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ChapterTwelve
Sienna
“Bestie emergency. Brunch. Today,” I said once Hazel answered the phone.
“Si,” Hazel started, but I shook my head, not caring that she couldn’t see me.
“It’s not about the fire,” I told her. “I need help!Relationshiphelp, Hazel. I have no idea what I’m doing. There are four of them, Hazel! Four! Alphas!”
“I need you to breathe, babe,” Hazel coaxed, then I heard some rustling and a door closing. “We can totally do brunch. It will do us all some good to not think about last night. Our usual place?”
“Yes,” I told her, “I called an Uber.”
“Cancel it. I’ll pick you up. Send me the address, and I’ll be there in fifteen.”
“You’re the best.”
“Call Eliza!”
The call ended.
I called Eliza and filled her in on the plan for today then quietly headed out of my room and toward the front door. I didn’t want them to freak out about me being gone, so I grabbed a post-it from the kitchen and left a note.
Not letting myself overthink things, I rushed out the door just as a black SUV pulled up. The back window rolled down to reveal Hazel waving me on, so I climbed inside. Zaven was driving, and thankfully, he seemed to sense I needed girl time more than anything right now. He dropped us off at the brunch place, reminding Hazel to call them when we were done, then accepted a goodbye kiss and took off. We snagged a table while we waited for Eliza to show up.
“Spill.” Hazel leaned in close to me. “What’s the emergency?”
“I’d like to know that too,” Eliza’s voice sounded from behind me. “I slept like shit, so I’m going to need coffee. Lots of it.”
“I—” My voice cracked as I wrung my fingers hard enough that my skin turned white. How could every aspect of my life feel so out of control? “I need advice and help. I don’t know what I’m doing.”
Hazel and Eliza shared confused looks before the latter spoke up. “Advice about what?”
“Well, you guys know I don’t date. Ineverdated, and now I have four alphas…”
“Delicious alphas,” Eliza joked, and Hazel nodded in agreement.
“I just lost my virginity during my last heat, but I’ve never even dated someone! I need any and all the advice you can give me.” Panic made me hiss the last part, and my besties stared at me like I was insane.
“You mean to tell us—” Hazel started.
“You were avirgin? And you went from dating no one to being with four alphas?!” Eliza finished for her.
“Don’t make fun of me,” I huffed. They tried to not smile, but they burst out in uncontrollable laughter until Hazel fell off her chair and Eliza started to snort.
“I hate you both.”
“You need some weed,” Hazel managed between chuckles while she started to dig around in her purse. She still worked at The Happy Herb with Sutton, one of her husbands, and they had the best damn pot. “It will make eating easier, and you’ll calm down a bit so we can talk you through this.”
“Wait… You lost your V card to the rent-an-alpha?” Eliza asked, her eyes wide. “Was that?”
“King, yes.” I bit my lip, but it wasn’t from nerves. Thinking about my time with King, not to mention his sexy smile when he’d flirted with me last night, was starting to heat me up… until I realized something important. “Which I’m not sure the others know, and honestly, I don’t know what to do.”
“Take some deep breaths first,” Eliza encouraged, waving off the waiter who tried to approach.
“Let’s go to the Naughty Peach after this,” Hazel suggested. “Trust me, you’ll find all kinds of amazing things there to give you some confidence.”
“Any advice on how to handle four alphas?” I joked.
