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I laughed then. “My ass?”

“One of my favorite parts of you.” I heard his smile as he kissed up my spine. “One of many.”

Everett rolled me back over, searching my face. “Ready, little nymph?”

I nodded.

He bent his head and bit high along my ribcage. The third bond snapped taut between us, completing everything. The sincerity flowing from Everett leveled my soul to the ground. When he said he loved me, it was an understatement. When he called me a goddess, he truly believed it.

And beneath that, I felt the reason he’d bitten me where he had. Because he wanted his bite to be on a part of me that I might not always love. One of my soft places. Where he could remind me how much he loved all of me, just as I was.

Then he was kissing me and I fell into the feeling of him. Wild and dangerous. He was a threat to anything that wanted to harm what was his. Protecting me—protecting his pack and his Omega was the only thing that mattered to him. End of story.

His nutty sweetness layered with my other Alphas, resonating together in a way that was utterly complete.

“Do you believe us?”

“Yes.”

Everett kissed my forehead, and we breathed together. Feeling their emotions was so overwhelming, but in a good way. Now I understood what Isolde meant when she described it. There weren’t words for it until you had the experience.

A laugh burst out. “Fuck, that’s strange,” Cam said. “Feeling them through you, sweetheart.”

Rett laughed into my skin. “I know. It’s all going to be different now.”

“What do we do?”

“Besides shouting to the entire fucking world that you’re ours?” Everett asked. “Whatever you want, Ocean.”

Their joy at feeling my joy nearly had me crying the way it layered one on top of the other and back again.

There was such peace now, knowing we had time. No more clock counting down in the back of my head. No more worries. “I think… I want a shower,” I finally said. “Then I would kill for some pizza.”

“Pizza it is.” Cameron winked before tackling me with kisses. All of us were laughing.

It was going to take us forever to leave this nest.

53

SESAME

MEANING: PURGE; REVEAL

MICAH

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The glass panels of Ocean’s greenhouse—the real one—sparkled in the sun where we were having it set up on the side of the house. Cameron already had contractors working on securing the property more than it already was.

Sure, we had security, but when we lived here alone, we weren’t as worried about ourselves. Now we had Ocean, and there was no way in hell we were going to let anything happen to her. We wanted her to be able to go anywhere on our property without fear. Which meant better fences, cameras, and guards, though we would do our best to make sure they were invisible.

My Omega’s happy brightness sang in my chest. She was out back with her friends, sharing what happened and having a good time while what little remained of her belongings were delivered. We’d been sure to hire people who would take the utmost care with her remaining plants, with her approval.

I couldn’t wait to see her in her own environment like this.

“Sir?” Marcella’s voice came from the house’s side door.

“Yes, Marcella?”

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