Page 5 of Bikers & Bars

“What about Kraken?” Sienna teased.

Valentina just smirked. “An omega has to play the field, keep them on their toes. I like variety in my life. And tacos. Dig in, ladies.”

“Hold on, brownies in the oven first,” Hazel ordered. We followed her lead, finishing pouring our batter into the pans and sliding them in their enormous oven to bake.

I hadn’t realized just how badly I needed this hangout after finally giving in. It had been so long since I’d been in a relationship that my nerves were taking over.

Being with Bane and Loki felt no different than before, outside of my own internal drama. They treated me the same when we woke up today, in fact, I was woken up with a morning quickie.

Maybe for once in my life I just needed to go with the flow and stop overthinking. That was a whole fucking lot easier said than done.

“Who do you need to tell those boys about?” Valentina asked as she dug through the bags of food. “I just heard that before I got distracted by the guy who brought the food.”

I licked my lips, unsure of how to start but Hazel helpfully stepped in. “Eliza needs to tell Loki and Bane about her ex-fiance.”

“Ex-fiance?!” Valentina’s voice rose in shock as she froze in place.

“I broke things off before we left New York,” I added, rubbing my face with my hands. “He’s an alpha and he wanted this big family… I couldn’t give him that. I told him all of that before I left.”

Valentina’s expression became sad, a slight sheen of tears in her eyes before she cleared her throat. “And he just let you walk away? He’s an idiot.”

“Well, I didn’t really give him much choice…” I countered, oddly defending my ex I hadn’t seen in years.

“He’s an alpha, sweetheart, if he wanted you, he would have made you stay,” the older omega countered before waving her hand. “But right now, we aren’t ruining tacos or pot brownies over stupid men.”

“Priorities,” Teagan agreed, holding up a tray of shots she had gotten together while I was talking to Valentina.

“Hell yes!” Hazel smiled, grabbing herself a glass.

Valentina and I grabbed our own while Sienna drank more of her water shaking her head at our shenanigans.

“You guys know it’s only ten in the morning, right?”

“We were left unsupervised,” Hazel shrugged, tossing back the shot like it was water.

“And it’s my day off! So, I’m going to enjoy myself.”

“Oh my god, I know exactly what we should do!” Teagan said excitedly, drinking two shots and pulling out her phone. She tapped away at the screen before she looked up at me. “Eliza, youneed to get out more. You work at the biker bar and then go stay with them to get fucked six-ways to Sunday. But you need to live a little.”

“When did this become some kind of intervention?!” I asked, choking for a minute as Teagan leveled me with a stare. “Besides, if we need to have an intervention maybe it should be about you staying home more.”

“You get out more and experience things and I’ll stick around for a while and find stuff here?” Teagan offered.

I opened my mouth, ready to counter but stopped short when I saw a hint of vulnerability in my best friend’s blue-green eyes. Something was going on there and with a slight shake of her head I knew she didn’t want to talk about it. Not yet at least.

With an exaggerated sigh I collapsed into a nearby stool. “Fine! Fine, we can do some kind of bucket list of things.”

“Yes!” Hazel shouted, hands up in the air. “We should do a besties list! Keep our guys on their toes.”

“Count me in,” Sienna shot us a sly smile as she leaned in.

“Obviously I’m joining in. Sounds like you girls are going to raise hell and I need to be part of it.” Valentina was never one to be left out.

“I can already sense Maximo’s concern,” Hazel burst out laughing just as her phone started going off. “Speak of the devil… Hey, Alpha.”

Hazel’s purred greeting had me chuckling and shaking my head as she sauntered out of the room.I’m glad I’m not Maximo.

“What should we do first?” Teagan wondered out loud.

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