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“How are you feeling,” he asked, “other than,” he waved his hand at his head, “noisy?”
“Mmm,” I said, taking a sip from my mug. “Really, really good.”
* * *
“Remindme again why we are here, and not Chez Valentin, to celebrate?”
“It just seemed appropriate,” Rian insisted. “Right?”
I nodded emphatically. “Right.”
Luc took a sip of his beer and made a face. “How did we let ourselves get outnumbered like this, Gray?”
I giggled, but Rian corrected them. “We’re tied, actually. Two alphas, one beta, and one perfect omega, who we are very lucky to have met right at this spot right here.”
“Yeah, well, we may be tied fornow,” Gray said, “but I can’tpossiblybe the only one who believes that won’t last, not when we’ve all been a party to Luc’s dirty talk, he’s not all that quiet when he’s whispering his sweet nothings in our perfect omega’s perfect ear–”
My face went hot and my heart fluttered–we hadn’t discussed children much outside of, well, Luc’s sex monologues, but I knew they wanted them, that that was one of the reasons they had come here in the first place.
To Ardor.
“Anyway,” Luc said, loudly, “Anyway, whilewemay have met Madison right here,” and we had, hadn’t we, this very booth, “I know for a fact that Rian already had–”
“You were pretty fucking cozy if I remember correctly,” said Gray, but there was no hint of jealousy in our new bond, and then Rian spoke, his hand coming to rest on my thigh, fingers smoothing over the soft, green-black silk of the skimpy dress I wore, his eyes shining in the dark club.
“I’d already fallen for her.”
I rolled my eyes, although I knew he was serious. I knew because I’d fallen for him, too. I still remembered the electric sparks that had traveled between us when I fell into his arms and he had said–
“Oopsie daisy.” I smiled.
Rian’s eyes went wide as I repeated his first words to me.
Gray’s brow furrowed. “What?”
“That’s what Rian said, when we met. I literally fell into his arms, and he picked me up, and said–”
“Oopsie daisy,” Rian groaned. “I had forgotten about that, and now–”
“Oh, you’llneverforget now,” Gray said, a gleeful grin spreading ear to ear. “Oopsie daisy?!”
“I can’t believe you almost lost us our one and only omega,” Luc deadpanned. His face was set and serious, but laughter spilled over our connection.
I opened my mouth to defend myself, and Rian, and my pack, when another woman bumped into our table, sloshing our drinks onto their cocktail napkins. It was no loss–all I was drinking was soda water, anyway.
Oopsie daisy, Gray mouthed at me, and I buried my face with my hands, trying not to burst into laughter.
“Oh, sorry,” said a sweet, lilting voice, and I looked up at a woman who looked so like Charlie, I had to do a double take: she was all softness and curves, full breasts and pouty lips, and although on second look her eyes were different and her hair was brown, not black like Charlie’s, she had the same overall effect as my friend:puresex. Her scent was… not distinct, not in the haze of pheromones in the crowded club, hanging heavy over the dance floor, but the way she was eyeing my alphas had me on edge; I couldn’t help the clench in my chest, the involuntary thought that flickered through my consciousness, saying she was everything I was not. She was anomega,and I was…
Gray’s eyes flicked from her face to her chest, and back again, but–over the bond, I felt, nothing, just the lingering amusement from our own private joke.
The tightness in my chest relaxed.
“It’s fine,” Rian said, and held up his glass–it was a horrible bright blue thing that all of us had had exactly one sip of–in a mock cheers. “We all get a little clumsy after a few mocktails.”
She laughed at his joke, and instead of moving on, leaned forward over the table. “A pack with a beta, hmm?” she smiled seductively–at me. I was confused for a moment, until she continued. “I’ve never been with a beta woman before, but…” her eyes glanced from Luc to Rian to Gray, and I knew what she was seeing: the same thing I had seen, when I had first seen them here, in this very booth. Three alphas, well-dressed, confident, their closeness obvious even at a distance.
But now there was me.
