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“Oh, I’m so going back to your house for scary movies and snuggles,” Amir said, tugging me closer and rubbing his cheek against me.

He was scent marking me. And damn…it felt so damn natural. So right.

I couldn’t wait until all five of us were snuggled on the big couch, our arms and legs entangled until I went to bed smothered in the scents of these four delicious men.

CHAPTER 12

Amir

Ihad known this pack had a beta. I’d known she was a woman.

What I hadn’t been prepared for was how badly my omega would pine for her after that first moment I’d heard her voice at the club.

Enzo had warned me she could be a little shy, that her past made her leery of strangers, mainly alphas. I wasn’t an alpha, but I wasn’t small like most omegas.

Yet…she hadn’t shown an ounce of fear from the moment I’d pretended I was her boyfriend to when one of her alphas had caught us in the office.

And then she’d gotten a little closed off when she’d mentioned continuing our little date somewhere else. The last thing I wanted was for her to think I was encroaching on her place in the pack.

Although…

She’d sounded like she was going to deny Enzowas her alpha when he’d come into the office at Vault. He’d cut her off, affirming that he was, indeed, hers, that she was his.

There were some questions I needed answered before I allowed myself to get too close to these people. The last thing I wanted was to let myself fall for a pack who was unstable.

They seemed close, seemed to care for each other, but I’d noticed the alphas didn’t touch Issa as much or as intimately as I’d assumed they would have.

Again, did she not feel a part of the pack or had the alphas done something to make her feel as though she was on the outside looking in and how would my presence affect their relationship as a whole?

We were all piled in the SUV, Issa between me and Ax as Cyrus drove, and Enzo took shotgun. The guys would occasionally ask a question or tease each other, but Issa felt tense beside me, even with the smiles and giggles from the alphas’ banter.

“Are you sure this is okay?” I whispered in her ear.

She turned her head to look into my face, the only light touching her coming from the passing streetlights.

After a few seconds, a slow smile stretched across her face.

“Yeah,” she said with a nod. “It’s more than okay. I’m sorry I’m acting all…” She waved a hand in the air as though searching for the right word. “I swear I’m not moody or possessive of these guys or anything like that.”

“It would be okay if you were,” I said, gently touching her face with my fingertips.

Fuck me hard.

Those were the words she’d said to me when I’d turned her to take her over the desk. That woman, the beta who’d fallen apart first on my tongue then around my cock, was so different than the woman who was watching me as though she was unsure of what to do or say.

“Can I ask you something?”

“Sure,” she said.

“It’s kind of personal.”

I swore I could feel all three alphas tense and hold their breath in unison.

“I saw that bite on your shoulder at the club. And I’m assuming it wasn’t from one of these alphas.”

Her hand raised to cover the mark hidden under the pretty blue dress she’d worn for our day date. It wasn’t the typical silvery crescent scars left by an alpha but more like her flesh had been ripped by someone.

“No. It’s not from them.”

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