Page 24 of Knot a Chance in Hell

Silas slapped his hands on the arms of the chair and stood. His face red and hard. “Whoa, there’s nowein this. I’m not fucking spending a penny of my money on that Omega. She’s already cost us plenty. Bad enough we have to share the house with her.” He stomped across the living room, his voice rising with each step. “If you two are determined to keep her, count me out. The cabin’s too crowded now. I’m going to build my own place and screw the rest of you.”

“Silas,” Ezekiel called after his friend as Silas stormed down the hall to his bedroom. His door slammed, and Kodiak muttered something harsh under his breath.

I clenched my hands on my lap. This is precisely what I didn’t want to happen. While Silas was most certainly being a dick, the three Alphas were like brothers and they had to work together. I didn’t want to be the thing that came between them.

There might be a future for me with Kodiak or Ezekiel, or both of them. It made me feel giddy thinking about having the two of them as mates. I didn’t want to just give that up. But the whole situation with Silas was eating away at my insides.

Savva sighed. “Don’t worry too much about Silas, girl. He has his own reasons for feeling the way he does.”

“He’ll come around,” Ezekiel added, smiling at me from across the table.

I tried to smile back, but I was torn between being furious, empathetic, and hurt. Why did Silas hate me so much? His business was his business, but if it was affecting what was going on here, then it was all our business.

Kodiak, Silas, and Ezekiel just recently built this house. This magnificent cabin on the edge of a mountain. Not only their dream home, it was their pack home. Silas leaving meant a rift in the pack, one that I was responsible for.

Part of me wanted to stomp her foot and cross her arms saying it was his stupid choice. Let him suffer for it. Yet Kodiak and Ezekiel would suffer for it too. I didn’t want any of them to be miserable.

“Yeah, right he will,” Kodiak huffed. “Silas can move to France for all I care.”

My stomach tightened at the thought of Silas moving that far away. Panic surged through me, and I barely held on to my self control.

“Let’s get to planning that schedule of yours. Just so you know, I’m no morning person. I don’t do anything without a pot of coffee in me.” Savva brought me back to the moment, and I let him distract me with talk about snow machines and stick shifts. Yet in the back of my head, I still thrashed about with all the different things Silas was making me feel.

I had to figure out a way to make things right for the pack.

After more food.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN – Nicolette

I made a checklist, and after three days, I had several things already marked off. Learning to drive the snow machines and four wheelers was easy. The accelerator and brake were on the handles. Roaring down the driveway in the snow on them was fun. The pickup’s stick shift was another matter. I kept stalling it out. Why didn’t everyone just have automatic transmission? It would make the world a simpler place.

Skiing came naturally to me, and the snowshoes were weird, but I likened them to giant snow flip flops.

The general store in town did indeed have women’s clothing. Too much of it was pink camouflage. No thank you. My drawers now held long underwear and thick jeans which felt like I was wearing carpet. Kodiak said he’d get me some specially ordered long underwear for Christmas which were colors more to my liking. That was sweet, but I wanted to tell him women wanted pretty lacy panties, not the least sexy of all the underwear out there.

Kodiak teased me about wanting to see me in my long underwear. He bought everything and doted on me. Ezekiel, too, spoiled me with attention. The two of them would glare at one another, but neither got in the other’s face.

Thankfully, my heat had been dampened by me getting lost in the woods. I was so exhausted, I was going to bed after dinner and getting up when the sun was above the mountains to the east which was nearly twelve hours a night. A few baths where I was accompanied by my vibrator were enough to keep my heat in check.

Yet as I recovered and got more comfortable, the ache for something more than just a pink rabbit-eared sex toy was starting to dominate not only my dreams, but my thoughts anytime the guys were around. When Kodiak was showing me how to use the bear spray, I could only imagine my hands wrapped around his big cock instead of the can. And when Ezekiel taught me how to properly command the dogs, I wanted him to order me to get on my knees and open my mouth for his throbbing erection.

Then there was Silas. He barely said two words to me, and he looked furious every time I caught him staring at me. Every day he left messes. He even let the dogs into my room without drying them off from being outside. My blankets had been soaked since Atka and Kavik napped on my bed.

Silas’ unspoken dislike of me was one thing. I could handle someone not liking me, but he snapped and snarled at Kodiak and Ezekiel. The three of them eyed one another like they were planning on how to do away with one another’s bodies. There was a needy ache between my legs, but the blade in my heart went deeper every time they nearly came to blows.

I had to find a way to ease the tension and reinstate peace in the pack. But how? After three days of watching the Alphas ready to kill one another, I finally got all three of my best friends on the phone together.

“I just don’t know what to do. I don’t want to be witness to aFargoscenario.”

“Distract them with sex. Dirty, dirty sex!” Kienna whooped into the receiver.

“Kienna,” Aubrielle groaned and let out a sigh.

“What? Sex always works, especially when it’s a hot redhead luring them into bed.” Kienna laughed, and my cheeks warmed. She never shied away from sex talks, even when the conversations we were having weren’t about sex.

I gnawed on my lower lip, pacing the kitchen. “I don’t know if it would be wise to sleep with them both. Kodiak might kill Ezekiel over it or vice versa. I think I need to choose.”

Kienna gasped. “What? Why?”

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