Spencer, for his part, stood back and let me work as I pilfered multiple items. He smiled indulgently and crossed his arms as I made my way toward Chase’s room. My arms were already overflowing with fabric, but I didn’t let that stop me.
“Do you want me to take your hoard to your room?” Spencer asked as items kept falling out of my arms.
I considered for a moment before passing more of them to him. Part of me wanted to hold onto them, but I was getting overloadedveryfast. If he took some, I would be able to get even more supplies for my nest.
Ultimately, my desire for the best nest in the world won out. He took them out of the room while I finished raiding Chase’s laundry basket.
That just left Spencer’s room. He hadn’t said a word when I had raided Bear’s and Chase’s laundry baskets, so I was confident he wouldn’t care that I wanted to go through his.
When I walked into his room, it took a moment to locatethe small wicker basket in the corner, but as soon as I did, I padded over gleefully.
There was a deep sense of giddy joy about having items belonging to my alphas in my nest. It was going to be amazing.
Opening the lid, I frowned at the contents of the laundry basket.
It was empty.
Well, pretty close to empty. At least there was a single sock.
“I’m sorry, princess. I did my laundry yesterday,” Spencer admitted as he found me glowering at his lack of laundry.
“But I want my nest to smell like you,” I whined, tears gathering in the corners of my eyes.
A look of sheer panic took over Spencer's face, and he stepped forward, resting his hands on my upper arms.
“You can have the clothes off my back, princess. Or what about the sheets? They smell like me?” he offered hastily.
The sheets? I hadn't thought about that. Pausing, I turned to look at his bed, thinking for a moment.
That could be the perfect solution.
Taking a few steps forward, I grabbed a corner of the dark gray sheets and lifted them to my nose. The overwhelming smell of pepper and that dark, rich aroma Spencer gave off was covering them. Strongly.
A happy chirp escaped my chest as I started viciously yanking all the sheets off the bed. I needed them. Without a word to Spencer, I gathered them all and darted out of the room, toward my nest.
Behind me, Spencer laughed as he followed me into my room.
My nest was going to be thebestnest.
Chapter 34
Flora
I’d felt it coming for a while now. The building urge inside me had grown steadily, and this definitely wasn’t the little taste I’d gotten before we made my nest.
Nothing could change what was about to happen. I was pissed it wasn't my choice, but it wasn’t my fault or the fault of any of the alphas in the apartment.
I was going into heat.
Sitting in the center of my hastily constructed nest, I looked out over the room that wasn’t mine, my skin on fire and itchy. This wasn’t exactly how I’d pictured going into my first proper heat with alphas. Hell, I’d thoroughly believed I’d be able to avoid them forever. I was grasping on to the bottle of supposed suppressants. I didn’t know why. But I’d grabbed them, holding them in my lap as I waited for the heat to truly begin. Spencer had left them on my nightstand after he had realized they were fake.
The guys had let me have a bit of space, and I was grateful for it. Everything had happened so quickly after I’d learned that the pills were placebos, and I hadn’t had a moment to process itall. My alphas were never too far away, though; all I had to do was call out, and one of them would be with me in a second.
Given that my brain was no longer clouded with the first wave of my heat, I could really ruminate on what having my suppressants changed meant. Why had my stalker done that? Why change my medication? Were they hoping that I’d go into heat on my own and they could be the one to…
I couldn’t keep going with that line of thought. It was unbearable. I allowed myself to be pissed for a moment, well and truly pissed the fuck off. It wasmychoice how to handle my heats, and I’d chosen suppressants. That choice was taken from me, and dammit, I was allowed to be angry about it.
Bear and Chase had been so understanding. I was still surprised by their reaction even now. I had no doubt that they would arrange for new medication after this, but there was no stopping the heat that was coming on fast. I was waiting for the switch to flip, for that first hit of hormones that I knew would knock me on my ass.
