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“Nice?” River scoffs. “It was freaking awesome,” he leans into whisper in my ear, “especially the bit where you were bouncing up and down on my cock and screaming my name. That was my favorite part.”
I punch him on the arm. “Do you have no manners, River Caspian?”
He sighs. “Not really, but I’d be happy for you to house train me. You can buy me a lead and everything if you’d like, little one.”
The mental image of River naked, on his hands and knees and following me around the house comes to mind, and I have to admit it isn’t a bad one.
“I’ll have to think about that one.”
“And my other offer?”
“I feel like you’ve made me a long list of offers over the last few days.”
“I’m intending to win you over, that’s why.” Colt snorts and River pats him on the shoulder. “Hey, Colt’s just played his ace card: Harper, possibly the sweetest kid on the planet. I have to play hardball to compete.”
“You don’t have to compete,” I say, a little breathless.
“We don’t?” Caspian asks, glancing sideways at his friend.
“You know I want you both.”
“What are you saying?” River asks, more quietly now, taking my hands in his.
“You felt it, right?” I ask, thinking what the hell do I have to lose. I may as well be truthful. “This thing between the four of us. This connection.”
River smiles. “I’ve never enjoyed a heat as much as yours, Molly.”
I shake my head, squeezing his fingers. “But it was more than just the sex,” I say, my little omega heart pounding with anxiety, prepared to be crushed.
River closes his eyes. Colt stares at my face, silent.
“Yes,” River says finally, “it was. But Colt … Colt and Harper come as a pair.”
“You wouldn’t want them in a pack?” I ask, outraged on Colt’s behalf.
“No, fuck, Molly. I’ve been holding out on this fucking dream for as long as I can remember but …”
“Being a mom isn’t easy,” Colt says. “It’s not just making cookies, Molly. It’s holding them in the middle of the night when they’re sick, it’s being woken early every morning, it’s battling them over chores, it’s putting their needs above yours every single time.”
“I know,” I say softly, “and that doesn’t scare me. I …” I take a deep breath. “My mom was sick and I was the one who looked after her. Nursed her, held her, put her needs before mine. Heck, I put my life on hold to do it and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I’m not a spoiled omega. I’m not worried about any of that stuff. In fact, I’d enjoy it. Especially if it means I get to have the pack I want.”
“We’re the pack you want?” River says with an amused smile, like I’m even crazier than they expected.
“Harperisthe sweetest kid in the world,” I say, making Colt smile more genuinely than I’ve ever seen,“ and the fact she is in your lives, makes me want you all the more. Hey, my ovaries should be spent after two days in my heat, instead they’re turning cartwheels.” I let go of one of River’s hands and reach out to take Colt’s, so that River’s hand rests in my left, Colt’s in my right. Both my ovaries and my heart flutter. “So, can we give this a try, please?”
The two friends look at each other, then back to me.
“Yes,” they say in unison and I laugh, happy tears spilling down my cheeks.
Two alphas convinced.
That only leaves Ford.
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Molly
“Do you fancy a taco?”I ask Ford as he drives me home. I’m sitting in the front passenger seat beside him. When I opened the door and sat myself down, he’d glanced at me and not said a word. “Or do you not eat those either?”
