My Omega was faster than I expected, using her flippers to propel herself nearly into the school of rays. I watched as she took a breath and pushed herself down. The rays paid her no mind. She reached out and ran her hand over the back of one, and another one brushed against her legs.
Her hair was loose now from me gripping it, floating in a pale halo around her head. With the sun coming through the water, surrounded by rays, Trinity looked otherworldly.
I grabbed the camera, took a picture, and kept taking them. This could be once in a lifetime. Even from here, I felt her smile.
Everything about Trinity was miraculous. Any number of things could have happened, and we never would have met. I would still be alone in the warehouse with my computers. Had I been used to it? Yes. Would my life have been full? No. Probably not.
Now there were moments like this and a lifetime in front of us for more. I took one more picture before Trinity returned to the surface, and me with her. When I reached her, I pulled her down with me once more into the vortex of rays.
I made sure she looked at me when I mouthed the wordsI love you. Kissed her when bubbles escaped her in shock. Turned the camera and took one of us, wrapped up in each other and surrounded by rays.
As long as I lived, I would remember this moment as perfect.
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
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LOGAN
“Do we have to go home?” Trinity asked. “I’m not sure I’m ready to leave.”
Theo had Rin plastered against his side as we walked to the car. And our Omega looked about as happy as she could be. I hadn’t noticed how tense she really was until we all came down here and I saw something drop off her shoulders.
Weight that shouldn’t be there.
“We could just stay here.”
“Wish we could, wildfire, but it’s Bastian’s turn now. His fight.”
She nodded. “Right.”
“We’ll come back,” I said, stepping closer to her. “But I want you to feel like this while we’re at home.”
Her gaze slid away, which I now knew meant she was avoiding her true thoughts on a subject. Once we were home, there would be no more delaying. We needed to know the truth, as much as she could tell us.
Trinity froze. “Do you hear that?”
She sprinted toward the SUV, nearly tripping in her eagerness to get down on the ground and look under the car.
“Trinity,” Aiden called. “Don’t?—”
“Oh my god,it’s a kitten!”
The five of us stopped, looking at the pair of disembodied legs that was currently our Omega. And the softness of her voice. “Oh my goodness, how did you get stuck in here?”
“Rin?”
“Help me.” I bent down next to the car to find a little ball of fur shoved in my face. I took the kitten from her hands and stood, glancing it over. Small, gray, a little dirty, with wide orange eyes that stared at me with awe but not fear.
Trinity scooted out from under the car and reached. She sat on the curb and tucked the kitten into her chest. “It’s okay,” she said when it meowed. “I know it’s warm in there, but you could have gotten hurt.”
Brooks made a sound and spoke quietly. “Yeah, I’m glad we didn’t find out once we got home.”
The little cat was already crawling all over Trinity. Pushing itself up under her chin and cuddling her. My Omega’s smile was so bright and easy…
Fuck, it stole my breath.
“What should we call you, huh?” She set the kitten back into her lap, and I watched it curl up and close its eyes. Like it finally felt safe enoughto relax. Not unlike the Omega it sat on. Because that’s how she was with us.
