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Jordan nodded in agreement and looked into my eyes. His gray orbs were swirling with regret and I couldn’t look away. He pulled me in and I wanted nothing more than to curl up in his lap. It was hard to hold it against him when I had to come to terms with my own trauma in a similar way.
He was listening and he was here. That was exactly what I was asking for.
Jordan stood then and stared pointedly at us. When neither of us moved, he shifted the blankets from our laps and lifted Felix as if he were as light as a feather, putting space between us. I started to protest, but he dropped into that space, putting himself in the middle of his two omegas.
“What are we doing now?” he asked, as if he was unsure for the first time in his life and didn’t know how to take it.
“Watching a movie,” Felix decided, reaching across us both for the remotes on my side table. I watched as Jordan breathed in, his eyes almost dazed when the omega moved away again. I bit back a smile. It was nice to watch them discovering each other for the first time and as long as we were all happy, then I couldn’t complain.
Chapter
Seventeen
Theo
My fingers were gliding over the sketchbook, charcoal smudging my skin as my eyes flickered back and forth between the page and the sleeping omega. She was snuggled on the couch, Jordan next to her with a man’s head in his lap.
The argument had left me exhausted. We could see that her words had gotten to him but he was holding steadfast to his decision to keep his distance. He refused to give her a chance to prove that she wasn’t some entitled omega.
If we left him to his own devices, that man would deny wanting her to his dying breath, living a life alone and miserable. We all deserved better than that. Hell, he deserved better, though he was too damn stubborn to see it.
When I left our apartment to spend the night with Tori and Jordan, I never expected to find them on the couch with the omega from the flower shop, one of Tori’s other mates.
I didn’t even realize Jordan was into guys, but then again, it had never really come up. We’d avoided mate and relationship talk until now.
This entire ordeal was showing the fractures that had been under the surface and it was a devastating sight to see.
My eyes flickered back to the page as I continued the scene before me, adding in Jordan’s sleep softened face and his possessive hand on each of them. The touch was familiar and told me the story they hadn’t said yet: that they’d found mates within each other.
It made sense.
He was a bridge between her other mates and us. Fate had a way of twining us together in packs, ensuring that it was a cohesive group.
Right now, our pack was more than a little complicated.
If you could even call us a pack.
My brothers and I were at war and our omega barely trusted us. I thought we were building something but now I wasn’t so sure.
Her words from last night still stung, though they weren’t wrong. She deserved better than we’ve been giving. It was the wake-up call I needed.
Easton had turned toxic and volatile. I’d never seen him act like he did last night and I was done holding myself back for an alpha hellbent on his own destruction.
It was time to stand on my own two feet.
I’d depended on him when I was a child, and we’d all depended on each other to get to this point in our lives. But now, I needed to make my own decisions that weren’t clouded by his trauma.
The male omega was the first to stir. He shifted first, snuggling in, and then stiffened as if he realized who he wassleeping on. My gaze shifted to him, watching to see how he’d react.
“I’m not asleep anymore,” Jordan said without bothering to crack his eyes open.
“It’s way too early for this,” Tori groaned.
That brought a chuckle out of Jordan, and he finally opened his eyes.
“Too many shots last night?” he teased.
“Maybe,” she mumbled, burrowing under the blanket and covering her head.
