt so warm. I never wanted to move. A second later there was a rumbling purr beneath my ear, and a hand stroking through my hair absently. Sunshine and coconuts, salt and sea. Rowan’s big body beneath mine. This time with a blanket over both of us.
Stretching, I pulled myself further onto his body and placed my ear right over his heart so I could hear it beat along with his purr.
“My Omega is awake?”
“Kind of.”
“If you’re not, it’s okay. I like having a soft Omega cuddling me.”
I sighed. “You say such nice things.”
Another stroke of his hand on my hair. “I’m not going to stop saying them. You’re ours now, remember?”
He felt me smile into his skin, because he rolled us together so I was cushioned in blankets and pillows, pinned down by his body. “Hello there.”
“Hi.” I searched his eyes. “How does this work?”
“How does what work?”
I shook my head. “I don’t even know. We’re just together?” Hesitation flooded his gaze, and I hurried to keep talking. “Not that I don’t want to be. I do. I just… it’s so fast I can’t wrap my head around it. This morning I thought I would have to spend several weeks sobbing on Trinity’s floor because I wouldn’t be able to handle you leaving, and now you’re mine.”
