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Could I really leave this city once the case was done and pretend like none of this had ever happened?

I tried not to panic and refocused on my phone and the reason I even had Liam’s contact up. My hand shook as I reminded myself this time apart was what I’d wanted.

So, why did it feel like I’d made the biggest mistake of my life?

CHAPTER 20

Liam

The way Lucy glanced up at the hidden camera with her thumb hovering over my name made my dick throb. I grinned as I watched her, pleased to see it hadn’t taken her long to feel like she needed to reach out to me.

My omega was still annoyed with me, but it wasn’t something you could tell just by her face. The blank expression she usually wore made her look bored, but her eyes…her eyes were like a thunderstorm that promised to strike me with lightning over and over again.

Watching her work hit just as hard as it had the first time, but she wasn’t as calm and collected as she’d been in my brother’s office. No, Lucy was just barely holding it together if the music she was listening to was any indication. It was loud and chaotic. Each thump of the base vibrated the walls and by default, the cameras.

How she could think with it that loud was beyond me, but Cas did the same thing with his metalcore music, except he had the decency to use his headphones.

Even across the hall I could feel the bass from her speakers.

I knew I’d want an apartment as close to hers as possible when I took a look around her building, but I hadn’t expected to use it so soon. It was the best way to keep her safe though since Cas couldn’t always watch over her and I had everything I needed to work remotely while I did the honors.

The Lopez pack might not have figured out who the girl in the photo was before I had them all taken down, but if she really had lived with them, it wouldn’t take long. I couldn’t risk anyone coming after her while being too far away to do anything about it when she insisted on keeping her distance from us.

Considering the look on her face when she’d seen how quickly Cas had responded to her request told me she was very aware that one of us was never far, but I highly doubted she suspected I was this close. At least, not yet.

Eventually she’d run across the sale in my records, but what she had up on her monitors told me she was focusing more on Gideon now instead of potential suspects.

Lucy dropped her gaze to study her phone instead of the camera. I watched her contemplate for a long time – living in her own world while I desperately wished I could live in it too.

I had to remind myself this was better than nothing. Just being able to see her, even if it was through a camera…it was something I never thought I’d be able to do again.

Nothing had gone according to plan since the first day she’d run into me at Valor Enterprises, but somehow it felt as though it had only been a few weeks since the last time I’d seen her, holding the small tank with the pink axolotl that she’d given me.

That first day I saw her again I’d thought I could wait to tell her until after the case was solved, but things had progressed far more quickly than I could have ever anticipated. It had never crossed my mind that she’d get sick, and or go into heat.

There were so many times I’d wanted to tell her – so many times I’d promised I would the very second there was an opening, but right before I was about to tell her at Bite, she’d gone to the bathroom where all hell had broken loose.

Taking care of my omega was literally the only thing I’d been able to think about for weeks. That need was so strong I kept ignoring everything else until I was so sleep deprived and exhausted I’d made a fatal mistake.

Lucy had discovered how truly depraved we really were before I could build up any kind of trust – before I could tell her I’ve been obsessed with her since she let me sit with her at lunch, protecting me whether she knew it or not.

She was a constant tease, even if she didn’t realize it. I doubted anyone but Cas could understand what it felt like to watch the tall, graceful omega chewing on her lip like she knew I was watching her every breath.

This time apart was necessary even if it was killing me.

At least she had those three black lines around her neck. Lucy had redone her scent blockers in the way I preferred, even going so far as to make the one on the bottom thick enough to completely cover one of the spider lilies.

I licked my lips and let my eyes wander while she stood there, fighting the urge to call me.

Today she was wearing those thick, black-rimmed glasses along with her huge, oversized shirt. It had skeletons in different sexual positions and the word ‘Boning’ over it. The damn thing was nearly long enough to cover the cute, black bike shorts that went down to her knees.

The urge to text her that I’d like to try every position with her that those skeletons on her shirt were in was harder to resist, but I managed it. Barely.

I’d be worried she would get cold, but she wore a long, cozy-looking black cardigan over it that was even longer than her shirt, and the heater was on in her apartment. That was the only reason I was able to keep myself from walking across the hall to wrap her up in one of the weighted blankets she had on her couch.

But I had to keep my distance no matter how I felt about it.

Lucy was sure the only reason we wanted her was because of the effect her pheromones had on us. Nothing could convince her otherwise. Not even telling her who I was would have persuaded her at that point.

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