Page 148 of Believe it or Knot

“Okay,” Gray says, stroking a hand down Liam’s spine. “I think we have everything we need. Let’s get our omega to his nest.”

Sorrel tips her head back to meet my gaze, read my expression, and I know she’s felt my emotions through our bond. Awe. Excitement. Nerves.

She’s reflecting them back at me. Our first heat as a part of a pack. Our first heat ever.

I’m not sure if our scents are giving us away, but the three others surround us, rough purrs rising from their chests. “It’s going to be perfect,” Gray says. “You’re both going to be perfect.”

Liam nods. “Yeah, and even if you aren’t, we’ll all be so fucking out of it we won’t notice.”

Sorrel chokes on a laugh and I join her. “And by the end,” Rafe says, voice low and rumbly. “You’ll be riding our knots, little beta.”

Both of our heads whip in his direction and he just grins at us. “I think a three-day fuck fest is the perfect to finish your training, don’t you think?”

Sorrel shivers and nods. “Yeah. Yeah, I think we should do that.”

“Well, fuck,” Liam groans. “We need to move right now. And I need someone to fuck me in the car.”

That’s enough to get all of us moving.

Epilogue: XO

One year later…

The clink of glasses and the low hum of voices filters to me through the open glass doors behind me. The party is still in full swing inside, well past midnight, and I’m feeling a little peopled out.

But this is Liam’s night. A wrap party for his most recent Huntington Force movie. The entire cast and crew are so deep in their cups, things are getting a little sloppy. Someone shrieks and then laughs raucously, and I feel a little shiver work its way down my spine. Not the bad kind. Just… excitement.

Tonight marks the end of a busy six months and the start of a month-long vacation for our whole pack. Gray has promised he won’t work at all the entire time we’re gone. Liam has stated the only work he plans on doing is song writing with me. He won’t even look at any scripts. Gage is leaving his new business in very capable hands, as am I. I still own the Snack Shack, but I haven’t worked there in months. Instead, it’s managed by a very capable beta couple that reminds me so much of my parents I cried after the first time I met them.

And Rafe… well, he’s always going to be head of our security, focused on our pack’s safety, but we’re going to a private island in the middle of nowhere, so he should be able to relax a little.

But that’s not even the best part.

I have a secret. One I’ve been saving to share with them for a few weeks now.

My first instinct was to tell them right away, but then I thought it better to wait until we could all bask in the joy together.

My phone vibrates, and I pull it out of my jeans pocket to check the screen.

Sadie:

We did it bitches!

She’s attached a link to an article that I already saw. Gray made sure I was aware of it the moment it published.

Not only is today the last day of filming for Liam, but it’s also the day that the courts reached a ruling against Apex Pharmaceuticals, resulting in countless higher ups and lead scientists in the company serving jail time, as well as paying reparations to the people they hurt in their quest to make money.

Sadie and Sylvie were far from the only victims.

“What’s got you so happy?” Gage murmurs, stepping up behind me. Both of his hands brace on the metal railing in front of me, caging me in. Not that I mind in the slightest. I’d happily spend the rest of my life with this alpha looming over me, making me feel safe and secure.

His lips brush against my bare shoulder in a lingering kiss. “Biscuit?”

I lean back into him, my head resting on his shoulder. “Nothing, really. Just glad Liam’s finally done with filming. Now we can take a vacation. I’m ready for it to be just us.”

He chuckles. “Sure, just us and Sadie and Sylvie. Jackson, Davis, Swift, Maddox, Ethan, Topher, Logan-”

I cut him off as I spin and press my lips to his, because he would definitely keep listing all the members of both the Falcone and newly minted Grace pack. It still makes my heart go all melty that Vee’s pack changed their pack name to her middle name, rather than make her use the name of the man who conspired to keep them apart.

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