Page 19 of Alpha's Two Omegas

I liked to get home and talk to them both, though. Ronnie was fast becoming just as interesting as Ty and I wanted to learn everything about him. I’d long since learned everything about Ty. I could read that man like a book, scanning him from head to foot and learning everything I needed to about what he was thinking. I liked that I knew him so well. I also liked that I was learning to read Ronnie in the same way.

As I got in the front door, I kicked off my shoes and went straight through to the kitchen where I could hear the low murmur of voices. On the basis that we didn’t have enough room to make Ty an office or anything, he always worked up at the kitchen table.

I felt the familiar tug inside me at my first sight of them. I’d always got that feeling when I looked at Ty, the most handsome man I’d ever seen. And Ronnie, too, made my insides flip when I saw his pretty face.

Ty was talking in a low voice and gesturing at the screen, and Ronnie was slowly moving an image around to get it in the right place.

Ty was so cute, teaching Ronnie all his techie stuff. And the two of them understood aesthetics in a way I didn’t yet. I was learning, but I had a long way to go. Sometimes, I got Ronnie to talk to me about compositions and that made a lot of sense to me, so I was hoping to get him to move on to colour palettes soon. Ty had never managed to get me to understand about that.

I looked at the two of them, their heads bent together. They looked so perfect together. Ronnie was sweet and caring and timid and was absolutelyflourishingunder Ty’s careful nurturing. And Ty was… well, Ty. The love of my life. At least, he had been, until Ronnie came along and became the second person ever that I could stand to be around for more than an hour at a time. I actuallyenjoyedhis company. Craved it, even.

As I watched, my stomach gave a weird jolt.

Only this time, it wasn’t in the nice, looking-at-Ty kind of way I normally got.

This time, it was like going down a roller-coaster when I didn’t expect it.

They were there, murmuring quietly, in their own little world. A world that was just the two of them. Not me.

They’d always included me in stuff before, but now they’d been working on this project together and they’d spent time alone and they were both beautiful and creative and kind and gentle… all things I wasn’t.

And now the two of them were—

I swallowed, trying to get that pesky lump in my throat to go down. It was making breathing difficult.

The two of them were falling in love.

It was obvious. Even somebody who’d never met Ronnie before would be able to take one glance at those adoring eyes and say,oh yeah, that man’s got it bad.

And, since I’d never known Ty want to spend any period of time with anyone who wasn’t me, and now he was suddenly all over Ronnie, I’d say that was pretty conclusive. He talked to him in that soft voice he used to save just for me, and he gave this soft little smile whenever he thought Ronnie wasn’t looking and—

I didn’t know what I was going to do.

Actually, Ididknow. Knowing what to do was never my problem. Actuallydoingit was my problem. And, right now, I knew exactly what I needed to do, and I didn’t have it in me to go through with it.

Ty glanced up, sensing my presence.

“Hey,” he said, smiling at me. Not the soft little smile he used for Ronnie, but the normal one he used for me.

I knew I didn’t have a hope of pulling off a convincing smile right then and if I tried a fake one, Ty would see through it and then he’d start asking what was wrong and I also didn’t think I’d be able to talk about it without bursting into tears, so instead, I didn’t bother smiling. That wasn’t unusual, since I spent a lot of my time really pissed off at the idiots in the world and Ty was used to me bitching and griping about them.

Ronnie wasn’t as attuned to me as Ty was, so he only looked up when Ty spoke. When he did, his whole face lit up. Damn, he looked good like that. I could see exactly why Ty was falling for him. Being on the receiving end of that look was an ego trip unlike any other.

“You’re back!”

Ok, he sounded pretty thrilled about that and, as mentioned, his face was looking all kinds of pleased to see me, but surely that had to be fake? Nobody could be spending time with Ty – getting his personal and full attention and wanting to marry the man right fucking now – and then be pleased to be interrupted. Right?

“Look at this. We’ve nearly finished putting my pictures on Wilfred’s website.”

The confident way he told me to look at his work was cute as hell. Watching this omega have the confidence to speak up andtellme to look was a rush.

I sauntered round the table to peer over his shoulder. I stuck my head between them and glanced at the screen. The website somehow managed to capture the unique feel of Sunflower Smiles and the loving care that Wilfred put into each item.

“That looks really good,” I said. “I love this picture of Wilfred working.”

His breath puffed against my cheek as he said, “Thank you. I wanted to show what care he puts into his craft.”

I jerked my head back and stood up, stepping back further to lean against the sink, trying to look casual and probably failing. The feel of Ronnie’s breath on my skin had made me want to turn my head and capture his lips with my own. Fuck, fuckitty fuck. I couldn’t do that. I’d never wanted to kiss anybody except Ty before, and now I wanted them both. And I couldn’t have either of them.

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