Page 119 of Priceless

Trapping her against the balcony, I whispered in her ear. “Trying to get back to the water, little nymph?”

“Not yet.”

“Not yet.” I hummed into her neck. “That’s good for me. At least until I get you into the pool later.”

She looked over at it. “It’s incredible.”

The pool was an infinity pool, the edges appearing to fall off into nothing and reflecting the city and ruins back at us.

“Will you be terribly disappointed if I’m the one to take you to the ruins today?”

Ocean turned in my arms. “What do you mean?”

“Is it okay if it’s just the two of us?”

I saw the panic enter her eyes. “Is something wrong?”

Sighing, I grabbed her hips and pressed my body into hers. “Business none of us want to deal with. I swear to you when we promised you this trip, we didn’t envision it like this.”

“It’s been pretty great so far. But no, I don’t mind if it’s the two of us.” Her smile turned shy. “I like having time with each of you.”

“Do you need anything?”

She wore a flowing white dress that looked like she stepped out of a history book. Her skin looked even darker against the bright fabric, and with the sun shining off her hair… fuck she was beautiful.

“Sunscreen. We’re going to be in the sun for a while.”

“Definitely.”

“Okay. Be right back.”

I watched her walk away, thoroughly enjoying the way her hips moved and the swish of her long skirt. When was her heat? I needed to find a way to ask without making her think the question was strange, because I was dying to tell her everything.

She was better.

She was blossoming.

As soon as her heat revealed who and what we were, I wanted to sink my teeth into her neck and bind myself to her forever. I would have done it that night at the gala if I’d thought she would have believed us and welcomed it.

Finally, I felt the confidence she hid because other people were assholes and made her feel lesser. She was starting to believe us when we told her the truth. That she was beautiful. Hopefully she heard the words we didn’t say just as clearly.

That we loved her.

Because I did.

I loved my Omega like nothing I’d ever loved before. Not even Micah and Cameron, though they were my pack and part of my soul in the same way she was. Ocean was the center of my soul. She was the center of theirs too. The center of us. We were a triangle and rotated around her like she was the sun and we were the planets.

We just needed to be able to fucking tell her.

Shaking my head of the thoughts so I didn’t blurt everything out the minute I saw her again, I followed her inside and called for the car. Time to show my wife how beautiful the world was, and the lengths we’d go to just for her.

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SMILAX

(BAMBOO BRIAR, SARSAPARILLA)

MEANING: LOVELINESS; LOVELY; MYTHOLOGY

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