Page 1 of Curvy Quirky Omega

CHAPTER 1

Lucy

I finished hanging the twinkly lights and took a step back, admiring how warm and cozy they made the room feel. I had my own room on the top floor of Liam and Cas’s house in Chinatown now – my very first nest.

Actually, the room was the entire third floor, but they’d given it to me like it was nothing, saying they never used it.

Pulling the purple velvet curtains aside, I looked up at the building across from us covered in neon kanji. With all the lights off, the colors from the neon made the room feel cozy in a different way.

Rain refracted the neon lights through the window, and it reminded me of when Liam took me to Bite. It was as pretty and moody as I remembered. Maybe I should add some plants in here too, just like the restaurant had.

Even though that night had ended in disaster, it was still when I realized Liam might actually want me for real – the night everything had changed.

I secured the curtains to the wall so I could see outside, glad to have this space even if it wasn’t somewhere I planned to regularly sleep. No, if I did that, Cas and Liam would be up here all the time and while I didn’t necessarily mind, I wanted this to be a place that was all mine. A place I could go to when I wanted to relax, read, draw…whatever I felt like.

It was a safe place I could call home.

A nest that was all mine, provided to me by my alphas…never in a million years would I have believed this could happen to me.

The defective omega with two alphas of her very own? And one of them a legacy alpha?

Strange how quickly things could change.

I plopped down on the new loveseat and ran my hand over the black faux fur that was softer than I’d expected. Cas had convinced me to try this brand since I could switch out the covers at any time if I got bored of the color…and they were washable.

Part of me was still reeling that this was all mine – that Liam had bought this place with me in mind without touching the third floor, knowing he was going to give it to me when he finally found me.

Years of planning…

How was I supposed to come to terms with that when I was still barely capable of understanding that I wasn’t defective? That I was actually a dominant omega? And now…I might have my happily ever after, but our story wasn’t over yet.

I still had to find out who killed Gideon Valor, or all this could be snatched away from me. Gone. Like it had never existed.

Liam had spent the last three days interrogating Dane Valor after we caught his cousin and sister-in-law together.

How was I supposed to sit here and enjoy setting up my very first nest when Liam and Cas had been interrogating Dane for days, and we still weren’t any closer to figuring out who did it?

We even had to reschedule the dinner between Valor and Lopez after Cas had dragged Dane through the backyard over to Liam’s house at the Valor estate. Liam had stayed with Melinda until his mother arrived while I followed after Cas.

Meeting Nicolette Valor like that had been the last fucking thing I wanted to do after the phone call with Liam. Especially now that the three of us were bonded. We hadn’t officially told anyone yet either. The only person who knew was Frankie.

Officially filing our bond and having a ceremony wasn’t exactly a priority right now anyways. Doing that wouldn’t change anything, and honestly…

I was worried about Liam.

He wouldn’t let Cas interrogate Dane, insisting it was his duty, but Cas didn’t want to let him do it alone, which I totally agreed with. And yet, neither of them wanted me to be alone or in that room. Frankie couldn’t stay with me either, not on the Valor estate.

So, somehow, Liam convinced his mother to let him move Dane to the townhouse in Chinatown where they could keep an eye on me and so could Frankie.

Maybe I was supposed to feel suffocated or annoyed that they wanted me so close, but all I could feel was grateful. I didn’t want to watch either of them interrogating Dane either. Being down there while they did whatever they needed to do to get answers…

I was terrified to find out what all that blood would do to my already unstable sanity.

There was a good chance I would be fine, but there was also the possibility that I’d end up losing control and going completely feral for the taste of blood and justice.

Closing my eyes, I tilted my head to the side and stretched my neck. It wasn’t justice if we didn’t know exactly what it was he’d done. It would just be torture.

Yeah, we knew that Dane and Melinda were having an affair, but that didn’t necessarily mean either of them were the ones who murdered Gideon.

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