Page 58 of Curvy Nerdy Omega

This guy was a goddamn nutcase when he wasn’t putting on a show, making everyone believe he was as cool as a cucumber. Liam was the golden child of Valor and no one could ever believe otherwise.

But behind closed doors?

He was a violent, vindictive motherfucker and the only reason he could smile so pretty during the day was because he was burning off all his restless energy at night.

Until Lucy had turned our lives upside down, we would leave work and spend hours in the gym before going out to find some hot piece of ass we could share. If he wasn’t fucking or fighting, he was meting out his specific brand of justice to alphas who didn’t feel like the rules should apply to them.

A goddamn vigilante complex if you asked me.

I’ve never seen Liam sit still for so long in my fucking life and it was making me very uneasy.

Sure, we spent three whole weeks doing nothing but fucking Lucy for almost twenty hours a day, so he was probably fine – better off than he usually was anyway, but she never reached out unless it was for work.

He may seem unbothered, but I knew better.

What made this time different though was he wasn’t asking me what he should do or how to handle it. He seemed pretty fucking confident she would call us before the dinner tomorrow since she was watching us just as much as we were watching her.

I really fucking hoped he was right.

An alarm went off and I turned my attention back to the laptop. Lucy fumbled around for her phone and snoozed the alarm. Then she yanked down the blanket and threw her arm over her eyes, that dark hair of hers a total mess and I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

It was so fucking soft and silky. The color was dark enough to be mistaken for black and I wanted to bury my hands in it, tug on the silky locks until she was looking up at me, use it to guide her…

This was fucking ridiculous. I couldn’t afford to keep losing track of my thoughts like this, not when Liam was wearing that sleepy look on his face 24/7 now. The man was ready to tear apart anyone who looked at her too long, not just alphas.

Not that I could blame him. This limbo was fucking rough and I honestly didn’t know how much more of it I could take.

Still, just being able to watch her took some of the edge off.

My fingers twitched when she threw the blankets off to expose her long legs and the tiny shorts she was wearing. The shirt was way too big for her and it almost looked like she wasn’t wearing anything under it when she stood up.

It was a band shirt. One I’ve never heard of and I looked them up just to see what kind of music they played. It was insane just how obsessed with her I’d become.

All I could think about was whether or not she was eating right, sleeping enough, and if she had everything she could possibly need.

Throwing back the energy drink, I wished she’d slept in a little more. It was barely ten in the morning and she’d gone to bed well after two, but I had no right to say anything.

Not yet, but soon.

The security company Valor hired a little over a year ago was next on her to do list and I’d gone through our system on a scale that probably had the guys thinking I’d lost my mind, but Lucy was worried about it for one reason or another and I wanted to make sure it was all ready to go when she inevitably asked for it.

She didn’t know who owned it yet, but she would soon.

Liam wanted to be the one to tell her, but we couldn’t reach out first. So, until she asked, we had to wait. Lucy couldn’t think we were using the case to gain access to her before she was ready.

Once she called us though, that was it. There’d be no more pushing us away. Any excuse she might use to deny us as her alphas wouldn’t work. I couldn’t get her back just to lose her again, and I knew it would be even worse for Liam.

Which meant I had to tell her I was the one who found Gideon – before the police ever arrived at the building.

I watched Lucy walk to the bathroom, ruffling her hair sleepily as she went. She grabbed her toothbrush and stared at the counter for a minute, looking for the toothpaste. The alarm went off again as she brushed her teeth. Cursing as she ran back to her room, she grabbed her phone and turned it off, checking to make sure she hadn’t woken up Frankie.

I couldn’t fucking stand how cute it was to see Lucy taking care of her family and I kept wondering what she’d be like when she finally saw Liam and I as part of her pack.

If we had to go another two days without getting to hold her, I was going to snap. I could feel it. Knowing she was watching us just wasn’t cutting it anymore. Not when I wanted to go in there and make her breakfast so she’d fucking eat something other than a single piece of toast with her six cups of coffee.

Lucy finished brushing her teeth and then studied her reflection like she couldn’t possibly see what we did. She pressed her fingers into the skin under her eyes and pulled down, making faces at herself like an adorable little weirdo.

Then she stuck her tongue out and grabbed her hair brush, pointing it at the mirror with a glare. “Never get in a land war in Asia.”

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