Page 58 of Sunshine

I didn’t have to ask how the call out had gone. If Julian’s scent was burnt, it had been bad.

“You want something to eat? Or you want to sleep?” Logan caressed his hand down our omega’s arm.

Julian chuckled, not opening his eyes. “No food yet. Just alpha snuggles.”

We lay together for a long while. I ran my hand through Julian’s hand, rubbed the back of his neck. His scent slowly calmed down, the acrid burn fading.

“I saw Sunshine’s thing went well.” Julian’s voice was thick with sleep. I wanted to tell him we’d talk about it after his nap, but he was clearly too wound up to sleep just yet.

I looked at Logan who gave a quick nod.

This was the other reason I usually jumped Julian and gave him so many orgasms he went to sleep straight away. He didbetter with our scent on him, and the endorphins from coming so much relaxed him.

“She did really well. Calm, professional. Mrs. Cullen ate it all up.”

“Especially the balloon room.” Logan added, patting Julian’s shoulder. “Good idea.”

Julian took a deep breath in and let it out. Slowly some of the tension left him.

I told him about Sunshine on the balcony.

He laughed. “Look at you, being suave.”

“I’m trying.” I adjusted the blanket higher so it covered Julian’s shoulders. It was perfectly fine where it was, but I itched to do something to make him feel better. “I don’t know, I think Logan’s right. We’ve missed something. She acted like she was going to ask me out and then lost her nerve.”

“She’s still shy, I guess.” Julian shifted again, wriggling so his head was on my shoulder. “Her last pack hurt her.”

“They did.” I played with Julian’s hair. I’d never been one for long hair until I met my omega. Now I couldn’t imagine not having something to run my fingers through.

“She said something about when I went over there last week.” A thought tickled the back of my mind. “She’d seemed really open and then she shut down again.”

“She’s probably worried about what happens if it doesn’t work out.” Julian sighed. “I know I am. I can’t imagine not having her in my life.”

“Maybe.” I frowned. “She mentioned the matchmaking service at Cosmic Bonds. Why would she be trying to get us to date other people?”

“She told me that too, years ago.” Logan muttered. “When we first started working together. I told her we weren’t dating, so we didn’t need it.”

“Maybe she’s upset? Thinks we think her New Age methods are stupid?” I frowned. Maybe I should read up on crystals.

Julian froze and lifted his head. “What did you say? Last week when she mentioned matchmaking again?”

I racked my brain trying to remember my exact words. “Uhhh we were set in our ways? We wouldn’t be good for matchmaking.”

Julian slapped his hand to his forehead. “Oh my God, we’re idiots. She thinks we’re not dating anyone.”

“We’re not dating anyone,” Logan said. “People are hard.”

“Which means she thinks we don’t want to dateher,” Julian said.

“Oh.”

“She’s not going to understand that just because we’re not dating around doesn’t mean we don’t wanther.” Julian laughed. “No wonder she’s holding back. We’re sending mixed signals.”

“Oh, crap.” I felt terrible. Of course Sunshine was skittish. She’d probably been trying to assess her chances at dating us and then like an idiot I’d basically told her we weren’t dating anyone.

“Even Chuck gave me shit about the pack being closed when I introduced Sunshine. I told him it wasn’t closed, we were just picky as hell. She looked surprised.”

“I’m sorry. I screwed that up. I’ll talk to her.”

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