Sadie’s hand reaches for me, our fingers twining together as Jace moves behind her. He’s getting antsy to mark our girl and be in the bond with us. Something I can’t fault him after feeling how good it feels to be connected to Sadie.

“Go ahead, Jace. Show our girl how much her pack cares for her.” I slide up, resting between her legs, kissing at the bond mark, letting my finger stroke over it as she makes the prettiest sounds.

Lifting my eyes I see Jace behind her. He’s whispering to Sadie as she leans back against him. The blissed out look on her face as she flutters her legs around me, squeezing me close because she wants me in the moment with her.

Sharing with Sadie is exquisite.

Watching Jace lean in, his mouth on the opposite side of where Pax bonded her, I feel the way he cares for her. Sadie’s eyes flutter closed as her hand latches against Jace’s head as he presses his teeth into our omegas neck. He finishes the bond between us all and I shiver feeling like I’m fully complete.

It’s perfect.

Sadie makes the softest little noise of pleasure and I’m reminded this is just the start of our sweet omegas heat. We have days of getting to enjoy her as bonded mates.

Days of just us and Sadie. And the absolute joy of being able to ride out her heat with her.

CHAPTER 40

COWBOYS CRY TOO

Jace

Sadie is holding my hand as we climb the hiking trail.

It’s been three days since her heat had ended. A week since we bonded her as our omega. Her bond marks look even prettier in the sunshine than they did on her sweaty heat skin.

She had snuck out of Paxton’s room early this morning after making love to him all night, something that we all heard her do and couldn’t be mad about because of the way she sounded. How could we be mad when she was happy?

So waking up to her cracking my door open, smelling fresh from the shower and crawling into bed asking if I wanted to go have breakfast and a hike with her had my heart beating and me rushing to get ready.

Now we had sandwiches packed and coffee in a thermos as we made our way, hand in hand, through the darkness to watch the sunrise in the woods.

“I love that this is our thing,” Sadie comments as we finally get to the clearing with the rocks.

I love it too.

She lets go of me as she rushes forward, putting down the bag she packed to spread out a blanket and starting to unpack the picnic thatwe have. Her eyes go to me as she smiles, so sure of herself as she motions me closer to where she is.

And I have to kiss her. No choice in the matter.

I love how Sadie smiles when she kisses. How she presses our lips together and holds me there with soft murmurs of appreciation as we kiss, slow, and languid. Moving until she is laying under me and only stopping when the sun starts to bathe the world in its soft orange glow.

Rolling so I’m laying down as she rests her head on my chest, letting me run my fingers through her hair as she sighs. We stayed there together in the quiet morning appreciating the view. But I’m staring more at her instead of the sunrise.

Sometimes I think about how lucky we got to be at the right place to catch Sadie. Yes, we may have run into her at another time but the fact we had all been together when we first found our omega felt special. It made it seem like it was our fate.

Her eyes turn, looking up at me like she can feel my staring at her. Sometimes she catches us looking at her and rolls her eyes like the brat she is. But her cheeks color and we all know that she secretly likes the attention.

“Jace,” Her eyes are so blue that I could get lost in them without a second thought, “I love you.” I blink, unsure if I heard her correctly. Feeling frozen by her words because I can’t believe that I’m hearing them.

“Darlin’, I-”

“Wait,” She interrupts me, “I love you but I want you to know I love Paxton, Cameron and Anthony too. I love you all and I need to know that it’s okay with you.” She is trying to have this serious conversation with me like it changes anything if she loves my pack.

It’s cute, she's so concerned.

Especially after we all just spent her heat together and bonded her as our omega. Of course we love her and want her. But Sadie needs the verbal confirmation so she doesn’t feel like there are any questions from us.

If anything it makes me love her more knowing that she has their back too. That she will protect them just like I will. That the love sheholds for all of us is special enough to her that she needs to declare it out loud.