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“You’re kidding.”
“No. I mean, I don’t know really,” I admitted. “But it just isn’t done. I figured why bother with the whole‘buying friends’thing? Right? I need to stay focused and it’s hard to do that when everyone you meet has the first question of what I am doing at college and how long do I think I plan on staying.”
“Sounds like you’ve been meeting a lot of shitty people.”
“Not all the time. I have Shelby. She lived next door to me during first-year and we’ve been friends ever since.”
“The beta I saw you with on campus?” he clarified.
“Probably.”
“I’m glad you have a good friend. If you ever want to go out with her too, you can invite her along,” said Leeson. It sounded like what Jacob said. I always expected the alphas to be, well, possessive.
“Really?”
“In case you haven’t noticed, Vera, we just want to make you comfortable. We want to do anything to make sure you're happy even though you randomly got stuck with us hounding you. We get that it might not feel the same, being granted an omega versus getting stuck with alphas—even if none of us thought we were ready.”
I was starting to see that.
“We’re going to be ready now though,” Leeson said, determination set in his voice.
I stared at him, trying to think of something worthwhile to say.
“Do you know what you want to watch?” Leeson reached for the remote. He started to flick through a few options on the screen from romantic comedies to action films.
Eventually, we settled on some kind of action drama with a hint of romance filled in there, though I insisted that the romance seemed to be last on the mind for the writers, sneaking in a single affair between the couple before declaring them in love.
Leeson laughed as I ranted about it. By the time the credits rolled, I had found a comfortable position against the alpha. My legs curled up over his legs and my head lulled onto his shoulder.
The room was dark.
I might’ve drifted off for a second there. Another sign that my heat was approaching.
For some reason, I looked up at Leeson in case he noticed. He glanced back down with nothing but true contentless shining in his eyes. “Not a terrible movie.”
“It was good.”
“Good in that it wasn’t bad.”
My eyes went back and forth between his gentle eyes and lips. I wanted to kiss him.
Wait. What?
I wanted to kiss this alpha who was sitting right here in front of me, making me feel warm and safe. It was just my omega biology. Or I wanted to push that off as being that.
Now, I wasn’t so sure it was. Not completely.
Leeson was sweet and kind and… he was somehow exactly the kind of alphas people raved about and that many thought were nothing but fiction.
How could that be though when he was right in front of me?
His eyes moved down to my lips.
Was this going to happen? When I kissed Jacob, a memory that flooded back to me with the rest and made my whole entire body heat with a strange combination of desire and embarrassment, it was a mistake. Or at least, it was a sort of mistake that I knew I couldn’t repeat.
Then again, I also repeated going out on a date with an alpha.My alpha.
Eyes, lips, eyes, lips.
