I stare at him, refusing to answer.
“Right, I’ll be off. Thank you, Pack Prince.” There is nothing mocking there, but I can’t help but get the feeling that he was laughing at us.
“He’s an ass,” Kota snaps.
“How long?” I growl.
Vale looks at his phone. “We can go now.”
I jog down the stairs and hit the button on the lift. It takes forever, and then we’re in the mirror room as it descends. I don’t see anything. This is it. We’re free.
Our last time.
I’m not coming back here.
Now that I've found her, everything has changed. The car is waiting for us, and we climb in. Vale takes over from the driver, and then we’re away, threading through traffic. Our bags are down at the house we’ve purchased.
Everything is ready.
Three more long weeks have passed, and I’m dying to see her, dying to end this parting and take up our future.
We pull up to our new house in the middle of the night, but I don’t wait. I get out and walk the three houses to her house and stare up at it.
Inside one of those glowing windows is my omega.
“Come out, Omega,” I shout.
“Rory, for fuck’s sake, what are you doing?”
The door opens, and she comes out, her expression morphing into surprise when she sees it me.
I reach into my jacket and pull out the necklace we bought her. It’s a wild rose with thorns.
“I brought you a gift.”
She looks incredible; her hair tousled, wearing black sleep shorts and a singlet with a sleeping possum on it.
“I don’t need gifts,” she snarls.
I shrug. “I know, but I’m courting you all the same.”
“What? Wait, what are you doing here?” She folds her arms over her chest and looks around in confusion.
Dakota comes up and grabs her with one arm around her waist, pulling her up off her feet against his chest.
“We moved here.”
“What?” she shrieks.
“We gave it up, and we moved here,” Dakota says again. “This is our lifenow.”
She blinks and clutches at his shoulders. “What do you mean you moved here?”
“Um, we own that house over there.” Cyn points at our new home.
“You…bought a house on my street?”
“Yes.”
