Page 116 of Curvy Nerdy Omega

Hearing that he didn’t care about my job was one thing, but getting to see the truth for myself? It made me more emotional than I thought it would.

I’d made the right choice and Liam was proving that to me all over again.

“It’s not about the fucking job,” Cas snarled right back, taking a step closer to get into Liam’s face. “It’s about making smarter, safer choices. She doesn’t have to go down there herself. I can do whatever needs to be done. No one would think twice about me being down there.”

Cas turned on me then, grabbing my face and pressing his forehead to mine. It happened so fast I couldn’t do a single thing to stop him. “Just fucking ask me. Let me help you.”

I need you to need me.

“I want to do it myself,” I whispered, hating how much of his fear I could feel through the bond. “You can help me, but you can’t do my job for me.”

“Why, Lucy? Why put yourself in the spotlight when I know that’s the last thing you want?” Cas took a deep breath and closed his eyes. “You make me crazy. I don’t understand why you’re doing this when you don’t have to. You don’t need to tell the world you’re bonded to us before you’re ready, just to gain access to servers I already have access to.”

Oh.

So it really wasn’t about the job.

“I mean…does it matter? They’re all going to find out anyway.” I wrapped my arms around his neck and breathed him in, smelling nothing but the orange soap he and Liam used thanks to his scent blockers. “If we do it like this, we can use it to do something fun and get away with it. We can control the moment people realize you and Liam finally bonded an omega and eventually…they’ll learn I was the one who helped solve Gideon’s case along with my adopted sister, Frankie. Don’t you think that’ll make our lives easier?”

Cas took another deep breath and opened his eyes, some of the fear easing as he studied me. “What do you mean by ‘something fun?’”

“She loves playing secret agent,” Frankie muttered as she pretended to focus very hard on her monitor.

“Just like when we played the famous archeologist and her pretty little errand boy, huh?” Liam yanked one of Cas’s hands away from my face so he could kiss my cheek. “Are you going to dress up too?”

Cas covered Liam’s whole fucking face with his hand and pushed him away, wrapping an arm around my waist at the same time to pull me up. He held me so high I had to look down at him and those blue eyes were full of so much emotion I didn’t even blink so I wouldn’t have to miss a single second of this.

His aura was always so fucking intense but it didn’t scare me even when he manhandled me like this. Cas was still getting used to the bond and this new dynamic between the three of us, but I don’t think he realized just how fucking weird I was until right this moment.

The look in his eyes shifted. I could feel a trickle of amusement from him and I knew I’d won.

“We really need to talk about your definition of fun.” Cas sighed and set me gently on the floor. “Fine. If that’s what you want, you and Liam can go play psychopaths in the server room together while I play bodyguard.”

“Oh, are you going to wear the outfit and everything?” Liam grabbed Cas by the shirt and yanked him away from me, their bodies slamming into each other.

“You mean the shit I wear every day I’m not in the office?” Cas grabbed Liam by the throat and physically moved him out of his way. “Sure, I’ll wear the ‘outfit’.”

The way he was holding Liam was definitely making me feel a way.

Frankie jumped up from her desk. “I’m gonna go change!” She ran off before Cas could glare at her and slammed her bedroom door closed.

Cas narrowed his eyes but didn’t say anything. Then he released Liam and I had to pinch myself to make sure this wasn’t a dream.

These two were my alphas. My very attractive alphas who looked like gods when they stood next to each other.

Liam shone like the sun, even when we were kids. It was the most memorable thing about him. He could make the shittiest day bearable when he smiled at me like this – like the sun breaking through the clouds on a rainy day.

I was nearly blinded by his beauty on a regular basis and he was far too brilliant to be anything other than an incarnation of the sun god himself – Apollo, not Adonis. Cas though…he was a dark god of war – my very own Ares.

Liam slipped his finger in Cas’s belt loop and tugged him closer. The way Cas eyed Liam from head to toe made me clench my thighs together. I didn’t know how much more of this I could watch without exploding.

Cas leaned down and kissed Liam’s neck, right where he still had the mark of my teeth over his scent glands. “Don’t distract Lucy.”

You are the one distracting me.

Those blue eyes caught me glaring at him and I could see the flash of hunger – feel it through the bond. A silent promise that he would deliver if I was a good girl.

Jesus. What had I gotten myself into?

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