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I was used to being alone, or at least I had been until three particular alphas had come crashing into my life.

Maybe it was because the house was so isolated. I was used to living in busy apartment buildings, where there was always noise, hustle and bustle. The number of times I’d heardmy various neighbors either fighting or getting freaky was horrifying.

Here, there was nothing but silence. That was usually lovely, and I enjoyed it, but now I was on my own, it was actually a little creepy.

Grabbing my phone, I tapped the screen a few times until music started playing through the speakers Rune had installed in the kitchen and dining space so I could listen to music while I cooked. That was another thoughtful thing he had done for me when it came to setting up the house.

I just had to get through the night, and tomorrow my guys would be home.

Chapter 42

Rune

Sunny wanted to get out of the house, and I had the perfect distraction. She had obviously been stressed out the previous night when we got back from our twenty-four-hour shift. She had acted cool, brushing it off, but I knew stress baking when I saw it, and there were over ten varieties of cookies sprawled over the kitchen counters when we got home.

“Where are we going?” Sunny asked with a frown as she got into the car.

Looking behind me, I checked once more that Luka was securely in his car seat before turning to Sunny. “It's a surprise,” I repeated.

She groaned, throwing her head back. “I know you only told me we're going somewhere two minutes ago, but this is already driving me crazy!”

I raised an eyebrow. “Not a fan of surprises, are we?”

Sunny pouted. “I am when it’s a surprise, but knowing it’s a surprise kind of negates it being a surprise, and then that irritates me for some reason. I know I am painfully impatient. It's a problem. I need to work on it.”

I bit back a smile. “You don't need to work on it. You are absolutely perfect as you are, Cher,” I said as we pulled out of the drive. “We are going to go see my friend Melody.”

Sunny’s eyes narrowed, and I turned to look at the road, resisting the urge to laugh, because it was obvious she was feeling a little jealous at the mention of another woman.

“Melody?” she asked in a tight voice.

I shouldn't have enjoyed her jealousy so much, but it was nice knowing that she had laid claim to me in such a way that, if another woman was interested in me, she would be angry. Even though I knew Sunny was now all in with us, it was never really an active choice for her, so the reassurance that she saw us as hers was nice.

Yes, my logic was fucked up, but I was an alpha, and sometimes we had fucked-up logic.

“Melody is a friend who runs an animal shelter. She's the one we hand over any cats and dogs we find during fires to. She takes care of them, tries to find their families, or tries to rehome them if they need new families.”

Sunny’s eyes widened. “Oh…”

“Now that we finally have a house, I think it's time we look for a friend for Sooty. I thought you and Luka would enjoy coming along.”

“That sounds lovely.”

“Feeling a little possessive, are we?” I asked playfully.

Sunny shrugged. “How would you like it if I was talking about my male friends you know nothing about?”

I most certainly wouldn’t like that. I wasn't a complete controlling asshole. She was allowed to be friends with whoever she wanted, but sometimes it was hard to deny my nature, that I wanted no other man to look at my omega because she was perfection, and she was mine.

“You want to go look at buns, little man?” I asked Luka, looking at him in the rearview mirror.

“Buns!” Luka cried excitedly.

Sunny chuckled. “You know he's going to fall in love with every single one there?”

“In that case, I guess we're going to have to get multiple bunnies,” I said as I took one hand off the steering wheel, holding her thigh gently with it. I was skilled enough at driving that I could do so one-handed. If not for our son in the back seat, I would have been tempted to trail my hand up the skirt of her powder blue dress, but alas, I had to behave.

Plenty of time for that later.

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