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A rumble builds inside me.
“Easy, Killer.” Hunter moves in faster than I can react, offering her a napkin.
I stand and stare, watching the surreal, oddly perfect moment, as she dabs her chin, eyes glittering. Jett and Finn are just as mesmerized.
“It’s amazing.” She flashes Orion a shooting-star smile that cuts through my defenses and craters somewhere in my chest cavity.
She has a beautiful smile. Pink lips, plump and perfect.
My gaze snaps back to Orion, praying he doesn’t flip because his pack leader’s drooling over someone else. But Orion’s not seeing me at all, busy watching the fun-sized omega scooping sweet potato fries.
I wait for my instincts to blow up in a jealous geyser, but there’s no heat, no steam.
I’ve never seen Orion give a shit about a single person outside our pack.
He’s rigid around outsiders. Guarded.
Lilah’s different.
“I’ll take my dinner downstairs.” She grabs the plate with the least amount of food. Not enough.
The pack turns to me.
Orion tips his chin toward the table we haven’t used in months. We always eat standing, always rushing off to the next mission, the next training, the next duty.
We could use a night to relax.
“Sit with us.” I grab two plates and set them at the head and side of the table where Orion and I would usually sit.
Tugging Lilah’s sleeve, Orion guides her to her seat. He drops an armful of sauces in front of them both and sits close beside her.
Finn snags the other seat next to Lilah, leaving Jett and Hunter to fill in the sides. I find myself facing her, watching her devour her meal.
“Try the spicy honey mustard,” Orion says in a coaxing tone that makes me want to haul him onto my lap and keep him there ‘til he’s writhing. He squirts a blob of sauce onto her plate, all sunshine and smiles that none of us can resist. Even Jett’s expression thaws.
Lilah casts her eyes down, sucking her lower lip between her teeth, but when she bites into another fry, she can’t hide her truth.
“So good,” she moans, the sound so fucking erotic, she should be bouncing on a cock. Preferably mine.
I shift in my chair, and fuck, I’m not the only one.
Finn devours her with dark intensity. Hunter’s gaze flicks back and forth over us all, drinking in our tiniest reactions, and Jett grips his knife and fork, twitching at every single one of Lilah’s ball-clenching moans.
Our plates haven’t been touched. Not one of us has taken a bite.
I’m hypnotized, watching Lilah and Orion laughing, eating. There’s a lightness in the room that I haven’t felt in years.
Everything is always heavy with our pack.
Responsibilities and disappointments. Orion feeling like he has to live up to some ridiculous omega standard, me failing to live up to Scorpio’s expectations.
It’s a different world as Lilah bites into an atomic-hot fry.
Orion hands her a glass of water, grinning this golden, darkness-obliterating smile that’s sunshine after a storm.
I take my first full breath in weeks. I don’t know the last time Orion smiled like this.
Years. Maybe high school.
