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“Then what you are saying makes no sense. I see no reason why you can’t accept what I can offer.”
“I guess.” I look down. I can’t help feeling humiliated. He doesn’t get it.
“I get it,” he says, lifting my chin up. “I’ll cancel the order. Let’s go and pack your things and ask Derek to bring the rest of your stuff.”
I peek up at him. “Really?”
“Really.”
“I’m sorry. Maybe one day?”
“Stop apologising, Faith. You have nothing to be sorry for. I’m learning that you are very independent, even though you have a need to be loved and cared for, that independence means a lot to you. I get it.”
“Thank you,” I say and pull him to me to hold. “You are the kindest man I’ve ever met.”
“Uh-uh, King Dick, remember.”
“You’re all talk,” I pretend-mock him.
He chuckles. “You will never see that side of me unless someone has hurt you. I don’t want you to see the bad.” His serious tone cuts off the barb I was about to make about his king dong. “And your mother is more than welcome.”
“Can I say I think I’m falling in love with you?” I ask tentatively.
His eyes light up which is so sweet, I nearly cry. “Oh, you can say that as often as you like and when youdofall in love with me, I will be the happiest alpha in the world.”
I cup his face and kiss him softly, but then turn back to the rest of the men and my mum. “I’m going to pack.”
“I’ll help,” Xander says straight away.
I nod, knowing he needs to be near me to seek the reassurances that what he did was okay. It is more than okay. He protected my family from a monster and got him to confess that he arranged for one of the most dangerous gangs of alphas to kidnap my dad. He doesn’t know where they took him. Xander believes him. Apparently, he pissed himself and confessed all before Xander had even gotten warmed up. I make my way upstairs and as I pass the small room that Derek used to occupy, I stop. He is in there, fixing up the hole in the partition wall that separates our two rooms. Pressing my lips together, I watch for a minute. The hole is nearly gone and Pete with it.
“We’ll pay the rent on this place for six months, just to keep anyone out while he rots,” Xander says quietly.
I nod, but don’t say anything. I have no words. Taking his hand and giving it a squeeze, I lead him to my room where he gets to work setting out all my clothes and belongings. I wonder where I’m going to put it all, when Matt appears with some boxes.
“Thanks,” I say with a smile. “Right on time.”
“Let’s get you out of this dump,” he says and helps Xander fill the boxes.
I watch them for a moment. How did this happen? How did fate hook me up with a one-night stand that led to my ultimate destiny? It’s crazy and trying to think about it too much is giving me a headache.
After a while, Matt moves on to help Harvey pack up my mum’s stuff, and Xander takes my things downstairs and out to the waiting SUV that Matt drove here. The seats are already flattened for moving all our stuff and that’s when it finally, truly hits me.
These alphas would do absolutely anything for me. Theyhavedone everything for me.
I’m not falling in love with them, I have fallen in love with them.
Truly and completely.
They are my everything, and I will do anything for them in return. I made a big gesture before with Sebastian even though I still had a small doubt in the back of my mind about having babies so soon.
I don’t now.
There isn’t a single doubt in my mind about what I want.
I want them and I want to be their omega who will give them the family they deserve as soon as I possibly can.
ChapterFifty-One
