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Micah
The sounds of construction kept halting. One of the three of us would be working and then just stop, glancing at the others before sighing and going back to work.
We’d been at it for hours, even working late just to distract ourselves.
“This is fucking stupid,” Riven muttered as he threw down his hammer. It fell to the floor with a clang, all of us stopping at his words.
“What else can we do?” Drew questioned. “He asked for time. How do we not give him that?”
“We all know what he’s been through,” Riven said as he started to pace. His hands ran through his black hair, and he gripped it tight enough he winced. He was dripping with sweat from working, and his shirt was off, tattoos on full display under the harsh lighting in the room.
Riven looked like a badass, and he was. He was the complete opposite of me. My sisters always teased me about being a golden retriever alpha, and if that was true, then he was a rottweiler.
“That man is out there pouring his soul out to an omega that lost her mate. There’s no fucking way that’s going to go well. They’re not going to take care of themselves. They’re not going to eat. They’re just going to sit there and cry and be miserable, and I can’t fucking do it. I’m going.”
“Aww, he has a heart after all,” Drew teased but I noticed he was already packing up to leave, too. “You’re such a Dom, Riv.”
“Look, I get it. We’re not going to calm down till we know he’s okay. Let’s text him,” I tried to reason.
“I fucking did that three hours ago, two hours ago, and one hour ago—nothing,” Riven argued.
“So, let’s take him dinner,” Drew said as he held up Riven’s keys.
“Fine. We’ll go grab some pizzas and drop them off. If he says to leave, we leave. They may need space and we can’t take that away from them. But we also need to know that Lake is alright.”
“He’s pack,” Drew said, losing a smile now.
We all knew we were a pack. Lake belonged with us. The universe had done us all a disservice in some way and we were all reluctant to talk out loud about what we had become.
Apparently, until the other alpha was pushed.
“Pizza,” Riven said. He looked around until he found his shirt, tugging it over his head and fixing it before snagging his keys from Drew. “Are you coming or not?”
He didn’t bother to look back at us, and we had to hurry to get out to his pickup truck. We both dove in, Drew taking the bench seat in the back, and me sitting shotgun.
The tension in the car was insane as we drove to pick up the pizza. If it weren’t for the fact that I started to call it in before we even left the driveway, Riven might have lost his mind at the wait time.
“I think we should just be thankful that they’re open this late. It’s after eight in Lockwood,” Drew said as Riven clenched his fists at the line inside the store. Even from our spot out front, we could see people waiting.
Drew was about the only one who could throw humor at Riven and not have any repercussions.
Drew and Riven had been friends for years. When I had posted about needing some backup after Collin had to focus on his own pack, they responded. Not long after, we needed an electrician, so we brought Lake in. The four of us fit together so well but we hadn’t pushed it. Not when one of our pack members was so caught up on his past and the omega that got away. It just didn’t feel right.
Now that he was talking to her and we had no idea how he was coping, it was really hitting home that Drew had been right all along.
“Go,” Riven ordered me and I climbed out without being hurt by his rude tone. I may have been keeping my cool but I was just as on edge as he was. I’d seen what a rejection could do to someone when it was chosen, I couldn’t imagine the pain if it was a true mate.
Thankfully, the wait was fast. Within five minutes of me running inside, I had a stack of pizzas, breadsticks, wings, and soda.
We crashed at the cabin before for random nights out. We’d grab beer, some food, and just relax for the weekend. Sometimes we’d fish, swim if it was warm enough, and just get away from the world.
That also meant finding it in the dark was nothing. Riven navigated through the gravel roads easily.
When we pulled up to the cabin there was Lake’s familiar truck, but also a small car.
What I didn’t expect to see was a girl sitting inside it. Her head was tilted back like she was sleeping, but it was the bottle of medication on the dashboard that caught my attention.
“Are you kidding me?!” Riven growled. He barely put the truck in park before he was running out of the car and ripping her door open.
