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“I bet it’s River. It’s always the unexpected one.” Hazel and I both blinked at Teagan as she stared down my pack. How was she still thinking about that?
“Are you thinking about my pack naked right now?” I demanded. My tone was a bit sharper than I intended, and I winced.
“Sorry,” Teagan said immediately, though she didn’t hide her accompanying smirk.
I wouldn’t admit it, but I had to hide a smirk of my own. From my experience so far, she was right. Riverwasthe biggest.
Eliza’s arrival saved me from any awkwardness. She squealed with happiness when she took it all in. She was always an easy one to surprise, and no matter what they were, she appreciated the small things in life. A private gathering with her besties and the pack she wasn’t formally claiming was definitely the best way to honor her.
“You guys!” she gushed. “This is so fun!”
“Just wait,” Bane called out, then he hit a button on a remote. The lights dimmed, and a disco ball lowered down. Someone else clicked on music, turning the club into some kind of highschool dance, but with booze and pot brownies. Bane looked so proud that I couldn’t help but grin. My brother was such a damn softy.
Eliza walked over to us with a pout in full force. “You guys had me fooled.”
“I know you didn’t think we had nothing planned,” Hazel teased. “We’d never forget our favorite biker bestie.”
A deep blush colored her cheeks, and we all stepped closer in a silent bestie demand for an explanation.
“Loki and Bane got me a present,” she admitted. “It’s a bike of my own.”
“Oh my god, that’s perfect!” I said excitedly. “You can’t tell me you didn’t miss racing or at least riding.”
A flicker of sadness went across her face. “I haven’t even gotten on yet. It just doesn’t feel the same. Thankfully, they still have a few touches they want to add, so I can deflect for a little while. I want to get brave enough to ride again.”
Losing her dad, the man who’d introduced her to racing, had put a permanent damper on that part of her life, but it was inevitable that she’d climb back on someday, especially with a pack of bikers.
“I’m starving,” she said suddenly. It was a deflection for sure, but the moment Hazel pointed out the nacho bar, all bets were off.
“This is such an Eliza party,” Teagan said with a grin.
“It was Sienna’s idea,” Hazel said. Eliza immediately narrowed her eyes at me, but I just blew her a kiss and took Teagan and Hazel with me to the bar where they’d set up the karaoke.
“Oh my god, no, you didn’t!” Eliza cackled when the first few notes of “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor started playing. We were off key, but we made up for it with our enthusiasm. More than once, I caught my pack laughing and chatting while they watched us. Even my ever stoic Yuri had a small smile on his face. Hazel’s crew and Bane and Loki had joined them. My heart warmed at the sight of them all getting along so well.
Once Eliza finally admitted her feelings or whatever she, Loki, and Bane had going on, I knew they’d be added to this group. The three of them were in this weird limbo of being together yet not… I couldn’t really keep up with it. But rarely did a group have only two pack members outside of an omega. Maybe they were missing the last members of their pack.
Now, Teagan… She would be the odd one out. She wouldn’t settle for just any old pack. They’d have to be as fabulous as she was and live up to her high-energy lifestyle because there was no way in hell our bestie would settle down and stop traveling.
“My turn!” The words caught me off guard. We’d just cleared the area by the karaoke machine, and I didn’t recognize the man calling out.
Eliza laughed and gave him her full attention.
Interesting.
“Who is this?” Teagan asked, ever the blunt one.
“That’s just Romeo. He’s a beta and one of the funniest guys I’ve met at the compound. He’s Loki’s cousin, meaning he was always around playing music. This should be good.”
“She’s blushing,” Hazel sang out as we all settled at a table. Loki magically appeared with a round of shots which we clinked together and downed as the beta made Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” his own.
Not a damn one of us missed the eye contact he was making with Eliza or the jealous rumble coming from Loki. Eliza shot an arched look at the alpha, who picked the omega up and sat her down on his lap, deliberately rubbing his face into her neck to breathe in her scent.
Oh man, the possessive glint in his gaze as he stared at the beta put me on high alert, but Eliza didn’t seem bothered by it. Bane, for his part, just sighed and shook his head as if this competition was nothing out of the norm. Romeo shot them a lazy grin before turning that attention of his on the rest of the room.
I was so glad that I didn't have to sort that out. Given the grin on her face as Loki nipped her neck, she loved the attention.
“So, Sienna…” Maximo leaned forward, his intense brown eyes on me. “How are things going with you all over there?”
