Page 41 of Sunshine

I decided not to tell Sunshine about the table just yet. “This is the office. Mostly Luca uses it when he works from home and he needs a quiet space when I’m too hyper.”

“You, hyper?” She smirked. “I can’t imagine.”

She looked so adorable I wanted to press her against the wall and steal kisses.

Focus, Julian. Focus.

I showed her the spare bedroom we’d talked about converting into a hobby room but had never bothered with andtook her up the winding staircase to the back of the house that led up to the loft.

Where my nest was. Bubbles fizzled in my stomach. I was totally showing her my nest, except we would just stand outside it. I wasn’t going to suggest we snuggle inside the nest, because that would be too forward.

I opened the door to the loft but stayed in the hallway. “And the best nest in all the lands.”

Sunshine peeked in. “You have your own little kitchenette.”

It looked like an in-law suite, with its own bathroom with a massive tub, a little kitchen with a stove and fridge. The other side of the room was one massive circular mattress, the size of two beds put together, covered with soft and comfy blankets and pillows. Also random sweatpants and shirts, whatever I felt like I needed from day to day. The room itself was painted dark blue and had black out curtains because, like most omegas, I hated bright lights when I was in heat.

“I guess downstairs is too far away for the kitchen.” She grinned.

“Way too far away.” I smirked. “This way we get to eat well.”

I stepped back down the hallway, despite my instincts telling me to drag her into the nest and roll her all over the bedding to add her scent to it. And then maybe we would roll around for more exciting reasons.

I shoved my feelings back. I didn’t want to rush her and make her feel like it was just physical.

Tonight would be a good way to gauge how comfortable Sunshine was with the three of us.

We went back downstairs, and, after a short detour to the bedroom for blankets, I led my beta back into the living room.

I sat down on the couch and held my arms out. “Snuggle time. It’s for your own good.”

“I think my body temperature is normal,” she said, with a smirk, although it didn’t stop her from cuddling up next to me.

I rubbed my face on the side of her neck, inhaling a lungful of her linen and sky scent. “I don’t know, we better make sure.”

She relaxed in my arms. “Okay.”

Logan brought us some bottled water, and Luca hovered near the kitchen.

“Come on.” I patted my free side. “It’s snuggle time.”

Luca sat on Sunshine’s other side, and Logan pushed the chaise ottoman against the couch so we could all rest our feet up on it and then curled up against me.

I gave a happy sigh.

Sunshine laughed. “You sound so pleased.”

“I am. Movie night with my favorite people.”

Luca put our favorite cooking show on. I wrapped my arms around Sunshine’s waist, and she rested her head on my shoulder. I wasn’t going to move for a very long time.

While we watched the show, Logan judged the contestants harshly, complaining whenever they did something that he thought was ridiculous, and Sunshine and I critiqued their choice of dishes. Luca never got as invested as the rest of us and was always more entertained by our comments than by the show.

Sunshine was warm and comfortable next to me, curled up between me and Logan. Luca spooned my other side, and I kept taking in deep lungfuls of their mingled scents.

It was pure heaven. I just needed to figure out how to make tonight the norm, not just a rare occurrence.

I looked at Sunshine out of the corner of my eye. Her blinks kept getting longer and longer.

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