She stayed silent for a few minutes. It was pure torture. “I was planning on asking you something all evening but didn’t get up the nerve until now.”
“What?” I reached up and stroked her face. “Ask me anything.”
“Will you sleep with me tonight? Just sleep? My bed has felt so damned empty since the heat. Cold. Lonely.”
I nodded and stood, offering her my hand. “I would love that, Harper.”
Chapter Nineteen
Harper
The boys had been taking turns sleeping with me for over two weeks. The more they did, at my request, the more I knew in my heart that I might not be able to sleep alone ever again.
Rowan’s confession last week shocked me. I thought they were just taking pity on me. Taking in a nearly homeless omega and giving her shelter until she got her life together.
Somewhere along the way, Rowan said he fell in love with me. They all did.
And though I’d refused to admit it until now, I had fallen in love with them as well. Miles for his calm strength. Rowan for the way he cared for me and his pack. Lev for the way he saw needs in me that I didn’t know I had.
They saw all my broken pieces but never tried to put them back together. That was my job. But they offered to hold them while I did. Hold me while I learned to trust them and myself again.
One Saturday morning, I came downstairs, and they were all waiting. Coffee mugs in their hands.
My heart beat like a rabbit’s and I stopped in my tracks. “What’s going on?” I asked.
On the table were all my favorites. The bear claws from the bakery. Rowan’s breakfast casserole. Miles’ banana bread. Of course, the bear claws were from my bear, Lev.
“Good morning,” Miles said and came over to kiss my lips. There had been make-out sessions while they had been sleeping in my bed but nothing beyond that. They never pushed me for more. Didn’t even mention it.
But I’d seen the way their bodies reacted to me. Such restraint for alphas.
“Good morning,” I said. “It’s not my birthday. Shoot! Did I miss one of your birthdays?” No, that didn’t make sense. Everything on the table wasmyfavorite.
“No.” Lev came over and took my hand. His touch instantly calmed me. Every. Single. Time. “We have something we’d like to ask you.”
“To move out?” I joked, but no one else thought that was funny.
“No. Of course not, omega. Come and sit. Coffee?”
“Yes, please.” My tummy strummed up a thousand butterflies, and I could hardly swallow I was so nervous.
“We were talking about you yesterday,” Miles started, sitting next to me. “About how we all love you but other than Rowan, we haven’t made that clear. We decided to make it official.”
Oh, goddess. I nearly darted for the hills, but my wolf stilled me before my anxiety and overthinking got the best of me. “What does that mean?”
“It means,” Lev started. “That we want you to know that we love you. We are all in love with you. And we want to officially ask you if you would allow us the honor of courting you, properly.”
I opened my mouth, but Rowan spoke first. “Before you go with your gut reaction, please know that this can go as slowly as you like. Even if it takes years for you to trust us, then we will wait because there is no one else, no other omega on this earth, for us. All we ask is that you let us. Let us prove ourselves to you.”
“You already are proving yourselves to me.”
“We hope so.” Miles wrapped his arm around my shoulder. “We’d like to take you on a date tonight and present you with a mating gift. We’ve been working on it behind your back for weeks, but it’s time to give it to you, if you accept us—accept us courting you.”
“I need…can I finish my coffee before I answer?”
They all laughed, but it was about more than coffee. I wanted to let this sink in. The truth was, I already did trust them. They were nothing like my old pack. Not one bit.
We ate breakfast, and I let myself chill out.
