I sputtered as I followed him to the exit, snagging the to-go bag out of his hand.
“Did you even have to go to the bathroom?”
Leo laughed at my outrage. “Nah.”
“We could have split the check.”
He threw me a knowing look. Yeah, as if I would ever agree to splitting the check. I rolled my shoulders, irritated that I had been bested by his plan, when I caught the light floral scent of my omega. I stopped abruptly and spun around, looking for her. Why hadn’t she called us to say she was here?
“What is it?” Leo asked.
“I can scent Lucy.”
He pulled out his phone. “Huh. She didn’t text.”
“Maybe she came in through the back with Summer?”
Leo shrugged. “Let’s go check.”
I followed him back the way we came. No one stopped us, so we walked down the hallway toward the kitchen. Even with the scent of food in the air, my alpha detected Lucy right away. I jerked my head at one of the office doors and pushed it open.
I didn’t know what I expected to find inside, but it wasn’t Lucy and Summer sitting at a desk, giggling, a pile of fortune cookies and empty food containers in front of them.
“What do we have here?” I crossed my arms.
Lucy whipped her head up with a gasp.
Leo grinned as he cocked his head. “Are you getting into trouble, pretty girl?”
She shook her head, looking decidedly guilty.
Summer snorted. “That’s my cue to go.” She stopped on her way to the door. “Actually, no. The three of you should go because I don’t even want to think about what’s going to happen in here if you stay.”
Lucy’s cheeks heated, and she shoved her friend. “We’re going, we’re going. Thanks for your assistance. You ready, boys?” She breezed by us, providing no explanation for why she had been hiding in the office and not stuck in traffic.
I glanced at Leo and he just shook his head. “I think we’ve been played.”
We followed Lucy back through the restaurant. “What did your fortune cookie say?” I asked.
“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.”
My cheeks heated at his words. Fuck, my mind was in the gutter.
We exchanged small crumpled slips of paper.
Kiss him. No context. No reason. Just do it. See what happens.
Leo’s sharp inhale and deepening scent went straight to my cock. We locked eyes, and his cheeky smile and cocked eyebrow told me we were on the same wavelength. Giddy nerves sparked through me as I reached out and took his hand, feeling like a teenager again.
The cool night air washed over us as we stepped outside, but it did little to clear my head. He ushered Lucy and me to a small cove on the side of the building, hidden from the sidewalk by a leafy tree.
We crowded around our omega, her body pressed between ours, and I gripped her jaw. “Were you ever stuck in Briar’s Landing?”
Lucy bit her lip to stop from smiling as she shook her head.
Leo’s fingers twisted in her hair. “Our fortune cookies were weirdly pointed. You wouldn’t have had anything to do with that, would you?”
“The fortune cookies here are always very unique,” Lucy said.
