Maybe he was just crushing on someone?
Maybe what he thought was serious wasn’t as demented as what I had been doing these last two months? Sneaking into her place, watching her sleep, breaking and entering into her room and that of her roommates. Stealing panties.
Maybe he wasn’t following her around every moment he could, especially at night when she was clueless of the dangers lurking in the shadows, hidden beneath the cloak of darkness?
Like today. Sadie had passed right by me, talking to whom I assumed was her roommate about coming here. Getting closer to her after she passed me had been risky, especially when I had already been in the elevator with her this morning. But I hadn’tbeen able to resist. Curiosity got the better of me, needing to know who she was talking to, who made her laugh that way.
Unable to help myself, I’d reached and opened the door for her with the complete intention of her mutteringthanksand passing by without sparing me a second look. Instead, our eyes had connected, and she’d saidit’s youlike she remembered me.
Like she had been thinking about me, too.
My teeth ground together at the reminder of what that moment had felt like. The way our bodies had swayed closer to one another, how her fruity sweet scent had wrapped itself around me and dug its claws into every one of my senses. If that wasn’t enough, the attraction was definitely mutual.
Magnetic.
Everything in the world disappeared, and it was only her and me in that moment.
Hearing she would be here had forced my hand to get my ass here as well. I wasn’t going to risk something happening. For the most part, the Omegas were okay, but there were always snakes in the wild, and I wasn’t about to let my bird get bitten.Unless it’s by me.
A commotion sounded from where the beer pong tables were, and I rolled my eyes.
“Why are your brothers like this?” I asked. Jeremy sighed with a shrug.
“They’ve probably been drinking since they woke up today,” he shared, and I shook my head.
I could understand a party frat like Sigma Laus doing stupid shit like that; they were heavy-party guys with heavier-pocketed alumni who could back them. But the Omegas? They had a rep for being a little more… serious. Or as serious as Greek life could be.
“It’s the new president,” he explained.
“The guy from the basketball team?” He nodded.
“He’s a dick.”
“You moving in here?” I finally had the balls to ask. I hadn’t wanted to before, worried it would sound like I was being pushy or clingy. Not to mention having been extremely occupied with my little bird.
“I don’t think so,” he replied before glancing in my direction. “That cool with you?”
“Hell yeah.” I tipped my beer at him, and he did the same in a silent toast. “Your dad cool with that?” I asked. His dad and grandfather were Omega legacies. It was one of the reasons Jeremy was in the frat.
“I don’t think he’d care where I live.” I was about to say something when a deep voice cut through the yard before silence hit the noisy yard.
“Oh my god! Where have you been all my life, pretty girl?” a guy I couldn’t really see from where I was obnoxiously yelled.
Both of us shifted and straightened from where we sat. Then I frowned. His eyes were directed right at the two girls who had just walked into the backyard, each holding a red Solo cup in their hands.
One of them was my little bird.
My Sadie.
Mine,the animal inside me growled.
“What the fuck?” we both said as we turned to face one another.
“She’s mine,” we said almost simultaneously.
“The hell she’s yours,” Jer growled and stood.
“Man, I’m not playing,” I answered, forgetting that Jer was my roommate, teammate, and best friend as we started to square off.
