“Adding an extra alpha is weird.” Grace frowned.
I sighed as I took more eggs. “I thought for sure they were going to bark us and make us un-bond.” My shoulders drooped. “I was counting on it.”
Grace sucked in a breath. “Why would you even think that?”
“Because they’re better than me. Because I didn’t ask before bonding with them. How can we start a relationship based on me breaking their trust? I mean, we all know how it goes when relationships are rushed.” My voice broke as my gaze flickered toGrace.
Grace put her hand on my shoulder. “Like I told Verity, I know you would never traffic a baby. You have us. We’ll make sure that you’re not an alphahole.”
Her words warmed my heart, but she also had more faith in me than anyone else.
“You actually think we can give it a go? I mean, we barely know each other.” I took another bite.
“Do you care for them?” Grace asked. “That’s the most important piece here. Sure, you don’t know them well. But could you see a future with them? Feel more than lust?”
“Yeah.” I nodded. “I kept thinking how I wished I was further along in my career so I could be with them. Or that when I was ready I’d find people like them. They’re pretty amazing.”
“Okay, well, if you feel something, and want to be with them, I’ll support the fuck out of you,” Grace told me.
Her words warmed me. “Thank you.”
“Also, you’re not the first person to accidentally bond people.” Mercy shoved food in her mouth. “If you care about them, then I think you could do it. Carlos is a good guy. I didn’t get to talk to your omega, but the fact that her dads care that much actually means something. Especially, because it seems like they want her to be happy and make it work. You’re right, I’m a little surprised they didn’t just use their barks and make you all un-bond, because they probably wanted some fancy alphas for her.”
“They did. But it’s important to Fiona that she chooses her own pack. She picked, so their logic is that we have to give it a go. Or as they so eloquently put it,We fucked around and now have to find out,”I explained.
Mercy snorted. “I love that.”
“Also, everyone else thought it was weird that I’d think her dads would bark us to get their way. I mean they’re alphas.” I frowned.
“Yeah, I’m discovering that not everyone’s alpha parents did shitlike that. Pretty sure part of why they always told us not to be alphaholes, is because theyare,” Mercy replied.
“Oh. Yeah, they are. But I don't know how to be a good alpha,” I confessed. “We all have to make ittogether.I don’t just have mates. I have apack.All five of us have to succeed.”
Verity gave me a soft smile. “I know the feeling of not knowing how to be a good alpha. But I did it. We’d only been together a few months before I bonded with them and I wasn’t expecting it, since it happened during a surprise heat.”
I considered this for a moment. “True. But I’ve only known Fiona for a few days. Also, Carlos is really afraid that you’re never going to give him any cake pops ever again because we violated your edict to not be friends.”
She was one of those alphas who baked to show she cared and her shit was elaborate, and delicious.
Verity rubbed her forehead. “He can still have cake pops. It wasn’t an edict. It was more like exasperation at the thought of what could happen if you two got together. And yes, I was mad in the locker room, but at that point I only knew about the car, not you bonding.”
“What do you think caused the memory loss and her suddenly going in the heat?” Grace asked. “Was there something traumatic?”
“No. All I can think of was maybe it was the drugs. We mixed drugs and they can already make memories hazy. Maybe the drugs made her go into heat and then it made us have so much trouble remembering? Her heat was short though. That's all I can think of. Yes, I know mixing drugs is stupid, and we were also drunk. But we were at a rave, in Europe, at Christmas.” I looked at Grace. “Speaking of drugs. Will I be able to sell you my drug? It would be good to have some actual money to help support my pack and everything.”
Fiona dropping so much money on her dads’ cards like it was nothing made me nervous.
“You mixed drugs? Also, sell your drug?” Verity frowned.
“They’re tightening up the collegiate drug tests. I’m pretty sure my drug is going to be part of it. Grace was going to see if they could find a pharmaceutical use for it,” I replied.
I could really use some good news.
Grace’s look went pensive. “Was yours one of the drugs you took?”
“Yeah that and there’s shit I bought off this guy. We were looking for something that wouldn’t show up on a PHL drug test. It didn’t work very well. Or maybe it did and was super delayed? Anyhow, we ended up taking my stuff, too. They said it was called Fruity and like Mainframe, which I’ve taken before,” I replied. “I haven’t heard of Fruity, but there are a lot of different drugs in Europe.”
Verity rubbed her temples. “You took the word of some stranger at a rave?”
