Page 105 of Knot Only For One Night

“Perfect!” Lacy says and I make the call. The movie is picked out, the face masks on our face, and the doorbell rings for the pizza.

I open the door, wallet in hand when I see someone I should not see but am so happy to. No, Esper. It’s girls’ night.

“What are you doing here Asher?”

“Dropping off my lovely omega’s pizza.”

“I was supposed to pay for that.”

“I got it, Moonlight.”

“Thank you,” I say and stand on my tiptoes to give him a quick peck, grabbing the pizza and attempting to shut the door, but he puts his foot in the way before I can.

“Since I got the pizza, can I hang out with you guys? Pleeeease?”

I shake my head, laughing. So that's why he paid for the pizza. Bribery at its finest.

“Girls’ night. Girls only.”

“What if I did a face mask too? My pores are so bad.”

His skin is flawless. Unfairly. And for that alone, he can’t join.

“Thank you for the pizza,” I say again.

“Jewels! Let me join please!” he shouts and I laugh, my face bright red as I shut the door.

“Bye, Asher!” I call and I can hear him laugh on the other side of the door.

“Dream of me, Moonlight.”

“How fucking cute,” Lacy says, her eyes are all wide and dreamy.

“Yeah, he’s pretty darn cute,” I say, bringing the pizza over. “Now this movie isn’t gonna watch itself, is it?”

It definitely did though. Even though we fell asleep barely an hour into it, though, it was still an amazing time.

CHAPTER 35

NEVEN

It’s odd going to class after everything that's happened. Between the Outlaws and Esper’s heat, life is so different than how it was a mere week ago, let alone a month ago before I matched with Esper on Heat Seekers.

“At least I wasn't kicked out of school,” Esper says. The reminder of the shit her friend and Resident Director pulled makes my blood boil, but Esper made me—made all of us—promise not to do anything about it. She’s happy it pushed her to take a step forward with us. “I can still attend classes despite being kicked out of the dorms.”

I would go behind her back and make sure they regret it, maybe making Penny's grades drop low enough that she's kicked off the tennis team, or for heavy porno to somehow magically appear on the Resident Director’s computer. But my respect for Esper far exceeds my selfish need to seek revenge on her behalf.

We spent the weekend unpacking her things, as much as we could. But we simply don’t have enough space. It’s something Asher and I are working on. None of us thought we’d have an omega, let alone a full damn Pack, so we have huge adjustments to our living situation to make.

“You shouldn’t have even been kicked out of the dorm,” I grumble, but she just laughs as we walk onto campus. She had color theory this morning, and then we had a huge study day planned with Red since we’d all missed so much during her heat.

She’s finding her normalcy again. Today she wears one of those cute little skirts and oversized sweaters. My oversized sweater in fact, since I started purchasing some in her favorite maroon color.

Well, correction. She likes to wear the maroon color, but her favorite colors are actually pink and gray. Light pink and gray to be specific.

She’s got these lacy tights on that I just want to rip off of her, but I think she'd kill me if I did that.

Since her heat, and really this entire fucking time, my need for anything and everything Esper is nearly all consuming.