Page 105 of Curvy Nerdy Omega

He gave me a wink and set up the soy sauce with the exact right amount of wasabi – enough to make my mouth burn but not too much that my eyes watered. I couldn’t believe he still remembered what kind of food I liked, but then again…

This man has spent the last fifteen years looking for me.

Even after everything, it was still hard to wrap my head around the fact that Liam Valor was the boy I thought I’d never see again – the one who never once gave up on finding me.

I hadn’t expected anyone to understand what it was like to feel like this.

Someone else felt obsession and affection the exact same way I did. Enough so that he’d made it his life’s mission to find me again.

I grabbed one of the rolls of sushi and dipped it in the soy sauce and wasabi mixture, popping the whole thing in my mouth. The spice offset some of the texture and I chewed, watching Liam head over to the couch in my office where Cas was.

He plopped down and started making another plate, handing that to Cas while they pretended not to watch me eat.

This should feel awkward, but it didn’t. I thought it would since the boy I’ve never been able to forget had somehow grown up to be a legacy alpha and one of our clients but none of that really bothered me anymore.

What bothered me was how much my life was going to change because of this.

It wasn’t that I regretted our bond. Not at all. That was actually the one part of this whole mess I couldn’t get enough of. I could feel them in my chest and I knew I’d never be alone again even if they weren’t anywhere near me.

I could actually feel their love for me and I never wanted to get used to it. I wanted to feel like this every single day for the rest of my life – basking in the warmth of their obsessive love and attention.

But none of that changed the fact that we still had a lot of logistics to figure out.

Liam may have put in his unofficial resignation along with a request to be taken off the family registry but it wasn’t that simple.

Even if Nicolette Valor allowed it, the whole world would know Liam was no longer part of the Valor pack. Everything he did made the news and this wouldn’t be any different. They’d all try to find out why he left his pack and when they eventually learned he was bonded to an omega…

Starting a new pack with Cas’s name wouldn’t shield me from the spotlight either. It was an insanely romantic idea and I loved him for committing to it with absolutely zero hesitation, but it would only make different, potentially worse problems.

Thankfully, I had some experience with legacy packs since I spent most of my teenage years in the Lopez compound.

The hierarchy and society the legacy packs had were separate from the rest of us.

Old money, connections to every aspect of society, rules that never applied to them – rules that only applied to them…

That’s why most legacy pairings didn’t end well if one of them wasn’t from another legacy pack.

Melinda Valor had enough personal wealth from modeling it didn’t matter. She also came from a wealthy pack. They weren’t legacies, but they might be one day if they kept choosing strong pack members.

I didn’t have personal wealth even if I did pretty well for myself – I had nothing of value other than my intelligence.

Unfortunately, Nicolette Valor still held some traditional ideals even if she was one of the more progressive alphas so intelligence wasn’t exactly high on her list of requirements for an omega.

It didn’t matter if Liam insisted on making a new pack, there’d still be rumors and gossip that I was some gold-digging bitch who didn’t know her place. Solving this case might help silence those rumors and could go a long way to proving how useful I was.

It wouldn’t fix a lot of the deep-rooted issues that would no doubt arise simply because I was an omega who refused to quit their job after getting bonded to an alpha though.

Not that I thought Liam or Cas cared about that, but everyone else would. No matter where we went, Liam’s red eyes would tell the world what he was and we couldn’t avoid this reality unless he dragged us to the middle of nowhere to live in seclusion.

It might actually work to my benefit that I was a dominant omega with connections to the Lopez pack. That might even explain how a private detective with tattoos, a concealed carry license, and a bad attitude could possibly interest someone like Liam Valor.

Grabbing another roll of sushi, I studied Liam out of the corner of my eye.

He had his legs crossed at the ankle, bouncing his foot as he read something on his phone while he ate. His white-blond hair was sticking up everywhere thanks to Cas constantly running his fingers through it.

They weren’t even looking at each other, but with Cas’s arm along the top of the couch, his hand in Liam’s hair, their thighs pressing against each other…they were so fucking hot I could die.

Seeing them like this, so comfortable together while in my apartment with Frankie in the same room was doing things to my head. Crazy things. I wanted to see them kiss again…wanted to see them do more than kiss.

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