Page 29 of Our Haunted Omegas
“I’m not most people,” Cobalt said. “Plus, I was tired of my hands shaking. It was as if your anxiety wanted my attention and didn’t have any other way of getting it. Now, it has a pathway.”
“I guess so,” I blinked, still a bit confused.
“I’m not going to say all the things you hate for people to say. You know he was a good guy and you shouldn’t have had to go through it. No one should’ve.”
“And you’re not running away.”
“Why would I? You weren’t part of Mundanes Before Magic, Odell,” Cobalt flashed me a bemused look.
“No, but—That’s just it. People in my life end badly.”
“Excuse you,” Ambry said from the front seat. “I’m still here and alive and almost happy most days, fuck you very much.”
“You’re mad at me,” I growled.
“Not for getting bit. Not—I don’t know,” Ambry sighed.
“Do I need to pull over again?” Indigo asked from the front seat.
“No,” Ambry and I said at the same time.
“Sorry, brother. I started something,” Cobalt said.
“No,” I said. “I don’t know what’s started or – I just don’t know!”
No one said much of anything for the rest of the drive.
“None of us know,”my wolf sounded off in my thoughts.“That’s the problem.”
I almost asked what none of us knew but decided not to poke the beast. Instead, I curled into Cobalt’s side the best as I could while still wearing the seatbelt. He wrapped his arm around me, and I dozed on and off for the last half of the ride. Maybe the others did talk while I slept. Maybe Cobalt spoke to his brother over their link. I couldn’t be sure, but the truck was silent except for the rustle of snack bags and the gentle hum of the engine and AC.
Indigo and Ambry snuck out of the truck when we got to the cabin. I startled awake to the tailgate dropping down to unload stuff.
“I’ll help,” I sputtered still half asleep.
“Leave them to it. They need to burn off some energy anyway,” Cobalt shook his head and unfastened his seatbelt and then mine. It had dug into my belly while I was asleep and left an angry red indent even through my shirt. Cobalt rubbed the spotbefore my sleep-fogged brain fully wrapped around why it hurt a bit.
“I could get used to you knowing it all,” I managed a sleepy chuckle. “So, all-knowing mate, why is Ambry mad at me?”
“Because you insulted one of his favorite people in the world,” Cobalt frowned.
“I didn’t do anything to Indigo.”
“He really cares about you and you know that,” Cobalt said, not letting me dance around the matter at hand. “He doesn’t think you’re cursed to be around.”
“It feels like it sometimes.”
“I think you two will be fine. Right now everyone is on edge. It’s like we’re passing it around. You and Ambry are passing it back and forth. Then I pick up on it and then Indigo worries about me.”
“He does worry about you and Teal a lot,” I said. “He said as much that morning I had the breakdown in the kitchen. He also insisted he knew you better than anyone else and that you’d figure out how to make it all make sense.”
“Glad someone has confidence in me,” Cobalt laughed.
“I hate that I make you uncertain.”
“You’re not the first thing to do that, you know. Plenty of things have made me feel uncertain. Sex and seduction are easy. We’re all animals at heart. Unless I’m hitting on a lesbian, mated person, or someone who is ace I have at least a fifty-fifty chance. Everyone wants to feel good. It’s all primal. Love – caring – and all that stuff is always uncertainty. Anything can happen and eventually everything will happen. Though, I trust myself. Hell, I trust myself more than I trust anyone and I chose you as much as you chose me.”
“That was before all of this,” I sighed.
