Page 14 of Knot Our Omega

Reaching up, I peeled the luxurious blanket from the side of my face and was hit with streams of sunlight pouring into the room.

Oh, Goddess.

I sat up in a flash and scanned the room. The events of the night before came flooding back to me. The completion of the sale. Packing up. Leaving. Riding in the truck. Crying. The cab of the truck filled with Penn’s scent.

And then when I arrived…oh, those alphas. Penn was handsome in his own way, and I thought maybe the other two hadn’t come because they weren’t somehow. The silly things we make up in our heads. But once I saw them, Wilder and Vargas, well, I knew the depths of my ridiculousness.

All three of them were breathtakingly attractive and sexy.

I said hello to them, but their scents overwhelmed me. Their scents. The night. The trauma of leaving my home, the only home that I’d ever known. The disgust I had for my parents.

I’d forgotten to say goodbye to Lily one last time.

I faintly remembered someone touching my face and whispering something to me before I completely dived into the pool of the deepest sleep I had ever had.

Wait a damned minute.The sun was up. It had almost been up by the time Penn and I got back to the house, but now? It was very much morning, and I wasn’t pulling my weight. That was a line directly from my sister’s mouth.

First day, and I was failing. Shit!

I found that my room had an adjoining bathroom, and I rushed through a shower and brushing my teeth before finding another pair of jeans and a T-shirt that had seen better days but was comfortable and soft against my skin.

Padding down the stairs, I tried not to make any noise. I knew next to nothing about the pack I was now living with. Did they work from home? Were they even home, or had they gone somewhere? Heck, I was looking for a kitchen and I had no idea where.

Luckily, the kitchen was to the left of the bottom of the stairs. I saw no one else around and my wolf didn’t sense any movement. I hoped my arrival hadn’t thrown off their schedules or work. I couldn’t afford any mistakes…at least, not yet.

With cabinets open and a large pantry as well, I familiarized myself with the layout before starting. In only a few hours, I’d baked two large loaves of bread and they were cooling on racks. I’d made a dozen scrambled eggs. Roasted potato wedges. Cooked up pork sausage links that claimed they were locally sourced and processed. I’d just finished off the fruit salad when I heard a noise.

Someone was coming down the stairs.

More than one someone.

“Rumor?” someone said. It wasn’t Penn. I knew his voice well.

“I’m here.”

All three of them came down the stairs. Vargas and Penn only had shorts on, but Wilder wore a white T-shirt with jeans. All of them barefoot. Messy hair. Sleepy eyes. I sighed. With looks like that, why in the world had they come after me?

“Good morning,” Penn said and came over to the island where I’d put all the food.

“Good morning. All of you.”

Vargas, the one with the darker hair came over to me. I froze, not knowing what he might do, but he pushed a strand of hair from my face. Oh. Now that made sense. He was the one who must’ve done it the night before. “What have you been into this morning? You did all of this for us?”

I nodded. “Yes,” I said. I left out the part where I knew that’s what omegas did and they shouldn’t be so surprised.

“Thank you, Rumor. This is incredible. You didn’t have to.”

“Oh.” I looked out over the offerings. Sure, I’d gone overboard, but it was nothing out of the ordinary.

Vargas and Penn excused themselves and came back only a few minutes later wearing clothes more like Wilder. They showed me how to prepare the coffeepot, and I internally beat myself up for not thinking about coffee.

Coffee.

A staple for anyone. I didn’t drink it myself. My mother said it made me feisty. She didn’t like feisty, except in the case of an alpha. Then it would’ve been acceptable.

“I’m sorry,” I muttered, expecting a dressing down for the blunder.

All three of them stared at me as though I’d turned into an aardvark.

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