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It’s a good sign. A sign that she’s beginning to trust us.
I frown. “That closet…”
We can’t have our omega sleeping on a cold, hard closet floor. But we can’t go in and do something about it ourselves.
I promised her that her room was omega territory. Not one of us has stepped foot into it since then, and we don’t intend on it. Lawrence probably controlled every part of her life, including what she put into her body. She needs a space that’s just hers, where she can do, be, and act however she wants and no one will invade her privacy or take it from her.
But how to make her more comfortable without shattering that trust?
We watch her in the pool, swimming lengths, laughing with Hali. My pants get tighter and tighter as I absorb her slender curves.
Conscious that Hali has given us a small pocket of time to work with, I swing away from the window and head for the doorway, calling out, “Nancy?”
She appears moments later. “Rune?”
“How many blankets, throws, and cushions do we have in the house?”
Nancy blinks. “I haven’t ever counted but—”
“No need to count,” I interrupt. “I just need you to take every single one of them and do something for me.”
Her eyes widen. “Every single one? That’s, uh… that’s going to be a lot.”
I nod. “Good. Now, listen carefully…”
Chapter22
Everleigh
I’m smiling from the fun afternoon I had with Hali as I head up to my room, wrapped in a robe as I finish drying my hair.
Rounding the corner at the top of the stairs, I halt when I spot Kylian leaning against the wall beside my door, arms folded. As if he was waiting for me.
The door is closed, and there’s no sign he was inside. I guess, even if he had entered, it wouldn’t matter. The only things I have of value in there are the things they bought me to wear.
Actually, itwouldmatter. Rune marked that room off as omega territory, and I would feel betrayed he’d been in there.
“Is something wrong?” I ask, lowering the towel from my hair as I slowly approach. He’s wearing the same jeans and T-shirt he was in before, and his eyes are tired. Has he been hard at work while I played in the pool with Hali?
A pang of guilt hits me in my gut.
If he hadn’t sounded so determined to help me get answers about Della, I’d tell him not to bother. It doesn’t feel the least bit fair they’re doing all of this for me and I’m doing… nothing.
“Nothing is wrong.” His eyes go on a lazy journey over me. “Just on my way to the gym. Thought I’d see if you wanted to join me.”
“The gym?” I halt two steps away. I’m not afraid of him. At least, not in the same way I was before. But his potent alpha pheromones are far too addictive to hide my reaction to it for long.
He cups my hip and presses my back to the wall just beside my room. And then he cuts the distance between us.
An alpha is manhandling me, moving me closer to him. I should be shoving him away and retreating into omega territory at once.
That isn’t what I do.
There’s something about this particular alpha that I don’t have a problem with him holding me like this. I don’t feel trapped. I feel needy.
So, instead of pushing him away, I tilt my head up and study him. “Why would I go with you to the gym?”
My answer is an automatic refusal. Lawrence’s personal trainers didn’t care how much I threw up after I ran on the treadmill. They practically encouraged it. But I’m curious why Kylian would invite me. Does he think I like working out?
