Page 27 of Double Delivery
I blinked. “I… lost count.”
“You wanted to stay onthisroute, didn’t you?”
“I guess?”
He kissed the side of my mouth before continuing. “I don’t know how many times I turned down different routes. I always had some excuse that made sense. I liked my customers, I was used to it, maybe the other driver had something going in in their life that the other route would make easier for them. Something inside insisted I stay here.”
“Same…” I whispered.
He kissed me again, and I melted into it.
“For months,” he whispered when he pulled back again. “Months. I’ve felt like the world was upside down. The only times things felt right were when I was with you or Ollie. It was like that for you, too, wasn’t it?”
I nodded. “Yes.”
He swallowed. “We kept these routes because fate was keeping us here. We both needed to meet Ollie, and we needed to know each other.”
I stared for several seconds, until his words finally started to make sense. “You mean…?”
He nodded. “We’re fated, the three of us. Ollie said he’s known since we met. I don’t know why we didn’t figure it out, but that doesn’t matter. Our omega is in heat. He needs us.”
I shrugged out from under Axel’s hands and took a step toward the house.
Axel grabbed my arm, and I turned to see him shaking his head.
“It’s overwhelming,” he warned. “Ollie’s scent is so strong, he was prepared to put the pickups outside for us. It took all I had to leave him there.”
“But…”
“I promised him we’d come back—both of us—after we finished our routes. I’ve got your outbound.”
I paused, then nodded. “Ok. How do we want to do this?”
“Finish as quickly as we can. Call as soon as we’re done. Then we can coordinate coming back here.”
“Got it. How much longer do you think you have?”
Axel licked his lips, making me want to kiss him again. “Two, maybe three hours.”
“I’m about the same.”
He chuckled. “A pretty short day, considering the season. We’ll be done before eight.”
I laughed in agreement.
Axel pulled me close for another kiss. “I have to get moving. I’m pushing what I can get away with for a break.”
“Ok.”
I followed him to his truck and grabbed a bag with my name on it. My mind raced as I scanned the packages, but no matter how I looked at it, everything made sense.
I’d been dreaming of Axel and Ollie, and now it seemed I’d have both.
I cast a longing glance at the house as I started my truck. Now that I knew, the drive to go in and breed my omega was strong. But I trusted Axel. If he said it was overwhelming, then it probably was.
It wasn’t worth risking my job to get a whiff of Ollie’s heat scent. Not when I’d be back in a few hours.
I went through the rest of my route on autopilot as my mind kept drifting to the way Axel kissed me, and to the realization that he was right. Like him, I didn’t know why the immediate mating drive had been absent. But now that I knew, it was unmistakable.
