Page 117 of Bliss & Her Idols

The one thing that unites us is our determination to do anything to save the people we love.

Cricket purrs. “We’ll save our Alpha too.”

Torin looks thrown, before he clasps Cricket even tighter to him.

“Only my childhood friends, Jin and Zero, have noticed that I need saving,” Torin says, softly. “All my life, I have focused on saving others, while being alone.”

I kiss him then.

I kiss the sadness away.

The shadows of his past.

I kiss him to bring my Alpha into the present with us in this bed with the mirror reflecting us back, which is big enough for our entire pack.

To tell him that he’s not alone anymore.

Torin moans, wrapping one strong arm around me, and his other more firmly around Cricket.

Then I’m startled by a whistle from the doorway.

“Fast work, Charming. Getting kinky without me,” a voice like caramel says.

“Ice Dragon,” I breathe.

All three of us on the bed struggle to sit up in a flail of limbs and tangled hair.

Jin’s musical laugh iseverythingafter the memory of his final words that have haunted me for the last week.

… I won’t ever forget it…forget you…

Jin is leaning in the doorway with his hands in the pockets of the same silk suit that he’d been wearing on the top of the cliff in the opening ceremony.

His coat spills from his shoulders to the floor.

He looks like sin.

Except, he doesn’t appear untouchable anymore.

He looks likemine.

“Get inside,” Torin hisses. “You’re not meant to be here. Where are your staff? Where’s Zoe?”

“Somewhere else, going fucking crazy, probably.” Jin shrugs, strolling inside and closing the door. “I escaped. I’m good at that, remember? I had to see you.” His grin widens. “It looks like I’m just in time to rescue you from feral Omegas.”

“Hey…” I protest.

Jin may be taking risks that could put us all in danger but he appears to live for the thrill.

But then, don’t I?

Jin glances at the mirror above the bed with a smirk, before throwing himself onto the bed. He kisses Torin, Cricket, and me, as if he can’t make up his mind between us and will never have enough time to kiss us all.

Finally, after he holds my cheeks and kisses across my lips, nose, and cheeks, I laugh, batting him off. “We get that you’re happy to see us, pup.”

Jin settles onto the bed next to Torin.

Cricket crawls to lie on top of Jin, resting his head against his chest and purring. “I can hear your heart. It’s beating fast.”

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