Page 110 of Big Knot Energy (Shadowverse)

I tilted my head back and raised my brows. “You were researching wedding planning?”

“I’m an omega. Just because I’m a man doesn’t mean I don’t still want all the pretty, frilly shit, too.”

The smile that lit up my face was both from his words and the image of him working on his muscle car in one of his mom’s sundresses that first time we came here for a day date.

As we approached the SUV, both guards were on high alert as one searched the area and the other opened the back door for us.

“I really don’t think anyone is hiding in the bushes or in the horse pasture waiting for us,” I teased.

There wasn’t a doubt in my mind that Ghazi and Myer were more than capable of protecting their family. If the burly, dark-skinned guard they’d sent as backup to watch over me and Amir was anything to go by, those two had some connections.

“Do we have to go straight home?” I asked, leaning forward a little to address our current babysitters.

The only time I saw someone new was the evening switch over. The four men assigned to shadow me and Amir were working seven days a week, but at least they switched shifts so they could get some rest.

I thought it was a little silly for them to be there when our three alphas were home. I highly doubted Enzo, Cyrus, and especially Ax would let anyone get close enough to the two of us when they were home.

“Your alphas don’t want you at the club,” Abdel, one of our day guards, answered with his thickly accented deep voice. Even if he hadn’t been assigned to us, I would have assumed simply by his demeanor and voice he was some kind of badass.

But he was also sweet. I’d caught him interacting with Amir’s sisters once and had seen how gentle he was with the animals on Athena’s little hobby farm.

My eyes rolled of their own freaking accord. “Fine. But can we do something else? Anything else?”

We hadn’t been on lock down that long, but now that I was finally getting over my fear of being in public and around alphas, I had grown tired of being cooped up in the house and had developed a mild case of cabin fever.

Sure, we had just spent hours with Amir’s mom, but I wasn’t quite ready to go home and plop down in front of the television until the two of us either fell asleep or our alphas finally returned home.

“What do you have in mind,fiancée?” Amir asked, nuzzling my neck and nipping one of the marks left by our alphas.

A full body shudder rippled through me, and I almost changed my mind. Going home suddenly didn’t sound so bad. It would mean we would be alone… and naked.

“I was…thinking…Okay, you have to stop. I can’t think straight when you’re doing that,” I said through a breathy giggle.

He left one more kiss on my neck and pulled away.

“I’ve never gotten my nails done,” I was finally able to blurt out. “I want to get a manicure. But none of those super long nails.”

Amir’s brows drew down. “How the hell have you never gotten your nails done? I thought your family was all about appearances.”

“They were. But dramatic nails were considered trashy. So, I just…kept them short and didn’t bother with polish.”

“Okay, we’re totally getting you something wild and colorful. And we’re getting pedicures, too.”

“You’ll have to tell me where to go,” the guard driving, Oscar, said, glancing at me through the rearview mirror.

Amir rattled off the name of a salon and the street where it was located. I wasn’t the least bit surprised being as my beautiful omega was unrepentantly and effortlessly glamourous from his impeccable and unique clothing style to his always perfect long, curly hair.

The nail place was only about ten or fifteen minutes from Amir’s parents’ and, luckily for us, there wasn’t a line. In fact, there were only a few omegas and betas in the place. And not a single alpha.

Or there wasn’t until Abdel entered behind us and took up sentry at the door while Oscar stayed on the sidewalk. They both stood with their backs ramrod straight and their hands folded in front of them. I knew there were guns hidden under their clothes, but at least they weren’t donning the big rifles strapped over their chests like they did at home.

As much as I hated why I had so much time to hang out with Athena or spend time doing something so frivolous as getting a manicure and pedicure, this day was damn near perfect.

Maybe learning the ways of the omega – as Amir called it – wasn’t so bad after all.

CHAPTER 41

Ax

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