Page 164 of Broken Omega

I put on socks and slide my feet into the slip-on sneakers.

I guess I’m ready to go convince the academy that I’ve found my mate.

Stepping out into the main room of the apartment, I find most of my mates waiting for me, all dressed and ready to go. Kellan holds his hand out to me. He’s wearing the suit and shirt he was wearing on Friday, and he looks just as handsome tonight as he did then.

I take his hand, and he hugs me in close.

“This is it,” he tells me.

“It is,” I say, hardly believing it. “Did you call your friend to give us a ride?”

He nods. “She should be getting to the pickup location any minute now.”

“We should leave.”

“Be careful,” Donnie tells us.

“Remind your friend to call us with updates.”

“I will,” Kellan promises.

He leans in and kisses River, and I get a little burst of excited butterflies in my stomach a second later.

Oh my God. They claimed each other!

My lips widen into a huge smile as Kellan moves past him, stopping in front of Donnie.

River grins at me, and I gasp out a breath as I watch Donnie grip Kellan’s lapels and plant a swoon-worthy kiss on his lips. My mouth drops open. I raise my eyebrows at River.

“It all happened last night. I’ll tell you about it later.”

“You’d better,” I warn him. “No leaving out any details.”

It’s crazy hot watching two men you have feelings for make-out. I can’t believe Kellan accepted River and Donnie as mates so damn quickly. It’s awesome. I’m so damn happy for all of them. I’m so damn happy for me.

“We’ll see you later,” Kellan says.

I follow him out of the apartment.

BROOKE

It’s another cool and breezy night in Cressidan City as we leave the building and walk to the pickup location two blocks away from the apartment. Of all the finer details we discussed, this one was probably the most hotly contested. Kellan didn’t want it too far from the apartment in case someone recognized me on the walk, and Frost didn’t want it too close in case Kellan’s mystery friend turned out to be untrustworthy.

We walk in silence for a little bit, mostly because my mind is still blown over finding out my Alpha was very busy last night claiming mates I haven’t had the chance to properly claim yet. I don’t know how to bring it up without making him blush, so I decide to leave that conversation to the side for now. Despite knowing we’re going to Goldcrest to do something that won’t be easy, I feel pretty good.

“I would love to be able to walk around more of the city like this,” I admit.

“You would?” he asks, raising an eyebrow at me. “Why?”

“I don’t know. It’s nice to be out somewhere that isn’t the gardens at Goldcrest, or the forest at my father’s house. I’m sure there’s a ton of fun stuff to do around here and I’d love to get to just wander around watching people and eating city food.”

“We can go on date nights in the city whenever you want, when this is over.”

When this is over. Yeah. We’ve got some pretty dangerous hurdles to jump over to get to that part.

“I’d like that,” I tell him.

“We’re almost there,” Kellan says, meaning the pickup location.

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