Page 26 of The Omega Archives: Part One

“Just you?”

“My pack and I. There’s only three of us and our omega, but we’re happy.”

“Happy,” I repeated the word as if it was foreign.

“It’s funny, you’re the second person to ask me about my pack today. Are they not common around the city here?”

“No, they are. More or less.”

Rylan studied me before nodding, though there wasn’t much to find in my expression. “She completed us, honestly since she ran into us. She’s finishing her final year at the academy, but we are happy to have our family together in the area now. Have a nice night, Liam. Like I said, if you need anything, be sure to stop by the library and just ask.”

“Thanks. I appreciate that.”

I followed the two of them out of the building and back through the center of campus.

Halfway down the sidewalk, Rylan tucked his nose down into his omega’s neck. She rose on her toes as if to get closer to him. Smiles coated both of their faces.

I wanted to say it was disgusting and inappropriate on campus, but I couldn’t.

She looked like she loved him– wanted him as much as he did her.

That was how a pack was supposed to work. Having that kind of connection, a bond, was much more than just a transaction like I had seen growing up between my parents. It was the main reason I was adamant after a few years of being in a pack with three people I felt like were my best friends in the entire world, that we would make sure that we would be able to complete our pack sooner rather than later.

We could do that with an omega.

We could make a real family.

I could see it just as clearly as anything. I could see our pack leader, Demetri rolling his eyes as our beta made our omega smile. I could see Marko, our other alpha, with his arms crossed trying to look all tough and unbothered even though we all know that when–if– we ever found our one, he would be the first alpha to turn into a complete sap.

I swallowed as I swiped my glasses off my head and ran my hand through my hair.

A few students passing me quickly turned their gazes in the other direction.

My phone buzzed in my back pocket.

Demetri: Will be home tonight. ETA 4 o’clock.

Ducking my head down, I made my way back towards my office, trying to force myself to stop thinking about everything.

Our pack was just fine. We were good together and kept each other safe without anything extra causing issues.

That’s what mattered.

Wanting and needing an omega to stay afloat were two very different things.

A good thing, since, at this point, I doubted even if no one else did that it would ever happen.

“It’s still fine, ya know if I might go out with someone, right?” Cal asked from where he stood in the corner of the kitchen, stuffing himself full of dry cereal.

“What are you talking about, Cal?” Demetri, our head alpha in our pack of four, grunted from where he typed away on his laptop. He had been sitting there by the window ever since he got home from work.

He’d been working more and more ever since he attempted to take a step back from his father’s business—which was basically to have a hand in a little of everything so long as it could make him money. Now, Demetri had one foot into the big Prestford name while also starting on his ventures after we forced him to.

The guy wouldn’t shut up about how he wanted to start a non-profit since I met him as a roommate in boarding school.

What a nerd.

Marko was in through the archway on the couch. The only part I could see of him was his big blond head with how he was slouching.

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