Page 25 of Alpha's Two Omegas

Ty turned slowly to face me. I could see that utter shock and that wild hope warring in his eyes. He sounded wary and serious, probably the most serious I’d heard him sound since I’d known him.

“Ronnie, I need you to give me some straight answers. It’s important. Like, all-our-happiness-may-depend-on-this kind of important, so I need the truth. Ok?”

“O-ok.”

“Are you interested in me? Romantically?”

If I’d thought my blush was dying down, it came roaring right back up. I swear I could see the heat waves rising up from my cheeks in front of my eyes.

“Um, yes, I am. Sorry.”

“You don’t need to apologise for the way you feel. We’ll talk about that in a minute. I need another two answers first.”

“Ok.”

“Are you interested in Alder, too?”

He was trying to kill me with embarrassment. I barely managed to squeak out a, “Yes,” but thankfully that was all Ty seemed to need from me.

“And last question: do you think Alder’s interested in me? As more than a friend?”

I stared at him, not sure what to say. More than anything else, I was afraid that this was going to be the punchline of some big joke. Like, of course Alder is in love with Ty, and of course Ty will go straight upstairs after him because who wouldn’t choose Alder over me?Iwould definitely choose Alder over me. He was everything good in a person. Much more fun than me, much smarter, more confident, and they’d been best friends for years…

No way would this go well for me.

I swallowed, trying to swallow down my disappointment and jealousy. And, yes, I was jealous of them both, which I hated.

Before I could dredge up an answer, though, Ty shook his head.

“Never mind, that was a stupid question. Of course Alder’s not interested in me.”

He looked so crushed and I was furious with myself for hesitating. Just a second’s hesitation while I tried to work out how I could save my poor little heart from being crushed, but it had cost Ty his confidence.

I practically shouted, “Are you kidding? You really are the most oblivious person if you don’t realise Alder’s completely in love with you. I thought you were a couple for like two weeks when I moved in. It made me feel like the worst person because I fancied you both so much, I felt like I was perving on an exclusive couple. He looks at you the way you said, um, that I, um, look at him.”

Which was fair, since I probablydidlook at Alder like he hung the moon. Something about him made me just feel… brighter. I wasn’t great at hiding my emotions: take the crying fest and my beetroot-red face as examples.

The wonder in Ty’s eyes nearly cracked me clean in two. I felt it straight in my chest, all that wonder as he realised the love of his life really did want him back.

This was not going to go well for me, and I almost didn’t even care. Ty and Alder were about to get together and live happily ever after, just like they deserved.

Then Ty held out his hand to me. I reached for it tentatively and his large fingers enveloped my whole hand.

“Come on, let’s go get our man.”

Chapter 11: Alder

Icouldn’t believe I’d said that. I’d spent years happily in love with my best friend and never once had I messed up badly enough to let him know that.

My body shook with fear and dread in a way I’d never experienced before. I was never afraid of anything. I didn’t care what other people thought of me and I knew how to handle myself, so the only thing I was afraid of was losing Ty.

And I’d just practically guaranteed that.

Now he knew that I was in love with him, he wouldn’t want to live with me.

Not that it mattered anyway, since I was going to move out and get a new job and leave Ty and Ronnie to live a perfect life together.

It was just that I’d planned to let them live happily ever after with me somewhere in the picture. I’d thought I could visit them at weekends or call them up for a chat. Ty would find that too weird now and no matter how sweet and generous Ronnie was, he wouldn’t want another omega around his alpha, not if that omega was a hundred percent for sure in love with that alpha.

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