Page 64 of Big Knot Energy (Shadowverse)

Cyrus stopped near the door to the nest, a minifridge in his arms, and smiled at me. It was one of those affectionate, wistful smiles that warmed my heart.

I could feel him through our bond. Each of the alphas were so different, yet I felt their love and affection through their individual threads every time they so much as glanced at me.

“We need to plan a shopping trip,” Ax announced.

“How many plans are we making for the month?” Enzo asked as he stepped out of the walk-in closet and swung the door shut behind him. “We still have a job. We’ll have to take a week off in a couplemonths; we can’t start skipping out on work just because our pack is complete.”

Amir and I sighed at the same time, then burst into giggles. My sweet omega brought out a more playful side of me, a flirtatious and romantic side that I’d either never realized existed or simply hadn’t had the chance to acknowledge because of my former alpha. And my family. And…well, pretty much every asshole who’d been in my life before this pack.

Before I became beta to Pack Rivera. Before I became Issa Rivera.

“I didn’t say we had to plan everything in one day, asshole,” Ax grumbled.

And all I could do was smile. Life was…perfect. At least now it was.Finally.

I had a life I never could have dreamed was possible for me. I had a pack who truly cared for me and hadn’t given a single fuck about my previous last name or who my fathers had been. They hadn’t wanted me as their beta for the power or wealth that would, at one time, have come with bonding me.

“Can we have a pack cuddle?” I asked as my three alphas stopped and stared at me and Amir. “Like…for the rest of the day?”

Enzo growled. “We have to head to the club soon. But we shouldn’t be out late. You two want to come hang out and listen to some music–"

“And watch me shake my ass,” Ax said, cutting into Enzo’s question.

“Or do you want to hang out here until we get back?”

“And have sex on every bed so the entire house smells like you.” Ax said, again cutting into Enzo’s question and earning a scowl from the pack lead.

Amir’s head popped up and he looked at the alphas over his shoulder. “Option two. Hands down, option two.”

He immediately slid further down my body, his fingers hooking in the sides of my leggings in an attempt to get me naked.

“I don’t think they meant right now,” I said with a giggle as hisfingers dug into my ribs when I tried to keep my pants on. “And he saidallthe beds, not just the pack bed.”

Had I smiled or laughed as much in my life as I had since meeting Amir? I knew I had smiled more in the past few months than I remembered ever smiling throughout my entire life. It had taken some time, but the three alphas felt as though they were removing bricks from my shoulder, one by one, while chiseling away at the ice that had frozen around my heart.

I wasn’t sure there was more than a little frost remaining now that I could feel all of them down the invisible threads in my chest tying us together.

“By all means, don’t stop on our account,” Ax said, taking a few steps before launching himself onto the bed and grabbing one side of my leggings while Amir tugged on the other.

“We got to get going, idiot,” Enzo said with a shake of his head. “Unless you want to get stuck at the club all night.”

He dropped his forehead against my thigh and growled, a fake grumble that was more of a frustrated groan. “Fine.”

Pushing onto his elbows, he kissed my hip, crawled forward to press a loud smack of a kiss against my lips, then rolled off the side of the bed, winking at me as he followed a smiling Cyrus and a grumpy Enzo through the door of the omega quarters.

My omega. My Amir.

There hadn’t been an omega in my three person pack with Antonio. Hell, my fellow beta had split so early, I wasn’t even sure how a full pack looked until I’d come here.

What I had seen of packs, the omega was always the top dog of the pack, the one who everyone revolved around. The beta was always just…there. Their scent and presence calmed the alphas due to their neutral status.

But not here. Not with this pack. Yeah, it was obvious the alphas were already protective of Amir and wanted to make him happy. But they’d chosen him for me, chosen a male omega for me. It had been my insistence that he become pack. It had been me who’d slept with him – many times – before any of my alphas touched him.

Merely the beta, yet all four men acted as though their lives revolved aroundme. It was a heady yet overwhelming reality.

“Do we have to start in the other rooms first?” Amir asked as he nipped and nibbled across my stomach and ribs, the soft touches making me squirm and squeal and giggle.

Something I’d noted early on was Amir’s on switch remainedonregardless of the situation. And that he camea lot.

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