Page 24 of Zoinks! Nice Pack, Bro

“What are you guys playing at?”

Whatever look I must have given her didn’t settle her because she shook her head, a snap of anger crossing across her face.

Anger on her was terrifying.

All this uncloaked emotion coming through as something akin to a snarl flashes on her face. It’s like she needs to protect herself and this is the only way she knows how.

Sweet fierce omega.

“Cameron is texting me all the time. Anthony took me to the gym last night. And you? You are here every morning with my coffee. What game am I to you? Do you guys just want to have me as a notch in your bed posts? Because if that’s the case,fine. Screw the fat omega and move on. Whatever game you’re playing, just make your frickin’ move so I can live my life.”

With her rant over, she stands up, chair scraping and making her flinch from the sound. She’s unsettled as she starts storming out of the coffee shop as I sit for a beat too long trying to figure out what Sadie just said.

What had just happened?

Jumping up, I move out of the coffee shop. I see Sadie heading into her work before I can get to stop her. The building doesn’t even open for another two hours for the public so I can’t just walk inside her job. Not with a raging omega.

What had happened?

Why did she just snap?

My phone rings, making me look away from where Sadie had vanished as I pick up the call from Anthony.

“Paxton is mad that you’re not at the site yet. Tell me you’re on your way and not sitting in the coffee shop waiting for little bro to show up.” I groan, of course Paxton was in a shit mood. He’s the only one who hasn’t tried to really bond with her like we all were.

But I couldn’t even think of him and his temper tantrums right now.

He knew we were chasing after Sadie so if he knew what washappening with our omega he would be less mad at me. Or mad if he thought it was my fault that she had stormed out.

Could go either way.

“Was Sadie okay after she left you the other night?” There is a quiet silence for a second and I hear a door close as Anthony probably walks away from whoever he is trying to get privacy.

It’s nice he’s taking this seriously. There’s so few things he does treat seriously. But he seems to understand the importance of having a scent matched with omega.

“She was happy with me. You saw the picture. What’s wrong with her Jace?” Heading into my car I switch him to bluetooth and I start driving towards the site we’re working on.

As real estate developers we just purchased a few acres of land so we could start building a community of houses in the underdeveloped area. We’re looking at profits in the multi millions from the homes. Currently we have plans for twenty houses in the area and are about halfway to that goal.

We’ve had larger scale projects in the past few years but this one feels like the one that we’re going to do and be able to live off of for the rest of our lives. Which means Paxton is getting upset when the smallest thing goes wrong because the man doesn’t know how to stay calm.

He takes everything so seriously and can mix up priorities when it comes to personal and business. He wants to take care of everything and everyone but comes across like a grump that no one wants to be around.

I hope he doesn’t do that with Sadie.

“She was a little disheveled this morning. Tired. Angry. She said that we were all messing with her and that we needed to just make a move to fuck her and then leave her alone.” I think about the way she was so hard on herself and swallowed down. It doesn’t feel right that one of us isn’t with her, “I think it’s confusing her how we all just bombarded her. And I don’t like that she is upset.” I admit to him.

Usually, I’d talk to Paxton about things like this, but he was stressed out enough about working on this project. He had mentionedgoing after our omega but it was going to be hard for him to stop in the middle of this project to do it.

Paxton had a lot of baggage he was going to have to unpack if he wanted to be a good alpha for our omega. And as his packmate I’d help my brother anyway I could be the best for her.

Cameron would talk to her if I asked but I could already see Cameron dropping everything, getting distracted by the fact that Sadie was upset if I told him. He wouldn’t be able to compartmentalize his feelings and would want to fix it. Which would make him upset and then we’d have two people spiraling.

Not ideal.

He saw himself in her too much. It made him want to protect her, to fix things for her, and save her from her feelings. Which was a good alpha quality to have if he could compartmentalize his feelings instead of over emphasizing.

Sadie was good for him, brought him out of his usual shell, but she could break him too. There was a risk in all of us going for her, especially because it was clear that we were getting addicted to her quickly.

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