Meg falls dramatically onto the swing. “Low blow, Papa Sanderson.”
He chortles and takes my alphas with him while I sway. My mother stops beside me.
“I’m never going to forgive you lot for this. Your time will come.”
“Pish posh,” my mother says with a gleam of amusement in her eyes. “We needed to make sure they are worthy. It’s not everyday you lose one of your daughters.”
“You’re not losing me. You’re gaining them,” I say with my most evil grin. “Sucks to be you.”
“Oh?”
“They moved in across the road.”
My mother’s mouth falls open. She looks at them, all happy chatting with my dad. “You don’t say.”
“Gave up everything for me,” I say with a thick level of sulkiness.
“What’s wrong with that?”
“I can’t stay mad at them when they’ve passed all the tests and done what I asked.”
My mother laughs. “Well, they can’t be perfect.”
Oh, but they can.
I haven’t told my dad about them, and I probably won’t. And they don’t know about me yet, either.
But, yeah, they fit perfectly into this family and my life.
Pix leans up against me, watching them.
“RIP Alpha?”
I shake my head. “No. Not anymore.”
Pix does a mock gasp. “Are you off the market? The Omega Rejected? Have you found your true love?”
I elbow him, but the truth is. I’ve always been theirs.
But now…they are mine.
Vale
We follow Bonnie’s dad out to the park. It’s an overcast day. Bonnie wasn’t worried by us leaving in the slightest. I admit I am a bit nervous, I want to impress this alpha. He is, after all, Bonnie’s father.
“This is a test we cannot afford to lose.”
Dakota leans forward, peering through the windshield as Sanderson turns off the dirt road we’ve been driving on and parks in a carpark.
“What do you think he’s going to have us do?” Rory asks.
“No idea, but keep yourself ready. He’s more dangerous than he’s letting on,” I say quietly.
I park the car and get out. It’s cool but not cold, and the winds are blowing in a way that makes me think rain’s coming in the next twenty-four hours.
“Right, I brought you out here because I need to know that you’re going to be able to look after my daughter the way she needs. That you can keep up with her.”
He grins.
