Loved how they knew what I needed and weren’t afraid to give it to me. Even when I wasn’t always clear with them they could still read me better than I could read myself.
“Of course. Let’s go, Sadie Sweetheart.”
Paxton wastes no time leaving the house and drives us without direction. His hand on my thigh and my hand covering his as the music from the radio plays in the background without us seeming to care what is actually on. It is nice just being near him.
Finally, he turns off the road towards a parking lot that is overlooking the ocean. Waves crash in the background against a rocky shore and both of us just watch the way the ocean comes in and then pulls back out. A constant give and take of nature.
It was time.
“I love you,” Paxton’s head turns, looking at me as I speak. I feel myself swallowing as I look up at him. Not afraid of being rejected but feeling the weight of his eyes on me as he looked at me like he was in shock from my words.
His eyes look into mine like he is making sure for me that I am being honest but this was the realest I’ve ever been. I know he’s been hurt before but I need him to look at me, his omega, and know that I was as dedicated to him as one could be. I was going to love this man for the rest of his life.
“Yeah?”
“Yeah,” I confirm with a smile, “I love you and I love Ant, Jace, and Cam. I love you all individually and I love all of you together. I want to be your omega.”
I need him to know that. That it’s all of them that I need. And the way his eyes crinkle in a smile as he looks at me like I just made his day makes me know that I made the right choice telling him how I feel.
“You’re the love of my life, princess. We’re a family. All of us. And we’re always going to love you.”
Reaching across the seat, Paxton pulls me on his lap. He is just holding me as we look out, rain starting now as the ocean seems to get wilder but I’m calm. I feel complete. I’m exactly where I am supposed to be.
My love. My alpha. He’s mine.
Mine.
His lips kiss down my neck, as I let out a soft whine. All I can think about is his teeth in my skin. The idea of a bond snapping in place and being able to always feel him and carry him with me is overwhelming.
As if Pax knows what I’m thinking he nips at my neck. Peaches filling the car as I breathe in a shaky breath in a weak attempt to try and get myself under control. It’s not working when I’m in such close quarters with my alphas.
“I can’t wait to bond with you.” His teeth scrape over my throat again as I suck in a breath. Hands digging in his light hair as I let myself nuzzle into his neck, breathing in my alphas rich scent. Letting myself be comforted by him.
“Together. I want you all to bond me together.” Pax nods his head. He wouldn’t have it any other way.
As the leader of the pack, he values the relationship as much as me and I know that this is what it’s supposed to be like. This is what has been missing.
Now I have it all.
CHAPTER 37
HEALING HURTS
Cameron
“Is her nest ready?” Ant is rearranging everything in the attic that we had converted for Sadie when we were in Tennessee. The project that Paxton had come home to double check and put some final details on for our girl.
We were supposed to hold her off a week longer so that it would get fully done and we wouldn’t have to be doing all the last minute resign stuff ourselves. Sadie had wanted to come home and wanted all of us to be together. There wasn’t a single one of us that was going to tell our girl no.
Plus, it was a lot of work but it was nice knowing we were the ones that were doing this for our omega. We were the ones making sure all her sheets were on correctly and that all the books that had been ordered were on the shelves correctly.
This was our gift to her to show her we loved her. That we wanted her to be the center of our pack. That she was our omega. It deserved our attention.
It was also a place that she could have that was just for her incase Sadie ever needed to have a break from things. She valued her own space and we wanted to make sure that she felt like she had it. She would be giving up her apartment soon and I know that she stillneeded a safe space that would be hers.
After seeing the makeshift nest that she would see her heats through it was important for us that she had a real nest to have her heats in. A bathtub was not going to be that place for her, ever again. Sadie deserved a space to feel safe and sensual but also where she could get comfort. And we’d give it to her.
Sadie had a Pinterest board to show off what she had dreamed of for her nest and we had worked together to make sure that her nest became a reality. We wanted her to have a safe place for her heats but also to have a place where it felt like it was entirely hers in the house.